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Fall 2024

Multi-Faith Leadership in the 21 Century (UPADM-GP 254)

In the context of an increasingly polarized American society, this course seeks to train students to mobilize diverse faith communities together for the greater good. Unleashing the power of their own story, students will articulate their values and explore the ways it can be shared. The course will draw on case studies from historical and contemporary faith leaders who have achieved success in creating sustainable change, as well as interrogating relevant current affairs as they arise. Students will learn to recognize how stories are used to motivate action, to recognize the ways that race, power and privilege play a role in elevating and downplaying stories and to identify the role values play in motivating action.

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

Sections (Fall 2024)

UPADM-GP 254-000 (16570)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Garbell, Chelsea · Dunkley, Brandon

Graduate Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences
Fall 2024

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

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

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

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

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate
Fall 2024

Advanced Lab: Mixed Reality and Cultural Heritage (INTM-SHU 308)

This course offers an experience with the intersection of technology and culture through collaborative teaching offered by faculty from Interactive Media Arts (IMA) and Global China Studies(GCS). Throughout the semester, students will dive into the world of Mixed Reality (MR) design, mastering space scanning technology, documenting historical sites, and conducting in-depth historical research. Students will use Unity, a cross-platform game engine, to craft immersive MR experiences that bring historical narratives to life. What sets this course apart is the real-world testing component, where students will refine their designs at actual historical sites. By the end, students will produce a digital immersive time-travel architecture, creating MR experiences that bring cultural heritage to life for modern audiences. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Fulfillment: IMA Advanced Elective; IMB IMA/IMB elective; GCS Elective: Media, Arts, and Literature.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

INTM-SHU 308-000 (5223)09/02/2024 – 12/13/2024 Tue2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Zhang, Xingchen · Zuo, Lala

IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate

Asian/American Labor: Past, Present, and Future (IDSEM-UG 2923)

This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the role of labor in the making of Asian America. Much of the course will connect the past to the present, paying close attention to historical analyses and community-engaged research. Using a site-based approach, this course will use our surroundings in New York City, to investigate Asian American labor. Each week, we will study interdisciplinary themes around work as it relates to Asian communities, such as “food and migration,” “race-making in New York’s nail salons,” “care work,” etc. Through close readings and film screenings, we will discuss the ways in which laboring Asian Americans have organized, resisted, created, and mobilized from the bottom-up, challenging their bosses and the state. How have Asian/American workers shaped, pushed back against, and transformed New York? How can we understand racial formation and immigration in New York’s labor movements? And what about transnational contexts? Through discussions of the readings and films, we will reflect questions that unpack “work” and “labor.” Students will study and write OpEds, making arguments with evidence to comment about the past, present, and future of Asian/American labor. Texts by scholars of Asian American Studies and labor histories, such as Lisa Lowe, Vivek Bald, and Miliann Kang, will guide students and encourage their writing. Film screenings will include From Spikes to Spindles (1976) and Nailed It (2019), which capture the stories of garment and nail salon workers (respectively), to facilitate our discussions about Asian/American labor studies.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

IDSEM-UG 2923-000 (9718)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bae, Minju

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate

Intro to Television Writing (FMTV-UT 1017)

This course, aimed at second semester sophomores, is the launch pad of Television Writing in the department. Before taking any other TV writing courses, students must take Introduction To Television Writing. The course will introduce sophomores interested in TV writing to all aspects of what goes into the creation of a script for a TV program. It is also recommended for non-writers who wish to learn the fundamentals of TV writing as preparation for creating shows and working with writers. The course will also prepare students for other TV-writing courses in the departmental Television Progression. The course is also open to seniors with an interest in television writing who haven’t taken other TV writing courses. This course allocates as Film & TV, Scriptwriting for Film & TV majors.

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Fall 2025 Fall 2026 General Elective Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Summer 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2024

Asian American Literature (SCA-UA 306)

This overview begins with the recovery of early writings during the 1960s-1970s and proceeds to the subsequent production of Asian American writing and literary/cultural criticism up to the present. The course focuses on significant factors affecting the formation of Asian American literature and criticism, such as changing demographics of Asian American communities and the influence of ethnic, women?s, and gay/lesbian/bisexual studies. Included in the course is a variety of genres (poetry, plays, fiction and nonfiction, literary/cultural criticism) by writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The course explores the ways in which the writers treat issues such as racial/ethnic identity; immigration and assimilation; gender; class; sexuality; nationalism; culture and community; history and memory; and art and political engagement.

Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

SCA-UA 306-000 (22140)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Parikh, Crystal

Texts and Ideas Undergraduate
Fall 2024

Love and Relationships (UNDSW-US 90)

In this course, we will explore different types and aspects of love and relationships and examine how our lived experiences, identities, worldviews, and sense of curiosity influence how we encounter, make sense of, and respond to love. While there is no greater determinant of happiness and health than our access to and engagement in loving and healthy relationships, our questions and dilemmas about how to define what love is, how to choose the “right” people to experience it with, and how to develop and maintain satisfying relationships persist. Though these core questions and challenges are undoubtedly centuries-old, the nature and complexity of them continue to evolve over time and many of their “answers” and “solutions” remain elusive. The primary objective of this course is to engage you in a process of inquiry and self-examination, critical dialogue, and reflection about your own ideas, beliefs, values, and experiences with love and relationships. Together, through your engagement with the course materials and our group discussions, we will wrestle with the following questions, share ideas, and generate possible answers (and likely more questions!): * Where do our ideas, beliefs and assumptions about love come from? How have they changed over time? * What determines or influences one’s capacity to give and receive love? Are these capacities different and/or related? * How do societal and cultural influences help or hinder our freedom and ability to love well and be loved? * What happens to us biologically, emotionally, and psychologically, when we are in love? * What determines satisfaction, resiliency, and longevity in relationships? How does this change across the lifespan? * What enables some to heal and move on after heartbreak, loss, or betrayal? * How do you want to show up differently in your relationships? What/Who might help you do so?

Undergrad Social Work (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

UNDSW-US 90-000 (16281)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Michaels, Vera

UNDSW-US 90-000 (16282)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Thu4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cosse, Jackie

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate
Fall 2024

Elemen French Level I (FREN-UA 1)

Open to students with no previous training in French and to others on assignment by placement test. Not equivalent to FREN-UA 10. Only by combining FREN-UA 1 with FREN-UA 2 can a student complete the equivalent of FREN-UA 10 and then continue on to the intermediate level. Offered every semester. 4 points.

French (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)

FREN-UA 1-000 (14352)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mercuri, Francesco

FREN-UA 1-000 (14353)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Rogulski, Audrey

FREN-UA 1-000 (14354)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fishman, Helen

FREN-UA 1-000 (14355)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ait Jafour, Samira

FREN-UA 1-000 (14356)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gunter, Wesley

FREN-UA 1-000 (14357)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gunter, Wesley

FREN-UA 1-000 (14358)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Aceves, Luis

FREN-UA 1-000 (14359)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Verneret, Nina

FREN-UA 1-000 (14360)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Verneret, Nina

FREN-UA 1-000 (14361)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Neal, Rhea

FREN-UA 1-000 (14362)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mena Serrania, Alejandra

FREN-UA 1-000 (14363)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Tue,Thu,Fri3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sellami, Hayet

FREN-UA 1-000 (24247)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon,Wed,Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Jones, Steven

General Elective Undergraduate

Advanced Coding Workshop (MCC-UE 1154)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu

Project-based course designed to guide students through three advanced projects: data visualization with APIs, games that communicate specific experiences, and cooperative networked interactions where two users work together to achieve a common goal. Each project is split into 3-4 weeks, so students have ample time to thoughtfully design a program, think through the technical architecture, develop it, and iterate based on in-class feedback.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Topics in ITP (ITPG-GT 2379)

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This course will cover a variety of academic topics within the field of Interactive Telecommunications. For further details, please refer to the individual class section notes and topic subtitle.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Graduate IMA Electives Spring 2026
Fall 2024

What Really Matters? Leadership with No Regrets (UPADM-GP 260)

In study after study, people lying on their deathbeds overwhelmingly say they regret five things at their end of their life: 1. Not living a life of authenticity 2. Working too hard at the expense of their relationships 3. Not having the courage to express their feelings 4. Not staying in touch with friends. 5. Not letting themselves be happier. For leaders, it’s not any different. This course unpacks each of these “regrets” with readings, exercises, meditation, deep listening, skill development and leadership theory, examining historical and contemporary answers to the question of what really matters in life, and providing the space for students to grapple with the question themselves.

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

Sections (Fall 2024)

UPADM-GP 260-000 (16579)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Latif, Khalid · Shy, Yael

UPADM-GP 260-000 (16580)09/03/2024 – 12/12/2024 Mon12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Latif, Khalid · Shy, Yael

General Elective Graduate

Food, Culture & Globalization: London (FOOD-UE 9184)

Credits: 2
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon
Credits: 2
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon

This course investigates current transformations in the food systems and cultures of London under conditions of globalization. A people’s diet is dependent on their geography, although no people on earth eat everything edible in their environment, and they seek distant stimulants that their locales cannot support. Through lectures, readings, field trips students will master established facts and concepts about contemporary urban food cultures and produce new knowledge of the same.

Food Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2026 Undergraduate

The Contemporary Literature Lab (ENGL-UA 9995)

Credits: 2
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Wed

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

English (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 General Elective Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Seeing London’s Architecture (ARTH-UA 9674)

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

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

Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Spring 2024

Cities and Citizenship: Readings in Global Urbanism (IDSEM-UG 1880)

Cities have long been viewed as the crucible of citizenship. “But over the last few decades, the rapid urbanization of the global South has recalibrated Western derived models of cities and citizenship. “This course draws on interdisciplinary readings from urban studies, geography, anthropology, and history to grapple with this global “urban revolution.” Rejecting the language of crisis, chaos, and exception that is so often used to characterize cities in the global South, it will provide theoretically informed perspectives on social, cultural, and political life in rapidly urbanizing places throughout the postcolonial world. Attention will be paid to histories and legacies of colonialism alongside novel forms of governance and claims to the city. “Though focused primarily on cities in the global South, the class is intended to probe how these cities reconfigure conventional understandings of being a citizen in the city (anywhere), and will also examine the global South within the “North”. “Topics may include the rights to the city, infrastructure and planning, gentrification, political ecologies, technologies of rule, informality and slum upgrading, and urban social movements. “”Selected authors may include Ananya Roy, James Holston, Mamadou Diouf, Nikhil Anand, and AbdouMaliq Simone.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2024)

IDSEM-UG 1880-000 (12439)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fredericks, Rosalind

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate

Intro to Urban Agriculture (FOOD-UE 1030)

Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed
Credits: 2
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed

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

Food Studies (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 General Elective Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Innovations in Arts Publications (ARTS-UG 1655)

The ever-inventive world of arts publications encompasses a dazzling range of subjects, mediums, materials, and methods: from ancient illuminated manuscripts, political manifestos, and one-of-a-kind artists books to high-end glossies, handmade zines, posters and print multiples to the infinite possibilities of the digital realm. This workshop will introduce and explore many of these forms through guest lecturers, field trips to specialized collections and museums, directed readings, and hands-on work, which will culminate in final group and individual projects. Readings may include Posters: A Global History; Action Time Vision; and Design: the Invention of Desire.

Arts Workshops (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ARTS-UG 1655-000 (9415)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Friedman, Lise

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate
Spring 2024

Experiments in Collective Joy (OART-UT 18)

How do ants or bees organize on a mass scale when their individual brains are incapable of understanding the bigger systems they’re creating together? How did a Twitch hive-mind of 1.2 million people beat Pokémon one collective move at a time? How do we make art that makes us and our audience feel more connected, more alive, more powerful? This hands-on project studio course is about making art where participants are the medium, and the masterpiece created exists inside and between them. Let’s explore community and its connection to transformational, radical joy — not complacent happiness, but a joy that is the feeling of power, agency, and capacity growing within us and within the people around us as we cooperate to overcome shared challenges. Which systems and forms of art, play, and expression foster that kind of joy? This course is heavy on imagination, vulnerability, reading, discussion, experimentation, playtesting, and interactive group activities. Each week explores the relationship of the individual to the group under various lenses and spheres of life (i.e. politics, religion, activism, evolutionary biology, sociology, pleasure, the universe, sports, games, childhood, etc.). Then together, we break down the relationships, dynamics, and effects those systems have, and create multi-media prototypes and performance experiments inspired by these themes and ideas. The early assignments are solo, and then almost all assignments are in groups. The core process of the class uses iterative game design as a structure for ideating, creating, playtesting, and refining, though students are welcome to work in any medium they choose, so long as the goal is to explore themes of collective joy.

Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2024)

OART-UT 18-000 (7263)01/22/2024 – 05/06/2024 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Luhrs, August

General Elective Undergraduate

Fashion, Culture & the Body (IDSEM-UG 9254)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Thu

This is a course that explores the relationship between ideas, the body and the way that fashion can be understood to mediate between the two. Through a range of disciplines and media this course considers the body as an aspect of not only medical and scientific exploration, but crucially as a vital element of culture and society. Bodies affect the ways in which the social world and power relations are organized, and they even arguably condition the way that we understand reality itself. Our physical form is constantly shaped according to both philosophies and fashions. Body ideals and broader ideals often interrelate strongly through bodily practices and with what we wear. There are meanings and fashions in all bodily forms (skinny, buxom, muscular, ideas of ’whiteness’) and body practices (dieting, hair management, cleansing rituals, plastic surgery and genital cutting). Over the sessions, we will take a conceptual approach to fashion, as a strident condition of modern life, that incorporates politics, science and aesthetics and we will closely read a number of cultural texts against a number of theoretical models. Attitudes towards the body can vary widely according to historical period, and this course will explore how, in different moments, and via different media, we have been preoccupied with the aesthetics of different body zones, with displaying identity (gender, class and ethnicity), and also with power. Different cultural forms (literary, visual, material etc) will provide the focus of our discussions as they all engage with the different ways that we make meaning out of our bodies. Students will be invited to investigate in their written work set texts from class in addition to primary material of their own choice.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Expressive Culture Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate