Queer Cultures and Democracy (SPAN-UA 9481)

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

In the last decade, many Latin American nations have witnessed decisive progress in the legal recognition of non-normative sexualities and gender identities. The conventional map of “advanced democracies” crafting models of democratization to be exported to “less developed” nations seems definitely challenged: a new understanding of the multiple temporalities of queer cultures in North and South America is even more necessary than ever. In order to explore this multi-layered landscape, this course is aimed at reconstructing the historical detours of queer cultures in Buenos Aires and New York, considered enclaves of queer cultures in Argentina and the US respectively. The course revisits the last three decades in order to question the dominant and frequently reductive narratives of lineal progress. Taught simultaneously in Buenos Aires and New York, the class includes critical readings of queer cultural production as well as work on local archives and interviews with activists and GLTTBI organizations.

Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Intensive Interm Spanish (SPAN-UA 9020)

Credits: 6
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu

Credits: 6
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Mon,Tue,Wed

SPAN-UA 9020.002 (Intensive Intermediate Spanish) is a six-credit course that continues and reviews the introductory level Spanish learned in SPAN-UA.1 and SPAN-UA.2, or in SPANUA. 10, while introducing literary readings, short films, and more complex composition exercises. The course involves an integration of the four basic skills: listening, speaking,reading and writing with the aim to improve communication in Spanish. Through this integrated approach, you will participate in a practical application of vocabulary, grammar,and culture. The course emphasizes mastery of language skills through specific contexts and dialogical situations.At the end of the course students will read a novel which will also be used to review many of the grammatical points covered in the textbook and class work, to improve analytical thinking and literary criticism skills, as well as to verbally express opinions about the situations presented in the novel. The goals of this course are to provide you with the opportunity to improve your oral and written communication skills in the language, by applying all the grammar rules you have learned and will be reviewing. You will be expected to substantially increase your working vocabulary and make solid progress in reading and writing skills.

Spanish (Undergraduate)
6 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Advanced Spanish for Spanish-Speaking Students (SPAN-UA 9051)

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

For native and quasi-native speakers of Spanish whose formal training in the language has been incomplete or otherwise irregular.

Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Texts and Ideas: (CORE-UA 9400)

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

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

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

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

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

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Core Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Texts and Ideas Undergraduate

Cultures & Contexts: Latin America (CORE-UA 9515)

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

Over the last 50 years, millions of Latin Americans have experienced extraordinary shifts in their social, political, and cultural landscape, a result of the transformative effects of revolution or insurgency, state repression, popular resistance and social movements. We focus on events that had continental, hemispheric, and even global impact, including the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the military coups of the 1970s, and the Zapatista uprising in 1994. Drawing on a range of primary sources and cultural forms, we listen carefully to the voices of the major social actors of the time. Our sources are drawn from a wide range of media: newsprint, television broadcasts, transcripts, testimony, essay, documentary and feature film, art, and music. We deliberately mix artistic representations with documentary evidence to understand how the arts—music, visual art, literature, film—do not just reflect the reality around them, but are themselves vital sites for shaping and changing that reality and our imagination of it, both then and now.

College Core Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Journalism and Society: Leaks and Whistleblowers (MCC-UE 9111)

In 2010, WikiLeaks, in a partnership with some of the most important news publications, began releasing thousands of classified diplomatic cables sent between the U.S. State Department and consulates and embassies around the world. Three years later, Edward Snowden leaked top secret information about surveillance activities by the NSA. More recently, the Panama Papers became the biggest data leak in the history of journalism. These events signal the beginning of the big leak era, which this course will focus on. We will analyze the role of media concentration and technological innovation as twin driving forces in the inception of this big leak era over recent years. We will study the consequences of these changes at three different levels: (i) the legal consequences for whistleblowers; (ii) the resulting birth of global networks and partnerships that expose technical, cultural and economic limitations in the traditional media; and (iii) the geopolitical implications, as a breach in one government ́s security apparatus is a victory for that government ́s opponents. Finally, we will confront one larger question: whether the big leak era means that transparency will (could?) replace fairness as journalism ́s main paradigm. .

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

MCC-UE 9111-000 (10745)
08/28/2025 – 12/03/2025 Tue,Thu
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)
at NYU Buenos Aires (Global)
Instructed by ODonnell, Santiago

Fall 2025 IMA Electives Studies (aka "Seminar") (Old Structure) Undergraduate

Tango and Mass Culture (MCC-UE 9121)

This course explores Tango as an aesthetic, social and cultural formation that is articulated in interesting and complex ways with the traditions of culture and politics in Argentina and Latin America more generally. During the rapid modernization of the 1920s and 1930s, Tango (like Brazilian Samba), which had been seen as a primitive and exotic dance, began to emerge as a kind of modern Field available for additional information in footer primitive art form that quickly came to occupy a central space in nationalist discourse. The course explores the way that perceptions of a primitive and a modern converge in this unique and exciting art. In addition, the course will consider tango as a global metaphor with deeply embedded connections to urban poverty, social marginalization, and masculine authority. .

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

MCC-UE 9121-000 (10756)
08/28/2025 – 12/03/2025 Tue,Thu
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)
at NYU Buenos Aires (Global)
Instructed by Dieleke, Edgardo

Fall 2025 IMA Electives Studies (aka "Seminar") (Old Structure) Undergraduate

Global Media Seminar: Latin America (MCC-UE 9455)

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

The course acquaints students with Latin American theories, practices, and representations of the media. Departing from a critical approach to Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, the course traces the arc of the media in Latin America from independence to the post-neoliberal era and the so-called “Media Wars.” Students engage in current incendiary debates about the role of the media, the new media law, and the complex relationship between the media, politics and the state.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives Spring 2026 Studies (aka "Seminar") (Old Structure) Undergraduate

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Queer Cultures and Democracy (SPAN-UA 9481)

Intensive Interm Spanish (SPAN-UA 9020)

Advanced Spanish for Spanish-Speaking Students (SPAN-UA 9051)

Texts and Ideas: (CORE-UA 9400)

Cultures & Contexts: Latin America (CORE-UA 9515)

Journalism and Society: Leaks and Whistleblowers (MCC-UE 9111)

Sections (Fall 2025)

Tango and Mass Culture (MCC-UE 9121)

Sections (Fall 2025)

Global Media Seminar: Latin America (MCC-UE 9455)

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