Blender is a dynamic tool that can be used to design real world sets, physical objects and virtual assets for various media and live performance. It can render robust animations and impose visual effects on recorded video. It has the capacity to interface easily with interactive softwares like Unity and Unreal, while having the potential to output hi-fidelity renders for print. But beyond that it’s just a software. The ability to create any believable world comes from you. In this class we will explore a variety of techniques to create living, breathing fictional worlds while honing the skills in Blender to bring them to life. Students will be asked to create food, buildings, clothing, people and traffic signs from their fictional universe – building consistency of aesthetic, narrative allusion, and the fine details that make any world “believable”. The class will involve dissecting and discussing media on this world building, technical tutorials and instruction in Blender, and hands on workshops that tackle the conceptual questions of world building while exploring how to interface Blender with an outside medium: (3D printing, Pattern Making, Asset Development, Unity, Unreal, After Effects, recorded video). Students will be expected to watch technical tutorials and read short pieces on these topics for homework. Students will also complete weekly deliverable assignments.
Category Archives: Undergraduate
Courses for All IMA Students
Experiments in Art and Technology (OART-UT 1059)
All art uses technology, yet technology alone isn’t art—it is the burning spark of imagination and personal vision that rips time, space, and the ordinary apart, harnessing tools and bending materials to create a manifestation born from the mind’s eye, and in this course, you will explore the relationships between art, imagination, and technology, paying homage to pioneering engineer-artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries by reconstructing historic work and learning to embrace the spark, bang, buzz, and smoke that often arise at the periphery of the known. Through research, field trips, discussions, and hands-on projects, you will celebrate past achievements, challenge boundaries, and embark on a personal journey between invention and art.
Projecting History (MCC-UE 1140)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Intro Numerical Analysis (MA-UY 4424)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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4 credits – 15 Weeks
Expressive Culture: Museums in Field Study: (CORE-UA 9723)
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
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College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Interdisciplinary Art Practice I (ART-UE 22)
This course is an introduction to visual methodologies and critical theory as well as contemporary practices in art and culture. Students use media and materials of their own choosing to explore and respond to the issues raised through readings, presentations, class discussions, writing assignments, and group critiques.
Studio Art (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
ART-UE 22-000 (17931)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Das Gupta, Priyanka
ART-UE 22-000 (17932)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Graves, Anthony
ART-UE 22-000 (17933)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Baile, Shobun
ART-UE 22-000 (17934)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Herr, Johannah
High-Performance Teams (MGMT-UB 7)
This course combines skill building though experiential exercises and an understanding of the underlying theory to help you learn how to be an effective manager and team member in today’s technology-enabled team context. Topics include issues such as managing collaboration in and across teams, motivating effort, performance, social judgment, and cross-cultural issues. Students learn how organizations can improve their effectiveness through better management of people and how individual managers can be more effective in working with and leading others.
Management (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
MGMT-UB 7-000 (3671)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kern, Molly
Managerial Skills (MGMT-UB 21)
Increasing self-awareness and openness to feedback are important first steps in leading today’s business for tomorrow’s results. Many companies bestow a management title on key talent and expect appropriate behavior to follow, but that is not the most effective way to develop future business leaders. In this course you will focus primarily on the practical aspects of managing. While based on solid research, the course stresses a hands-on approach to improving students’ management skills. Each session focuses on developing (1) personal skills: self-awareness, managing stress, solving problems, and creativity; (2) interpersonal skills: coaching, counseling, supportive communication, gaining power and influence, motivating self and others, and managing conflict; and (3) group skills: empowering, delegating, and building effective teams.
Management (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
MGMT-UB 21-000 (2715)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kim, Hee
China’s Economic Transition (ECON-SHU 239)
Over the past forty years, China has transitioned from a poor, inefficient, and closed economy to an upper-middle income country and the world’s largest trading nation. This course introduces the key institutional and economic reforms of China since 1978 and their contributions to China’s economic development. We will examine the reforms in the pivotal sectors, including agriculture, industry, banking, and international trade, all of which are important steps to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the Chinese economy. We will also discuss the current challenges facing China to maintain sustainable growth, such as problems regarding demographic structure, state-owned enterprises, government debts, etc. Prerequisite: This course assumes no prior background in economics. However, if you are already familiar with basic algebra and basic calculus, supply and demand curves, basic economics concepts, it will help you to understand this course better. Prereq: None. Fulfillment: CORE IPC; Economics Elective; Social Science Focus Political Economy 200 level.
Economics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
ECON-SHU 239-000 (19123)09/01/2025 – 12/12/2025 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Xu, Nan
Arab-Islamic Influence on the West (HIST-SHU 130)
This course utilizes multidisciplinary sources of evidence to address Arab-Islamic knowledge and culture, the influences that they had on medieval and early modern Europe, and that they continue to have today, while questioning why many Western scholars have minimized Arab-Islamic contributions in favor of “Western Exceptionalism” narratives. By exploring cross-cultural transmissions of knowledge, students are encouraged to think critically about how ideas and technologies evolve as they are adopted by individuals and groups in order to suit their personal and cultural needs. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: Humanities Major Other Introductory Courses (18-19 Survey Courses).
History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
HIST-SHU 130-000 (19994)09/01/2025 – 12/12/2025 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Wen, Shuang
Development Economics (ECON-SHU 335)
This course will explore the macroeconomics and microeconomic foundations of economic development. We will discuss poverty, growth, development trap, distribution of income, demography and economic development, land and agricultural labor, health and nutrition, credit, insurance, intra-household allocation and gender, education. In these topics, we will ask: What determines the decisions of poor households in less-developed countries? What constraints do they face? What policies have been tried? What are the policy effect we have seen? Prerequisite: ECON-SHU 1 Principles of Macroeconomics or ECON-SHU 3 Microeconomics or ECON-SHU 202 Intermediate Macroeconomics or ECON-SHU 301 Econometrics. Fulfillment: Economics elective; Social Science Focus Political Economy 300 level.
Economics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
ECON-SHU 335-000 (21333)02/03/2025 – 05/16/2025 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zhou, Yu
US-China Relations (SOCS-SHU 275)
This course examines the complexities of the bilateral relationship between the People’s Republic of China (China) and the United States (US), focusing on their historical rapport, major debates, and current relations. Topics include Sino-US economic relations, media reporting, variation in political systems, global politics, climate/energy issues, military affairs, and contested territories. Prerequisite: None. SOCS-SHU 160 is recommended, but not required. Fulfillment: Core SSPC or IPC; GCS China and the World/The Politics, Economy, and Environment of China; SS Focus International Relations/Political Science 200 level; HUMN 18-19 Topic.
Social Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
China Encounters the World (GCHN-SHU 210)
The course focuses on the cross-currents of China’s encounters with the world, from the late 16th to the early 21st century. It proceeds from two assumptions: first, that China has long been engaged with the rest of the world rather than ever having been “closed”, as some would have it; and second, that impact and influence flow in multiple directions: into, through, and out of China, whether intentionally or involuntarily. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and student research projects we will explore China’s encounters with the world chronologically and thematically, covering such broad topics as religion and philosophy; diplomacy; law; trade; war; revolution; political systems, and “soft power”. Pre-requisites: None. Fulfillment: CORE HPC or IPC; GCS China and the World; Humanities Introductory course (18-19: survey).
Global China Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
GCHN-SHU 210-000 (19992)09/01/2025 – 12/12/2025 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Wen, Shuang
Business Structure of The Music Industry (MPAMB-UE 100)
The course will provide a background study of all related areas of the multibillion-dollar music industry, including the evolution and operations of the record company, music publishing, artist management, live entertainment, copyright, business-to-business and consumer-facing digital services.
Music Business (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (11432)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Durant, Clayton
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (11433)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Mon6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tallman, Elizabeth
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (20050)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Fri10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tallman, Elizabeth
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (11434)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Dodes, Susan
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (20141)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Artists & Audiences in Historical Context (REMU-UT 1203)
A follow-up complement to the first-year required Creative Entrepreneurs in Historical Context course that focused on entrepreneurs and producers, Artists and Audiences in Historical Context considers the history of popular (& semi-popular) music through the lens of iconic performers/recording artists and their audiences and communities, with special attention to issues of space and geography. Here are the central questions this class asks: Why do we have performing musicians and recording artists? What work do they do in the world, and how have our conceptions of the artist changed over time? And why do artists continue to need audiences? What role do fans and listeners play in our culture and politics? As we tackle these questions, we’ll look at how artists and audiences have been impacted over the decades by emerging media and technologies; we’ll look at auteur theory, crowd theory and cultural conceptions of musical genius; we’ll address taste and the rockism/poptimism debates; the pervasive role of stardom/celebrity as it determines what we might call today’s “pop industrial complex;” we’ll talk about issues of freedom of expression and political activism; we’ll think about the artist’s role in and against forces like war, terrorism and various forms of state and religious repression; and the artist’s struggle to reach audiences in, and against, categories of classification like genre and format. Artists and Audiences in Historical Context is an intensive reading and writing course, perhaps the most intensive one you will take at REMU: students read critical and historical writing about a diverse range of performers/recording artists, and then practice critical/creative writing themselves. Working with assistant editors/mentors as well as the instructor, students will be expected to learn how music writing improves through drafting, editing and stylistic refinement. Weekly audio/video playlists will supplement the reading and writing.
Elem French I (in French) (FREN-UA 9001)
Open to students with no previous training in French. Not equivalent to FREN-UA 9010. Only by following FREN-UA9001 with FREN-UA9002 can a student complete the equivalent of FREN-UA9010 and then continue on to the intermediate level.
French (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2023)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Petit, Cecile
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2348)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Uhrig, David
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2025)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Uhrig, David
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2349)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Hannane, Leslie
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2028)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Mon,Wed1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Scattolin, Lea
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2350)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Tue,Thu1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Reychman, Pauline
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2031)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Reychman, Pauline
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2351)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Reychman, Pauline
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2034)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Montel, Elodie
FREN-UA 9001-000 (2352)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Tue,Thu1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Scattolin, Lea
FREN-UA 9001-000 (23548)01/20/2025 – 04/29/2025 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Scattolin, Lea
Communications and Technology (IMNY-UT 273)
From alphabets to virtual realities, this course will explore the development, reaction, and long term impact of various communication technologies. How have these technologies, such as writing, printing, the telegraph, television, radio, the internet and beyond, transformed society? And what changes can be observed both today and tomorrow? After students look closely at past and current future communication technologies, students will speculate on the future of communication technologies in a connected world by proposing their own transformative technology. Readings and discussion will cover communication theory, technical processes, creative applications, and critical investigation. Writing assignments will be paired with practical assignments where students will be challenged to bring their analysis and ideas to life. The web will also be utilized as a test bed for experiencing and experimenting with various forms of communication both old and new. This course will be part seminar and part lab. In the seminar portion of the class, time will be spent engaging in short lectures, critical discussions, and reviews of both reading and writing assignments. In the lab portions, students will participate in hands-on creative and technical activities and present practical assignment work. Throughout the class, students will be encouraged to learn through play, experimentation, collaboration, and exploration. Both individual and group work will be assigned.
Applications (ITPG-GT 2000)
“This introductory class is designed to allow students to engage in a critical dialogue with leaders drawn from the artistic, non-profit and commercial sectors of the new media field, and to learn the value of collaborative projects by undertaking group presentations in response to issues raised by the guest speakers. Interactive media projects and approaches to the design of new media applications are presented weekly; students are thus exposed to both commercial as well as mission-driven applications by the actual designers and creators of these innovative and experimental projects. By way of this process, all first year students, for the first and only time in their ITP experience, are together in one room at one time, and as a community, encounter, and respond to, the challenges posed by the invited guests. The course at once provides an overview of current developments in this emerging field, and asks students to consider many questions about the state of the art. For example, with the new technologies and applications making their way into almost every phase of the economy and rooting themselves in our day to day lives, what can we learn from both the failures and successes? What are the impacts on our society? What is ubiquitous computing, embedded computing, physical computing? How is cyberspace merging with physical space? WHY ARE WE HERE? -To see how the many things you might learn at ITP might be applied in the world (across many different fields), and to develop your own nuanced point of view on those applications -Think through the lens of designing engaging experiences -To build a shared language with your cohorts – about ITP, about your interests, about emerging technologies and ideas -To practice to collaboration in a way that emphasizes generosity, curiosity and communication -To practice a process of observation and articulation as a starting point for a design process. -To be inspired by different possible visions for your future. -To get a glimpse of the foundational character of the program: experimentation, play, thoughtfulness, emergence, interdisciplinarity, collaboration, criticality -To co-create a culture in which you have a sense of belonging / agency through your own ability to participate in its making WHAT HAPPENS IN CLASS? -Groups facilitate an experiences for the class, in response to the prior week’s guest -Small group discussions -Distribute invitations, made by you, to experiences in NYC –Hear from Guest Speaker -Short Q&A/ Final discussion with Guest”
Internship (ITPG-GT 2100)
Internship can fulfill a Tier 2 (elective) requirement. An internship is done with an outside agency that provides a student with opportunities to work on projects that enable the student to develop and demonstrate his or her practical abilities, and which involve both new interactive technologies and their users.
Conversations in the Global Music Business: Learning from the Past and Forging the Future (REMU-UT 9810)
With sales of more than 1.3 billion, the German recorded music market is the third largest in the world: it is larger than the UK music market and behind only the USA and Japan. Beyond just numbers, the Berlin music business is unique: it’s home to hundreds of powerful independent and D.I.Y. record labels; it’s historically been ground zero for innovative electronic and dance music; and it’s a burgeoning tech hub for innovative software/hardware companies like Native Instruments, Ableton and Soundcloud. In this colloquium series, students will meet and hear each week from key creative entrepreneurial figures and innovators in the German and European music business. This course has several purposes. First, students will consider how ongoing economic and technological changes might be impacting the worldwide music business, as speakers discuss controversial trends like the rise of cryptocurrency, block chain and cashless systems, customization technologies like 3D printing and developments in robotics, and radical, disruptive approaches to copyright. Second, students will develop a greater understanding of the chief similarities and differences between the traditional European and US music business operations, particularly with regard to label operations, publishing and copyright, touring and festivals, and nightlife promotion. Third, students will become more informed about the D.I.Y. music business in Berlin itself, as they hear from speakers about the promises and challenges one faces in launching innovative music start ups in Germany. And finally, students will get to meet and network with key movers and shakers in the Berlin scene, past and present. In anticipation for a guest class visit, students may be required to investigate websites, read biographical or contextual material, or attend events outside of class time. Students will be expected to ask informed questions of the guests and to develop responses throughout the course of the class. Students should leave the class with a greater understanding of how the European and German music businesses work and how they themselves might make a business or sales impact on a global scale.
Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
REMU-UT 9810-000 (10716)08/28/2025 – 12/04/2025 Wed5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Berlin (Global)Instructed by Gonsher, Aaron