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THEA-UT 900 Self

What does it mean to fully realize ourselves? In this course, we will examine how cultures across the globe and throughout history have understood the self in relation to identity, consciousness, embodiment, and memory—and how artists have given those understandings form. Exploring contrasting concepts of the self across philosophy, sacred text, psychology, and artistic practice, we’ll consider how identity is shaped over time and how we make ourselves known. Assignments will combine textual analysis and research with transdisciplinary approaches to portraiture as we seek new ways of discovering, understanding, and representing ourselves. Although we will explore these ideas in a variety of formats (including performance, photography, film, and music), no previous experience is necessary, and students from all Tisch majors are encouraged to enroll. Satisfies General Education: Social & Natural Science. less description for THEA-UT 900 «

School:

Tisch School of the Arts

Term:

Spring 2027

THEA-UT 900 | 4 units
Class#: 22139
Session: 1 01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027
Section: 001
Class Status: Open
Grading: Ugrd Tisch Graded
Instruction Mode: In-Person
Course Location: Washington Square
Component: Lecture

01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027 Thu 1.45 PM – 4.45 PM
Notes: This section is open to all students throughout Tisch. This class is a Gen Ed Social Science.

Featured Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2027

FMTV-UT 403 Nights

The emerging, interdisciplinary field of “nyctology,” or the study of night and the nocturnal, is increasingly a source of inspiration and inquiry for artists. This interdisciplinary course cultivates critical research and art practice around night, darkness, and the nocturnal in dialogue with this emerging field. From the use of darkness as a technology to night’s status as an endangered environment, this course interweaves readings from areas including art history, cultural astronomy, Black studies, conservation science, media studies, Indigenous studies, and the celestial humanities, along with critical discussions about the somatic and psychological effects of grind culture and overwork. We will consider the politics of light pollution, nocturnal ecologies, and the growing DarkSky Movement; discourse around 24/7 culture and rest as resistance; as well as Take Back the Night, race and surveillance; and queer cruising. Along the way, we will encounter poetry, cinema, drawing, installation, music and other genres of art as students develop critical research skills while also developing their own voices as artists. less description for FMTV-UT 403 «

School:

Tisch School of the Arts

Term:

Spring 2027

FMTV-UT 403 | 4 units
Class#: 22098
Session: 1 01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027
Section: 001
Class Status: Open
Grading: Ugrd Tisch Graded
Instruction Mode: In-Person
Course Location: Washington Square
Component: Seminar

01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027 Wed 3.30 PM – 6.10 PM
Notes: Course allocates as General Education. The emerging, interdisciplinary field of “nyctology,” or the study of night and the nocturnal, is increasingly a source of inspiration and inquiry for artists. This interdisciplinary course cultivates critical research and art practice around night, darkness, and the nocturnal in dialogue with this emerging field. From the use of darkness as a technology to night’s status as an endangered environment, this course interweaves readings from areas including art history, cultural astronomy, Black studies, conservation science, media studies, Indigenous studies, and the celestial humanities, along with critical discussions about the somatic and psychological effects of grind culture and overwork.

Featured Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2027

PHTI-UT 1800 Memorials

Why do humans build things to remember, and what do those things actually do? This course takes memorials, official and unofficial, ancient and digital, as a single big idea explored across cultures, across time, and across mediums: stone and bronze, architecture and landscape, names and text, light and sound, performance and procession, networks and feeds. Research and making go hand in hand. Each week pairs critical readings from history, anthropology, sociology, geography, and law with a set of works to study, at least one visitable in New York City, and a making or analysis response. The class begins with three weeks of destabilizing questions (What is a memorial? Who gets remembered? Should monuments fall?), moves through a survey built on architect Michael Murphy’s taxonomy of memorials that mark, provoke, evoke, and immerse, extended to the performed, the earthen, and the dispersed, and ends in a studio: each student researches, designs, and stages a memorial of their own, physical or ephemeral, presented to an invited public in a final convening. Weekly guests from the field, designers, artists, producers, scholars, and activists who have built the memorials we study, join throughout. New York City is our laboratory; expect site visits and fieldwork. less description for PHTI-UT 1800 «

School:

Tisch School of the Arts

Term:

Spring 2027

PHTI-UT 1800 | 4 units
Class#: 23177
Session: 1 01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027
Section: 001
Class Status: Open
Grading: Ugrd Tisch Graded
Instruction Mode: In-Person
Course Location: Washington Square
Component: Lecture

01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027 Wed 2.00 PM – 5.45 PM
Notes: Why do humans build things to remember, and what do those things actually do? This course takes memorials, official and unofficial, ancient and digital, as a single big idea explored across cultures, across time, and across mediums: stone and bronze, architecture and landscape, names and text, light and sound, performance and procession, networks and feeds. Research and making go hand in hand. Each week pairs critical readings from history, anthropology, sociology, geography, and law with a set of works to study, at least one visitable in New York City, and a making or analysis response. The class begins with three weeks of destabilizing questions (What is a memorial? Who gets remembered? Should monuments fall?), moves through a survey built on architect Michael Murphy’s taxonomy of memorials that mark, provoke, evoke, and immerse, extended to the performed, the earthen, and the dispersed, and ends in a studio: each student researches, designs, and stages a memorial of their own, physical or ephemeral, presented to an invited public in a final convening. Weekly guests from the field, designers, artists, producers, scholars, and activists who have built the memorials we study, join throughout. New York City is our laboratory; expect site visits and fieldwork.

Featured Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2027

GAMES-UT 130 Play

This hybrid making + thinking course will look at the phenomenon of play from multiple perspectives, including psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and as a form of expression in art and design. We will leverage insights from these perspectives to critically analyze play in culture and to apply them to projects across many artistic disciplines. We will be exploring questions like What is play and how does it inform art and design? How does play manifest across forms of cultural expression and artistic disciplines? What would it mean to be more playful and how would it impact our own artistic practices? Students from every department at Tisch are welcome to come and take part. less description for GAMES-UT 130 «

School:

Tisch School of the Arts

Term:

Spring 2027

GAMES-UT 130 | 4 units
Class#: 22131
Session: 1 01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027
Section: 001
Requires Department Consent
Class Status: Open
Grading: Ugrd Tisch Graded
Instruction Mode: In-Person
Course Location: Brooklyn Campus
Component: Studio

01/19/2027 – 05/04/2027 Thu 11.00 AM – 1.45 PM
Notes: Game Center Majors, Minors, and non-GC students must complete the following form – https://forms.gle/VNeaaH73jh11xXTg8 – and will be added to the class in the order of submitted forms. There is a media fee for this course.

Featured Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2027

Universe in a Blender (OART-UT 29)

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.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 13569
Section #: 001
Meets: R 5-8p

Fall 2026 IMA Electives Spring 2026 Spring 2027 Undergraduate

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.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 13502
Section #: 001
Meets: T 10a-1p

Fall 2026 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
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
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)

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.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 19413
Section #: 001
Meets: W 5-8p


Class #: 19414
Section #: 002
Meets: T 5-8p

Expressive Culture Fall 2026 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Spring 2027 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.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 14738
Section #: 001
Meets: R 12:20-3:20p

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2027 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”

Graduate

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Class #: 16471
Section #: 001
Meets: W 3:20-5:50p

Fall 2025 Fall 2026 Graduate Spring 2025 Undergraduate