Tag Archives: Fall 2022
Producing Essentials (ISPEC-UT 1006)
Social Media Strategy (MKTG-UB 45)
The course covers marketing, advertising, and communications strategies in the new media landscape where traditional media (e.g., television, print) and the online social media (i.e., Web 2.0; e.g., online social networks, user-generated content, blogs, forums) co-exist. Students are expected to have knowledge about the fundamentals of traditional advertising methods and strategies. With this background knowledge, the primary focus of the course is on understanding social media, developing social media marketing strategies, and tracking their effectiveness. This course does not look at more tactical aspects of advertising/communications such as creative, message management, and publicity.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
MKTG-UB 45-000 (10761)02/03/2021 – 03/17/2021 Wed6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Images (PHIL-UH 2416)
Images depict, words describe. A picture of the cat of the mat depicts the cat as being on the mat. The sentence ’the cat is on the mat’ describes the cat as being on the mat. Both represent the world as being in a certain state, but they do so in different ways. What is the difference in these ways of representing? What does it take for an image to depict? This course covers most major theories of depiction, including resemblance, experience, recognition, pretense, and structural theories. We then expand the scope of inquiry to include topics such as systems of depiction, analog vs. digital representation, maps, film, comics, maps, mental imagery, and relations to the cognitive science of vision.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 16 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
PHIL-UH 2416-000 (5805)01/22/2024 – 05/10/2024 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Rabin, Gabriel
Marx and the Culture of Capitalism (GERM-UA 242)
The course serves as an introduction to the thought and legacy of Karl Marx. Marx’s theory of capitalism centers on the concept of value. Value is the interface between culture and commerce, the hinge on which Marx’s theory and Marxism turn. Although Marx sometimes distinguished between an economic “base” and a legal-cultural “superstructure,” he managed to depict the culture of capitalism as a whole. This method forms one of his crucial legacies, which we will explore in and after Marx. Organized around a slow reading of Capital, Volume 1, the course will also feature short readings from those who inspired Marx (David Ricardo, G. W. F. Hegel, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace) and those his work influenced (Rosa Luxemburg, Theodor W. Adorno, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway). We will follow the trajectory that Capital itself takes, from the commodity and the concept of value to machinery, cooperation, and accumulation.
German (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
GERM-UA 242-000 (20010)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Weatherby, Leif
Electronic Rituals, Oracles and Fortune-Telling (IMNY-UT 289)
According to anthropologists Filip de Boeck and René Devisch, divination “constitutes a space in which cognitive structures are transformed and new relations are generated in and between the human body, the social body and the cosmos.” In this class, students will learn the history of divination, engage in the practice of divination, and speculate on what forms divination might take in a world where the human body, the social body, and even the cosmos(!) are digitally mediated. Starting with an understanding of ritual and folk culture, we will track the history of fortune-telling from the casting of lots to computer-generated randomness to the contemporary revival of Tarot; from reading entrails to astrology to data science; from glossolalia to surrealist writing practices to the “ghost in the machine” of artificial intelligence. Weekly readings and assignments culminate in a final project.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
IMNY-UT 289-000 (21942)09/07/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Parrish, Allison
Animation: Methods of Motion (IMNY-UT 288)
This course explores the fundamentals of storytelling through animation and takes students from traditional animation techniques to contemporary forms. In the first part of the course, students will focus on traditional animation, from script to storyboard through stop motion and character-based animation. The course then examines opportunities afforded by new technologies, such as interactivity, projection mapping and game engines. Drawing skills are not necessary for this course, however students will keep a personal sketchbook.
Elementary Turkish I (MEIS-UA 501)
Introduction to the written and spoken language of modern Turkey. All texts are in Latin characters and comprise both textual and audio material.
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
MEIS-UA 501-000 (8169)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Erol, Ayse
Statistics for Business and Economics (BUSF-SHU 101)
This course introduces students to the use of statistical methods. Topics include: descriptive statistics; introduction to probability; sampling; statistical inference concerning means, standard deviations, and proportions; correlation; analysis of variance; linear regression, including multiple regression analysis. Applications to empirical situations are an integral part of the course. Pre-requisites: None Fulfillment: This course satisfies the following: Major req: BUSF, BUSM, ECON, CS, DS Foundational course; Social Science: methods course; IMB Business elective.
Business and Finance (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 13 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
BUSF-SHU 101-000 (17187)09/13/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zheng, Dan
BUSF-SHU 101-000 (17188)09/13/2022 – 12/16/2022 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zheng, Dan
BUSF-SHU 101-000 (17189)09/13/2022 – 12/16/2022 Fri1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zheng, Dan
Virgins Martyrs Monks & Saints: Early Christianity (RELST-UA 846)
What was it about Christianity that it made it so popular in the ancient world? Was it the martyrs volunteering for public execution? Monks’ sexual renunciation? The isolation of hermits living on the tops of columns in the wilderness? Or perhaps orthodoxy and its politically divisive anxieties about heretics and Jews? In fact, all these things (and more) explain how a small Jewish messianic sect from Palestine became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. This course will provide an introduction to the big questions in the history of early Christianity. The focus will be on early Christian literature, such as martyr texts, saints’ lives, and works of monastic spirituality and mysticism. Issues addressed will include the Christian reception of Greco-Roman antiquity, the origins of anti-Semitism, gender and sexuality in the early Church, and the emergence of Christian theology.
Religious Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
The Bible as Literature (HBRJD-UA 23)
Over the past few decades, many readers have come to a fuller appreciation of the emotional and imaginative power of the Bible?s narratives, which still speak with remarkable clarity to our own sensibilities, leading one critic to characterize the Bible as a ?full-fledged kindred spirit? of modernism. The course pursues this ?kindred spirit,? using a broadly literary approach as its guide. While the focus is on narrative?the Pentateuch (Genesis?Deuteronomy) and the Former Prophets (Joshua?Kings), as well as shorter narrative books (Ruth, Jonah, and Esther)?it also studies Ecclesiastes and Job as ancient precursors to modern skepticism. Finally, it studies one modernist engagement with the Bible: Kafka?s Amerika.
Hebrew & Judaic Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
HBRJD-UA 23-000 (21860)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Feldman, Liane
History in the Headlines (HIST-UA 70)
The key events you read about in your morning twitter feed or on your favorite news sites are usually not unique in world affairs. They have a background, a context, that makes them more understandable and often more interesting. History is about everything that happened before you started reading this course description. And thinking historically means trying to make sense of the new in the context of what human beings have done before. In this lecture series, NYU’s historians take you on a behind the scenes tour of current events you thought you knew, with the goal of making you a better observer and analyst of news about the world around you.
History (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
The Novel in Antiquity (CLASS-UA 203)
Survey of Greek and Roman narrative fiction in antiquity, its origins and development as a literary genre, and its influence on the tradition of the novel in Western literature. Readings include Chariton?s Chaereas and Callirrhoe, Longus?s Daphnis and Chloe, Heliodorus?s Ethiopian Tale, Lucian?s True History, Petronius?s Satyricon, and Apuleius?s Golden Ass. Concludes with the Gesta Romanorum and the influence of this tradition on later prose, such as Elizabethan prose romance.
Classics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
CLASS-UA 203-000 (19322)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Barchiesi, Alessandro
Philosophical Approaches to Race and Racism (PHIL-UA 8)
This introductory-level course is needed to provide students with a firm understanding of distinctively philosophical approaches to issues concerning race and racism. This course has two themes. The first is an exploration of the concept of race. This is a question in social ontology, which is the philosophical study of the nature of social entities. The second is an examination of some of the normative and conceptual issues surrounding the most morally significant of the ways in which “race” has mattered for social life, namely as the concept that defines the object of the attitudes, practices, institutions and beliefs we call “racist.” We shall ask what racism is, what sorts of things can be racist, and what makes racism wrong.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
PHIL-UA 8-000 (10079)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Appiah, Kwame Anthony
PHIL-UA 8-000 (10080)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ulerie, Jodell
PHIL-UA 8-000 (10081)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ulerie, Jodell
PHIL-UA 8-000 (10082)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grabelsky, Dana
PHIL-UA 8-000 (10083)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grabelsky, Dana
Introduction to The New Testament (RELST-UA 302)
Introduces students to issues and themes in the history of the Jesus movement and early Christianity through a survey of the main texts of the canonical New Testament as well as other important early Christian documents. Students are given the opportunity to read most of the New Testament text in a lecture hall setting where the professor provides historical context and focus on significant issues, describes modern scholarly methodologies, and places the empirical material within the larger framework of ancient history and the theoretical study of religion.
Religious Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
RELST-UA 302-000 (26095)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cady, Alyssa
Contemporary Music Performance I (ARTS-UG 1305)
This course is designed to help students develop a better understanding of music by presenting the opportunity to experience music as a musician. Students review basic music theory and develop rudimentary musicianship skills; learn how to utilize the basic functionality of common digital audio workstations; and use that experience to create music. The goal is for each student to be able to compose, rehearse, and then perform, original contemporary pieces of music, individually and in a group setting, in a wide range of musical idioms. The course culminates in a public recital of works written and performed by students.
Arts Workshops (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
ARTS-UG 1305-000 (12193)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Castellano, John
Advanced Seminar in Personality Disorders (CAMS-UA 202)
Can we truly classify one’s personality, the very essence of an individual, as “disordered”? We explore the history, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders. We begin with an overview of personality and theories of personality development and then complete an in-depth review of each disorder. We consider the genetic, neurobiological, and developmental research supporting and refuting these diagnoses. We review various classification systems, observe how the media often portrays personality disorders, and challenge the notion that undesirable personality traits are always maladaptive. Finally, we utilize both research and clinical material and aims at a nuanced understanding of these disorders and their sustained impact upon affected individuals.
Child/Adoles Mental Hlth Stds (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
CAMS-UA 202-000 (9695)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Goldberg, Ross · Davis, Jordan
TrendingMentalHealth (CAMS-UA 504)
Addresses current problems facing our society and threatening our mental health, such as the opioid epidemic, gun violence, video game addiction, legal use of marijuana, and prolonged separation of children from their parents. Students contrast what is scientifically understood with what is commonly believed and learn critical reading and thinking skills as they parse fact from fiction, reality from supposition. Given the topical nature of this course, themes may vary by semester and instructor expertise (including a focus on social and cultural issues, novel neuroscience, digital health technology, etc.).
Child/Adoles Mental Hlth Stds (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
CAMS-UA 504-000 (9479)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Waugh, Whitney
CAMS-UA 504-000 (9700)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Castellanos, Francisco · Baroni, Argelinda
CAMS-UA 504-000 (19793)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gerson, Ruth · Marsh, Akeem · Chhabra, Divya
Introduction to Computer Programming (Limited Prior Experience) (CSCI-UA 3)
This course introduces object-oriented programming, recursion, and other important programming concepts to students who already have had some exposure to programming in the context of building applications using Python. Students will design and implement Python programs in a variety of applied areas.
Computer Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
CSCI-UA 3-000 (9289)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Arias Hernandez, Mauricio
The Family (SOC-UA 451)
Introduction to the sociology of family life. Addresses a range of questions: What is the relationship between family life and social arrangements outside the family (e.g., in the workplace, the economy, the government)? How is the division of labor in the family related to gender, age, class, and ethnic inequality? Why and how have families changed historically? What are the contours of contemporary American families, and why are they changing?
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
American Capitalism in theory and Practice (SOC-UA 386)
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks