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Digital Fabrication: Exploring the Fab Lab (ART-UE 1346)

This course will introduce student to digital fabrication techniques within the context of contemporary art. Students will complete a series of projects exploring fabrication technologies such as 3D printing, 3D Scanning, CNC milling and Laser cutting. In addition, student will question the machines’ raw output by fusing these processes with traditional sculptures techniques. Student will produce a series of works following project prompts. Although the course will process-heavy, student will maintain a rigorous conceptual grounding in their completed works.

Studio Art (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ART-UE 1346-000 (17935)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Fri1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Torimitsu, Momoyo

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Physical Computing & Experimental Interfaces) Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Digital Art II for Non-Majors (ART-UE 304)

Assignments, critiques & demonstrations for the more advanced digital art student. The use of the computer to augment and expand conceptualization and expression has provided the artist with some of the most important new means for visual thinking since the Renaissance invention of perspective. Students learn how to use the computer as an extension of the visualization process and its specific applications in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.

Studio Art (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

ART-UE 304-000 (12835)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Carideo, Gregory

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Video Art I for Non-Majors (ART-UE 305)

Video art has become one of the most widely used media art forms because it allows both the artistic concentration of photography & the free flowing imagery of movement. Students acquire rudimentary skills in shooting & editing while working toward a personal statement in video.

Studio Art (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

ART-UE 305-000 (12392)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

ART-UE 305-000 (12860)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pryor, Gerald

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Art: Practice & Ideas (ARTCR-UE 10)

’Art: Practice and Ideas’ examines key developments in the visual arts from modernity to the present. Focusing on the ways in which representations both create and reflect the values of a society, the course introduces students to the full range of expressive possibilities within the visual arts, covering painting and sculpture, as well as photography, film, video, conceptual art, and computer media. Topics to be covered include classical, modern, and postmodern relationships to politics, vision, the mind, the body, psychology, gender, difference, and technological innovation. Students will see and understand how artists have integrated perceptions of their historical moment, as well as physical and social space, into creative practices that have, in turn, had a significant impact on the culture of the time. Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent – satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures

Art Theory & Critical Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

ARTCR-UE 10-000 (12834)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gookin, Kirby

Expressive Culture IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2022

The Code of Music (IMNY-UT 222)

“In this course, students learn how to create musical systems –pieces that incorporate randomness, interact with their listeners, or evolve over time, in the browser. We will start by creating audiovisual instruments and sample-based interactive songs, as students review their p5.js skills and are introduced to the Tone.js music library. Then, we will turn to a structured exploration of the elements of music, focusing on rhythm, melody, timbre, and harmony. For each, we will hold listening sessions, represent and manipulate the element in code, and interact with it via a range of existing interfaces. Students will explore the possibilities that computation and interactivity open up by designing and implementing a series of interactive studies. The last few weeks of the semester will be dedicated to introducing algorithmic composition techniques such as Markov Chains and Neural Networks. During this time, students will also develop their final project: an interactive/generative musical piece that builds on their previous classwork. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to bring in their musical tastes and interests into the classroom. This class is a good fit for students who are interested in: – Creating interactive music pieces and digital instruments. – Deepening their understanding of how music works. All musically-curious students are welcome: previous experience with music and audio will be useful, but is not required. – Continuing to develop coding skills. Creative Coding or equivalent programming experience is required.”Prerequisite: Creative Computing (IMNY-UT 101)

Undergraduate

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Class #: 11329
Section #: 001
Meets: M 12:20-3:20p

Graduate IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Spring 2025 Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2022

Big Ideas in the History and Future of Technology (IMNY-UT 203)

“Big Ideas in the History and Future of Technology” is designed to provide students with a critical perspective on current issues in technology in the context of the history, controversies, consequences, and ethical questions in emerging media. This first course in the series includes: in the first half –some seminal early works that imagine a future in which technology enhances/augments human intelligence and capabilities and how that might affect society; in the second half–2 classic works of fiction and some podcasts/ audio lectures that address questions relating to “What is Human.”

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

IMNY-UT 203-000 (22284)01/24/2022 – 03/21/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Lim, Jennifer

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021

Processing Big Data for Analytics Applications (CSCI-UA 476)

This course introduces platforms, tools, and the architectures that facilitate scalable management and processing of vast quantities of data. We will explore open source tools enabling the efficient acquisition, storage, and processing of Big Data. Students will learn about distributed storage solutions such as the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which supports storage of Big Data. Students will gain hands-on experience with distributed processing Apache solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Impala, Pig, core Spark, Spark SQL, and Spark Streaming. Other Apache big data tools covered are Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Flume, and Kafka

Computer Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2021)

CSCI-UA 476-000 (10054)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue,Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Malavet, Ann

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) Undergraduate
Spring 2020

Causal Inference (DS-UA 201)

Causal Inference provides students with the tools for understanding causation, i.e., the relationship between cause and effect. We will start with the situation in which you are able to design and implement the data gathering process, called the experiment. We will then define causation, identify preconditions required for A to cause B, show how to design perfect experiments, and discuss how to understand threats to the validity of less-than-perfect experiments. In this course, we will cover experimental design and then turn to those careful approaches, where we will consider such approaches as quasi-experiments, regression discontinuities, differences in differences, and contemporary advanced approaches.

Data Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2020)

DS-UA 201-000 (20565)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed,Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Strezhnev, Anton

DS-UA 201-000 (20567)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon2:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

DS-UA 201-000 (20568)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed11:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Machine Learning for Language Understanding (DS-UA 203)

This course covers widely-used machine learning methods for language understanding—with a special focus on machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks—and culminates in a substantial final project in which students write an original research paper in AI or computational linguistics. If you take this class, you’ll be exposed only to a fraction of the many approaches that researchers have used to teach language to computers. However, you’ll get training and practice with all the research skills that you’ll need to explore the field further on your own. This includes not only the skills to design and build computational models, but also to design experiments to test those models, to write and present your results, and to read and evaluate results from the scientific literature.

Data Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

DS-UA 203-000 (9643)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bowman, Samuel

DS-UA 203-000 (9644)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

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

Understanding Interactive Media – Critical Questions & Theories (IM-UH 1013)

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

This seminar course is an introduction to the theories, questions, and conditions that encompass interactive media. Students will engage in readings that critically examine both the impact that interactive media and technology have on culture and societies as well as the ways in which social contexts shape the development and application of these technologies. The contexts become apparent by examining interactive media and interactivity through the lenses of relevant perspectives including politics, ethics, race, gender, and cybernetics. Throughout the semester students will leverage theory to analyze interactive media works and build a vocabulary for making sense of our increasingly mediated world. The course thus serves to lay a conceptual foundation for students to inform and direct their own creative practice. Readings, discussions, research, and writing constitute the body of this course.

Interactive Media (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2022

Alternate Realities (IM-UH 3311)

This course will introduce students to the design and development of Virtual Reality experiences. We will examine these increasingly popular means of delivering content and social interactions and identify their unique affordances over existing platforms. Students will be challenged to harness the specific advantages of VR from conception through functional prototype. The class will also cover case studies of effective use of VR in information delivery, as well as social and artistic experiences.

Interactive Media (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 16 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

IM-UH 3311-000 (23471)01/24/2022 – 05/17/2022 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Allison, Michael · Sherwood, Aaron

IM-UH 3311-000 (24132)01/24/2022 – 05/17/2022 Thu1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Abu DhabiInstructed by Allison, Michael · Sherwood, Aaron

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Undergraduate
Spring 2020

Topic: Media Past and Future (INTM-SHU 206T)

An attempt to better understand and participate in the communications revolution we are undergoing through an investigation of the nature and consequences of previous communications revolutions. Using readings ranging from Plato to Sontag to Kundera, the course will look closely at the history of spoken language, images, writing, printing, photography, film, radio and television. How were they understood? How were they initially used or misused? What were their effects upon social patterns, politics and thought? How did innovations occur? What can that tell us about the potential and potential influence of digital communication? Students will be asked to undertake innovative experiments of their own in forms of new media. Prerequisites: None

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2020)

INTM-SHU 206T-000 (23250)02/03/2020 – 05/15/2020 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Stephens, Mitchell

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2022

Exhibition: Next (INTM-SHU 242)

Exhibition: Next class is an exploration and observation of the fields of exhibition design and museum studies. This class will explore how emerging and interactive technologies can be applied to museum and exhibition design to enhance visitors’ experiences. What is an exhibition in a museum of today and how should it be experienced? What is the role of a museum in contemporary society? How does it engage the audiences of tomorrow? The class discusses curatorial practices, various exhibition concepts and forms, museum visitor experience, and exhibitions’ social values. Students will visit and immerse themselves in many museums and exhibitions as a professional observer who will be asked to write reflections of their observations as an essay for each museum visit. Students will choose a research topic at the beginning of the class and they will start collecting materials, building objects, designing experiences, and writing a statement for their final exhibition based on this topic. Students’ design work will be frequently reviewed and given feedback by the instructor, classmates, and guest speakers/critics. After the midterm, the instructor will initiate a collaboration with a local museum or art space. Based on the specific circumstances, students will face a design challenge to propose an exhibition proposal or provide a creative solution to the partner organization. By the end of the course, students will install and present their work as a group art show in the student art gallery. Prerequisites: Interaction Lab or Creative Coding Lab Fulfillment: IMA Major Electives; IMB Major Interactive Media Elective.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 16 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

INTM-SHU 242-000 (19659)01/24/2022 – 05/13/2022 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Liu, Chang

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Fall 2022 Spring 2020 Summer 2020

Interaction Lab (INTM-SHU 101)

In this foundation course students will be asked to think beyond the conventional forms of human computer interaction (i.e. the keyboard and mouse) to develop interfaces that consider the entire human body, the body’s capacity for gesture, as well as the relationship between the body and its environment. Students will learn the fundamentals of electronics and programming as they build projects using the Arduino microcontroller platform. Arduino is a small computer based on open source hardware and software. When used in conjunction with various sensors and actuators, Arduino is capable of gathering information about and acting upon the physical world. In addition to these physical computing techniques, students will also learn to harness the methods of traditional computation. The fundamentals of programming will be explored using the Processing programming language. Processing has a simplified syntax and an approachable computer graphics programming model, making it an ideal platform for first-time programmers. Students will gain a deeper appreciation of the expressive possibilities of computation as they learn to author their own software and systems and not simply use off-the-shelf solutions. Additional topics will include algorithmic drawing and animation techniques, digital modeling and fabrication, data exchange, manipulation, and presentation, as well as control of images, audio and video, including computer vision techniques. Structured weekly exercises are aimed at building specific skills, however students are free to pursue their own diverse interests in their midterm and final projects. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: CORE AT; IMA Major Other Foundation; IMB Major Emerging Media Foundation.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

INTM-SHU 101-000 (17258)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 101-000 (17259)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 101-000 (17266)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue,Thu1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 101-000 (17267)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 101-000 (17269)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 101-000 (17270)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Fri1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

Foundation Graduate Undergraduate
Spring 2022 Summer 2021

User Experience Design (INTM-SHU 214)

User experience design (UXD, UED, or XD) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving its usability, accessibility, and desirability provided throughout the user’s interaction with a product. The class is designed for those who are passionate about creating user-centered experiences with interactive media. Students are encouraged to empathize with users, engaging them to make informed design choices from prototype right through to project completion. Prerequisites: None Fulfillment: IMA/IMB elective.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 16 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

INTM-SHU 214-000 (17634)01/24/2022 – 05/13/2022 Tue1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by Qian, Tianran

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Art & Design) Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Fall 2022 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Communications Lab (INTM-SHU 120)

In this foundation course students will explore the possibilities of emerging media by successively producing projects that make use of digital images, graphics, audio, and video. The course is designed to provide students with a framework to effectively communicate and tell stories through digital means. Students learn through hands-on experimentation in a laboratory context and the principles of interpersonal communication, media theory, and human factors will be introduced in readings and investigated through discussion. Adobe Creative Cloud and other relevant software applications will be examined to establish a diverse digital toolkit. Both traditional and experimental outputs will be explored. Weekly assignments, group and independent projects, as well as documentation of projects will be assigned in each of the core areas of study. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: IMA Major Other Foundation; IMB Major Emerging Media Foundation.

Interactive Media Arts (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17284)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Mon,Wed1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17285)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17286)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17287)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Mon,Wed5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17289)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Thu1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17291)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17292)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at ShanghaiInstructed by

INTM-SHU 120-000 (17293)09/05/2022 – 12/16/2022 Thu6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at ShanghaiInstructed by

Foundation Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2022

Intermediate Programming for G (GAMES-UT 181)

Intermediate Programming for Games is an undergraduate level course aimed at taking students further with their knowledge of creative coding. This builds upon existing skills developed during Introduction to Programming for Games. Students’ skills within the Unity3D Game Engine with C# will be furthered, as well as their general procedural problem-solving skills and abstract programming knowledge. Throughout the semester, students be assigned weekly homework, as well as in-class practical work, or ‘game jams’. While students will be creating small games in class weekly, there will also be two larger game creation assignments – one midterm, as well as one final game. Most importantly, this course takes the approach that building up a student’s repertoire of advanced techniques in computer programming will expand their ability to express their artistic vision within their games. In addition, those students with a particular aptitude and interest for programming may also use this class to stepping stone towards a double major with computer science/game engineering. This class has Introduction to Programming for Games as a pre-requisite, and Introduction to Game Development as a pre-requisite or co-requisite.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 17715
Section #: 001
Meets: T 4:55-7:40p

Spring 2025 Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2022

Games and Players (GAMES-UT 312)

Game and Players gives students an overview of player-focused approaches to understanding game play, from a variety of methodological and theoretical frameworks. The class combines readings and analysis with exercises that give students hands-on experience with the methods discussed.

Game Design (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

GAMES-UT 312-000 (14777)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Clark, Naomi

Undergraduate