Design Thinking: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving and Creating Impact (UPADM-GP 262)

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

Sections (Fall 2025)

UPADM-GP 262-000 (5873)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Wed6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gafni, Noa

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

Conversations in the Global Music Business: Learning from the Past and Forging the Future (REMU-UT 9810)

With sales of more than 1.3 billion, the German recorded music market is the third largest in the world: it is larger than the UK music market and behind only the USA and Japan. Beyond just numbers, the Berlin music business is unique: it’s home to hundreds of powerful independent and D.I.Y. record labels; it’s historically been ground zero for innovative electronic and dance music; and it’s a burgeoning tech hub for innovative software/hardware companies like Native Instruments, Ableton and Soundcloud. In this colloquium series, students will meet and hear each week from key creative entrepreneurial figures and innovators in the German and European music business. This course has several purposes. First, students will consider how ongoing economic and technological changes might be impacting the worldwide music business, as speakers discuss controversial trends like the rise of cryptocurrency, block chain and cashless systems, customization technologies like 3D printing and developments in robotics, and radical, disruptive approaches to copyright. Second, students will develop a greater understanding of the chief similarities and differences between the traditional European and US music business operations, particularly with regard to label operations, publishing and copyright, touring and festivals, and nightlife promotion. Third, students will become more informed about the D.I.Y. music business in Berlin itself, as they hear from speakers about the promises and challenges one faces in launching innovative music start ups in Germany. And finally, students will get to meet and network with key movers and shakers in the Berlin scene, past and present. In anticipation for a guest class visit, students may be required to investigate websites, read biographical or contextual material, or attend events outside of class time. Students will be expected to ask informed questions of the guests and to develop responses throughout the course of the class. Students should leave the class with a greater understanding of how the European and German music businesses work and how they themselves might make a business or sales impact on a global scale.

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

REMU-UT 9810-000 (10716)08/28/2025 – 12/04/2025 Wed5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Berlin (Global)Instructed by Gonsher, Aaron

Fall 2025 Undergraduate

Probability and Statistics for Engineers (MA-UY 2224)

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

Principles of Data Science I (DS-UA 9111)

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

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

Cultures and Contexts Liberal Arts & Sciences - Core Spring 2025 Undergraduate

What is Islam? (HIST-UA 9085)

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

This course explores the origins of Islam and the development of its rituals and doctrines to the 21st century. It assumes no previous background in Islamic studies. Students will learn about topics such as the Koran and the Prophet, Islamic law, the encounter of East and West during the Crusades, and Islam in Britain. They will find out how Muslims in different regions have interpreted and lived their religion in past and present. Readings will include not only scholarly works but also material from primary sources, for example the Koran, biographies and chronicles. The course consists of a combination of lectures, seminar discussions, field trips and includes other media, such as film.

History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Cultures and Contexts Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Core Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Spring 2025

Cultural (Mis)translations: China and the West (GCHN-SHU 225)

What happens when one major human civilization that originates from one end of the earth comes to meet with another that thrives on the other? Will they prove themselves capable of a fruitful engagement that leads to peace and friendship based on mutual respect and understanding rather than distrust or even mutual destruction? What is the role of language in this cross-cultural encounter? This course aims to explore one such encounter, a truly unusual case in terms of its scale and splendor, namely that between China and the West in the modern period broadly defined. Surely we will not ignore the problems–political, ideological, as well as technical–that arise in this interactive process, but our focus will be on the sunny side of that encounter, on the example of those who embrace and embody through their creative and intellectual work the ideal of a harmonious though culturally diverse world. Prerequisite: None Fulfillment: CORE HPC/IPC; GCS Chinese Media, Arts, and Literature.

Global China Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2025)

GCHN-SHU 225-000 (22037)02/03/2025 – 05/16/2025 Wed5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Chen, Lin

Cultures and Contexts Undergraduate

Fall 2024

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

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Texts and Ideas Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Art and the Anthropocene: Material-Based Activism (INTM-SHU 141)

This course will focus on Eco-Materialism (circular design principles — reuse, recycle, renew & rethink) and emergent practices based on principles of Gaia theory, symbiosis, and other systems-centered theories in conjunction with some of the origins, influences, theories, processes, and manifestations of art installation. We will read, watch, and discuss perspectives on Eco-Materialism genres and installation art written/created by artists, curators, art historians, and critics and view work by eco artists and installation artists. Students will create their own installations and writing, experiment with diverse biomaterials, and learn and combine craftsmanship and digital techniques to explore and create their own materials. Do-It-Yourself activism and Critical-Making will enable students to participate in new modes of civic engagement. Moreover, the course will motivate them to remain independent from pre-determined structures, assuming active roles in the art making rather than passive consumers. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: IMA elective; IMB IMA/IMB elective, Visual Arts elective.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

INTM-SHU 141-000 (3197)09/02/2024 – 12/13/2024 Wed2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Godoy, Marcela · Lin, Monika

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate

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.

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Meets: R 9:30a-12:15p

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Section #: 004

Meets: W 3:30-6:10p

Fall 2025 Fall 2026 General Elective Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Summer 2026 Undergraduate

Topics in ITP: Interactive Environments with Touchdesigner Interactive Environments with Touchdesigner (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.

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Class #: 5346

Section #: 001

Meets: TR 6-8:55p

Fall 2025 Graduate IMA Electives Spring 2026 Summer 2026

Topics in ITP (ITPG-GT 2379)

Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
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Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Wed,Mon,Fri

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.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Graduate IMA Electives Spring 2026

The Contemporary Literature Lab (ENGL-UA 9995)

Credits: 2
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Wed

This course bridges scholarly and professional training by providing students with an intensive introduction to the world of contemporary literature: its writers, its communities, and its organizations and institutions. Built around the English Department’s Contemporary Literature Series (CLS), which brings noted authors who are on course syllabi that semester to the NYU campus, the focus of the CLS Lab varies each semester depending on the featured authors. Some of the topics to be explored include: literary publishing, forums for literary discussion and criticism, literary organizations and institutions, and the possibilities and challenges of writing scholarly literary criticism about contemporary literature. By the end of the CLS Lab, students will have a firm grasp of the contemporary literary landscape and they will be better prepared to translate their interests and skills as English majors into the intellectual and professional contexts of the literary world.

English (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 General Elective Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Seeing London’s Architecture (ARTH-UA 9674)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Wed

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

This course is designed to work in three ways. First, it is an opportunity to learn about London’s architecture and history by physically exploring the city’s historic and modern built environment. Second, this class is an introduction to sketching and keeping a travel notebook, a fulfilling skill that any liberal arts student should experience. Third, and perhaps most important, this course teaches students how to ‘read’ a building and a town or city. The ability to visually make sense of the built environment of this major capital should help in understanding the architecture of New York City and other towns and cities throughout the world. Our course is formed of a series of site visits through London’s extraordinary and diverse environment, considering significant architectural developments from many periods, while learning to record and describe what we see. We will study the architectural vocabulary of London and learn how to accurately and elegantly depict buildings and places in both word and image. Please note that it is very important that students attend the first class, which covers the introductory information, lecture and drawing session.

Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Intro to Urban Agriculture (FOOD-UE 1030)

Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed

This course provides a practical introduction to urban agriculture. Students will learn horticultural skills while performing tasks at the NYU Urban Farm Lab. They will also learn about the biological processes that these tasks manage & how they fit together in a system. Through visits to other sites around the city, students will be exposed to a wide variety of strategies for practicing horticulture in the urban environment.

Food Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 General Elective Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Handmade Music (COART-UT 401)

Collaborative Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

COART-UT 401-000 (21566)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Wed10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Benjamin, Ithai

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

Fall 2024

Making Dance: Space, Place and Technology (ARTS-UG 1211)

In this workshop, students will explore the possibilities of dancing across spatial categories, making dances in “real” and digital space. Taking our cues from contemporary experimental and primarily post-modern choreographers, we will examine how our arts practices and beliefs about bodies and space are linked to evolving ideas and cultural systems; we will ask questions that tug at the assumptions of what dance is, what bodies are, what space is, and how these elements are significant as components of choreography and of our dance experiences. We will make and watch dances ranging from low-tech works to high-tech experiments. In addition to making dances, we will read about contemporary dance, technology, and other practices and disciplines (e.g., architecture, philosophy, neuroscience), view performances of choreographers and visual artists, and meet with practitioners engaged in the questions and practices of our study. We will join with CultureHub, an organization housed at La MaMa E.T.C. (one of New York’s most noted experimental theaters) and working at the intersection of art, technology, and community. Readings might include work by Gaston Bachelard, Victoria Hunter, Matthew Frederick, Merce Cunningham, Steve Paxton, Andrew Gurian, Yi-Fu Tuan, and other artists and scholars. The course is open to all students: anyone interested in dance and/or technology is welcome. Note: all workshop members will be expected to participate as movers!

Arts Workshops (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

ARTS-UG 1211-000 (16949)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Wed11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Satin, Leslie

IMA Electives Undergraduate

Editing I (FMTV-UT 1016)

This is a hands-on course designed to introduce the student to narrative and documentary editing techniques, and to the role of the editor in shaping the final form of film and video productions. Good editing is crucial to the success of every film and video. This class is recommended to students pursuing directing or producing who want a better understanding of how the post-production workflow functions, as well as to any student, from sophomore to senior, who would like to gain a clearer understanding of the role of the editor as an artist, a technician and a collaborator. To achieve this, the class will delve into the methods, objectives, and technical aspects of post-production. It will thoroughly explore two major editing programs (Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro) used in today’s professional post-production environment, and acquaint the student with every stage of the editing workflow from capture to final output. Students will learn to approach these and other non-linear programs as variations on common themes rather than as completely new and foreign tools. In addition, the class will present examples of edited sequences from both narrative and documentary films for discussion, and have invited guests who will share their experiences in bringing films to completion. There will also be a course pack of assigned readings. This course allocates as a Craft for Film & TV majors.

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