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Universe in a Blender (OART-UT 29)

Credits: 4
Dates: Thu

This course invites students to dive into Blender as a playground for experimentation in 3D. Through hands-on exploration of Blender’s many tools, students will push the boundaries of the program and invent and explore unconventional workflows. Emphasis is placed on curiosity-driven discovery, iterative problem-solving, and imaginative uses of Blender to create expressive, illustrative 3D worlds, characters, and animations.
Throughout the semester, students will experiment with modeling, sculpting, rigging, animation, lighting, digital cameras, physics simulations, and rendering techniques to test the limits of Blender’s capabilities. We’ll also explore Blender’s Grease Pencil tool for creating 2D/3D hybrid works and discussing the intersection of these two forms. The focus is on creative play: combining features in unexpected ways and developing personal workflows that unlock Blender’s full expressive potential.
IMA Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Experiments in Art and Technology (OART-UT 1059)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Thu

Thesis: All art uses technology. Technology is not art. Whether a work of art is created to bridge the supernatural, convey experience, thought, or a world view, or something more, art is a three letter verb representing the result of an individual’s desire to create difference. This course is an exploration in technological literacy for all NYU students. Students will create a website, capture, edit, and publish digital media to their sites, use software to create objects through subtractive (laser cutting) and additive (3D printing) machining processes, build circuits, learn to program a microcomputer, and build a functioning computer-controlled object.
Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Projecting History (MCC-UE 1140)

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

This course explores the ways in which popular film, TV, and video cultures construct the historical past, the battles that arise among historians and the public over film versions of history, and how such films can be utilized as historical documents themselves. We consider films, TV, and video as products of the culture industry; as visions of popular history and national mythology; as evidence for how social conflicts have been depicted; and as evidence for how interpretations of the past have been revised from earlier eras to the present.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Intro Numerical Analysis (MA-UY 4424)

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

In numerical analysis one explores how mathematical problems can be analyzed and solved with a computer. As such, numerical analysis has very broad applications in mathematics, physics, engineering, finance, and the life sciences. This course gives an introduction to this subject for mathematics majors. Theory and practical examples using Matlab will be combined to study a range of topics ranging from simple root-finding procedures to differential equations and the finite element method. | Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in (MA-UY 2114 or MA-UY 2514) and (MA-UY 1044 or MA-UY 3034 or MA-UY 3054 or MA-UY 3113) | Anti-Requisite: MA-UY 4524
Mathematics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Spring 2026 Undergraduate

How to Change the World: Advocacy Movements and Social Innovation (UPADM-GP 269)

How does someone go about changing the world? What does social change theory suggest are the most effective tactics to change hearts and minds? What can we learn from the past about what it means to be an effective agent of change? How have social entrepreneurs created organizations that become engines of change? How has technology, social media and trends in mainstream media changed the rules of the game? This course will focus on social change theory and explore social movements in post-WWII America, including: the movement for Black civil rights, the LGBTQ Movement, Environment/Climate Activism, the Women’s Movement; the Conservative Movement, Corporate Social Responsibility and social entrepreneurship, Immigration, Healthcare, Journalism, Whistleblowing & Hacktivism, and the Free Speech movement.

UG Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

UPADM-GP 269-000 (20693)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Weaver, Celia

Fall 2025 Graduate Societies & the Social Sciences

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

Cultures and Contexts Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate

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

Cultures and Contexts Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

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

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

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

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

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

Cultures and Contexts Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Artists & Audiences in Historical Context (REMU-UT 1203)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue

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.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Expressive Culture Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

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

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2025 Undergraduate

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.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

IMNY-UT 273-000 (12886)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue12:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate

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”

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ITPG-GT 2000-000 (11321)09/03/2025 – 12/10/2025 Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by

Fall 2025 Graduate Spring 2025 Undergraduate

Probability and Statistics for Engineers (MA-UY 2224)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed

An introductory course to probability and statistics. It affords the student some acquaintance with both probability and statistics in a single term. Topics in Probability include mathematical treatment of chance; combinatorics; binomial, Poisson, and Gaussian distributions; the Central Limit Theorem and the normal approximation. Topics in Statistics include sampling distributions of sample mean and sample variance; normal, t-, and Chi-square distributions; confidence intervals; testing of hypotheses; least squares regression model. Applications to scientific, industrial, and financial data are integrated into the course.NOTE: Not open to math majors or students who have taken or will take MA-UY 2054 or MA-UY 3014 or MA-UY 3514 or ECE-UY 2233. | Prerequisite: MA-UY 1124, MA-UY1424, or MA-UY 1132 or MATH-UH 1020 or MATH-UH 1021 or MATH-SHU 151

Mathematics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

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

Computational Text from A to Z (ITPG-GT 2536)

This course focuses on programming strategies and techniques behind procedural analysis and generation of text-based data. We’ll explore topics ranging from evaluating text according to its statistical properties to the automated production of text with probabilistic methods to text visualization. Students will learn server-side and client-side JavaScript programming and develop projects that can be shared and interacted with online. This fall the course will also explore topics in machine learning as related to text. There will be weekly homework assignments as well as a final project.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ITPG-GT 2536-000 (11345)09/02/2025 – 12/09/2025 Tue12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Shiffman, Daniel

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

Principles of Data Science I (DS-UA 9111)

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

Data Science for Everyone is a foundational course that prepares students to participate in the data-driven world that we are all experiencing. It develops programming skills in Python so that students can write programs to summarize and compare real-world datasets. Building on these data analysis skills, students will learn how to draw conclusions and make predictions about the data. Students will also explore related ethical, legal, and privacy issues.

Data Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

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

Introduction to Marketing (MKTG-SHU 1)

Evaluates, from the management point of view, marketing as a system for the satisfaction of human wants and a catalyst of business activity. Deals with the subject at all levels, from producer to consumer, and emphasizes the planning required for the efficient use of marketing tools in the development and expansion of markets. Concentrates on the principles, functions, and tools of marketing, including quantitative methods. Utilizes cases to develop a problem-solving ability in dealing with specific areas. Prerequisite: Not open to first-semester students. Fulfillment: This course satisfies BUSM Marketing Core, BUSF: Business elective, IMB Business Flexible Core or elective; Data Science concentration in Marketing; Count for CAS Business Minor, Count for Stern Business Studies Minor.

Marketing (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2025)

MKTG-SHU 1-000 (20502)02/03/2025 – 05/16/2025 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Huang, Jin

MKTG-SHU 1-000 (20503)02/03/2025 – 05/16/2025 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Huang, Jin

MKTG-SHU 1-000 (22139)02/03/2025 – 05/16/2025 Fri12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Huang, Jin

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