Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
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Intro Numerical Analysis (MA-UY 4424)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Business Structure of The Music Industry (MPAMB-UE 100)
The course will provide a background study of all related areas of the multibillion-dollar music industry, including the evolution and operations of the record company, music publishing, artist management, live entertainment, copyright, business-to-business and consumer-facing digital services.
Music Business (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (11432)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Durant, Clayton
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (11433)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Mon6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tallman, Elizabeth
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (20050)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Fri10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tallman, Elizabeth
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (11434)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Dodes, Susan
MPAMB-UE 100-000 (20141)at Washington SquareInstructed by
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.
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.
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.
Basic Practice of Statistics for Social Science (MA-UY 1414)
Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Mathematics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Palestine, Zionism, & Israel (MEIS-UA 697)
This course is a survey of the history of Palestine in the modern period, focusing on the conflict for control of this land from its origins in the late nineteenth century until the present. The purpose of this course is to examine the evolution of this ongoing struggle in its historical context and to try to understand why the various parties to this conflict have thought and acted as they did.
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
MEIS-UA 697-000 (17941)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lockman, Zachary
MEIS-UA 697-000 (17942)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Deniz, Fatma
MEIS-UA 697-000 (8287)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mark, Maytal
MEIS-UA 697-000 (17943)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Deniz, Fatma
MEIS-UA 697-000 (8294)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mark, Maytal
Sustainable Urban Development (UPADM-GP 217)
This course examines the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable urban development. Some of the major themes explored include indicators of sustainability, urban demographic trends, environmental justice, green building, urban sprawl, sustainable energy and transportation, and global climate change. In addition, the role of information technology (IT) and social networks is discussed in the context of promoting ideas globally about sustainable development.
UG Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
UPADM-GP 217-000 (7940)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Panahipour, Mitra
Research in Food Studies (FOOD-UE 1118)
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Food Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Reading as a Writer (ENGL-UA 201)
4 points, discussion/seminar. First offered spring 2016, and every semester thereafter. Prerequisite (or co-requisite): Literary Interpretation (ENGL-UA 200). This seminar is a class in creative as well as critical reading. This class posits reading as an activity and explores reading and writing as reciprocal activities: no strong writers are not also strong readers. What can we learn from a text’s forms, modes, codes, and affects? What can we also learn from theories of literature (of poetry and poetics, or drama, of the novel or narrative in general)? How can we read both with and against the grain? And how can a profound engagement with criticism, commentary, and theory help us become better “makers” ourselves? This course assumes that writing is an effect of, and in a feedback loop with, reading: thus this seminar aims to strengthen your capacities for pattern recognition – i.e. sophistication about genre, style, mode. Regular assignments aim to provide a space for critical experiments in reading and writing; the syllabus offers models and goads for reflection and response. Students will direct and distill their inquiries into a substantial final paper (or project).
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
ENGL-UA 201-000 (6020)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by McLane, Maureen
ENGL-UA 201-000 (6021)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Wed2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gajarawala, Toral
ENGL-UA 201-000 (21539)at Distance Learning/SynchronousInstructed by
Multi-Faith Leadership in the 21 Century (UPADM-GP 254)
In the context of an increasingly polarized American society, this course seeks to train students to mobilize diverse faith communities together for the greater good. Unleashing the power of their own story, students will articulate their values and explore the ways it can be shared. The course will draw on case studies from historical and contemporary faith leaders who have achieved success in creating sustainable change, as well as interrogating relevant current affairs as they arise. Students will learn to recognize how stories are used to motivate action, to recognize the ways that race, power and privilege play a role in elevating and downplaying stories and to identify the role values play in motivating action.
UG Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
UPADM-GP 254-000 (16570)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Garbell, Chelsea · Dunkley, Brandon
Contemporary Global Crises & Humanitarian Politics (UPADM-GP 275)
In the context of a growing number of intersecting local, national, and global crises, each warranting political strategy, operational responses, and humanitarian planning across a range of states, agencies, movements, technical and political actors, this course focuses on exploring: the relationships between and among decision-makers and affected populations; the political economy of resource mobilization and distribution; the practical tools, frameworks, and blueprints used for response; questions of power in the context of emergency, and; historical determinants of humanitarian need, responsibility, and intervention. This course digs deeply into the political economy, politics, infrastructure, design, incentives, and dilemmas related to the current development and emergency paradigms, with specific exploration of what constitutes humanitarian action, aid, response, and ethics. Blending both practitioner and theoretical perspectives, this course takes a critical approach to the evolution of development concepts, slow and fast emergency, and structural inequality as they are shaped by historical events and processes, institutions, and ideologies – while simultaneously exploring the role of contemporary aid systems, political and social responses in perpetuating and remedying each. There is special emphasis on the perspectives and vantage points of people most directly affected by perpetual emergency. While not centered on or around the COVID-19 pandemic that has shaped our lives for the last three years, we will incorporate its context and reference it as an embodied case for better understanding the realities and power dynamics affecting “local populations” that we often speak about in this work, as well as a growing field of policy research and practice surrounding compounding crises, or “polycrises.” Throughout the course, which will utilize active learning modalities such as simulations, large and small group discussion, mapping and platform analysis, analysis of films, discussion of readings, guest speakers from other geographies, and individual reflection, we will engage (and often struggle with) fundamental (and technical) questions such as: • What are the political, social and economic underpinnings of contemporary development, emergency, and humanitarian discourse? • How does the design of development and humanitarian infrastructure and technical systems contribute to or alleviate structural inequality within and across societies as part of long-term development paradigms or short-term emergency response? • What does it mean to be an individual engaged in humanitarian, emergency, and development work as an affected population, as a decision-maker, as an insider or outsider? As an individual or as part of an institution? What are the historical and contemporary sources of these roles, norms, and practices? • What are the origins and starting points of an emergency? When can we say an emergency has ended? • How does a focus on underlying causes and power relations change our analysis of the problems and solutions? Should politics be removed from practice & intervention or amplified? • As people affected by an emergency are not a monolith, how can we define “local” and “sovereign” in mapping competing interests and power dynamics within communities affected by emergency? • Should we reform or abandon the current humanitarian/development aid system toward alternatives?
UG Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
UPADM-GP 275-000 (16582)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Levy, Anna
Advanced Lab: Mixed Reality and Cultural Heritage (INTM-SHU 308)
This course offers an experience with the intersection of technology and culture through collaborative teaching offered by faculty from Interactive Media Arts (IMA) and Global China Studies(GCS). Throughout the semester, students will dive into the world of Mixed Reality (MR) design, mastering space scanning technology, documenting historical sites, and conducting in-depth historical research. Students will use Unity, a cross-platform game engine, to craft immersive MR experiences that bring historical narratives to life. What sets this course apart is the real-world testing component, where students will refine their designs at actual historical sites. By the end, students will produce a digital immersive time-travel architecture, creating MR experiences that bring cultural heritage to life for modern audiences. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Fulfillment: IMA Advanced Elective; IMB IMA/IMB elective; GCS Elective: Media, Arts, and Literature.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
INTM-SHU 308-000 (5223)09/02/2024 – 12/13/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zhang, Xingchen · Zuo, Lala
DEVELOPING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (DM-GY 7053)
This multidisciplinary course allows students from a variety of backgrounds to work together to learn about and develop assistive technology, as well as cultivate a better understanding of the people being served. Students will work in teams to identify clinical needs relevant to their chosen client and learn the process of developing an idea and following that through to the development of a prototype product.
Integrated Digital Media (Graduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2025)
DM-GY 7053-000 (15751)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by
Intro to Television Writing (FMTV-UT 1017)
This course, aimed at second semester sophomores, is the launch pad of Television Writing in the department. Before taking any other TV writing courses, students must take Introduction To Television Writing. The course will introduce sophomores interested in TV writing to all aspects of what goes into the creation of a script for a TV program. It is also recommended for non-writers who wish to learn the fundamentals of TV writing as preparation for creating shows and working with writers. The course will also prepare students for other TV-writing courses in the departmental Television Progression. The course is also open to seniors with an interest in television writing who haven’t taken other TV writing courses. This course allocates as Film & TV, Scriptwriting for Film & TV majors.
Topics in ITP: Creative Image Generation Creative Image Generation (ITPG-GT 2378)
This course will cover a variety of academic topics within the field of Interactive Telecommunications. For further details, please refer to the individual class section notes and topic subtitle.
Class titles vary by section.
Topics in ITP: Disturbing Code Disturbing Code (ITPG-GT 2379)
This course will cover a variety of academic topics within the field of Interactive Telecommunications. For further details, please refer to the individual class section notes and topic subtitle.
Class titles vary by section.
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Playful Performance Props (COART-UT 505)
TouchDesigner is a powerful software hub for live audiovisual performance and installation art. With a cutting-edge buffet of inputs and outputs at our disposal, what new, evolved, or remixed types of art can we create? If you’re a musician, you’ll make and play an instrument that didn’t exist before. If you’re a dancer, your movements will become the music and visuals, instead of the other way around. If you’re a visual artist, you’ll collage with code, sculpt with magic, and create installations that respond to your audience instantly. If you’re all of the above, you’ll have fun in this class. The course starts with video art — live camera feeds, visual effects, and projection mapping — then weaves in audio reactivity and sound generation for DJ/VJing. We will use the MediaPipe plugin to detect our faces, bodies, and objects and use that data to make music, control systems, and modulate visual effects. We will scan objects, people, and environments with our phones to create virtual scenes and 3D animations rendered live. We will learn communication protocols — MIDI to send input and receive output from MIDI controllers or DAWs such as Ableton; OSC to wirelessly connect to other computers, software, and livecode environments; and NDI to send high-resolution and low-latency video feeds between devices. By the end of the course, students will be able to use TouchDesigner to connect and control any modern art/performance/game software. Assignments are time-intensive: creating original work to be shown in class and watching recorded lessons of the next week’s concepts. Classtime is a mix of homework performances, collaborative exercises, concept walkthroughs, and studio time. The final is a small group performance or interactive installation that is a part of a public show. No previous coding, fabrication, or performance experience necessary. Note: There is no longer mandatory use of Arduino in this course, though students with interest in Arduino microcontrollers can still create custom hardware interfaces that send sensor input or receive command signals and turn TouchDesigner into a hub for interactive installations or performance props.
Cultures & Contexts: Multicultural France (CORE-UA 9547)
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue
College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks