Tag Archives: Fall 2023
Producing Essentials (ISPEC-UT 1006)
Hyper Object (COART-UT 700)
The object, in reality, is anything but inert – it is hyperactive, changing in function and meaning as it moves in time and space. This studio-based course will give students the tools to use objects and materials specifically and deliberately in their work. The course will link intuitive making with research, allowing students to investigate their genuine and unique interests and develop their conceptual goals. During the course of the semester, students will be exposed to a wide range of non-traditional objects and materials that have been employed by artists throughout history. Readings and viewings will supplement the work done in the studio, with four themed sections serving as guided warm ups for a final project of the students’ own direction. These sections are titled: The Other, The Icon, The Minuscule, The Massive. Each student will make a work based on each theme, and group critiques will function as a laboratory in which students can test theories on display, context, form and legibility. This course is best suited to those with an interest in nontraditional art materials, collage, and found objects. Prior experience in sculpture or painting will be particularly helpful, however, it is not required.
Collaborative Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
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
Issues and Ideas: (JOUR-UA 505)
Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Journalism and Society: (JOUR-UA 503)
Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Journalistic Inquiry: The Written Word (JOUR-UA 101)
Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
JOUR-UA 101-000 (8832)at Washington SquareInstructed by
JOUR-UA 101-000 (23456)
JOUR-UA 101-000 (10147)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by De La Hoz Arias, Felipe
JOUR-UA 101-000 (9303)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Borak, Donna
JOUR-UA 101-000 (8735)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reed, Anika
JOUR-UA 101-000 (8677)at Washington SquareInstructed by
JOUR-UA 101-000 (9796)
JOUR-UA 101-000 (20665)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Surico, John
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
The Meaning of Life (PHIL-UH 1110)
Is there a point or significance to life as a whole? That is the question about the “meaning of life.” Though this question is notoriously hard to make precise, in one form or another it has animated much literature and art, and also much philosophy. Some philosophers have provided disheartening answers: life is suffering, and then it ends; life is absurd and never gains any meaning. But other philosophers have provided more uplifting answers that support the quest for personal significance. Bot h kinds of answers deserve scrutiny. After reviewing various pessimistic and more optimistic approaches to the meaning of life, we will turn to the subject of death. We will all die eventually. We normally encounter the death of our family and friend s before we must deal with our own. These themes too are the subject of philosophical reflection. We finish the semester with a discussion of the connection between individual significance and the future of humanity. This class will integrate references to art and literature as well as to science where appropriate, but its main focus is on contributions by recent thinkers in the analytical tradition of philosophy.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
PHIL-UH 1110-000 (18561)08/29/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Paul, Sarah
Topics in Conversational Chinese (EAST-UA 207)
This is a 2-credit repeatable course designed for students who have completed Intermediate Chinese II or equivalent, and wish to get additional opportunities to further expand their vocabulary and grammatical knowledge with a focus on strengthening their conversational skills and/or get more chance to practice speaking outside of their regular Advanced Chinese I/II classes. Students will perform in various conversational tasks, such as presenting, discussing, debating, etc. and improve the description and narration skills that the advanced level learners are expected to have. Students will engage in conversation in a clearly participatory manner in order to communicate information on autobiographical topics, as well as topics of community, national, or international interest.
East Asian Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
EAST-UA 207-000 (9264)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hou, Xiaohong
EAST-UA 207-000 (9265)at Washington SquareInstructed by
EAST-UA 207-000 (24496)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hou, Xiaohong
Topics in East Asian Studies (EAST-UA 302)
This course is designed for students whose levels of Japanese are EAST-UA 248 and EAST-UA 249. The overall goal of this course is to help students build reading speed, reading fluency, and vocabularies and expressions through experiencing the pleasure of reading in Japanese. The focus of the class will be individual reading activity and consultations with the instructor.
East Asian Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
EAST-UA 302-000 (19326)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Liu, Catherine
EAST-UA 302-000 (19327)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Intro Theory of Probability (STAT-UB 14)
Covers the basic concepts of probability. Topics include the axiomatic definition of probability; combinatorial theorems; conditional probability and independent events; random variables and probability distributions; expectation of functions of random variables; special discrete and continuous distributions, including the chi-square, t, F, and bivariate normal distributions; law of large numbers; central limit theorem; and moment generating functions. The theory of statistical estimation is introduced with a discussion on maximum likelihood estimation.
Statistics & Operations Research (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
STAT-UB 14-000 (20243)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tenenbein, Aaron
Management and Organizations (MGMT-UB 1)
In this course you will attain an understanding of the key factors that contribute to organizational success and the role that managers play in helping their organizations become more successful. The better that you understand these issues, the more effective you will be in your future careers. More specifically, the course will explore how organizational leaders develop winning strategies, and then design their organization in a way that aligns structures, social relationships, tasks, human resource practices, and people to achieve those strategies. In exploring these issues, you will identify the challenges that organizational leaders and managers face as they try to make good decisions in the face of a constantly evolving industry environment, competing goals and agendas, and an increasingly diverse and global workforce.
Management (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19615)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kim, Hee
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19616)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kim, Hee
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19617)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Steiner, Jeff
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19618)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Steiner, Jeff
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19620)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kern, Molly
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19624)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Howard, Elizabeth
MGMT-UB 1-000 (19627)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Howard, Elizabeth
Designing For: (GAMES-GT 310)
“Designing for” classes focus on working with a real-world client or partner, preparing students for professional collaborations with institutions, publishers and media companies beyond the game industry who partner with game developers on playable experiences. Outside partners have included museums, non-profit organizations, non-digital publishers and digital media platforms. In each version of this class, students will interact directly with representatives from one outside partner and collaborate with other students on a single semester-long project tailored to the client’s goals, developing an initial idea from conceptualization through pitching and prototyping, based on criteria and feedback provided by the partner. Students will learn to follow a structured process for ideation, collaboration and prototyping, while taking care to understand the audience, content and goals of the partner organization’s industry and the context of play. The semester culminates in a final presentation of playable prototypes to the partner.
Game Design (Graduate)
2-4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
GAMES-GT 310-000 (25338)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by
GAMES-GT 310-000 (25353)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Corbetta, Ramiro
GAMES-GT 310-000 (25349)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Parker, Matthew
Human Development I (APSY-UE 20)
Introduction to research and theory of human development across the life span. Seminal theories & basic research of individual growth & development are analyzed & critiqued. Emphasis is on the range in human development with discussion of normative & non-normative development. Emphasis is also placed on the importance of understanding the influence of normative & non-normative contexts of development, including the impact of culture, heritage, socioeconomic level, personal health, & safety. Relations between home, school, & community and their impact on development are also explored via readings, lectures, discussions, & weekly observations in the field. Interrogation of implicit folk theories as a foundation for exploration of formal knowledge of human development.
Applied Psychology (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
APSY-UE 20-000 (11334)09/05/2023 – 10/24/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hogan, Frances
APSY-UE 20-000 (11789)09/05/2023 – 10/24/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Copeland, Cynthia
APSY-UE 20-000 (11405)09/05/2023 – 10/24/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at OnlineInstructed by Hogan, Frances
APSY-UE 20-000 (21980)09/05/2023 – 10/24/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at OnlineInstructed by Strom, Carolyn
Performance and Technology (PERF-UT 304)
On blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Ello, Tumblr, email, SoundCloud, YouTube, and more, we are constantly performing using technology. Performance Studies has long been concerned with technology, but it is only recently concerned with questions brought to the fore by new technologies and new technological practices, particularly on the Internet. This survey course requires us to consider the relationship between Performance Studies as a discipline (one that incorporates performance theory, critical theory, feminist theory, queer theory, and other theoretical genres) with technology, particularly the Internet. Open to Non-Majors.
Performance Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Social Impact: Advertising for Social Good (MCC-UE 1051)
With the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of social movements like Black Lives Matter and #metoo, the field of social good advertising has rapidly expanded as brands seek social relevance, governments and nonprofits look to inform, and activists try to persuade. In this course, students will learn to plan and execute powerful social advertising campaigns, while thinking critically about the blurred lines between advertising and information, and branding and politics, in what Sarah Banet-Weiser calls “Shopping for Change.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MCC-UE 1051-000 (14065)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Wed11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Railla, Jean
History of Computing (MCC-UE 1170)
This umbrella course focuses on specific time periods, technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. This course familiarizes students with the social forces and techno-cultural innovations that shaped the computing industry. Specific themes may include: personal computing; Cold War computing; computing and globalization; the quantified self; computational aesthetics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; computing and gender.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MCC-UE 1170-000 (14061)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hassein, Nabil
Visual Culture/Science and Technology (MCC-UE 1411)
This course examines the imagery of science and technology, the role of visuality in the construction of scientific knowledge, artistic renditions of science, and the emergence of visual technologies in modern society. It looks at how visuality has been key to the exercise of power through such practices as cataloguing and identification; the designation of abnormality, disease, and pathologies; medical diagnosis; scientific experimentation; and the marketing of science and medicine. We will examine the development of the visual technologies in the emerging scientific practices of psychiatry and criminology; explore the sciences of eugenics, genetics, pharmacology, brain and body scans, and digital medical images of many kinds; the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the emerging politics of scientific activism.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MCC-UE 1411-000 (14031)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Almenara, Maria Paz
Ethics and Media (MCC-UE 1028)
Students who plan on pursuing careers in the media (professional and academic) will be faced with difficulty choices that carry with them potent ethical repercussions, choices that practical training does not properly equip them to approach in a critical and informed manner. The purpose of this course is therefore twofold: 1) to equip future media professional with sensitivity to moral values under challenge as well as the necessary skills in critical thinking and decision making for navigating their roles and responsibilities in relation to them; and 2) honing those same skills and sensitivities for consumers of media and citizens in media saturated societies.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
MCC-UE 1028-000 (8303)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cormier, Robert
Youth in the Middle East (ACS-UH 2613X)
Roughly one third of the Middle East population today is between 15 and 29 years old – a demographic “bulge” which has brought Middle Eastern youths at the forefront of media and government concerns both at the regional and global scale. But from the figure of the young jihadist to that of the Arab spring revolutionary, dominant perceptions of these youths often fall into highly polarized archetypes. Moving the focus away from politics and religion, this course explores the everyday worlds of Middle Eastern youths and the complex interactions – with institutions, peers and family members – which characterize their daily lives. By analyzing multiple youth cultures divided along the lines of gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, or social class, students will address the diversity of Middle Eastern youths and question the universality of age categories. A large space will also be devoted to the voices of Middle Eastern youths themselves, from Egyptian literature and Emirati cinema to Moroccan hip-hop. These cultural productions will allow students to look at the way Arab youths use globalized artistic genres to address regional issues and express their fears, hopes and desires.
Arab Crossroads Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
ACS-UH 2613X-000 (4460)01/21/2025 – 05/09/2025 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Assaf, Laure