Arts, Media, and Education

(updated October 2024)

Courses

• EDST Courses:
  • • EDST 235/WGSS 239: Education and the Culture Wars. Talya Zemach-Bersin
  • Offered in the Fall
    • EDST 361/THST 361: Production Seminar: Theater in Education. Deborah Margolin & Nathan Roberts
  • Offered in the Spring
    • EDST 272/MUSI 484: Music as Education. Lindsay Wright
    • EDST 478/MUSI 452/MUS 578: Music, Service, and Society. Sebastian Ruth

Contacts

• Faculty and Staff

  • Talya Zemach-Bersin

  • Deborah Margolin
  • Nathan Roberts
  • Lindsay Wright
  • Sebastian Ruth

• Community Leaders

  • Rubén Rodriguez: Director of the Music in Schools Initiative
  • Steve Driffin: ConnCat Youth Arts Program Director

Clubs, Organizations, Activities

• Volunteer Opportunities

  • Yale Children’s Theater

    • Volunteers work with students in the Greater New Haven area to workshop and produce theater performances

  • Hear Your Song (Yale Chapter)

    • Non-profit working with youth with serious illnesses and complex health needs through collaborative songwriting

  • Music in Schools Initiative

    • Free-of-charge, after-school program open to New Haven Public School students from grades 3-12

  • City Step

    • College-student teachers lead collaborative dance workshops to New Haven kids that culminate in original performances

• Resources 

  • Yale Digital Humanities Lab

    • Offers space, community, and resources for Yale scholars who pursue DH research questions in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences

Internships

• Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP)

  • Offers incredible arts programs for students throughout the US and internationally in visual art, music, dance, and theater.
• The Center for Arts Education (NYC)
  • Focus on arts education access in NYC public schools
• Morse Summer Music Academy (Yale SOM)
  • Free month-long, intensive music program for students entering grades 5-11 in the New Haven Public Schools

Fellowships

• Marshall Bartholomew Summer Arts Fellowship

  • up to $6000

• Field Experience Fellowship (Education Studies)

  • for Ed Studies Scholars; can be used for an unpaid internship in arts education

• Craft Your Own

  • Public School Interns Program
    • Public School Interns are the liaisons to a New Haven Public School and may be able to match you with an appropriate way to bring your arts interest into a school
  • Dwight Hall Urban Fellows
    • Can be used to pursue year-long service/internships with New Haven non-profits, including in arts education spaces like the following:
      • ConnCat: after-school arts education for the youth
      • Co-Op High School: after-school program in Arts & Humanities