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Fall 2021

Molecular and Cell Biology I (BIOL-UA 21)

In-depth study of cell biology, with an emphasis on the molecular aspects of cell function. Topics include protein structure and synthesis, gene expression and its regulation, cell replication, and specialized cell structure and function. The course provides an introduction to genomics and bioinformatics and examines developmental biology, evolution, and systems biology.

Biology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)

BIOL-UA 21-000 (7841)

BIOL-UA 21-000 (7842)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Abdul-Rahman, Farah

BIOL-UA 21-000 (7843)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Abdul-Rahman, Farah

BIOL-UA 21-000 (7844)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Abdul-Rahman, Farah

BIOL-UA 21-000 (7845)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ferreira, Amanda

BIOL-UA 21-000 (7846)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Abdul-Rahman, Farah

BIOL-UA 21-000 (8866)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ferreira, Amanda

BIOL-UA 21-000 (8867)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mathis, Sallie

BIOL-UA 21-000 (8985)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Obaji, Daniel

BIOL-UA 21-000 (8986)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lou, Karen

BIOL-UA 21-000 (9398)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mathis, Sallie

BIOL-UA 21-000 (10649)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ferreira, Amanda

BIOL-UA 21-000 (10723)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Obaji, Daniel

BIOL-UA 21-000 (21108)at Washington SquareInstructed by

BIOL-UA 21-000 (21109)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Aharonoff, Avrami

BIOL-UA 21-000 (21110)at Washington SquareInstructed by

BIOL-UA 21-000 (21111)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Aharonoff, Avrami

BIOL-UA 21-000 (21112)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mathis, Sallie

Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate
Fall 2021

Principles of Biology I (BIOL-UA 11)

Introductory course mainly for science majors, designed to acquaint the student with the fundamental principles and processes of biological systems. Subjects include the basics of chemistry pertinent to biology, biochemistry and cell biology, genetics and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, neurobiology, ecology, population genetics, and history and classification of life forms and evolution. Laboratory exercises illustrate the basics of experimental biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics, as well as the diversity of life forms and organ systems.

Biology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7819)

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7820)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Savin, Avital

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7821)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Goldberg, Hailey

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7822)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nguyen, Emma

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7823)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Jallad, Raya

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7824)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Jin, Dongmin

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7825)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lotka, Lauren

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7826)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Jin, Dongmin

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7827)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gupta, Selena

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7828)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gupta, Selena

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7829)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Jallad, Raya

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7831)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by De, Titir

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7832)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sookdeo, Akash

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7833)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Podolska, Natalia

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7834)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hart, Sydney

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7835)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nguyen, Emma

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7836)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lisi, Brianna

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7837)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nikulkova, Maria

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7838)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Podolska, Natalia

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7839)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by De, Titir

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7840)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hart, Sydney

BIOL-UA 11-000 (9211)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Goldberg, Hailey

BIOL-UA 11-000 (9212)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lisi, Brianna

BIOL-UA 11-000 (9213)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sookdeo, Akash

BIOL-UA 11-000 (21100)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nikulkova, Maria

BIOL-UA 11-000 (21101)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Elorza, Setiembre

BIOL-UA 11-000 (21103)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lotka, Lauren

BIOL-UA 11-000 (21105)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Savin, Avital

BIOL-UA 11-000 (21106)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Elorza, Setiembre

BIOL-UA 11-000 (7830)at Washington SquareInstructed by

BIOL-UA 11-000 (21107)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Wed7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Vikraman, Pooja

Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate
Fall 2021

Play & Creativity (CAMS-UA 149)

How do we conceptualize the elusive phenomenon of “play”? Is there a biological imperative to play? How does play influence child development and maintain psychological health as we mature? In this course we survey the historical, scientific, clinical, cultural, and artistic perspectives on the role of play through the life cycle. Is the play-element a catalyst for creativity and innovation? We explore various theories of creativity through the lens of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and mysticism. We consider the use of improvisation and free play in life, art, clinical work, and scientific discovery. Topics include: exploration of play styles, observations of animal play, the role of play in child development and education, how play influences attachment and social bonding, the aesthetics and cultural value of play, the consequences of play deprivation, the art and science of creativity, and the relationship between creativity, mental illness, and genius.

Child/Adoles Mental Hlth Stds (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)

CAMS-UA 149-000 (9680)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Castellanos, Francisco · Amanbekova, Dinara

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate
Fall 2022

Arts of Africa (ARTH-UA 560)

Formerly ARTH-UA 80. Identical to SCA-UA 787. Survey of art of West and Central Africa and the South Pacific. Although art from these areas is popularly thought of in terms of its impact on the West, the art is primarily studied in relation to its meaning and function in its own society, where art socializes and reinforces religious beliefs, reflects male and female roles, and validates leadership. Films and field trips to a museum and gallery supplement classroom lectures.

Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

ARTH-UA 560-000 (21852)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Meier, Sandy Prita

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Fall 2021

Literature and the Environment (ANST-UA 475)

This class explores the role of literature in creating empathy – how can it help us imagine the lives of “others” & that of animals? By querying the politics of meat mainly through contemporary literature, we put three similar (yet often disconnected) disciplines in conversation with each other: food studies, environmental studies, and animal studies. Two key questions we will address are: 1. What relationship – if any – is there between what we eat and who we are? 2. How are the intimate spaces of both human and nonhuman bodies – and their cultivation – related to notions of ecological violence?

Animal Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)

ANST-UA 475-000 (21118)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Athanassakis, Yanoula

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Fall 2022

Immersive Design for Video Games (INTM-SHU 259)

The current design methods and technologies in the field of digital entertainment, from design concepts to design tools, are still based on 2D screens, but the product is often 3D. This contradiction results in the designers not being able to see the final consequences of their work directly. Can existing VR technologies solve this contradiction? Immersive design is a new design method for digital creativities beyond the screen. It usually takes VR, AR, or MR devices as design interfaces to craft 3D models, textures, game environments, and other gaming experiences. Not only game assets creation but also game design concepts can be changed with these new technical inputs. In this course, students will answer the following questions: ○ Is immersive design more intuitive? ○ Is immersive design more efficient? ○ Do immersive design techniques have lower learning costs? ○ What traditional design lessons and concepts can be applied in an immersive design environment? In view of these questions, students from different disciplines will give answers through discussions, projects, collaboration, documentation, and VR games. Prerequisite: Communications Lab. Fulfillment: IMA/IMB Elective.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

INTM-SHU 259-000 (17316)09/05/2022 – 10/28/2022 Tue9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zhang, Xingchen

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Undergraduate
Fall 2022 Spring 2021

Digital Arts and New Media (INTM-SHU 125)

This course investigates digital art and new media from creative, theoretical, and historical perspectives. We will examine the paradigm shift resulting from the rise of digital art and its expansion as well as explore current ideas, creative strategies, and issues surrounding digital media. The topics of study will include digital image, digital sound, net art, systems, robotics, telematics, data art, and virtual/augmented reality. The course provides students with the means to understand what digital media is, and establish their own vision of what it can become, from both a practical and a theoretical perspective. The course consists of lectures, field trips, and small studio-based practices. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: IMA/IMB Elective.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

INTM-SHU 125-000 (17296)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Lee, Inmi

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate
Fall 2022

Advanced Lab: Web Page to Web Space (INTM-SHU 304)

Web Page to Web Space is a course that explores virtual interactive experience in the context of Virtual Embodiment, Virtual Space, Telepresence, and Metaverse. Students will investigate new possible ways of using the Web to create new immersive environments in a web platform, by utilizing algorithmic 3D animation and server-side programming. This is an advanced course with technically challenging concepts with three.js and node.js and suitable for students with prior knowledge in visual programming. Prerequisite: Nature of Code or Machine Learning for New Interfaces or Critical Data and Visualization or ABC Browser Circus or Kinetic Interfaces or Machine Learning for Artists and Designers or Expanded Web or Movement Practices and Computing. Fulfillment: IMA/IMB Elective, Advanced IMA Elective.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

INTM-SHU 304-000 (17318)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Moon, Jung Hyun

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Undergraduate
Fall 2021

Food Management Theory (NUTR-UE 91)

Organization and management of commercial and institutional food service facilities in hotels, restaurants, and educational and community program sites.

Nutrition & Dietetics (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)

NUTR-UE 91-000 (13048)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zagor, Stephen

NUTR-UE 91-000 (13196)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zagor, Stephen

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Jazz History (MPAJZ-UE 1121)

Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

This course surveys the history and development of jazz music in America from the mid 1800s to current trends in popular music. Through a historical timeline, student will study jazz music’s range of styles as informed by social, regional, cultural, technological, and political trends. Realizing that all music is a reflection of historical events and the cultures they are informed by, students will analyze the close connection between jazz music and why it is known as America’s true original artform.

Music Instrumental: Jazz (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Spring 2023 Summer 2021

The Sublime (IDSEM-UG 1788)

The “sublime” evades simple definition. In everyday conversation, it is often synonymous with the wonderful or the excellent. But, in the arts, humanities and aesthetic theory, the “sublime” is a topic of deep and extensive writing and reflection amongst poets, artists, theorists, and philosophers. The sublime, in this context, goes back to classical times and forward to the present. Common examples of the sublime included natural or artistic representations mountains, avalanches, waterfalls, stormy seas, human ruins, or the infinite vault of the starry sky. This course examines theoretical and creative representations of the sublime in writers and artists from ancient to postmodern, including Aristotle, Longinus, Sappho, Kant, Schiller, Wordsworth, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Newman, Rosenblum, Du Bois, Lyotard, Battersby, Chopin, Freeman, Malick, Wagner, Viola, and von Trier.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2023)

IDSEM-UG 1788-000 (22039)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lewis, Bradley

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

History of British Fashion (IDSEM-UG 9252)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue

THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE AT NYU-LONDON. This course offers a survey of key aspects of British fashion from 1500 to the present day, including womenswear, menswear, accessories, and more. We will examine selected features of producing, consuming, and representing dress, relating important shifts in fashion to historical developments in areas such as trade, economics, politics, and visual culture. Students will study examples of historical clothing as well as depictions of it, and become familiar with a variety of methodological approaches to its study. The majority of classes will take place in Bedford Square, London, and be formed of illustrative lectures, class activities, discussion of set readings, and student presentations. Each lecture is described in the syllabus and includes discussion questions, required as well as recommended readings, and recommended films. Several classes will take place on location, at museums and archives, and will explore important collections of British dress and of British everyday life and fashionable consumption.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

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

History of Italian Fashion (IDSEM-UG 9200)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE AT NYU-FLORENCE. The aim of this course is to explore the history of Italian fashion with an interdisciplinary approach focused on social, cultural, economic and political aspects. By focusing on select topics of key interest students will acquire a basic knowledge of the history of Italian fashion from the Renaissance to the present, understand the complex and multivalent clothing codes that help to order social interaction and learn to decode it. These abilities will provide students with a useful basis for understanding the capital role of the fashion of the past both as the origin of a ‘language’ of clothes still in use and as a boundless source of inspiration for contemporary designers. Conducted in English.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2024 Spring 2022 Spring 2025

The Modern Arabic Novel (IDSEM-UG 1478)

Colonialism left indelible marks on the cultures and societies of its colonized subjects. While nation-states have emerged, the colonial legacy and its various effects continue to haunt post-colonial societies and the modes in which they represent their history and subjectivity. The novel is a particularly privileged site to explore this problem. This course will focus on the post-colonial Arabic novel. After a brief historical introduction to the context and specific conditions of its emergence as a genre, we will read a number of representative novels. Discussions will focus on the following questions: How do writers problematize the perceived tension between tradition and modernity? Can form itself become an expression of sociopolitical resistance? How is the imaginary boundary between “West” and “East” blurred and/or solidified? How is the nation troped and can novels become sites for rewriting official history? What role do gender and sexuality play in all of the above? In addition to films, readings (all in English) may include Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Naguib Mahfuz, al-Tayyib Salih, Abdelrahman Munif, Ghassan Kanafani, Elias Khoury, Sun`allah Ibrahim, Huda Barakat, Assia Djebbar, and Muhammad Shukri.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2025)

IDSEM-UG 1478-000 (10038)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Antoon, Sinan

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Topics in Recorded Music: David Bowie (REMU-UT 1143)

David Bowie’s life and work offer a template for how to survive and continue to evolve as a musical artist. David Bowie has kept the music industry, his fans and the world guessing throughout a career that spans over four decades. Bowie himself put his secret best in his prophetic 1972 song, “Ch-ch-ch-ch Changes”; a multi-talented performer, writer and visual artist, Bowie has played his career like an instrument, selecting trends of every generation to process, absorb and adapt into successive phases of his ever-evolving chameleon persona. In this day of ceaseless multiple media, Bowie’s most recent, and typically perverse, coup was keeping secret the recording of his 2013 album, The Next Day, over a two-year recording period. The manipulative bravado of knowing when and how to keep a star’s inaccessibility and mystery, or to expose oneself, as Bowie did on TV in his own darkest days, has given David Bowie a singular, enduring mystique, glamour and respect. Examining the arc of his work is a window into significant scenes of every decade since the 1950s, and offers insight into: the British Blues scene that produced the Beatles and the Rolling Stones; the hippy free festival counter-culture; r’n’b; futurism; electronica;glam and gender games, improvisation; soul; funk; dance; disco; minimalism; ambient; avant-garde theater; and above all, the endlessly evolving sound of US and UK young clubland, including recent jungle and garage, to which Bowie consistently returns to recharge and find a new direction to make his own.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

REMU-UT 1143-000 (18004)10/22/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Goldman, Vivien

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Spring 2022 Spring 2023

Topics in Recorded Music: Gaming (REMU-UT 1155)

Fortnite’s concerts with Marshmello and Travis Scott. Open Pit’s DIY music festivals in Minecraft. League of Legends’ K-pop and hip-hop groups. Indie label Monstercat’s deals with Rocket League and Roblox. Sony Music’s gaming imprint Lost Rings. Grand Theft Auto’s 75 billion minutes of in-game music listening. “Fantasy record label” apps like FanLabel that allow fans to assemble their own “brackets” of artists that they think will do best on the charts. These are just a handful of examples of how music and games are increasingly overlapping as industries, experiences and cultures. There are strong mutual incentives at play: Game developers are blooming into full-fledged media brands and are looking to the music business for both financial and cultural capital, while music companies are looking to diversify their revenue, experiment with more interactive technologies and tap into the power of highly engaged communities online. In the process, this merging of entertainment worlds is also rewriting conventional wisdom of what it means to be an artist, a performer, gamer and especially a fan. This course will give students the critical frameworks and vocabulary to dissect how games are being incorporated into every corner of the music industry — from the moment music is created, to the strategies that inform how music is then disseminated, marketed, monetized and performed. We will draw from a combination of theoretical readings and real-world case studies to dissect video games that center music in their player experience on the one hand, and musical projects that draw direct inspiration from games in their approaches to design, marketing, business and fan engagement on the other hand. Because this field is relatively new, many of these case studies may emerge in real time as the course unfolds. This course will be reading-, writing- and play-intensive, with required and suggested games and soundtracks for students to play, watch or listen to every week. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to workshop their own creative, marketing and/or business strategies for hybrid music/game projects, walking away with a concrete plan of action for incorporating the fast-paced gaming industry into their own careers.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2023)

REMU-UT 1155-000 (14332)03/21/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Burke, Christopher

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Spring 2022 Spring 2023 Spring 2025

Topics in Recorded Music: Taylor Swift (REMU-UT 1174)

The name “Taylor Swift” has become synonymous with a number of big ideas. To some in the music industry, the eleven-time Grammy winner (including three Album of the Year awards) defines 21st century country music’s pivot to pop radio. To others, Taylor Swift is the pop star of the 2010s (with the album sales and chart history to back it up— With sales of over 200 million records worldwide, Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time). When deployed pejoratively, however, the name “Taylor Swift” can signal anything from white privilege to white feminism to white taste in an era of intersectionality and Black Lives Matter conscientiousness. Taylor Swift may be a loaded phrase for some, but the career of Taylor Swift is more simply an embodiment of music’s American Dream. Raised on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, teenage Swift would move to Nashville and become one of the most lauded young songwriters in history. Her music was infatuated with love, innocence and romantic fantasias that would sour in the natural way those fairy tales do as a young woman grows up. By her early twenties, she was a full-fledged pop icon, having ditched Music Row for producers like Max Martin and Jack Antonoff, and tabloid fame. Along the way, there were feuds, squads and political discourses aplenty. Swift has encountered the type of controversies that would destroy most pop stars’ careers and acclaim. But at age 31, she has never been more awarded or acclaimed as a singer-songwriter. Meanwhile, her impact is felt in the success and style of younger singers/songwriters like Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray, Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo. This course proposes to deconstruct both the appeal and aversions to Taylor Swift through close readings of her music and public discourse as it relates to her own growth as an artist and a celebrity. Through readings, lectures and more, the class delves into analyses of the culture and politics of teen girlhood in pop music, fandom, media studies, whiteness and power as it relates to her image and the images of those who have both preceded and succeeded her. We’ll also consider topics like copyright and ownership, American nationalism and the ongoing impact of social media on the pop music industry.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2025)

REMU-UT 1174-000 (17008)01/21/2025 – 03/11/2025 Tue5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Spanos, Brittany

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Topics in Recorded Music: Indigenous Pop Around the World (REMU-UT 1175)

In 2021, New Zealand pop star / singer-songwriter Lorde released a five-song EP of tracks from her Solar Power album, rerecorded in the indigenous Māori language. Five years prior, pop stars like Pharrell Williams, Dave Matthews, Radiohead, and Sia raised their voices at Standing Rock, North Dakota in support of the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline—one of many increasing threats to the sovereignty of Indigenous Nations. Their celebrity presence was key to attracting mainstream media coverage. However, those artists were largely following the lead of Native hip-hoppers like Supaman, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, and Prolific, who’d already been at Standing Rock since the start of the protests, rallying their own communities. This course will engage students around the growing globalization of Indigenous Peoples movements that intersects culture, politics, and economics. These days, Indigenous musicians like Aboriginal Australian rapper Baker Boy and Canadian First Nations vocalist Jeremy Dutcher are gaining in visibility, topping critics’ year-end Best-Of lists and taking home awards. This “Creative Natives” wave is being felt far outside of music, too: Tzotzil fashion designer Alberto López Gomez from Chiapas, Mexico was featured in New York Fashion Week; Māori filmmaker Taika Waititi won an Oscar for JoJo Rabbit; influential art critics heralded White Mountain Apache music performance artist and film scorer Laura Ortman at the 2020 Whitney Biennial, and Seminole/Muscogee Creek showrunner Sterling Harjo’s Reservation Dogs is the new hit on FX/Hulu. Over the course of seven weeks, students will engage with a wide range of international Indigenous performers and music(s) they may have never heard before—from Māori metal to Saami yoik-rap, Quechua huanyo-pop, Inuit throatsinging, Maasai hip-hop, Hawaiian reggae, Tokelauan dance-pop, and even Tuareg rock. Meanwhile, they will discover how Indigenous artists have not only achieved national, even international, acclaim in popular mainstream music genres, they are increasingly “indigenizing” them with languages, instruments, and vocal techniques from their own cultural traditions. We will also look at some Indigenous stars who broke barriers to achieve mainstream fame as singular personalities and cultural ambassadors: artists like Yma Sumac, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, and more. And also, we’ll survey the impact of Indigenous artists and music on the both the mainstream recording industry, as well as the growth of Indigenous-directed business entities doing things on their own terms. Through readings, lectures, and class discussions, students will be introduced to important scholarship on Indigenous identity, (de-)colonization, cultural appropriation, aesthetics, and so on. Any student interested in socio-cultural movements, roots music trends, arts-centered activism, and the ways in which music introduces audiences to the messages within each of these—especially regarding themes like climate justice, human rights, social inclusion, and sovereignty issues—will benefit from taking this class. Students can also expect to leave the course with a greater awareness of, and hopefully appreciation for, the growing global presence and popularity of Indigenous sounds, voices, and views.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

REMU-UT 1175-000 (18033)09/02/2025 – 10/21/2025 Tue5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Veran, Cristina

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Creative Music Entrepreneurs in Historical Context (REMU-UT 1201)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This 14-week class introduces students to the history of innovative entrepreneurs and institutions in American recorded music. We recount the stories and make arguments about famous executives, managers, producers, performers, DJs, and journalists/publishers from the dawn of the music business until the present day. We study how and why the fields, fiefdoms, and empires built by these impressive and sometimes controversial icons have transformed the course of popular music. Along the way, students become well versed in the history of 20th and 21st century recorded music, and in various music genres and styles; and we place the art and business of creating and selling recorded music in historical, political, cultural and social context. Throughout, we look at approaches to crafting successful oral and written arguments about popular music with clear, compelling writing about sound.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate