Category Archives: Fall 2025

Application Security (CS-UY 4753)

Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This course addresses the design and implementation of secure applications. Concentration is on writing software programs that make it difficult for intruders to exploit security holes. The course emphasizes writing secure distributed programs in Java. The security ramifications of class, field and method visibility are emphasized. | Prerequisite: CS-UY 3923

Computer Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Graduate IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

COMPUTER SECURITY (CS-UY 3923)

This course covers cryptographic systems. Topics: Capability and access control mechanisms, authentication models, protection models. Database and operating system security issues, mobile code, security kernels. Malicious code, Trojan horses and computer viruses. Security policy formation and enforcement enforcement, legal aspects and ethical aspects. | Prerequisite for Brooklyn Students: CS-UY 2214 | Prerequisite for CAS Students: CSCI-UA 201 | Prerequisite for Abu Dhabi Students: CS-UH 2010 or ENGR-AD 3511 | Prerequisite for Shanghai Students: CENG-SHU 202 | Co-requisite for ALL Students: CS-UY 3224

Computer Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

CS-UY 3923-000 (7835)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Cappos, Justin

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Undergraduate

Introduction to Databases (CS-UY 3083)

Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Mon,Wed

This course introduces database systems and their approach as a mechanism to model the real world. The course covers data models (relational, object-oriented), physical database design, query languages, query processing and optimization, as well as transaction management techniques. Implementation issues, object oriented and distributed databases also are introduced. | Prerequisites for Brooklyn Students: (CS-UY 2134 or CS-UY 1134) and (CS-UY 2124 or CS-UY 1124) (C- or better) and MA-UY 2314 | Prerequisites for Abu Dhabi Students: (ENGR-UH 3510 or CS-UH 1050) (C- or better) and CS-UH 1002 | Prerequisites for Shanghai Students: CSCI-SHU 210 (C- or better) and CSCI-SHU 2314

Computer Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Biochemistry I (CM-UY 3314)

This course surveys modern biochemistry and emphasizes current areas of research. Also covered are structure-function relationships in proteins; enzymes and their mechanisms of action; bioenergetics principles and energy production; and biochemical theories and techniques. | Prerequisites: CM-UY 2213 or CM-UY 2214 or CM-UY 2234 or instructor’s permission.

Chemistry (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

CM-UY 3314-000 (5185)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Diaz-Allen, Cassandra

Fall 2025 Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate

Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory (BMS-UY 1001)

Credits: 1
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed
Credits: 1
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu
Credits: 1
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu,Fri
Credits: 1
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed,Thu,Fri

This laboratory accompanies the lecture course BMS-UY 1003 Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology. This laboratory course is required for BMS and CBE majors taking BMS-UY 1003, but is optional for other majors. | Co-requisite: BMS-UY 1003

Biomolecular Science (Undergraduate)
1 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Physical Science OR Life Science Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (BMS-UY 1003)

Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

The course covers the fundamentals of biology with emphasis on cell and molecular biology. The course material includes introduction to biomolecules and bioenergetics, basic organization and functioning of living cells and general principles of genetics and reproduction.

Biomolecular Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Physical Science OR Life Science Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Introduction of Environmental Sciences (URB-UY 2334)

This course addresses the basic processes, as studied by the physical, biological sciences, and behavioral that determine the nature of the physical environment and how it affects life on earth. Topics include the physical environment (Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, climate); the biological environment (biological systems, biodiversity, population dynamics, ecology) and modern environmental problems, including resource shortages (such as water and energy), diseases, soil, water and air pollution, climate change and their relationship to political and economic issues. Note: This course cannot be used to satisfy Humanities/Social Science requirements for majors outside of the TCS department. | Prerequisites: Completion of first year writing requirements.

Urban Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

URB-UY 2334-000 (5898)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue,Thu10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Dittrick, Diane

Fall 2025 Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I (CM-UY 2213)

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

Sections (Fall 2025)

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

Fall 2025 Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate

Dynamic Web Applications (DM-UY 3193)

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

Sections (Fall 2025)

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

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Undergraduate

Contemporary Techniques in Digital Photography and Imaging (DM-UY 2183)

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

Sections (Fall 2025)

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

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Undergraduate

Drawing & Design for Animation (FMTV-UT 1313)

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.

Undergraduate

Class #
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Meets

Class #: 12900
Section #: 001
Meets: T 3:30-6:10p

Fall 2025 General Elective Spring 2027 Undergraduate

Global Media Flows (MCC-UE 1306)

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

Sections (Fall 2025)

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

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate

Documentary Strategies (PHTI-UT 1006)

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.

Undergraduate

Class #
Section #
Meets

Class #: 15893
Section #: 001
Meets: R 6-9:45p

Fall 2025 Fall 2026 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Undergraduate

Introduction to US Education (HSED-UE 1005)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed

This course introduces students to the central themes, issues, & controversies in American education. What is the purpose of “school”? How did schools begin, in the United States, & how have they evolved across time? How do children learn? How are they different from each other, & why & when should that matter? How should we teach them? & how should we structure schools & classrooms to promote learning? Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent – satisfies the requirement for Society & Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.

History of Education (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Interactive Narrative (MD-UY 2314)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Thu

This course introduces students to the complex relationship between interactivity and storytelling. Students analyze how an interactive structure creates narrative. Works explored in this course range from nonlinear novels, experimental literature, audio narratives, theater/performance to film as narrative databases and games. The study of the structural properties of narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time, space, and storyline is complemented by theoretical texts about authorship/readership, plot/story, and characteristics of interactive media. | Prerequisite: EXPOS-UA 2, EXPOS-UA 9, EXPOS-UA 22, ASPP-UT 2 or WRCI-UF 102. Note: Satisfies HuSS elective.

Media Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 General Elective IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Critical Objects (ITPG-GT 2496)

Art, design and experimental electronics can be great tools for inciting discussions of complex issues such as privacy, sexism, racism, economic inequality and climate change. This course aims to provoke thoughtful discussions of pressing issues through the combination of Art, Industrial Design and Embedded Electronics (sensors, actuators, wifi enabled microcontrollers – ESP32, raspberry pis). Topics will include technological disobedience, adversarial design and critical engineering. In this 14 week class, students will combine technology, design, and critical theory to build Art Objects / Interactive Sculptures that are aesthetically intriguing while socially relevant. This is a production heavy four-credit course, where students will learn about new-media critical theory, design and electronics. Prerequisites include an open mind, the drive to make, and physical computing.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ITPG-GT 2496-000 (11360)09/04/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Galvao Cesar de Oliveira, Pedro

Fall 2025 Graduate IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Physical Computing & Experimental Interfaces)

Dynamic Web Development (ITPG-GT 2577)

Credits: 2
Duration: 6 Weeks
Dates: Fri

This 7-week, 2-point course will provide a framework for learning how to develop and program web applications. It will focus on server side development using JavaScript, Node.js with the Express framework, and persistent databases on cloud based infrastructure. Additional topics will include login and session management, web services and APIs, and will lightly touch on front-end web development. The course will be a mixture of lecture and in-class collaborative coding, with weekly programming and reading homework.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 6 Weeks

Fall 2025 Graduate IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Spring 2026

Energy (ITPG-GT 2466)

From the most ephemeral thought to the rise and fall of civilizations, every aspect of your life, and indeed the universe, involves energy. Energy has been called the “universal currency”by prolific science author Vaclav Smil, but also “a very subtle concept… very, very difficult to get right” by Noble physicist Richard Feynman. It is precisely this combination of importance and subtlety that motivates the Energy class at ITP. Maybe you fear the existential threat of anthropogenic climate change, or maybe you just want your pcomp projects to work better. Either way, the class will help you understand energy quantitatively and intuitively, and incorporate that knowledge in your projects (and perhaps your life). How? Building on skills introduced in Physical Computing, we will generate and measure electricity in order to see and feel energy in its various forms. We will turn kinetic and solar energy into electrical energy, store that in batteries and capacitors, and use it to power projects. We will develop knowledge useful in a variety of areas, from citizen-science to art installations, and address topics such as climate change and infrastructure access through the lens of energy. Students will build a final project using skills learned in the class. To accommodate pandemic restrictions, students will have the option to do more or less hands-on work or research as their situation allows, and support material such as an annotated supply list will help students tailor material expenses to their interests. Prior Physical Computing or equivalent experience required.

Graduate

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Class #: 15278
Section #: 001
Meets: F 9:30a-12p

Fall 2025 Graduate Spring 2026 Spring 2027 Undergraduate

Digital Fabrication: Exploring the Fab Lab (ART-UE 1346)

This course will introduce student to digital fabrication techniques within the context of contemporary art. Students will complete a series of projects exploring fabrication technologies such as 3D printing, 3D Scanning, CNC milling and Laser cutting. In addition, student will question the machines’ raw output by fusing these processes with traditional sculptures techniques. Student will produce a series of works following project prompts. Although the course will process-heavy, student will maintain a rigorous conceptual grounding in their completed works.

Studio Art (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ART-UE 1346-000 (17935)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Fri1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Torimitsu, Momoyo

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Physical Computing & Experimental Interfaces) Undergraduate