Courses for All IMA Students
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
1 credits – 15 Weeks
This is a one-semester introductory course in general chemistry. It covers chemical equations, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, gases, atomic and molecular structure, periodic table, chemical bonding, states of matter, chemical equilibrium, organic, inorganic and polymeric materials and electrochemistry. | Corequisite: EX-UY 1
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
CM-UY 1004-000 (16847)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16848)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16849)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1004-000 (16850)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1004-000 (16851)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16852)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16968)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (16969)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (24919)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon10:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1004-000 (24918)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1004-000 (16853)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Hagver, Rena
CM-UY 1004-000 (16854)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1004-000 (16855)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Thu1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1004-000 (16856)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16857)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (20330)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (20331)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (17125)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (17124)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed6:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (16858)
This is a one-semester overview course in chemistry, providing examples of important discoveries and important chemical innovators, with a strong emphasis on cutting-edge research. Field opportunities are developed to allow students to contribute to the discipline. | Prerequisite: Only first-year students are permitted to enroll in this introductory level course.
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
This course covers chemistry of organic molecules: structure, nomenclature, properties and reactions of carbon compounds with emphasis on aliphatic compounds. It also introduces reaction mechanisms and stereochemistry. | Prerequisite: CM-UY 1004 or CM-UY 1024. Co-Requisite: EX-UY 1
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
CM-UY 2213-000 (5214)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Ainsworth, Jasper
This course covers states of matter, chemical thermodynamics and equilibria, kinetics, acid-base chemistry, electrochemistry, introduction to organic chemistry, natural and synthetic polymers. The course is required for students in the Biomolecular Science Program. | Prerequisite: CM-UY 1004 or CM-UY 1014. Corequisite: EX-UY 1.
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
CM-UY 1024-000 (19120)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1024-000 (19121)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1024-000 (19122)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1024-000 (19123)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon5:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1024-000 (19124)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19125)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19126)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19127)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19128)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Sun, Donghong
This course continues Biochemistry I. It covers principles of intermediary metabolism: energetic membrane structure and transport; structure and function of DNA and RNA; principles of molecular biology; the immune system; and hormonal regulation and cancer. | Prerequisite: CM-UY 3314 or instructor’s permission.
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
CM-UY 3324-000 (16938)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mitra, Somdeb
CM-UY 3324-000 (22918)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mitra, Somdeb
In this course, students focus on client and server side programming, as well as the web design and development process. Students are also introduced to databases for the web. Examples of dynamic web applications include content management systems, registration systems, and social media solutions. | Pre-requisite: DM-UY.2193
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
DM-UY 3193-000 (15787)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Adee, Katie
This course will cover basic camera use as well as the more sophisticated skills of image editing. Developing sensitivity to the aesthetics of image making through the use of the camera’s technical controls and composition are the central goals of the class. The course will provide a background in the history, theory, and contemporary issues of photography through lectures and visits to museums and galleries. By the end of the semester students will have the know-how to make images that convey their aesthetic and conceptual ideas effectively.
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
DM-UY 2183-000 (15771)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Toolin, Jack Craig
Shader Lab is an introduction to shaders for game designers that are artists first, and technicians second. This course attempts to bridge gaps in the necessary knowledge and establish the contextual foundation to allow students to make sense of the disparate sub-disciplines necessary to meaningfully express themselves aesthetically in a rendered environment. Ultimately, Shader Lab is a primer for students seeking to create unique and expressive aesthetics for their digital games. The course empowers designers by providing a conceptual and functional understanding of 3D rendering in order to enable the design and implementation of their personal style.
This course offers students an opportunity to increase their technical proficiency and, more importantly, develop stylistic and creative channels for dealing with common drawing problems. In animation, drawing is not simply seeing. It is thinking and, when successful, doing so on a deep level. The class includes one, two and three point perspective, figure drawing, character rotations, drawing exercises related to fine artists (Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, etc.), use of tones, continuity sketches, layouts, animatics.
Undergrad Film & TV (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
FMTV-UT 1313-000 (18417)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Wed2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lennert, Dean
A beginning production course in which students learn the basic principles of animation, develop visual language, storytelling, observation, and communication skills. A freshman core production selection, but open to students at all levels. It is the prerequisite for several of the other animation and visual effects courses. Prior drawing experience is not necessary. The first half of the semester consists of weekly exercises in which students explore various styles and methods of animation including optical toys, stop motion, traditional drawn, and 2D digital animation. Students will be introduced to programs including Dragon Stop Motion, After Effects, Avid, Flash, and Photoshop. Various technical topics covered include aspect ratio, frame rates, storyboarding, editing animatics, scanning, working with image sequences, alpha channels, vector vs. raster art, compositing, rendering, using a Cintiq, and shooting stills with DSLR camera. During the second half of the semester students will complete a 15-30 second animated film with sound.
This class examines the intersecting dynamics of media genres and geo-linguistic cultural markets in the configuration of global and regional media flows. It looks in particular at the way media genres travel and how their circulation raises issues about the cultural power of certain media narratives in specific historical, political and social conditions of consumption. We will examine the battle for national, regional, and global media markets as a struggle for the ’Slegitimate’ cultural and political view of the world expressed through information (news), scientific discourse (documentaries), and popular culture (films, tele novels, reality television, music) to understand the complex global flow of television programs and films.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
MCC-UE 1306-000 (8089)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pinon, Juan
Prerequisite: Photography & Imaging II, or permission of the department. This course considers the creative possibilities of a variety of documentary strategies. The editing of images, their structuring into an essay form, the interpretation of their various meanings, and the impact of the documentary essay on the world are all discussed. Students are assigned a range of problems that explore visual description and interpretation ranging from the photojournalistic to the autobiographical. In addition each student devotes a significant amount of time to producing a single-subject documentary project. Classes are lecture-demonstration with critiques of student work and regular presentations of documentary photographs made throughout history, in different cultures and for different reasons, including the personal and the societal. Each student must have a still camera or a video camera. This course requires a nonrefundable lab fee.
Photography and Imaging (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
PHTI-UT 1006-000 (16085)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kobielski, Lili
Intro to Visual Communication builds a foundation for visual literacy and visual design thinking. The class focuses on the fundamentals of visual communication – line, color, composition, typography – as well as their application in a variety of contexts. You may or may not end up being a visual designer or artist, but all kinds of game design and development involves visual thinking. The philosophy of the class is learning by doing. Each week, in class and out of class, you will be creating visual projects on and off the computer. Sometimes you will be drawing in a sketchbook or making paper collages. Other times you will be using visual design software, such as Illustrator and Photoshop. The goal of the course is to connect the visual exercises to skills and issues related to directly to games. Sometimes we will be working on fundamental skills. Other times, we will be applying those skills to game-related problems.
Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
OART-UT 1620-000 (14479)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by
OART-UT 1620-000 (14480)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Thu11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Voshell, Burgess
This class is an intensive, hands-on workshop addressing the complex challenges of game design. The premise of the class is that all games, digital and non-digital, share common fundamental principles, and that under- standing these principles is an essential part of designing successful games. Learning how to create successful non-digital games provides a solid foundation for the development of digital games. In this workshop, students will: analyze existing digital and non-digital games, taking them apart to understand how they work as interactive systems; create a number of non-digital games in order to master the basic design principles that apply to all games regardless of format; critique each other’s work, developing communication skills necessary for thriving in a collaborative field; explore the creative possibilities of this emerging field from formal, social, and cultural perspectives; develop techniques for fast-prototyping and iterative design that can be successfully applied to all types of interactive projects.
This class is an overview of the field of games that approaches them from several theoretical and critical perspectives. No special theoretical background or prior training is needed to take the course, but to have had a broad practical experience with and basic knowledge of games is a distinct advantage. Also, an interest in theoretical and analytical issues will help. You are expected to actively participate in the lectures, which are dialogic in form, with ample room for discussion. The course will prepare the student to: Understand and discuss games from a theoretical perspective, as well as the components of a game; Apply new theories and evaluate them critically; Assess and discuss game concepts and the use of games in various contexts; Analyze games, and understand and apply a range of analytical methods.
From Karlheinz Stockhausen and Kraftwerk to D.A.F. and the Euro disco of Snap! – the first seven weeks of class considers the history of German electronic music prior to the Fall of the Wall. We will particularly look at how electronic music developed in Germany before the advent of house and techno in the late 1980s. One focus will be on regional scenes such as the Düsseldorf school of electronic in the 1970s with music groups such as Cluster, Neu! And Can, the Berlin school of synthesizer pioneers like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Manuel Göttsching or Giorgio Moroder’s Sound of Munich. Visits will be made to experience Oskar Sala’s Trautonium – an early proto-synthesizer with which he created the sounds for Hitchcock’s The Birds – at the Musikinstrumenten Museum and the location of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, an experimental club founded by Conrad Schnitzler and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Students will be expected to competently identify key musicians and recordings of this creative period. The second half of the course looks more specifically at the arrival of Techno, a new musical movement, and new technology in Berlin and Germany in the turbulent years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, up to the contemporary moment. Indeed, Post-Wall East Berlin, full of abandoned spaces and buildings and deserted office blocks, was the perfect breeding ground for the youth culture that would dominate the 90s and led Techno pioneers and artists from the East and the West to take over and set up shop. Within a short space of time Berlin became the focal point of a new culture, attracting enthusiastic followers from all over the world to clubs such as ‘Tresor’ and ‘E-Werk’. Among those early techno aficionados were writers, artists, photographers, musicians and fashion designers. Techno quickly developed into a lifestyle and mass movement, finding its most exhilarating expression in the Love Parade and, recently, the club/movement Berghain. As students consider Berlin’s slow transformation from divided city in those anarchic and pioneering days of the early 90s into the bustling, world-class nightlife capital it is today, they will also consider the changing and controversial cultural and socio-economic landscape of the city, and how Berlin continues to retain its uncompromising, avant-garde ethos. Students will be expected to write final research paper drawing on issues discussed in class and in the readings.
Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
This interdisciplinary course examines the works of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, three German-speaking writers who pioneered radically different and influential interpretations of modern life, which continue to shape our contemporary understanding of society and individuality. The seminar not only delves into the origins of these prominent traditions of modern Western thought, but also underscores their relevance in modern social theories and poetics. Hence, the course will also include references to the writings of their contemporaries, as well as explications of the direct and indirect influences of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud on other writers.
German (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
GERM-UA 9240-000 (9424)02/03/2020 – 05/14/2020 Mon5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Berlin (Global)Instructed by Steilen, Felix
History of Education (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Media Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks