Category Archives: Undergraduate

Courses for All IMA Students

Locative Media (INTM-SHU 283)

With the rise of mobile computing platforms such as smart phones and tablets, location has suddenly become a key element in the production and consumption of media. In this online course, designed for NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts majors studying abroad, students will be encouraged to simultaneously explore their unique study away site, as well as to consume, research, critique, and create location-based media for mobile devices. Students will be introduced to GPS (Global Positioning System) technologies through activities such as geocaching and GPS drawing. We will next investigate geocoding, geotagging, and geofencing through the application of JavaScript mapping platforms CartoDB and Google Maps. Students will then explore an emerging technology known as Bluetooth Beacons, which can be used to create custom positioning systems and to facilitate location awareness in mobile devices. Students will be asked to then produce, as a final project, a game that engages participants in a location or locations, as well as in locative media in any number of forms. Note: This is an online course featuring both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. Registration is limited to IMA Majors studying at NYU’s global sites other than New York or Abu Dhabi.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 13 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2020)


INTM-SHU 283-000 (22965)09/14/2020 – 12/15/2020 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Belanger, Matthew

Performative Avatars (ITPG-GT 2153)

Whether it’s through photo realistic scans found in current-gen video games or the cartoonish and low-fi aesthetic of Bitmoji there is no limit to ways in which the body and the self are represented in digital spaces. This 2 credit class will look at how avatars have been historically used in the realm of art, commerce, and entertainment and utilize existing avatar creation tools to develop projects that examine identity, body politics, and contemporary performance. In class we will cover the basics of Unreal Engine, photogrammetry, 3D scanning, and model rigging although students will be encouraged to use existing skill sets and creative thinking to complete some of the smaller week-by-week assignments. The class will culminate with a short performance, small installation or single/multi-channel video piece using one or more of the techniques covered in class. This can be a solo project or a group project. In this class students will: – Explore how avatars can be utilized in your creative practice – Gain an introductory understanding of Unreal Engine, photogrammetry, model rigging, and 3D scanning. – Learn how to recontextualize digital spaces for the purposes of art, installation, and performance. – Broaden your thinking of what performance can be, both in a physical setting and digital setting. – Think critically about how physical bodies inhabit digital spaces and how the hardware and software we use reinforces the acceptance and value of certain kinds of bodies.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

The Code of Music (ITPG-GT 2653)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This course explores how sound, code, and interaction can merge to create musical experiences that invite listeners to shape the music, not just hear it. Students create a series of browser-based musical systems that respond to users, incorporate randomness, and draw patterns from existing music. We begin by creating a series of audio-visual interfaces—an instrument, a score/mixer, and a loop-based piece—that invite deeper listening through play. Incorporating elements of sound and music production, these projects turn tools normally hidden in the studio into interactive spaces where listeners, performers, and audiences can engage with music in new ways. From there, we dive into the inner workings of music, examining how sound organizes into rhythm, melody, timbre, and harmony, and how these patterns can be expressed in code. Students design interactive studies on each musical element, reimagining tools like drum machines, sequencers, and synthesizers into experimental, playful, or educational systems that incorporate creative coding, machine listening, and machine learning techniques. Classes combine lectures, coding tutorials, listening sessions, design exercises, and discussions of existing interfaces. Throughout, students bring their own musical sensibilities into the work while developing their creative coding skills using p5.js and Tone.js. Students regularly share work and receive feedback, using input from the class to develop and iterate on their ideas. The semester culminates in an interactive or generative piece that builds on the semester’s studies, documented through sketches, demos, and code. Prerequisites: Introduction to Computational Media (ICM) or equivalent programming experience is required. About Luisa Hors: https://www.luisapereira.net/

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Cultures & Contexts: The Black Atlantic (CORE-UA 9534)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
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The Black Atlantic considered as a socio-cultural and economic space from the 15th-century first arrival of Africans in the ’New World,’ through the rise of slavery in the Americas, continuing on to slave emancipation and decolonization in the 19th and 20th centuries, and concluding with contemporary black life in the Atlantic world. Traces the origins and importance of the concept of the Black Atlantic in the context of European imperial expansion and the transformation of indigenous structures of governance in the Americas, paying special attention to shifting social relations that shaped community formation among people of African descent and laid the foundations for political and economic institutions. Topics include: civilization, slavery, colonialism, capitalism, freedom, and justice, approached through focused engagement with African enslavement and settlement in Africa and the Americas; the development of transatlantic racial capitalism; variations in politics and culture between empires in the Atlantic world; creolization, plantation slavery, and slave society; the politics and culture of the enslaved; the Haitian Revolution; slave emancipation; and contemporary black Atlantic politics and racial capitalism.

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Texts and Ideas: (CORE-UA 9400)

Credits: 4
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College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Expressive Culture: Art and Culture in Contemporary Israel (CORE-UA 9764)

The location of Israel at the geographic junction between the West and the East, between the Arab world and the Western world, against the background of the long historical complexity of this piece of land provides a panoramic view of Israeli culture and art by examining thematic crossroads and ideas, via problems and social conflicts which lie at the heart of those art works and are reflected by them. Themes include: religion and secularism, universalism/globalism versus localism, Jews and Arabs, Ashkenazic and Sephardic cultures, multiculturalism in Israel, Zionism and Post-Zionism, right and left political world views, questions of gender, historical perspectives on war and peace and the Holocaust. Students explore the way different forms of art—visual, literary, and performance—reflect and shape the understanding of the “Israeli mosaic” while learning about the way the artists and writers internalize, consciously and unconsciously the complex Israeli reality.

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)


CORE-UA 9764-000 (19273)08/27/2025 – 12/09/2025 Tue9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Tel Aviv (Global)Instructed by Livnat, Aviv

Cultures & Contexts: Germany (CORE-UA 556)

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)


CORE-UA 556-000 (9858)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wood, Christopher


CORE-UA 556-000 (9859)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 556-000 (9860)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 556-000 (9861)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 556-000 (9862)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 556-000 (9863)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 556-000 (9864)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Cultures & Contexts: Latin America (CORE-UA 9515)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed

Over the last 50 years, millions of Latin Americans have experienced extraordinary shifts in their social, political, and cultural landscape, a result of the transformative effects of revolution or insurgency, state repression, popular resistance and social movements. We focus on events that had continental, hemispheric, and even global impact, including the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the military coups of the 1970s, and the Zapatista uprising in 1994. Drawing on a range of primary sources and cultural forms, we listen carefully to the voices of the major social actors of the time. Our sources are drawn from a wide range of media: newsprint, television broadcasts, transcripts, testimony, essay, documentary and feature film, art, and music. We deliberately mix artistic representations with documentary evidence to understand how the arts—music, visual art, literature, film—do not just reflect the reality around them, but are themselves vital sites for shaping and changing that reality and our imagination of it, both then and now.

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Cultures & Context: Brazil (CORE-UA 555)

For course description, please consult the College Core Curriculum website: http://core.cas.nyu.edu

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)


CORE-UA 555-000 (10306)


CORE-UA 555-000 (10307)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 555-000 (10308)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 555-000 (10309)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 555-000 (10310)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 555-000 (10311)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 555-000 (10312)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Cultures & Contexts: Spain (CORE-UA 544)

For course description, please consult the College Core Curriculum website: http://core.cas.nyu.edu

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)


CORE-UA 544-000 (19734)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mendelson, Jordana


CORE-UA 544-000 (19735)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 544-000 (19736)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 544-000 (19737)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 544-000 (19738)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 544-000 (19739)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 544-000 (19740)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 544-000 (19741)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Culture and Context: Italy (CORE-UA 9554)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed

The course examines how Italian identity has been transformed through encounters with foreigners. These foreigners were not only invading armies and colonizing powers but also artists and scholars, travelers and tourists. All contributed in fundamental ways to the evolution of Italian society and culture.Through the study of primary sources we will explore, for example, how the Greek, Arab, Byzantine, and Jewish presences reshaped Italian civilization up until the Renaissance. As well as outlining the historical circumstances for each of these encounters, our account will focus on their cultural consequences from a number of perspectives, from science to language, from philosophy to art and architecture. A field trip to Ravenna (capital of the Western Roman Empire, then of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, and later of the Byzantine Exarchate) will offer a vantage point to appreciate the many layers of Italian cultural history. As a case study, we will analyze a number of coeval reports on the sacks of Rome by the Visigoths (410 AD) and by the troops of Charles V (1527).Florence will be used as a primary source. The city and its surroundings will provide the most favorable context also to address the issue of tourism, from the Grand Tour to the most recent developments of mass tourism in Italy.

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Cultures & Contexts: Contemporary Latino Cultures (CORE-UA 529)

For course description, please consult the College Core Curriculum website: http://core.cas.nyu.edu

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)


CORE-UA 529-000 (19727)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Beltran, Cristina


CORE-UA 529-000 (19728)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 529-000 (19729)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 529-000 (19730)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 529-000 (19731)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 529-000 (19732)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 529-000 (19733)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Cultures & Contexts: The Black Atlantic (CORE-UA 534)

For course description, please consult the College Core Curriculum website: http://core.cas.nyu.edu

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)


CORE-UA 534-000 (21333)


CORE-UA 534-000 (21334)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 534-000 (21335)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 534-000 (21336)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 534-000 (21337)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Cultures & Contexts: Asian / Pacific / American Cultures (CORE-UA 539)

For course description, please consult the College Core Curriculum website: http://core.cas.nyu.edu

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)


CORE-UA 539-000 (9846)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Saranillio, Dean


CORE-UA 539-000 (9847)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 539-000 (9848)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 539-000 (9849)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 539-000 (9850)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 539-000 (19710)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 539-000 (19711)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 539-000 (19712)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Cultures & Contexts: Egypt of The Pharaohs (CORE-UA 545)

For course description, please consult the College Core Curriculum website: http://core.cas.nyu.edu

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)


CORE-UA 545-000 (9411)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Roth, Ann


CORE-UA 545-000 (9412)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 545-000 (9413)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 545-000 (9450)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by


CORE-UA 545-000 (9451)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by