Int’l Pgms TSOA Special Pgms (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 3 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2024)
ISPEC-UT 1006-000 (4952)07/08/2024 – 07/26/2024 Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at NYU London (Global)Instructed by Badal, Sharon
Tag Archives: Spring 2023
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
Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Protein (BSPA-UB 50)
Today, the food industry is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, accounting for up to 30% of emissions. A poor diet is now the leading cause of mortality in the U.S. As part of these huge global problems, animal production is arguably the biggest culprit. In recognition of this, consumers are dramatically altering diet patterns, and food entrepreneurs are rushing to solve the problem with desirable solutions. Vegetarianism and veganism are exploding and new alternative meat and dairy offerings are being launched at a frenetic pace. This undergraduate course—the first of its kind—is designed to put the idea of teaching entrepreneurship to its ultimate test—with the objective of incubating a series of ventures through the course of the semester that have the potential to be viable businesses and reverse negative externalities that arise from animal production. The course will start by exploring the chemistry of protein, the nutritional role of protein, the history of animal production and its environmental consequences. It will then take students through a series of frameworks to identify and implement solutions using entrepreneurship as the vehicle. These frameworks will include: (1) design thinking to identify opportunities, (2) sector / industry analysis models to identify need-gaps and validate the opportunity, (3) design thinking to prototype solutions and (4) business modeling in order to commercialize solutions. At the beginning of the semester, “start-up” teams of five to six students each will be formed and tasked with building a “blue-print” for a startup in the sustainable protein sector.
Business and Society (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
BSPA-UB 50-000 (19353)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Taparia, Hans
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
Global Works and Society in a Changing World (GWC-UF 102)
The second semester of Social Foundations spans a thousand years, from the rise of Islam and the reunification of China under the Tang dynasty (in the 7th century C.E.) through the Scientific Revolution and the decline of the Mogul empire in India. This course invites students to consider great ideas that have often helped earlier peoples organize their lives–but which have also set them in conflict, sometimes with other communities, sometimes among themselves. Such ideas have sparked movements for ethical and social reform, for conquest, for the recovery of lost classics, and for religious renewal.
Global Works and Society in a Changing World (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
GWC-UF 102-000 (13378)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13379)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13380)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22751)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13608)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22752)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13382)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13477)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22753)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22754)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13384)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13385)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22755)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22756)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13387)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13388)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13478)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13389)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13390)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13391)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13392)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13393)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13394)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13395)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13396)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13503)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13397)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13398)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13399)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13400)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13401)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13504)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13403)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13407)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13404)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13406)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13405)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13582)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13381)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13383)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13386)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (13402)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
GWC-UF 102-000 (22757)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Global Works and Society: Antiquity (GWA-UF 101)
The first semester of Social Foundations introduces students to the ancient world and ends with the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, of the Gupta Empire in India, and of the Han Dynasty in China. This course takes a global perspective and uses an interdisciplinary approach, and part of its aim is to explore enduring questions such as the relation between the individual and society, between justice and power, and between humanity and the divine.
Global Works and Society: Antiquity (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
GWA-UF 101-000 (12770)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Katz, Gal
GWA-UF 101-000 (12771)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Katz, Gal
GWA-UF 101-000 (12866)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Browning, Jacob
GWA-UF 101-000 (12772)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bonakdarian, Mansour
GWA-UF 101-000 (12786)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bonakdarian, Mansour
GWA-UF 101-000 (12787)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karavitis, Gerasimos
GWA-UF 101-000 (12803)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Browning, Jacob
GWA-UF 101-000 (12867)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wagnon, Daniel
GWA-UF 101-000 (12868)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hewitt, Anne
GWA-UF 101-000 (12869)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karavitis, Gerasimos
GWA-UF 101-000 (12870)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Altonji, Alexander
GWA-UF 101-000 (12871)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Prichea, Andreea
GWA-UF 101-000 (12872)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Prichea, Andreea
Film, Literature and Mental Health (UNDSW-US 89)
Artists often explore powerful issues of mental health through literature and film. “No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.” (Ingmar Bergmann 1918-2007) In this course, we will draw on classic examples from literature and film to highlight and understand aspects of mental health in ways that are more vivid and visceral than any text book can illustrate. Materials will be chosen from novels, poems, and films to illustrate various mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), dissociative identity disorder (DID), and schizophrenia. We will look at how some of the disorders fare in psychological treatments that either succeed or fail. Guest speakers may be invited to highlight some topics.
Undergrad Social Work (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
UNDSW-US 89-000 (16283)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Michaels, Vera
Readings in Chinese Philosophy and Culture (EAST-UA 722)
Basic introduction to the writings of Confucius, his adversaries, and his successors, followed by a reading of several novels regarded as national classics.
East Asian Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sound Design and Spatialization at IRCAM (MPATE-UE 9055)
This course focuses on three important areas in music technology: spatialization, computer aided composition, analysis & synthesis techniques. In each area, concepts & implementations will be explored in a variety of artistic & technological contexts. Students will work with the latest technologies including IRCAM Tools, Spat plugin, Max Bach library, Ambisonics, & Wave Field Synthesis. The course includes a 3-hour weekly lecture, 3-hour studio lab, & workshops at IRCAM. This course is taught in collaboration with IRCAM in Paris, one of the world leading institutions in computer music and acoustics.
Music Technology (Undergraduate)
6 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
MPATE-UE 9055-000 (2385)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by
Introduction to Psychology and Its Principles (APSY-UE 2)
Introduction to the fundamental principles of psychology, emphasizing both the unity & the diversity of a field that spans major theoretical & research areas, including biological bases of human behavior, learning, development, motivation, & social and abnormal behavior. Links between theory & classic as well as contemporary research are a recurrent theme. Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent – satisfies the requirement for Society & the Social Sciences
Applied Psychology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
APSY-UE 2-000 (11013)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brito, Natalie
APSY-UE 2-000 (12169)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu7:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Collado, Amarfi
APSY-UE 2-000 (12170)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu8:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Collado, Amarfi
APSY-UE 2-000 (12171)at Washington SquareInstructed by
APSY-UE 2-000 (12172)at Washington SquareInstructed by
APSY-UE 2-000 (12337)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Fri10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sanchez, Nathalia
APSY-UE 2-000 (12338)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sanchez, Nathalia
APSY-UE 2-000 (21776)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Research for Customer Insights (MKTG-UB 9)
This course provides students with both research and managerial perspectives in the development and application of marketing research tools and procedures. It describes the development of research designs from problem formulation to analysis and submission of the research report. It also covers the analysis of techniques in marketing research, such as focus groups, experimental design, surveys, sampling, statistical analysis, and reporting. Cases are utilized in the development of methods and in specific areas of application.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 9-000 (18453)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pluzinski, Carol
Consumer Behavior (MKTG-UB 2)
This course presents a comprehensive, systematic, and practical conceptual framework for understanding people as consumers—the basic subject matter of all marketing. It draws on the social sciences to evaluate the influence of both individual and ecological factors on market actions. Students discuss relevant psychological and sociological theories and study how they can be used to predict consumers’ reactions to strategic marketing decisions. Basic methodologies for research in consumer behavior are developed and applied. Course emphasis is on developing applications of behavioral concepts and methods for marketing actions.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 2-000 (18452)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Watson, Jared
MKTG-UB 2-000 (18466)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Watson, Jared
MKTG-UB 2-000 (18486)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pham, Ngoc
Arts & War Seminar: (ASPP-UT 1046)
Art and War: Battle Lines of the Graphic Novel This course explores storytelling about war through the use of the graphic novel. Students will be introduced to both recent and historically significant comics about war. Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the interplay between image and text in sequential art, and the ability to critically analyze graphic novels that deal with challenging subject matter. What are the methodological and ethical issues that arise when constructing sequential narratives of war? What are the varying strengths between war narratives that are autobiographical, documentary or fictional? Is there something unique about the format of graphic novels that enables artists to tell a different kind of war story than filmmakers, musicians or performers? How do comic books circulate culturally, and how might this expand or limit their ability to inform our understandings of war? We will explore these questions through close readings, robust discussions and careful written analysis of well-known works by Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco, as well as graphic novels by Keiji Nakazawa, Jason Lutes, Gipi, Emmanuel Guibert and others.
Ctr for Art, Society & Pub Pol (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ASPP-UT 1046-000 (22204)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon12:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hebert, Patrick
Film: A Transformative Process, a Vision Beyond Technology (OART-UT 140)
This course emphasizes the content, the aesthetics, and the purpose of cinema as a truly distinctive and dynamic art form uncovering the inner vision of the filmmaker, and the organic and transformative process where filmmakers projects their original truth, not compromising or borrowing ideas and themes from other films. Students explore the use of technology as a valuable tool that enhances the vision of the filmmaker without diminishing the organic texture of the work by its overwhelming presence. The course brings to light the stagnant and repetitious formulae of commercial cinema, resulting in diluted mainstream films. The works of iconic filmmakers who embrace and use film as an original, vibrant and reflective art form are reviewed throughout the course. Extracts and readings from relevant filmmakers are given throughout the course.
Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
International Cinema: 1960 to Present (CINE-UT 56)
Cinema Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
CINE-UT 56-000 (13919)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed6:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Dominguez, Anthony
CINE-UT 56-000 (13920)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
CINE-UT 56-000 (13921)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
CINE-UT 56-000 (13922)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Anthropology of and as Media (ANTH-UH 1102)
How do media representations reflect and affect communities? How do people exploit old and new forms of communication? How do technological mediation channel and reshape social relations? This course reviews ethnographic literature on a wide range of media including print, photography, film, television, radio, cell phones, and internet-based social networks. Each week, we explore how media use redefines a central anthropological concern, such as kinship, colonialism, mobility, religion, or violence. We continuously interrogate the diverse effects of technology, infrastructure, reception, sensation, and interaction. Engaging with both “live” and “virtual” communities, we revisit the methods and ethics of studying mediated relations. Students deliver an initial critical auto-ethnography of their own media consumption, a detailed assessment of a debate in the field, and a final project investigating a specific media community using original ethnographic research. Throughout the course, we collaboratively develop our own experimental virtual community based on the priorities and interests of the class participants. Innovative integrations of art and interactivity will be encouraged.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Transgender Youth (CAMS-UA 154)
Transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) youth are quickly becoming more visible in society. Parents of gender non-conforming children are coming to mental health providers in increasing numbers and are often met with stigma and bias and a lack of education on TGNC health. TGNC youth are turned out of their homes at disproportionate rates and harassed and bullied in school at higher rates than their gender conforming peers. They have higher rates of suicide, depression and substance abuse and face unique medical, legal and social barriers. They also have produced their own cultures and communities to face these challenges. This course will examine the scientific research on TGNC youth in the context of the practical challenges faced by these individuals and their families. Students will hear from experts in the field, receive personal accounts from TGNC teens and transgender adults, and take field trips to social services agencies and events produced by TGNC teens themselves.
Child/Adoles Mental Hlth Stds (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
CAMS-UA 154-000 (8893)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Glaeser, Elizabeth
Poverty and Inequality Around the Globe (SOCS-SHU 326)
This seminar examines the causes and consequences of poverty and rising inequality around the globe. Students will study the ways in which poverty and inequality are shaped by multifaceted contexts; understand the theories underlying strategies and programs which address key poverty and inequality issues faced by many developed, developing and least developed countries; and learn about different countries’ experiences addressing their own poverty and inequality issues. We consider philosophies of global justice and the ethics of global citizenship, and students are expected to critically reflect upon their own engagements with poverty relief activities and aspirations for social changes. Students should be prepared to tackle advanced social science readings, analysis, and writing. Open to seniors, and to other students with instructor’s permission. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Fulfillment: Social Science Focus Political Economy/Sociology 300 level.
Social Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOCS-SHU 326-000 (20242)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Wed8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zelleke, Almaz
Contemporary Art and Theory in North America and Europe (HUMN-SHU 231)
Contemporary art can seem perplexing, yet when viewed as a progression of ideas and aesthetic strategies that respond to societal shifts, a certain logic emerges. This course traces movements in North American and European art from 1945 to the present through a study of primary and secondary texts, artwork examples, and historic context. In lectures, discussion and activities, we will investigate how artists went beyond primarily object-based works to explore expanded notions of what art can be and the interaction between the artwork and the viewer. The ways institutional frameworks, media and technology, politics, and social relations, informed contemporary art practice will also be examined. At the end of this course, students should be able to identify contemporary art movements, key artists, and relevant artworks and create compelling arguments around these works. They will also be able to articulate the conceptual and visual strategies employed in these pieces, recognize connections and differences across movements and have a basic knowledge of the milieu in which they were produced. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: Humanities Introductory course (18-19: survey).
Humanities (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
HUMN-SHU 231-000 (20180)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Fri1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Kramer, Maya
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Visual Culture (HUMN-SHU 181)
This course examines how ideas of gender and sexuality have shaped the production and consumption of visual culture from the late nineteenth century. We will examine a variety of visual and material texts that shape, criticize, and/or negotiate with contemporaneous gender and sexual norms. Focusing on these expressions’ cultural and historical specificities, the students will assess gender and sexuality—and as an extension, the notions of normality, healthfulness, and self—as ideas that continuously evolve in response to social discourses. The course proceeds roughly chronologically. It starts with the nineteenth-century Euro-American context, in which modern ideas of gender and sexuality began to circulate authoritatively in medical and legal terms. It then moves onto more globalized contemporary perspectives that critique and/or expand the pronouncedly “Western” conceptions of identity and identity categories. Prerequisite: None.
Humanities (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
HUMN-SHU 181-000 (23103)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Kong, Hyoungee
Human Genetics: Genes in Human Health & Disease (CCEX-SHU 136)
The goal of the first half of the course is to build a basic understanding of how information about traits is encoded in our genes, how this “blueprint” is interpreted by cellular machinery to build a complex human being, and how our heredity has resulted in our evolution. In the senond half of the course, we will continue the exploration of how environment, experience and random errors affect the process of building our traits, what happens when these processes fail, and the promise and possible peril of genetic technologies for human life. Fulfillment: CORE ED (with CCEX-SHU 137)
Exper Discovery in Nat World (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
CCEX-SHU 136-000 (21479)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Yu, Danyang
CCEX-SHU 136-000 (21480)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Yu, Danyang
Foundations: What is Philosophy? (PHIL-SHU 101)
This course is an introduction to the problems and methods of contemporary philosophy. Topics may include: 1. What is the relationship between mind and body? 2. Can belief in the existence of the external world be justified? 3. Are there any good arguments for the existence of God? 4. Can we act freely if everything that we do is determined by laws of nature? 5. Is there a theory of how we ought to live? Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: Humanities Foundational/Introductory Courses (18-19: Critical Concepts).
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
PHIL-SHU 101-000 (20186)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Yuan, Yuan
Intro to 3D Character Design using Zbrush (FMTV-UT 1071)
This course explores the Art of Character Creation using the powerful digital sculpting program ZBRUSH. Students will learn the ins and outs of the program to create their own 3d characters from scratch. Sculpting, detailing, Polypainting, rendering and compositing in Photoshop will all be covered. The class will encourage learning while doing as I find it’s the best way to learn a new art. Zbrush is a unique program that allows users to manipulate 3D shapes in a quick fashion without having to model polygons like other 3D programs such as Maya. In effect you are using “digital clay” in Zbrush to push and pull primitive forms into fantastic creatures and characters. Zbrush is the perfect tool for traditional artists to transition to artmaking in the digital realm. Zbrush is an extremely feature-rich piece of software, with a unique interface unlike any other computer graphics program. While the interface may seem quite intimidating at first, rest assured we will explore the interface together and learn all the most important tools to get started and having fun with organic character creation! Some benefits of using Zbrush for Character and Creature Design over other computer design software: -The ability to quickly create concepts as if you were manipulating real clay -Great for rough character concepts or more finished painted renders -Transition is much smoother from practical to digital art using Zbrush because it feels like you are using an artistic tool rather than a technical tool – Zbrush offers such a deep diverse toolset, you can create stylized cartoon-like characters, realistic animals and humans! The possibilities are endless. You can use it for everything from organic characters to hard surface robots and props! -Once you learn the interface and tools, you can simply sculpt without worrying as much about technical aspects like polygons, faces, points and edges like other traditional polygon modelling programs
Undergrad Film & TV (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Philosophy of Technology: Thinking Machines (PHIL-SHU 130)
This course aims to train students to think philosophically about our rapidly changing—and ever more intimate—relationship with machines. We focus in particular on the following subjects: artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs, automation and science fiction speculation. Prerequisite: Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) Fulfillment: CORE STS; Humanities Interdisciplinary or Advanced course; IMA/IMB elective.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
PHIL-SHU 130-000 (20189)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Wed5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Weslake, Brad · Greenspan, Anna
Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10)
Introduces students to the skills and concepts they will need in order to develop a meaningful engagement with the visual arts and art history as a global discipline. Rather than providing a chronological survey of great works, it covers examples and perspectives from a wide array of regions, periods, and societies. Topics include materials and techniques of production; formal analysis; subject matter and iconography; historical and cultural contexts; the social role and formation of artists; and the history of art history as a discipline. Pitched for students who have little or no background in the study of art and architecture, this course provides a rigorous introduction to the foundations of the discipline. It is required of all art history majors.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ARTH-UA 10-000 (9715)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Flood, Finbarr
ARTH-UA 10-000 (9716)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ARTH-UA 10-000 (9717)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ARTH-UA 10-000 (9718)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ARTH-UA 10-000 (9719)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
STEM Accessibility (ITPG-GT 3008)
By exploring and dissecting the field of STEM education, we will research how STEM education currently exists with clear biases and gatekeeping. Through that we intend to create a framework to challenge the biases and design more inclusive and accessible pathways. As a class we will engage in discussions around spaces (community/public spaces and private spaces), STEM as an inclusive element, and definitions of accessibility. The hope is to yield an experience where students can observe, inspire (or get inspired) by mundane things around their day to day lives and connect them to STEM experiences that might seem rather oblivious. Students will create assignments in dialogue with “making with everyday objects”, STEM pedagogy practice, social/emotional learning in spaces, and human-centered design. Students will be exposed to STEM literacy pedagogy, will curate a pop-up space, practice comprehensive user-testing, and reconstruct the framework around accessible and universal design. Students will engage in critical thinking, critiques, visiting artist lectures, field trips and class discussions. About Sharon De La Cruz: https://www.sharonleedelacruz.com/about-me, https://khushbukshirsagar.weebly.com/about.html
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 3008-000 (22334)01/27/2023 – 05/05/2023 Fri12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by De La Cruz, Sharon
Mobile App Development Lab (ITPG-GT 2372)
One of the most transformative consumer products in history, the iPhone remains the standard bearer for great design and user experience. With the latest versions of iOS and iPhone, Apple puts depth sensing and augmented reality in our pockets. How do we take advantage of this incredible platform to produce our own compelling experiences? This course will be a hands-on workshop where we explore the world beyond generic apps and push the boundaries of what’s possible on iOS hardware. Each week, you’ll be asked to complete a programming exercise meant to foster your understanding of iOS application development. We’ll leverage existing open source libraries to quickly build out your app with features such as real time communication and cloud storage. We aim to create distributed instruments for computed expression. Full-time access to an iOS device and a Mac laptop computer running the latest operating system and development tools are required. Prereq: Some programming experience (such as ICM) and willingness to learn Apple’s Swift programming language.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
ITPG-GT 2372-000 (11411)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Thompson, John
No Screens Allowed (ITPG-GT 3010)
“Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, the touchscreen has become the dominant manner for navigating Mobile devices. UX pattern best practices are enshrined in documents such as Apple’s ‘HIG’ (Human Interface Guidelines) or Google’s more recent Material Design. ‘No Screens Allowed’ is a class that challenges this ’Touchscreen first’ interaction approach. Taught in the Kotlin language, students will prototype solutions in response to Instructor directed assignments. The various projects structured to interrogate mobile device capabilities such as: Voice Recognition, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and built in sensors. Students will be provided with identical hardware: Pixel 3 phones running Android, the chosen development platform for the class. Successful completion of Introduction to Computational Media and Introduction to Physical Computing are required for entry into class. “
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
ITPG-GT 3010-000 (14801)01/25/2024 – 05/02/2024 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Jones, Brian
Serious Games (ITPG-GT 3001)
This introductory course will focus on giving students a practical understanding of how to make ‘serious’ video games. That is, games that challenge the player to think and learn. This is a class where we will be ideating and producing playable games each week over 7 weeks using the open-source Godot game engine. By the end of the course, you’ll have a small portfolio of ‘serious’ games to show and build upon. Throughout the course, students will become familiar with concepts such as iterative design, play testing, object-oriented programming, user-interface design, animation and basic art for 2D games. They will take a design-based approach to content creation, developing a proficiency in the Godot game engine and the overall indie-game development pipeline.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 3001-000 (22327)01/23/2023 – 03/20/2023 Mon3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Grewell, Christian
Introduction to Quantum Technologies (ITPG-GT 3003)
Quantum technologies are the next frontier of electronics and computing. Quantum Computers, Quantum Sensors, Quantum Materials are just beginning to emerge from laboratories and enter the realm of practical application. The course introduces the underlying principles of quantum physics, and reviews emerging capabilities of quantum computers and related technologies. Coursework will include programming quantum algorithms on a simulator, and running programs on actual cloud-based quantum computing hardware. The topics will be highly technical and will require the study of scientific principles and experimental apparatus. We will cover some basic mathematical operations in linear algebra, and we’ll be encountering some equations from physics and computer science.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
ITPG-GT 3003-000 (11429)03/17/2025 – 05/05/2025 Mon6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Shakar, Gregory
Therapeutic Sensory Immersion (ITPG-GT 3006)
The use of digital technology in mental health treatment, recovery, support, and prevention is rapidly gaining acceptance. For instance: The FDA recently approved the VR therapeutic EaseVRx to treat pain. Researchers recently found that exposure to natural environments in VR can provide emotional well-being benefits for people who cannot access the outdoors. Strobing lights can be tuned to stimulate temporary harmonic brain wave patterns usually only found in people who have been meditating for decades. Apps which help you track your mood could facilitate gaining knowledge and awareness of one’s mood patterns and thus help maintain emotional well-being. ASMR videos are reported to be effective in inducing sleep for those susceptible to insomnia, and assuaging a range of symptoms, including those associated with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. This class will focus on the use of technology to activate any and all of our senses to aid in mindfulness and meditation, distraction therapy, body awareness and acceptance, and more, via the use of tools and techniques shown to have a direct impact on our physiology as well as supportive and accessible user experience design with broad applications in other areas. Prerequisite: Basic coding and physical computing About Brian Lobser: http://light.clinic
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 3006-000 (22332)01/26/2023 – 05/04/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Lobser, David
R&D Studio: Dumb, Smart, and Super Phones (ITPG-GT 3009)
In this special format studio class, students will investigate techniques and frameworks to challenge the socioeconomics of planned obsolescence. We will research, design, and develop projects that rethink our strained relationship with smartphones and re-imagine the future of “old” devices. This is a production-heavy, four-credit course, where students will contribute to original research, and develop projects that combine HCI, design, and critical theory. Prerequisites include an open mind, the drive to make, and graduate-level Physical Computing.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 3009-000 (22335)01/26/2023 – 05/04/2023 Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Galvao Cesar de Oliveira, Pedro
Media-making as Healing Practice (ITPG-GT 2358)
Where does healing reside in media-making? How do we approach creating artistic processes and tools that move towards minimizing harm, supporting collective care, and understanding what healing means for ourselves and with one another? This course examines socially-engaged artistic processes and frameworks that reconstruct, reclaim, and decolonize ‘healing.’ Together, we will gather embodied data from our bodyminds, build language through readings, and map out artists in the field exploring disability, racial trauma, queerness, and diaspora within media and performing arts. Subsequently, we will develop our own processes as our final project: weaving together storytelling, embodied strategies, tool-making, performances, and/ or space-making.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2358-000 (22317)01/25/2023 – 05/03/2023 Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Lin, Yo-Yo
Blockchain Aesthetics (ITPG-GT 2360)
This1-pt course examines the evolving paradigm of “Blockchain Aesthetics” using an interdisciplinary Art History and Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. Students will learn and discuss the dominant methods, concepts, and strategies of applied blockchain technology in contemporary digital art, and together attempt to analyze and theorize the potential affordances and harms of this new artistic medium as it intervenes in established visual art institutions and communities (e.g., from museums and galleries to auction houses, social media and the decentralized web). The class will also look backwards in history to situate “Blockchain Aesthetics,” and the wide artistic realm of “Crypto Art,” in a broad cultural and technological history beyond NFTs, highlighting how ideas around cryptography, contracts, reproducibility, decentralization, scarcity and financialization developed in modern and contemporary art. Approaching the blockchain as a novel artistic tool and a technology of power, this course considers recent aesthetic evaluations of Crypto Art against its sociopolitical, infrastructural, and ecological impact, centering its contested potential for—and negation of—equity.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
1 credits – 16 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2360-000 (22318)
Performance in Virtual Space (ITPG-GT 2999)
Focusing on motion capture (ak. MoCap), this class introduces basic performance skills alongside 3d graphic manipulation to create real-time virtual experiences. In this class we will have the opportunity to build sets, produce interactive props, and design unique characters to tell stories or engage with audiences. Utilizing Optitrack Motion Capture system, Blender, Motionbuilder, and Unreal Gaming Engine; we will create, rig, animate, and perform as avatars.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
ITPG-GT 2999-000 (14791)03/15/2024 – 05/03/2024 Fri3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Truxillo, Marcel
Blessed/Blursed/Cursed (ITPG-GT 2088)
This course will explore the history and meaning of the ubiquitous concept of “cursed” media, and provide students with a survey of digital art tools for the creation of their own cursed animation, video, photography, music, and web art. Many people were first introduced to the concept of cursed media when it exploded into mainstream internet discourse in 2016 with the @cursedimages Twitter account, which posted found photos bound by their unsettling effect on the viewer. Cursed media predates this account, however, stretching back to medieval notions of cursed objects. We will demonstrate how throughout time, cursed media has functioned like a slip of the tongue that provides a window into the cultural unconscious, where we encounter uncensored thoughts and feelings about race, gender, class, and what it means to be human. From Amazon Muzak generators to Artbreeder’s GAN tools for image creation, from machine learning text generators to robots who work at Walmart, cursed media and tools for its creation bring into view the ways that that culture reacts to tension between the increasingly precarious position of human beings in the capitalist 21st century and the threat of human erasure by the powerful forces of nature. Students will be introduced to digital art tools for creating music, manipulating photography and video, working with 3d animation, and building web art. Students will attempt to create their own cursed media, and in the process will gain a deeper understanding of the unconscious biases and ethical implications of contemporary digital creation tools.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2088-000 (22312)01/26/2023 – 05/04/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Tarakajian, Catherine · Rokhsar, Adam
The COVID-19 Impact Project: Extracting Stories From Data (ITPG-GT 2338)
This course will use the open source COVID-19 Impact Dashboard as a basis to explore ways to humanize the unfolding data on the coronavirus pandemic. Students are invited to collaborate on the COVID-19 Impact Project. Students will discover how data flows from public github repositories and tools needed to visualize the data. We will review other data-centric open source projects related to COVID-19 and discuss the questions they are trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve. We will examine historical and contemporary data visualizations. Using data visualization as a scaffold, we will explore ways to support community driven mourning and memorialization. Students can choose to participate as javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, or data science explorers.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2338-000 (22314)01/23/2023 – 03/20/2023 Mon3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Thompson, John · Jones, Shindy
World-Making with Unity (ITPG-GT 2369)
Computational simulation and videogame engines offer thinkers and makers a new way to reflect on the question “If I can make a world, what would it be like?” In Worldmaking with Unity, students will be exposed to various theories and approaches of worldmaking, and realize their own creative visions by constructing an original, conceptual, and playfully simulated world with indie game development engine Unity. This seven-week seminar/studio course will include a gentle introduction to computer programming, 3D modeling, character and scene design, and rendering techniques with Unity, as well as related production tools such as Blender. Projects may address system, agency, narrative, generative design, critical computing, and more. Student projects created in Unity can be compatible with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). This course is designed as an intro-level game design and development course. There is no prerequisite. More advanced production techniques such as shader language and AI might be introduced as optional topics only. More information at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UppRjSyFlMpGPNLMowqKmP7wwq29s5Oexnpvrj4Gubs/edit?usp=sharing
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2369-000 (22315)03/23/2023 – 05/04/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Qi, Zhenzhen
Noodles Prototyping in Performance (ITPG-GT 2367)
Cooking programs with an image based language is a fundamental skill in the production and design of modern digital processes. Visual programming is not only an alternative way to code, but a solution to approach generative and interactive media. This class reviews the past, present and future of visual programming languages used to procedurally generate and manipulate media such as Max/MSP(Nato.0 55 3d), Isadora, Quartz composer, Touch designer, Houdini, cables.gl and Unreal Engine among others. The core of this course is the study of Unreal Engine’s Blueprint Visual Scripting system as a way to produce an interactive program in an executable form using only Visual Programing. We will study how to create actors, functions, interfaces and how they communicate with each other. We will also take a look into 2 other visual editors, The material/shader editor for the creation of HLSL like shaders and visuals and the new Metasound editor for the manipulation, generation and sequence of sound within the engine. A general understanding of Unreal Engine is a prerequisite for this class. Students will learn how to use blueprints to produce an interactive program that can be a video game, an installation or a Real Time digital Performance.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2367-000 (22316)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Morales, Victor
Reverse Engineering: New Paradigm Shifts in Art, Curatorial and Technological Practices (ITPG-GT 2097)
This course provides critical and curatorial insight into global art practices and interactive technologies from a post colonial perspective. Designed to provide a critique of imperialism the course is underpinned by ideas pertaining to the rise of the Global South, decoupling, indigenous knowledge and ancient and contemporary innovation through contemporary art, emergent technologies, new media and exhibition practices. Students will also investigate the role of shifting digital landscapes and conservation of new media coupled with museum collecting practices, from both a deconstructive and ethical lens, providing regular opportunities to reflect upon their own respective practices. Presented as a combination of presentations/ critiques, seminars, readings, virtual field trips as well as special guest visits with noted experts, the course presents a compact and timely overview of globalization, and the effects of rapid interactive and technological innovative, in lieu with ideating towards a more equitable and diverse art and technological ecosystem.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2097-000 (22306)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Raza, Sara
Sound Art: Listening (ITPG-GT 2328)
Listening is not something we do through hearing alone. Engaging with multiple perspectives, from Deaf studies and critiques of ableist hearing ideologies, to the possibilities and pitfalls presented through machine listening and imaginative sonic speculation, we will playfully deconstruct and question what it means to listen at all. Each week, readings will be assigned and students are asked to respond to prompts in the form of light-weight exercises that will orient most of our in-class discussion. Time will be spent discussing readings, presenting, and providing critique for each other’s projects in order to help draw connections between theory and practice. Through in-class presentations, we will encounter works by Christine Sun Kim, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros and read from Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Tina Campt, and François Bonnet. The class has no technical prerequisites, and students are welcome to respond with works using tools and techniques from other classes (audio/video presentation, programming and physical computing, installation and fabrication, etc.). Through this work, we will unpack how the way in which we attend to the physical world and its inhabitants through our listening has real consequences. In much the same way our interpretation of the world is informed and influenced by factors outside of ourselves, our capacity to listen is conditioned through societal, political, economic, historical, and racial dimensions. We will disentangle listening from hearing and consider listening as a practice that begins not with how we hear sounds but how it allows us to (or prevents us from) interfacing and relating to our exteriors (and interiors). By the end of the class we will attempt to converge and coalesce our own ideas and perspective of what it means to listen.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2328-000 (22308)03/24/2023 – 05/05/2023 Fri3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Diedrick, Johann
Real-Time Online: Building Video & Audio Interactions for the Web (ITPG-GT 2327)
Over the past 3 years, we have seen many aspects of our lives thrust online. Increasingly, we are working, learning, socializing with family and friends, attending live performances and more through 2D grids of video feeds on platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet. These communication tools have become essential for remote communities to connect, yet fail to replicate many of the most engaging, messy and human aspects of our in-person experience. What happens when we break out of this grid and explore new forms of real-time social interactions online using webcam video and audio? Recent explorations in this realm have shown the promise of spatial metaphors in creating engaging real-time social interactions online. In this course, students will create their own series of experimental social spaces that explore these questions: how does the shape and nature of our environment affect the way we communicate? What unique forms of real-time expression and sharing might be possible online (and only online)? How might we design experiences for the unique social dynamics we want to support? Students will be exposed to principles of spatial design as well as a series of open source Javascript tools for arranging live webcam video and audio in 2D and 3D space in the browser. They will use WebGL (through the three.js library) to build 2D and 3D environments, and will be exposed to WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) and Node.js to add interactivity to those environments.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
ITPG-GT 2327-000 (14780)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Mon6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Nelson, Aidan
How to Count Birds (ITPG-GT 2085)
On October 8th, 2015, a team in Ecuador identified 431 species of birds – the world record for number counted in a single day. Earlier that year in Myanmar, a scientist counted one Jerdon’s babbler, the first in nearly eight decades. In December of 2019, eBird announced that its database held over 737 million bird observations. This morning, in Brooklyn Bridge park, I counted 38 house sparrows, 4 black-and-white warblers and an ovenbird. This course will consider birding as a practice, and will dive deep into the processes by which observations become data. As a collective, we will investigate how crowd-sourced data is transforming ornithology, and will explore ways to tell stories about the natural world through visualization and more radical forms of data representation.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2085-000 (22309)03/23/2023 – 05/04/2023 Thu9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Thorp, Jeremy
Paper Engineering and Interactive Play (ITPG-GT 2187)
The class will focus on the many overlooked aspects of paper, and how it can be used as a three-dimensional material. We will learn the disciplines of making Pop-Ups, Origami, Paper Crafting, and Visual Design. Using these methods as a starting point, students will build prototypes to explore new ways to tell stories, inform, interact, play with, engage, and challenge a younger audience. Most classes are hands – on. The rest, dedicated to criticism (including from children), analysis, and refinement, technical and conceptual. We will discuss how they could be mass produced and distributed. Students will build three prototypes, during the semester. From these, each student will select a favorite to fully develop as the final.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
ITPG-GT 2187-000 (14760)01/25/2024 – 03/07/2024 Thu9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Ita, Sam
Computational Letterforms and Layout (ITPG-GT 2051)
Language is more than just words and meanings: it’s paper and ink, pixels and screens, fingertips on keyboards, voices speaking out loud. Language is, in a word, material. In this course, students will gain an understanding of how the material of language is represented digitally, and learn computational techniques for manipulating this material in order to create speculative technologies that challenge conventional reading and writing practices. Topics include asemic writing, concrete poetry, markup languages, keyboard layouts, interactive and generative typography, printing technologies and bots (alongside other forms of radical publishing). Students will complete a series of weekly readings and production-oriented assignments leading up to a final project. In addition to critique, sessions will feature lectures, class discussions and technical tutorials. Prerequisites: Introduction to Computational Media or equivalent programming experience.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
ITPG-GT 2051-000 (11394)01/23/2025 – 05/01/2025 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Parrish, Allison
Going Live: Real-Time Streaming and Interactive Media (IMBX-SHU 9501)
This course explores the disruptions and creative possibilities that realtime emerging media provides through the lens of learning how to design, create, produce and perform in realtime. Students will be learning how to design and produce for realtime interactive audiences, understand the modern streaming media pipeline, the fundamentals of virtual production, digital content creation and the basics of game engines and other software – all in the service of delivering a more engaging and intimate connection between audience and performer. Students will design and perform 2 distinct realtime performances as well as work together with peers to conceptualize, design and produce a short realtime ‘pilot’ using the tools and techniques you’ve learned in the first two projects. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: Interactive Media Business Elective ; Interactive Media Arts Elective
Interactive Media and Business (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
IMBX-SHU 9501-000 (4975)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Los Angeles (Global)Instructed by Prasanna Kumar, Archana
IMBX-SHU 9501-000 (20268)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Thu5:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Los Angeles (Global)Instructed by Prasanna Kumar, Archana
Information Visualization (DATS-SHU 235)
Information visualization is the graphical representation of data to aid understanding, and is the key to analyzing massive amounts of data for fields such as science, engineering, medicine, and the humanities. This is an introductory undergraduate course on Information Visualization based on a modern and cohesive view of the area. Topics include techniques such as visual design principles, layout algorithms, and interactions as well as their applications of representing various types of data such as networks and documents. Overviews and examples from state-of-the-art research will be provided. The course is designed as a first course in information visualization for students both intending to specialize in visualization as well as students who are interested in understanding and applying visualization principles and existing techniques. Fulfillment: CS Electives, Data Science Data Analysis Required; Data Science Courses for Concentration in Artificial Intelligence. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: Data Structures. Students must be CS or DS major and have junior or senior standing.
Data Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
DATS-SHU 235-000 (20423)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Mon,Wed7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at ShanghaiInstructed by Gu, Xianbin
Data Structures (CSCI-SHU 210)
Data structures are fundamental programming constructs which organize information in computer memory to solve challenging real-world problems. Data structures such as stacks, queues, linked lists, and binary trees, therefore constitute building blocks that can be reused, extended, and combined in order to make powerful programs. This course teaches how to implement them in a high-level language, how to analyze their effect on algorithm efficiency, and how to modify them to write computer programs that solve complex problems in a most efficient way. Programming assignments. Prerequisite: ICS or A- in ICP. Equivalency: This course counts for CSCI-UA 102 Data Structures (NY). Fulfillment: CS Required, Data Science Required, CE Required.
Computer Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
CSCI-SHU 210-000 (20398)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Tue3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Tam, Yik-Cheung
CSCI-SHU 210-000 (20399)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Simikin, Sven
CSCI-SHU 210-000 (20400)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Simikin, Sven
CSCI-SHU 210-000 (20401)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Mon11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Tam, Yik-Cheung
CSCI-SHU 210-000 (20402)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Wed11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Simikin, Sven
CSCI-SHU 210-000 (20403)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Fri11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Simikin, Sven
Aesthetic History of Photography (PHTI-UT 1102)
Open only to Photography & Imaging majors. Sophomore Standing. This class will chronicle the history of photography?s complex and symbiotic relationship to the other visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, installation and performance, among others. Beginning with the medium?s invention and the early fights of its practitioners to establish themselves as fine artists, the course will describe photographers? unique attempts to negotiate their relationships with both artistic movements and the media culture of which they are a part. Robinson, Cameron, Emerson, F. Holland Day, Stieglitz, Moholy-Nagy, Rodchenko, Weston, Alvarez Bravo, Lartigue, De Carava, Cahun, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman (among others) will be seen within the context of their respective art worlds, so the impact of art movements, cultural attitudes and new technologies on photographers during different historical periods can be assessed.
Photography and Imaging (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
PHTI-UT 1102-000 (17801)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Rice, Shelley
IRL/URL_Performing Hybrid Systems (COART-UT 212)
This course is a unique collaboration between the Collaborative Arts and IMA Tisch departments, and CultureHub at La Mama. During the pandemic many performing artists moved their work online, leading to an increasing acceptance of experimental practices that their predecessors developed in on-line work for the past 30 years. In Experiments in Hybrid (IRL/URL) Performance, students will have the opportunity to design, prototype, and present collaborative projects that build on this tradition, blending both physical and virtual elements. Over the course of the semester, students will have the opportunity to study at the CultureHub studio where they will be introduced to video, lighting, sound, and cueing systems. In addition, students will learn creative coding fundamentals allowing them to network multiple softwares and devices generating real-time feedback systems. The class will culminate with a final showing that will be presented online and broadcast from the CultureHub studio.
Collaborative Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
COART-UT 212-000 (23156)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kananuruk, Tiriree
Cultural History of Latin America (SPAN-UA 205)
This course provides an introduction to the making of modern Latin America through the study of key cultural practices in literature, visual art, film, and performance from the 19th century to the present. The course is organized around key concepts, which may vary by semester and by instructor
Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SPAN-UA 205-000 (9397)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Intermediate Spanish II (SPAN-UA 4)
Readings and discussions of contemporary Hispanic texts and review of the main grammatical concepts of Spanish. Completion of this course fulfills the MAP foreign language requirement.
Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8360)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8361)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8362)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8363)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8364)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8365)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8366)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8367)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8368)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8369)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8370)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8371)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 4-000 (8372)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Intens Elemen Spanish (SPAN-UA 10)
Open to students with some previous training in Spanish or another Romance language (one year of high school Spanish or the equivalent, or two years of high school French, Italian, or Latin) and to others on assignment by placement exam or in consultation with the director of the Spanish language program. This is a one-semester intensive course that covers the equivalent of one year of elementary Spanish (SPAN-UA 1 and SPAN-UA 2). 6 points. After completing this course, students may go into SPAN-UA 3, which is preparation for SPAN-UA 4. Students with high scores in the semester (B and up) or with permission from the Director of the Language Program may enroll in SPAN-UA 20. Completion of either SPAN-UA 20 or SPAN-UA 4 fulfills the Core requirement.
Spanish (Undergraduate)
6 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SPAN-UA 10-000 (8373)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 10-000 (9212)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Spanish for Beginners – Level II (SPAN-UA 2)
After completing SPAN-UA 2 or SPAN-UA 10 (see below), students who wish to continue studying Spanish at an intermediate level must take a qualifying exam. Students who pass the exam may enroll in SPAN-UA 3, which is preparation for SPAN-UA 4. Students who complete SPAN-UA 2 or SPAN-UA 10 and pass the qualifying exam with high scores may enroll in SPAN-UA 20, a 6-credit intensive intermediate course that is the equivalent of Intermediate Spanish I and II. Completion of either SPAN-UA 20 or SPAN-UA 4 satisfies the MAP foreign language requirement.
Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8341)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8342)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8343)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8344)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8345)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8346)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8347)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8348)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8349)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8350)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8351)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8412)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8799)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 2-000 (8800)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Intermediate Spanish I (SPAN-UA 3)
Review of grammar, language structure, and culture, concentrating on fluency and accuracy through listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. After completion of this course, students take SPAN-UA 4 in fulfillment of the MAP foreign language requirement.
Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8352)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8353)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8354)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8355)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8356)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8357)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8358)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8359)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8463)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 3-000 (8464)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Spanish for Beginners- Level I (SPAN-UA 1)
Open to students with no previous training in Spanish and to others on assignment by placement test. 4 points. Beginning course designed to teach the elements of Spanish grammar and language structure through a primarily oral approach. Emphasis is on building vocabulary and language patterns to encourage spontaneous language use in and out of the classroom.
Spanish (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
SPAN-UA 1-000 (9237)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10108)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10109)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10110)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (9252)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10111)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10112)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10113)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10114)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Munoz, Sophy
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10115)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SPAN-UA 1-000 (9268)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Munoz, Sophy
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10116)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Burgos Trujillo, Felix
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10117)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Munoz, Sophy
SPAN-UA 1-000 (9277)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Burgos Trujillo, Felix
SPAN-UA 1-000 (10118)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Del Risco, Eida
Social Networks (SOC-UA 131)
Social life in its different forms, from the delicate equilibrium of a triadic relation to the chaotic dynamic of a crowd, emerges from the interdependent behavior of multiple actors. By studying social networks – i.e., the web of relationships in which individuals and groups are embedded –, we will understand important collective dynamics, such as interpersonal influence, social diffusion, the origin of social norms, group cohesion and intergroup conflict, political participation, and market exchange. This course will offer an overview of basic social networks concepts, combining the theoretical tradition of structural and relational sociology with the analytical tools of graph theory.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 131-000 (9277)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 131-000 (9278)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 131-000 (9279)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Immigration (SOC-UA 452)
This course provides an introduction to contemporary immigration to the United States, against the backdrop of immigration since the start of the Republic and rooted in socio-behavioral science. The first half of the course is devoted to understanding U.S. law and policy governing immigration, and the second to understanding the characteristics and behavior of foreign-born – especially immigrants – in the United States.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 452-000 (8813)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Criminology (SOC-UA 503)
Examines the making of criminal laws and their enforcement by police, courts, prisons, probation and parole, and other agencies. Criminal behavior systems, theories of crime and delinquency causation, victimization, corporate and governmental crime, and crime in the mass media. Policy questions.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 503-000 (9851)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 503-000 (9852)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 503-000 (9853)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Seminar in Sociology (SOC-UA 935)
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Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 935-000 (10302)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Race and Ethnicity (SOC-UA 135)
What is ’race’ exactly? Defining the concept presents a real challenge. This class explores what race and ethnicity mean, beginning with historical ideas about human difference. Comparing American beliefs and practices to those found in other societies, we will pay special attention to the particular notions and hierarchies of race that emerge in different times and places. The course also investigates the roles that institutions like the media, the arts, the state, and the sciences play in shaping our understandings of race and ethnicity. We will conclude by considering the predictions that scholars have made about the future of racial stratification in the United States.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 135-000 (9848)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 135-000 (9849)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 135-000 (9850)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Statistics for Social Research (SOC-UA 302)
Gives students in the social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political science, and metropolitan studies) an introduction to the logic and methods of descriptive and inferential statistics with social science applications. Deals with univariate and bivariate statistics and introduces multivariate methods. Problems of causal inference. Computer computation.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 302-000 (8328)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 302-000 (8329)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 302-000 (8330)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Sociological Theory (SOC-UA 111)
Prerequisite: one previous course in sociology, junior standing, or permission of the instructor. Brenner, Corradi, Ertman, Goodwin, Lukes. Offered every semester. 4 points. Examines the nature of sociological theory and the value of and problems in theorizing. Provides a detailed analysis of the writings of major social theorists since the 19th century in both Europe and America: Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, Mead, Parsons, Merton, Goffman, Habermas, Giddens, Alexander, and Bourdieu.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 111-000 (8327)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 111-000 (8978)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 111-000 (8979)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Literatures in English I: Medieval and Early Modern Literatures (ENGL-UA 111)
Survey of English literature from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon epic through Milton. Close reading of representative works, with attention to the historical, intellectual, and social contexts of the period.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ENGL-UA 111-000 (8756)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ENGL-UA 111-000 (8757)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ENGL-UA 111-000 (8758)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ENGL-UA 111-000 (8759)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ENGL-UA 111-000 (8760)at Washington SquareInstructed by
The Performing Arts in Global Cultures (MPATC-UE 1505)
The study of the intersection of key philosophical and ethical systems with the analysis of performing art works and the music industry. Students learn an “Eclectic Method” of analysis to holistically explore and study works of art from cultures from around the world while studying ethical complexities and analytical systems in relation to the performing arts industries.
Music Theory and Composition (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
MPATC-UE 1505-000 (16548)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at OnlineInstructed by White, Leonard · Bush, Christopher
Social Impact: Advertising for Social Good (MCC-UE 1042)
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 – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MCC-UE 1042-000 (12498)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Foundations of Photography (VISAR-UH 1010)
This course introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of photography. Students will learn foundational image-making techniques with a focus on Black and White analog photography. A range of studio and darkroom tools and approaches will be explored. Students will be introduced to key artists, themes, and developments in photography and will consider the impact of photographic media on the development of art and society.
Visual Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
VISAR-UH 1010-000 (16675)
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (ME-UY 2112)
The course covers sketching, drawing and computer-aided drafting. Topics: Projection theory—multiview, axonometric, oblique. Auxiliaries, sections, isometrics, dimensions, fasteners, detail and assembly drawings. Introduction to blueprint reading. Overview of CIM and CAD integration with other CIM concepts. A design project incorporates developed skills in visualization, drawing techniques, standards and CAD.
Mechanical Engineering (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ME-UY 2112-000 (15822)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Benbelkacem, Ghania
ME-UY 2112-000 (15906)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Benbelkacem, Ghania
ME-UY 2112-000 (15823)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed10:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Benbelkacem, Ghania
Applications in Entrepreneurial Finance: Fintech (FINC-UB 62)
This course examines the lifecycle of high-growth new ventures (i.e. startups), with a focus on how they are funded. We will follow a successful startup’s path from founding through the stages of new venture finance. These include developing a business plan and its financials, the core skills of valuation, the venture capital industry, and how entrepreneurs and investors realize returns. Through examples of specific companies and technologies, we will also learn about the emerging landscape of financial technology (fintech) startups. We will consider the following subsectors, where startups are either seeking to displace incumbents or sell them their services: personal finance, blockchain, equity crowdfunding, lending (peer-to-peer and AI-augmented), payments, insurance, institutional investment, and money transfer.
Finance (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 13 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
FINC-UB 62-000 (19097)02/06/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by
FINC-UB 62-000 (19364)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Financial Analysis in Telecom, Media & Technology (FINC-UB 68)
This course is designed for students who intend to pursue careers across the investment banking industry as well as those exploring careers in corporate strategy and management. Areas covered include equity and debt analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate strategy. While the core of the course is corporate finance, the issues encompass strategy, marketing, and economics aspects. Students will learn the unique characteristics of telecom, media and technology companies/industries while building on fundamental analytical skills by examining a series of landmark and potential corporate transactions in telecom, media & technology industries to understand how TMT companies respond to secular changes and transform their business models in the midst of evolving ecosystems. Cases discussed/analyzed include: Instagram, ActivisionBlizzard, Twitch, Apple, Alphabet, Disney, FOX, AT&T, DirecTV and Time Warner.
Finance (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
FINC-UB 68-000 (19093)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Sports Management (MKTG-UB 39)
This course provides an overview of the key components of the global sports management ecosystem. Managing the myriad moving parts that make up the sports industry requires an understanding of general management principles and their special applications to the sports industry. From technology and marketing innovations to improved delivery systems, sports and sports-related content are one of the key drivers of the changing media landscape. The course will explore the critical elements of delivering sports content to viewers in the U.S. and abroad, taking into account constituencies which include the rights holders (e.g. leagues, conferences, teams, national governing bodies) the performers or talent (e.g. players, coaches, general managers) the media the sponsors and the consumer. For each component the course will examine the strategies, history and management perspectives that have informed this massive and evolving sector of media industries.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 39-000 (18484)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Business of Publishing (MKTG-UB 19)
This course provides students with working knowledge of the publishing industry comprising newspapers, magazines, and books. It explores traditional business models and how disruptive forces including digitalization, consumer generated content, low barriers to entry, and changing media consumption patterns are reshaping the industry. By the end of the course, students understand the operations of media companies, and can speak to the opportunities and challenges facing the industry, engage in discussions on the economics, terms, and metrics, and explain emerging business models.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 19-000 (18454)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Leisure Marketing (MKTG-UB 80)
This is a specialty marketing course designed to provide students with a framework for understanding the dynamics of marketing several leading sectors within the leisure industry. The focus is on understanding the development and application of marketing strategies and tactics for leisure companies competing for a share of the consumers discretionary spending. Key marketing concepts such as segmentation, branding, life-time value, and CRM are examined in the context of leisure industries. The course will also cover recent activities including mergers, acquisitions in those key sectors of the leisure industry: casinos, cruise ships, theme parks, eco-tourism, themed restaurants, resorts, leisure hotels, time shares. The course will explore marketing techniques that apply across the leisure companies, including licensing, sponsorships, line extensions and promotion. Discussion of evolution, and current status in these sectors through lectures, case studies, text and article readings and project work will be included.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 80-000 (18462)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Deal Making in the Entertainment Industry (MKTG-UB 43)
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the deal-making and business affairs process in the entertainment space, using film and television content as the primary example for what goes into cutting a deal. The course will explore the deal process from the perspective of the different players in entertainment and media, focusing on how each player looks to maximize value. Students will learn the process of striking a deal, from its inception, to the term sheet phase, to the negotiation process and contractual agreements, through to deal implementation. The process will be evaluated in the context of the factors that play into reaching an agreement, such as exclusivity, windowing, multi-platform rights and timing. Students will learn about negotiations strategies for maximizing value in content deals, identifying common issues in the deal process and effective paths to reaching resolution and striking a deal. The course is designed to help students: –Understand the basics of the process for making a deal in the entertainment industry –Appreciate the factors that play into maximizing value through the deal process, including understanding the relative position of the players in the entertainment industry –Learn and understand negotiating strategies and how to navigate the business affairs and deal-making process
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 43-000 (18481)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Business of Producing (MKTG-UB 49)
A specialized EMT course within the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies designed to provide students with a framework for understanding the dynamics of producing (as a business profession) a finished creative product in the entertainment and media industries, developing a business model, and generating an income stream to repay and provide investors with a profit. Educates the student in the process of feature film and long-form television production from the initial concept of the story, through script development, to completion of the project. Covers the most important steps in the production of an independent film, a studio project, a network TV or cable show, a radio program, a Broadway production, and an advertising television commercial. Explores all the elements a producer must know, understand, and eventually become skilled with through mastery of development, including script selection, finance, budgeting, timetable development, team building, talent selection, sales, contract and union negotiation, regulations, technology, and other relevant core competencies.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 49-000 (18459)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
MKTG-UB 49-000 (18458)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
The Business of Broadway (MKTG-UB 25)
This is a specialty marketing course designed to provide students with a framework for understanding the dynamics of Broadway and live theater, as an important business enterprise within the entertainment industry. The focus is on understanding the development and application of the economics, finance, structure, implementation and staging of performances, as well as the marketing strategies and tactics for gaining audience awareness and decision to purchase. The course will examine funding, marketing, branding, product positioning and the global distribution of live theatrical entertainment. The course will cover the history, venues, vocabulary, players, business and creative structures, budget development, supplementary revenue streams, successes and failures, relationship with the movie and music industries, the important figures and support systems that make the system work, global reach, and other topics. Lecture, discussions, site visits, and project work will be included.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
MKTG-UB 25-000 (10616)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Television Management: Network, Cable/Satellite (MKTG-UB 44)
This course covers the television industry, focusing on network television, cable, and satellite. It primarily surveys the American market and investigates new technology including digitization and HDTV, while providing some comparison with the international broadcast market. Students explore the organization, programming, and revenue strategies, as well as marketing innovations and competition in the newly configured broadcast landscape. Important legislation including the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are also examined. The recent volume of mergers and acquisitions in the broadcast industry are studied for their impact on the domestic entertainment landscape.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 44-000 (18447)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Globalization of The Entertainment Industry (MKTG-UB 46)
Provides a framework for understanding the global expansion of media and entertainment companies. Examines the impact that the significant export growth of American leisure products and services has on the U.S economy. Analyzes the strategies of several leading entertainment and media multinational companies and the development of their entertainment businesses within the major world economic zones. International speakers, cases and readings are used in this course.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
MKTG-UB 46-000 (22222)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brown, Colin
MKTG-UB 46-000 (22228)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Wed6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brown, Colin
MKTG-UB 46-000 (23357)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Maheswaran, Durairaj
Intro to Marketing (MKTG-UB 1)
This course evaluates marketing as a system for the satisfaction of human wants and a catalyst of business activity. It presents a comprehensive framework that includes (1) researching and analyzing customers, company, competition, and the marketing environment; (2) identifying and targeting attractive segments with a strategic positioning; and (3) making product, pricing, communication, and distribution decisions. Cases and examples are utilized to develop problem-solving abilities.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 2 Weeks
Sections (January 2021)
MKTG-UB 1-000 (1219)01/05/2021 – 01/21/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Movie Marketing (MKTG-UB 22)
This course gives students a basic understanding of key business issues relating to producing, distributing, marketing, and exploiting feature films. The course examines key aspects of the movie business, including managing a creative enterprise, deal making, acquiring rights, building a library, branding, and all aspects of effective marketing. The concepts developed in the course are applied in a group project presentation.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MKTG-UB 22-000 (18448)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
MKTG-UB 22-000 (18473)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
MKTG-UB 22-000 (18479)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Networks, Crowds and Markets (TECH-UB 60)
This is a course on how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Topics include: social network structure and its effects on business and culture; crowdsourcing; games on graphs; the propagation through networks of information, fads and disease; small worlds, network effects, and “rich-get-richer” phenomena; the power of networks for prediction; the power of the network for web search; networks and social revolutions, and the melding of economics, machine learning, and technology into new markets, such as “prediction markets” or markets for on-line advertisements.The class will be a combination of lectures based on the textbook and guest lectures from well-known experts on these topics, primarily Stern faculty (a well-known center of excellence for research on networks, crowds, and markets).One main goal of this class is to work our way through most of the new, acclaimed textbook: Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book.pdf The textbook readings will be complemented with classic and recent research papers.
Computing and Data Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
TECH-UB 60-000 (19341)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Photography I for Non-Majors (ART-UE 301)
Introduction to the use of photography as a medium of documentation and expression. Assignments and critiques enhance the development of individual work while developing photographic skills and techniques. Students provide their own cameras. Enlargers and photographic chemicals are provided in class.
Studio Art (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ART-UE 301-000 (11411)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ART-UE 301-000 (11412)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ART-UE 301-000 (12495)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Mixing in the Digital Audio Workstation (MPATE-UE 1135)
This course explores the art and craft of mixing records, with special attention to “mixing in the box” (via a digital audio workstation). Focus on methodology and technique, with particular emphasis on establishing balances, using such tools as compression and automation to enhance dynamics and develop unique coloration. Examines intersection of technology, budgets, and the marketplace. Students execute their own mixes, with guidance and critique from the instructor. Basic level of DAW proficiency required.
Music Technology (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
MPATE-UE 1135-000 (13050)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Thu12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Killen, Kevin
MPATE-UE 1135-000 (13051)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Killen, Kevin
Utilitas, Venustas, Firmitas (CADT-UH 1016)
Design seems to be omnipresent, but what is it? This course (whose title is Latin for usage, beauty, and stability) explores how design influences our life and investigates the fundamentals of “good design.” It takes a look at the status quo of the use of design in media, objects, and architecture, and observe its influence on art and technology from past to present. Design tools and processes will be highlighted. Based on the fusion of readings, study, discussion, and experiences, over the course of the semester students will develop an understanding of how mutually reinforcing and beneficiary a mix of Arts, Design, and Technology can be. Lecture and discussion will help develop the design of a bricolage: Every student will realize a product prototype to be displayed in an exhibition and a personal philosophy of about Arts, Design, and Technology.
Core: Arts, Design and Technology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
CADT-UH 1016-000 (17217)08/29/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Alawadi, Khulood
CADT-UH 1016-000 (17243)08/29/2023 – 12/15/2023 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Alawadi, Khulood
Projects in Programming and Data Sciences (TECH-UB 24)
This course is the follow-on course to Introduction to Programming and Data Science, which is offered in the Fall. It is recommended for undergraduate students who 1) are interested in jobs in the rapidly growing fields of data science and data analytics or 2) who are interested in acquiring the technical and data analysis skills that are becoming increasingly relevant in all disciplines. Intro to Programming and Data Science forms the basis for this course, but it is not a pre-requisite. Students with basic knowledge of programming in Python and SQL are welcome to join. This course covers select topics that build on the prior course work and is largely project based. Much of the course will be project-based work, with students working on projects that utilize the skills used in this and the prior Programming and Data Science course.
Computing and Data Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
TECH-UB 24-000 (19343)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 24-000 (19344)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Social Media & Digital Marketing (TECH-UB 38)
This course examines the major trends in digital marketing using tools from business analytics and data science. While there will be sufficient attention given to top level strategy used by companies adopting digital marketing, the focus of the course is also on business analytics: how to make firms more intelligent in how they conduct business in the digital age. Measurement plays a big role in this space. The course is complemented by cutting-edge projects and various business consulting assignments that the Professor has been involved in with various companies over the last few years. Prof Ghose has consulted in various capacities for Apple, AMD, Berkeley Corporation, Bank of Khartoum, CBS, Dataxu, Facebook, Intel, NBC Universal, Samsung, Showtime, 3TI China, and collaborated with Alibaba, China Mobile, Google, IBM, Indiegogo, Microsoft, Recobell, Travelocity and many other leading Fortune 500 firms on realizing business value from IT investments, internet marketing, business analytics, mobile marketing, digital analytics and other topics.We will learn about statistical issues in data analyses such as selection problem, omitted variables problem, endogeneity, and simultaneity problems, autocorrelation, multi-collinearity, assessing the predictive power of a regression and interpreting various numbers from the output of a statistical package, various econometrics-based tools such as simple and multivariate regressions, linear and non-linear probability models (Logit and Probit), estimating discrete and continuous dependent variables, count data models (Poisson and Negative Binomial), cross-sectional models vs. panel data models (Fixed Effects and Random Effects), and various experimental techniques that help can tease out correlation from causality such as randomized field experiments.
Computing and Data Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
TECH-UB 38-000 (19338)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Introduction to Programming and Data Science (TECH-UB 23)
This course is recommended for undergraduate students without programming experience who are interested in building capabilities in the rapidly growing fields of data science and data analytics. This hands-on coding course does not have any prerequisites and is meant to help students acquire programming and data analysis skills that are becoming increasingly relevant for entrepreneurial, corporate, and research jobs. The course offers an introduction to programming (using Python) and databases (using SQL). We will cover topics related to collection, storage, organization, management, and analysis of data. There is a strong focus on live coding in the classroom, with discussion of examples.
Computing and Data Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
TECH-UB 23-000 (19340)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 23-000 (19342)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 23-000 (19345)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Info Tech in Bus & Society (TECH-UB 1)
Provides the background necessary to make decisions about computer-based information systems and to be an “end-user”. Two major parts of the course are hands-on experience with personal computers and information systems management. Group and individual computer assignments expose students to electronic spreadsheet analysis and database management on a personal computer. Management aspects focus on understanding computer technology, systems analysis and design, and control of information processing by managers.
Computing and Data Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
TECH-UB 1-000 (19329)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 1-000 (19330)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 1-000 (19331)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 1-000 (19336)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 1-000 (19337)at Washington SquareInstructed by
TECH-UB 1-000 (19339)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Aesthetics (PHIL-UA 60)
Introduces problems raised by the nature of art, artworks, and aesthetic judgment. Considers the expressive and representational properties of artworks, aesthetic attention, and appreciation, as well as the creation, interpretation, and criticism of artworks. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
PHIL-UA 60-000 (10283)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hopkins, Robert
Partial Differential Equations (MATH-UA 9263)
Many laws of physics are formulated as partial differential equations. This course discusses the simplest examples of such laws as embodied in the wave equation, the diffusion equation, and Laplace?s equation. Nonlinear conservation laws and the theory of shock waves. Applications to physics, chemistry, biology, and population dynamics. Prerequisite: prerequisite for MATH-UA 263
Math (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MATH-UA 9263-000 (10132)01/26/2023 – 05/05/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Lebovits, Joachim
MATH-UA 9263-000 (10310)01/26/2023 – 05/05/2023 Mon,Wed10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Lebovits, Joachim
Are Friends Electric? Music, Science, & Futurism in the 21st Century (REMU-UT 1229)
Historically, the music business has generally relinquished the most significant inventions and innovations to third parties. And while many can recite the contemporary Pavlovian catch phrases of the moment, what about the next wave of science and thinking that will impact music? This class will seek to identify, understand and predict the latest advancements in science that will serve to influence and transform music consumption in the next 20 years.
Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
REMU-UT 1229-000 (13182)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Kolosine, Errol
Digital Business Strategy (MKTG-UB 56)
This course covers the digital technology industry (e.g. consumer electronics, software) from a strategic and marketing perspective. The objectives are to understand how these industries function, the unique challenges they face, and how digital technology companies can leverage their strengths to achieve success in the marketplace. The focus is on understanding the interactions between competition, technology evolution, and firm capabilities.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Advertising (MKTG-UB 3)
This course provides students with a comprehensive framework and tools to understand the advertising process and to appreciate managerial and theoretical perspectives in advertising. It tackles the stages in developing an advertising plan- from analyzing the situation and defining clear advertising objectives to execution. Students learn tools related to various skill areas in advertising, including account planning, media planning and buying, and copywriting/art direction, while developing a broader appreciation of how each skill area fits into the overall structure of the advertising process. Coursework involves a comprehensive group project that utilizes learning in all functional areas of advertising, while simulating the development of an advertising campaign.
Marketing (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
MKTG-UB 3-000 (10504)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Thu6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cohen, Daniel
Arts and Cultures of Modernity (ACM-UF 201)
This course explores the arts from the late17th/early18th-century to the post-World War II era, examining how they define and reflect both local cultural views and rapidly shifting global understandings of the world. The course considers how the diverse conceptions and conditions of modernity both shaped and were shaped by the arts around the world. Many of the issues pertinent to the course — industrialization/urbanization; the dislocations, disasters, and opportunities that followed cross-cultural contact; colonialism, decolonization, conflicts of political ideology, and liberation struggles; fundamental redefinitions of mind, language, gender, and sexual identity — have had very different effects in various parts of the world; instructors encourage students to explore what it means to study the arts from global perspectives and what “globalization” itself has meant and means in the context of the arts.
Art and Cultures of Modernity (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
ACM-UF 201-000 (19000)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nickowitz, Peter
ACM-UF 201-000 (19001)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Culver, Brian
ACM-UF 201-000 (19002)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nickowitz, Peter
ACM-UF 201-000 (19003)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hatcher, Jessamyn
ACM-UF 201-000 (19004)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hatcher, Jessamyn
ACM-UF 201-000 (19005)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reynolds, Thomas
ACM-UF 201-000 (19006)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Culver, Brian
ACM-UF 201-000 (19007)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Yearous-Algozin, Joseph
ACM-UF 201-000 (19008)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hussein, Linnea
ACM-UF 201-000 (19009)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tharoor, Tilottama
ACM-UF 201-000 (19010)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Yearous-Algozin, Joseph
ACM-UF 201-000 (19011)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Squillace, Robert
ACM-UF 201-000 (19012)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Schwarzbach, Fredric
ACM-UF 201-000 (19013)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Matos Martin, Eduardo
ACM-UF 201-000 (19014)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Matos Martin, Eduardo
ACM-UF 201-000 (19015)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hatcher, Jessamyn
ACM-UF 201-000 (19016)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hussein, Linnea
ACM-UF 201-000 (19017)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reynolds, Thomas
ACM-UF 201-000 (19018)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reynolds, Thomas
ACM-UF 201-000 (19019)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Newman, Roberta
ACM-UF 201-000 (19020)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Matos Martin, Eduardo
ACM-UF 201-000 (19021)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Newman, Roberta
ACM-UF 201-000 (19022)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Paliwoda, Daniel
ACM-UF 201-000 (19023)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tharoor, Tilottama
ACM-UF 201-000 (19024)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Paliwoda, Daniel
ACM-UF 201-000 (19025)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Deutsch, Katherine
ACM-UF 201-000 (19026)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Deutsch, Katherine
Arts and Cultures towards the Crossroads (ACC-UF 102)
This course examines the arts produced within diverse cultural traditions across the globe from the rise of Islam at the beginning of the 7th century to the global empire building of the late17th/early 18th century. The course explores the distinctive conventions and traditions of different media, and the development of cultural traditions from their ancient foundations to the early modern period through successive influences and assimilations, both local and external. Diverse cultural traditions are also considered in relation to one another: by direct comparison of works even in the absence of historical cultural contact; by consideration of mutual interactions, exchanges and contestations; by the assertion of cultural dominance; and by resistance to such assertions.
Art and Cultures towards the Crossroads (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ACC-UF 102-000 (12603)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Benninger, Elizabeth
ACC-UF 102-000 (12798)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bishop, Kathleen
ACC-UF 102-000 (12604)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by McCannon, Afrodesia
ACC-UF 102-000 (12605)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Newman, Roberta
ACC-UF 102-000 (12606)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reichert, Martin
ACC-UF 102-000 (12821)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Steen, John
ACC-UF 102-000 (12608)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Simard, Jared
ACC-UF 102-000 (12822)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reale, Nancy
ACC-UF 102-000 (12609)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bishop, Kathleen
ACC-UF 102-000 (12610)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Simard, Jared
ACC-UF 102-000 (12612)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Varnum, Joan
ACC-UF 102-000 (12823)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Newman, Roberta
ACC-UF 102-000 (12824)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Krimper, Michael
ACC-UF 102-000 (12614)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lee, Elizabeth
ACC-UF 102-000 (12714)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brosh, Liora
ACC-UF 102-000 (12615)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tharoor, Tilottama
ACC-UF 102-000 (12616)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karbiener, Karen
ACC-UF 102-000 (12617)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Varnum, Joan
ACC-UF 102-000 (12618)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reynolds, Thomas
ACC-UF 102-000 (12619)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karbiener, Karen
ACC-UF 102-000 (12825)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Culver, Brian
ACC-UF 102-000 (12621)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Odnopozova, Dina
ACC-UF 102-000 (12700)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reynolds, Thomas
ACC-UF 102-000 (12623)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Masri, Heather
ACC-UF 102-000 (12624)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brosh, Liora
ACC-UF 102-000 (12625)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by McCannon, Afrodesia
ACC-UF 102-000 (12626)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Masri, Heather
ACC-UF 102-000 (12724)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Simard, Jared
ACC-UF 102-000 (12627)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reale, Nancy
ACC-UF 102-000 (12726)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Culver, Brian
ACC-UF 102-000 (12745)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Chapin, Peter
ACC-UF 102-000 (12746)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Olivas, Yvonne
ACC-UF 102-000 (12862)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karbiener, Karen
ACC-UF 102-000 (12863)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Benninger, Elizabeth
ACC-UF 102-000 (12864)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lee, Elizabeth
ACC-UF 102-000 (12607)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by McCannon, Afrodesia
ACC-UF 102-000 (12613)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reale, Nancy
ACC-UF 102-000 (12620)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reichert, Martin
ACC-UF 102-000 (12622)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Masri, Heather
ACC-UF 102-000 (12826)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reichert, Martin
Arts and Cultures across Antiquity (ACA-UF 101)
This course introduces the arts from their origins to the end of antiquity, as defined for these purposes by the roughly coincident dissolutions of the Gupta, Han, and Western Roman empires, focusing on how individuals and social relations are shaped in literature, the visual, plastic, and performing arts, and through music. Conceptions of the divine, the heroic, power and disenfranchisement, beauty, and love are examined within the context of the art and literature of East and South Asia, the Mediterranean world, and contiguous regions (such as Germania, Nubia, and Mesopotamia). Instructors prepare the way for Cultural Foundations II by giving some attention to the modes by which cultural transmission occurred across these regions prior to the rise of Islam.
Art and Cultures across Antiquity (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ACA-UF 101-000 (12767)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Doubrovskaia, Maria
ACA-UF 101-000 (12768)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Boisvere, Joseph
ACA-UF 101-000 (12769)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Stokes, Matthew
ACA-UF 101-000 (12855)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fleming, Benjamin
ACA-UF 101-000 (12785)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hsieh, Yu-Yun
ACA-UF 101-000 (12856)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Braico, Giovanni
ACA-UF 101-000 (12801)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Omid, Mehrgan
ACA-UF 101-000 (12802)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Stokes, Matthew
ACA-UF 101-000 (12857)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Braico, Giovanni
ACA-UF 101-000 (12858)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kertz, Lydia
ACA-UF 101-000 (12859)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Boisvere, Joseph
ACA-UF 101-000 (12860)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hsieh, Yu-Yun
ACA-UF 101-000 (12861)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Reynolds, Thomas
From Polenta to Marinara: History of Italian Food (FOOD-UE 1052)
In this course we will cover the varieties of Italian food in their past and present forms. First, we will explore the history of food from past civilizations, leading up to World War I, just after the great immigration to the New World. Time periods examined will be ancient Rome, Medieval, Renaissance, Risorgimento, leading to the modern era. This course includes topics ranging from Pellegrino Artusi’s famous cookbook in the contest of Italian unification to the relationship between Italian Futurism and food. The second part of the course will introduce students to the regional diversity of Italian food using mediums such as TV, art, and film. We will examine the ways in which food shapes contemporary Italian society, from the more intimate family kitchen to the most elegant Italian restaurant in New York City.
Food Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2024)
FOOD-UE 1052-000 (10587)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Scarcella Perino, Roberto
Race and Inequality: Advancing Equity through Policy and Practice (APSY-UE 1273)
This course shines a bright light on racial inequality in the United States by focusing on structural disparities in key areas of American life: Income, wealth and employment; the right to vote, health and wellbeing, education and juvenile justice. Vanguard leaders from across NYU and across fields of Law, Public Health and Allied Health fields, Education, Social Work, and Public Policy provide insights on key scholarly and community-based frameworks they use to confront problems of inequality in the United States. They share their expertise in designing and implementing policy solutions that offer the promise of a more equitable future.
Applied Psychology (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks
Writing the Visual (WRTNG-UG 1531)
How does language make us see? From petroglyphs to internet memes, there are many points of intersection between written and visual modes of communication. This multigenre creative writing workshop begins with a close examination of literary images. Through a mix of creative writing assignments and readings, students identify and practice techniques by which writers have rendered the visual in language; explore ekphrasis (that is, literary descriptions of and responses to works of art); experiment with the wide array of traditions in which text and image are combined (e.g. concrete poetry, collaged text, and the comic panel); respond to visual arts that use language as a primary medium; and consider description as deception. At the heart of this course are fundamental questions of representation. What besides visual content do literary images offer? What are the mechanics of description, and what aesthetic and ethical questions can it pose for writers? Readings include works by Virginia Woolf, John Keene, Marjane Satrapi, Anne Carson, and Robin Coste Lewis, among others.
Advanced Writing Courses (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
WRTNG-UG 1531-000 (13431)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Paty, Allyson
Conservation Biology in Practice: Solutions for People and Nature (PRACT-UG 1550)
The past century of exponential population growth, infrastructure development, and inequitable resource uses has stressed nature”s systems to dangerous levels. We are losing cultural and biological diversity at unprecedented rates, and these threats are compounded by the associated challenges from severely disrupted climate systems. This Gallatin practicum will provide students with a forum to develop a cross-disciplinary 21st Century nature conservation toolkit – one that can create cutting-edge strategies to reduce the risks to species and ecosystem, adapt to a changing climate, and produce a healthier relationship to nature. Students will work in teams to select a site-based project from a menu of real-world options, and then design practical and achievable solutions to these risks and challenges.We will use tools from biology, earth sciences, anthropology, social psychology, economics, and business to determine the cause, magnitude, and urgency of risks. Each student team will then combine the results from these scientific and financial assessments with the skills, power, and insights from the arts and communication media to plan and implement practical conservation solutions, tell the story of conservation needs, and build commitment to get the work done.
Practicum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
PRACT-UG 1550-000 (10413)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Mon3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tolisano, James
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
Art and Archaeology of Race in Ancient Mediterranean (IDSEM-UG 2132)
The goals of this course are twofold. First, students will learn about conceptions of race and ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world (inclusive of North Africa and West Asia) through select examples of ancient art and texts. The course examines how racial and ethnic differences were conceptualized in the ancient world, while also considering the processes of racial formation in the context of ancient empires and kingdoms. Second, students will examine the ways that the study of the art, archaeology, and culture of the ancient Mediterranean has impacted modern/contemporary formations of race. Archaeological and historical disciplines centering around the ancient Mediterranean world (e.g. Classics, Egyptology, ‘Near Eastern’ Studies) have developed alongside western imperial projects and the construction of monuments to white supremacy in the United States. Redressing these histories, artists and writers of color (e.g. Edmonia Lewis, Yayoi Kusama, Kandis Williams, Fred Wilson) have likewise engaged with ancient art and myth in order to problematize and resist such racist legacies. In this seminar, students will become familiar with a range of primary source material alongside secondary sources that theorize and engage with race from different disciplines. The course will provide students with premodern, historical perspectives on race, illuminating the aesthetic, cultural, and political strategies by which power was distributed and administered along racial lines. Furthermore, students will learn about the stakes of studying the ancient world for contemporary debates around race.
Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
IDSEM-UG 2132-000 (10478)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kim, Patricia
The Novel and Society: Victorian Secrets (IDSEM-UG 1726)
In the twenty-first century, the Internet arguably makes secrecy impossible, but the exposure of secrets is already an important theme in many 19th-century British novels. In part, this reflects a society in which identity seems increasingly malleable through greater social class mobility, the questioning of traditional gender roles, and imperialist opportunities. In these novels, fake identities conceal a murderer and a madwoman, among others. And the societal constraints inspiring the fictional secrets also led the authors to keep secrets of their own. Beloved author Charles Dickens, the father of 10, had a 13-year love affair with a woman who was 18 when they met. But does the novel genre, particularly the “realist” Victorian novel, with its emphasis on an omniscient narrator and intersecting plots, have a special relationship to secrets? We attempt to uncover the answer by studying Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte (1847), Great Expectations (1861), by Charles Dickens, George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-2), and Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). Theory and criticism include selections from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
IDSEM-UG 1726-000 (10251)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Wed2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Foley, June
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
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
Intro to Foods and Food Science (NUTR-UE 85)
Introduction to the foods of various world regions and the techniques used to prepare them through hand-on food preparation, demonstrations, lectures and field trips.
Nutrition & Dietetics (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
NUTR-UE 85-000 (10938)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mortillaro, Lourdes
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12408)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12409)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12410)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12411)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (11672)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12412)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12413)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
NUTR-UE 85-000 (12414)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Chatbots for Art’s Sake (IMNY-UT 233)
This class looks at the chatbot as a unique medium of art in the context of the bigger art world and the current landscape of chatbot technologies. Students will engage in discussions about topics such as humanity under machine mediation, experiment with various computational tools, and develop creative projects using chatbot technologies.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
IMNY-UT 233-000 (21998)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Mon,Wed10:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Wang, Carrie
Paper Art: History & Practice (IMNY-UT 246)
Beginning with the invention of paper, the paper craft movement has roots on all continents. This course is divided into several subject areas: the history of paper and paper making, paper folding, paper cutting, paper engineering, paper automata, and the contemporary DIY electronics and paper craft moment. Each subject area has associated readings, a short research presentation on international traditions and forms, several hands-on mechanical exercises, and one individual creative exercise.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 7 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
IMNY-UT 246-000 (21988)03/24/2023 – 05/05/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Petit, Marianne
Introduction to Mindful Product Management (IMBX-SHU 254)
Technology products and services are increasingly a huge part of how businesses reach their end-customer and Product Managers (PMs) are the ones to lead teams to build software that solve real problems. This course is designed as an introduction course of how PMs do this across a variety of contexts to evaluate customer needs, translate needs into functional requirements, prioritize different aspects of development, work with cross-functional teams, launch a product and create a holistic vision of how customers experience the product. This course will focus on lectures, discussions, case-studies and hands-on exercises that replicate a typical product process at a startup, tech or non-tech company. This course equips students with the mindset, tools, frameworks to mindfully discover, design and build things that make an impact and meet the needs of real humans. We will cover both core product thinking, and also how to translate that into practical ways to make decisions and build great products. Prerequisite: None Fulfillment: Interactive Media Business Elective ; Interactive Media Arts Elective
Interactive Media and Business (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
IMBX-SHU 254-000 (20028)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Thu9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Wang, Nicole
A.rt I.ntel (IM-UH 3312)
Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms affect many aspects of our lives whether we realize it or not: banking transactions, healthcare treatments and diagnoses, entertainment recommendations, smart car functionality, customer service agents, financial trading… the list goes on and on. The power of these algorithms lies in their ability to leverage computers to “study” and “learn”. Instead of programming a computer to do a specific task, we program the computer to train and teach itself how to do any number of tasks. As artists, how can we harness the power of these algorithms and apply them towards creative endeavors? This class will explore that basic question. Through a combination of high level applied machine learning techniques, speculative design of artificial intelligence, and some basic understanding of how these algorithms work at a low level, students will explore this rich new field. With their machine counterparts, they will create images, sounds, text, intuitive interactions, chatbots, and more.
Interactive Media (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Applied Data Science (CUSP-GX 6001)
This course equips students with the skills and tools necessary to address applied data science problems with a specific emphasis on urban data. Building on top of the Principles of Urban Informatics (prerequisite for the class) it further introduces a wide variety of more advanced analytic techniques used in urban data science, including advanced regression analysis, time-series analysis, Bayesian inference, foundations of deep learning and network science. The course will also contain a team data analytics project practice. After this class the students should be able to formulate a question relevant to urban data science, find and curate an appropriate data set, identify and apply analytic approaches to answer the question, obtain the answer and interpret it with respect to its certainty level as well as the limitations of the approach and the data.
Ctr for Urban Sci and Progress (Graduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
CUSP-GX 6001-000 (7539)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Sobolevsky, Stanislav
CUSP-GX 6001-000 (7540)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Thu5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Sobolevsky, Stanislav
Data Visualization (CUSP-GX 6006)
Visualization and visual analytics systems help people explore and explain data by allowing the creation of both static and interactive visual representations. A basic premise of visualization is that visual information can be processed at a much higher rate than raw numbers and text. Well-designed visualizations substitute perception for cognition, freeing up limited cognitive/memory resources for higher-level problems. This course aims to provide a broad understanding of the principals and designs behind data visualization. General topics include state-of-the-art techniques in both information visualization and scientific visualization, and the design of interactive/web-based visualization systems. Hands on experience will be provided through popular frameworks such as matplotlib, VTK and D3.js.
Ctr for Urban Sci and Progress (Graduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
CUSP-GX 6006-000 (7543)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Wed8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Sun, Qi
50 Days of Making (ITPG-GT 2337)
50 Days of Making is a 1.0 unit online course that offers students the opportunity to pursue a creative passion and develop or refine a skill over a 50-day period. Students choose a topic of interest and produce an expression of that topic every day for 50 days. For examples of past projects from the 100-days version of the class see here: https://itp.nyu.edu/classes/100days/. This course will meet four times on a bi-weekly basis over the course of the 1st 7-weeks of the term (every other week). Class time is spent discussing student progress and reflecting on students’ creative journey. Note that this class is a heavy lift for 1.0 unit, so only committed students should consider registering for it. Failure to complete the 50-day challenge may result in an incomplete grade for the course.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
1 credits – 8 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
ITPG-GT 2337-000 (22313)01/26/2023 – 03/09/2023 Thu6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Ceballos Delgado, Paula
Making Webisodes (OART-GT 2569)
Making Webisodes is an intensive production workshop in which students create unique and compelling content for the web. Students will explore the basics of online video production, working with – concept creation – writing – directing – acting – production design – camerawork – sound – editing – online distribution – social media – web monetization – and advertising. Web series are an exploding new art form. Embedded ads, 5 second hooks, instagram stories, tik-tok, and viral videos all present a variety of new media approaches within the entertainment industry, business, lifestyle, and politics. Webisodes are short visual presentations that either entertain us, directly sell us product, indirectly sell us product, share a powerful message, investigate social issues, expose problems, celebrate joy, engage our perspective, shock us, or challenge us. Students will work with Sony FS5 cameras, microphones, and LED lights and they will also be trained to use their own dslrs and cellphones, in order to practice creating a wide variety of webisodes. Workshop assignments employ practical exercises to help the students conceive and create their own unique webisode, which can be fiction or non-fiction, experimental or satire, personal or political. Combining the powerful tools of traditional filmmaking with innovative new digital media tools, this class guides students to create dynamic web based projects. As the students produce their digital media, they learn by doing and they gain practical knowledge of the art, craft, and commerce of webisodes.
Open Arts Curriculum (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
OART-GT 2569-000 (7249)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Tue5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Tunnicliffe, William
Computer Ethics (STS-UY 2524)
Using a case study approach, this course explores the issues of professional and technological ethics especially as it pertains to networked computers in a global setting. The course will begin with the appropriate ethical codes of the professional societies, including the code of ethics for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) but also codes in other areas such as finance and medicine. The mandates and expectations of the codes will be interpreted from varying perspectives and will be applied concretely to the specifics of the cases under consideration. Ethical issues will be approached in a manner similar to that of engineering problems and students will be expected to show a step-by-step process for the resolution of actual and potential ethical conflict. The technique of “line drawing” will be used to exhibit the alternatives and to help justify the ultimate decision made. In addition to video lectures Power Point charts, and notes the course teaching techniques will employ social media (“Google “) to create a class community, “NYU Classes” to present texts and case studies, built-in assessment tools to permit student dialogue and debate on assigned topics. These online tools do not demand excessive bandwidth and can be used in both synchronous and asynchronous settings.
Science and Technology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
STS-UY 2524-000 (16270)at ePolyInstructed by Silberman, Jared
Digital Sculpting for Facial Animation (INTM-SHU 284)
This course emphasizes on the 3D animation through digital modeling / sculpting techniques, keyframe and blend-shape animation . The course breaks down into 4 stages : 1. basic topology of head model, 2. high-poly sculpting and projection texturing, 3. Keyframe and blend-shapes animation, 4. 3D animation final project. In the final project, students get to choose either lip-sync animation or conceptual piece utilizing the created head models. An overview of digital editing / compositing and sound design will also be introduced to assist with students’ final project at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: IMA/IMB elective.
Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
INTM-SHU 284-000 (20474)01/30/2023 – 05/12/2023 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Chen, Wu Wei
Youth Media and Social Change (MCC-UE 1017)
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Basic Practice of Statistics for Social Science (MA-UY 2414)
We are inundated by data, but data alone do not translate into useful information. Statistics provides the means for organizing, summarizing, and therefore better analyzing data so that we can understand what the data tell us about critical questions. If one collects data then understanding how to use statistical methods is critical, but it is also necessary to understand and interpret all the information we consume on a daily basis. This course provides these basic statistical approaches and techniques. This course may not be acceptable as a substitute for any other Probability and Statistics course. For Sustainable Urban Environments (SUE) students, please see your advisor. Note: Not open to math majors or students who have taken or will take MA-UY 2054 or MA-UY 2224 or MA-UY 3014 or MA-UY 3514 or ECE-UY 2233 or equivalent.
Mathematics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
MA-UY 2414-000 (9798)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Tue,Thu4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Spizzirri, NIcholas
Integrated Calculus I for Engineers (MA-UY 1324)
This course covers: Library of Functions, functions of one variable. Limits, derivatives of functions defined by graphs, tables and formulas, differentiation rules for power, polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions, derivatives of trigonometric functions, the product and quotient rules, the chain rule, applications of the chain rule, maxima and minima, optimization. The definite integral, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and interpretations, theorems about definite integrals, anti-derivatives. MA-UY 1324 is for students who wish to take MA-UY 1024 but need more review of precalculus. MA-UY 1324 covers the same material as MA-UY 1024 but with more contact hours per week, incorporating a full discussion of the required precalculus topics. | Prerequisite: Placement Exam or MA-UY 912 or MA-UY 914. Corequisite: EX-UY 1.
Mathematics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2024)
MA-UY 1324-000 (3727)05/20/2024 – 07/02/2024 Mon,Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Prabhu, Vaishali
Integrated Calculus II for Engineers (MA-UY 1424)
This course MA-UY 1424 is for students who wish to take MA-UY 1124 but need more review of precalculus. MA-UY 1424 covers the same material as MA-UY 1124 but with more contact hours a week, incorporating a full discussion of the required precalculus topics. | Prerequisites: MA-UY 1022 or MA-UY 1024 or MA-UY 1324. Note: credit for this course may be used to satisfy the minimum credit requirement for graduation. Corequisite: EX-UY 1
Mathematics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2024)
MA-UY 1424-000 (3745)05/20/2024 – 07/02/2024 Mon,Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Van Wagenen, Lindsey
MA-UY 1424-000 (3746)07/03/2024 – 08/15/2024 Mon,Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Gbedemah, Amakoe
Geographic Information Systems (URB-UY 2114)
Geographic Information Systems are computer systems for the storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of geographic data, that is data about features and phenomena on the surface of the earth. This course will introduce the students to GIS through hands-on computer exercises, as well as readings and lectures about cartography, tools, data, and the social impacts of GIS. GIS projects start with data and move through analysis to cartographic display. Pedagogically, we will be starting at the end moving backward to data and analysis. | Note: This course cannot be used to satisfy Humanities/Social Science requirements for majors outside of the TCS department. | Prerequisite: EXPOS-UA 1 or EXPOS-UA 4
Urban Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
URB-UY 2114-000 (21070)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mistry, Himanshu
Homemade Hardware (ITPG-GT 2767)
Hardware is not hard, and rapidly prototyping circuit boards is easier than ever with new tools available at ITP. Students will learn how to grow from a breadboard to a custom surface mount board, all without leaving the floor. This class is about artists and designers taking control of their hardware, and exploring the potential of embedding their projects into the world around them. Students will learn the multitude of tools and processes required to make a DIY circuit board. These include Eagle CAD, micro-milling machines, drawing schematics, ordering parts, surface-mount components, acid etching, solder paste and stenciling, reflow, pick-and-place, and others. In-class demonstrations will be done for each of the above, and students will complete assignments using online reference notes and videos. Two smaller projects and one final project will be assigned (3 total), each a circuit of the student’s’ choosing. These three assignments will be designed to work off the most recently taught subjects, and to get the students to fail early. It’s a lot of new material to be learning across multiple domains, so the students will need the entire semester to iterate.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2024)
ITPG-GT 2767-000 (14754)01/26/2024 – 05/03/2024 Fri9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Sigler, Andrew
Crime, Violence and Media (MCC-UE 9012)
Debates about the role of crime in the media have been among the most sustained and divisive in the field of communications, and they are dependent on a foundation of equally divisive debates about “media influence.” This course will broaden this discussion to consider the culture of crime in relation to conventions of news and entertainment in the mass media, and its larger social and political context. Topics will include crime reporting, the role of place in crime stories, the aesthetics of crime, moral panics and fears, crime and consumer culture, and the social construction of different kinds of crimes and criminals.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MCC-UE 9012-000 (12446)01/26/2023 – 05/05/2023 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by Wallace, Aurora
Censorship in American Culture (MCC-UE 1010)
An upper level course on the topic of censorship in American culture, from the late 19th century to the present. The course explores many of the areas where debates about obscenity and censorship have been urgently contested, from discussion bout birth control, to literature, film, theatre, art galleries and history museums, to public sidewalks, lecture halls, and the internet. The goal is for the students to have an enhanced understanding of the historical contexts in which important cultural and legal struggles over censorship have taken place, and to bring that understanding to bear on contemporary debates about the arts, sexuality, national security, media technology, privacy, and government involvement in the marketplace of ideas and images.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
MCC-UE 1010-000 (22145)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gary, Brett
Law and Society (SOC-UA 413)
Sociological perspectives on law and legal institutions: the meaning and complexity of legal issues; the relation between law and social change; the effects of law; uses of law to overcome social disadvantage. Topics: ?limits of law,? legal disputes and the courts, regulation, comparative legal systems, legal education, organization of legal work, and lawyers? careers.
Sociology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
SOC-UA 413-000 (9101)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 413-000 (9102)at Washington SquareInstructed by
SOC-UA 413-000 (9103)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Digital Media Theory & Practice (MCC-UE 1031)
This course offers students a foundational understanding of the technological building blocks that make up digital media & culture, & of the ways they come together to shape myriad facets of life. Students will acquire a working knowledge of the key concepts behind coding, & survey the contours of digital media architecture, familiarizing themselves with algorithms, databases, hardware, & similar key components. These technological frameworks will be examined as the basic grammar of digital media & related to theories of identity, privacy, policy, & other pertinent themes.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
MCC-UE 1031-000 (11229)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bianco, Jamie
Media, Technology and Society (MCC-UE 1034)
An inquiry into the ways that technology — mechanical, electronic, analog, and digital — shapes and is shaped by cultural, political, and social values. Students become acquainted with key concepts and approaches to understanding the interplay of technology and society (e.g. technological determinism, social construction of technology, actor networks, affordances) and how these have been applied to such cases as the clock, the automobile, the assembly line, household technology, the telephone, and more recent communication technology.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2023)
MCC-UE 1034-000 (21952)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
3D for Interactive Applications (DM-UY 4133)
In this course students will build form the skills they learned in 3D Modeling and 3D Animation to produce 3D for Interactive Applications. Projects may be geared to scientific, engineering or entertainment applications according to individual skills and professional aspirations. | Prerequisites: DM-UY 2133
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2023)
DM-UY 4133-000 (16649)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by McDevitt, Bernard
Experimental Game Narratives (DM-UY 4153)
How do games tell stories? How can we move beyond the traditional narrative in games? Is there a more holistic approach that embeds the story deeply into the interaction? In this class, students will begin to answer these questions by analyzing games and developing their own experimental narrative games. | Prerequisite: DM-UY 2153
Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
DM-UY 4153-000 (8799)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pizza, Toni
Art & Public Policy All School Seminar: (ASPP-UT 1000)
In many political movements, the festive emerges as a major force shaping alternative social practices, forms of gathering, being together, and moving together. These alternative modes of being in collectivity are actively redefining the political. This sense of collectivity becomes particularly evident in the aesthetics of the Global South and its Diasporas. Consequently, this course explores the festive’s role in forming political movements beyond the traditional scope that reduces it to a simple byproduct of social life. It also explores how the pandemic has forced us to reimagine what coming together means. Taking Latin American and Caribbean aesthetics as an initial case, this seminar engages in a detailed interpretation of performances that challenge traditional definitions of both the festive and the political. A wide range of performance practices, such as carnival parties, sound systems, cabaret shows, popular dance styles, artworks, organized slave riots, and indigenous uprisings, shape the modes students will engage in theory and practice. For this course iteration, we will focus on questions around Black and Indigenous relations to carnival performance, structures of mutual aid as festive practice, and how they enact utopian modes of communal life, and how these modes of communal life redefine current understandings of art and politics. The class involves field trips, visits to several performance events, and conversations with artists and organizers who use the festive as a political tool to engage in political action in NYC. Questions regarding race, gender, and class will be directed to the philosophical, anthropological, and historical texts paying close attention to their involvement in the formation of colonial oppression. Performance studies’ methodologies will serve as the guiding mode to articulate these questions.
Ctr for Art, Society & Pub Pol (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2025)
ASPP-UT 1000-000 (14834)01/21/2025 – 05/06/2025 Wed10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Engel, Kathy
Smartphone Cinema: Capturing your Paris Story (CINE-UT 9566)
Students conceive, produce, direct, and edit a short film exploring the Paris experience with smartphone technology. A survey of cellphone cinema history leads to the study of visual storytelling principles and techniques, which students apply through practical exercises. Choosing among available short film genres (experimental, documentary, portrait, essay, fiction), students are trained through every stage of the movie making process: pitching the idea, scripting and storyboarding, shooting, and editing. Each student finishes the course with a facility in smartphone video technology as well as a coherent film record of his or her particular vision of Paris.
Cinema Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2023)
CINE-UT 9566-000 (4455)