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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
Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2022

Intro to Game Development (GAMES-UT 120)

Introduction to Game Development is a practical course that introduces students to the methods, tools and principles used in developing digital games. Over the course of the semester, students will work alone to create a two digital prototypes or ‘sketches’, before building on them to produce a final polished game, using the lessons learned in the earlier prototypes. This is a hands­-on, primarily lab­-based course, and so the focus is on learning ­by ­doing rather than on reading and discussion.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 17705
Section #: 001
Meets: MW 8-10:45a


Class #: 17706
Section #: 002
Meets: MW 11a-1:45p


Class #: 17707
Section #: 003
Meets: TR 8-10:45a


Class #: 17708
Section #: 004
Meets: WF 4:55-7:40p

Fall 2026 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Spring 2025 Summer 2025 Summer 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Spring 2020

Introduction to Narrative Design (GAMES-UT 161)

Narrative Design is an advanced game design course where students learn a variety of strategies to bring together game design and storytelling, both in table-top and digital games. Every assignment covers a different challenge when it comes to integrating systems design with storytelling. Students also learn some of the basics of storytelling, such as character development, dramatic action, generating conflict, and world-building.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 17376
Section #: 001
Meets: MW 11a-1:45p

Fall 2026 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Undergraduate

Fame (MCC-UE 9346)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Mon

Fame, notoriety, renown – the desire to be recognized and immortalized — is the most enduring and perhaps most desirable form of power. Culture, commerce, politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame – whether for fifteen minutes or fifteen centuries. What is fame? Why do people want it? How do they get it? What can they do with it? Drawing on texts from history, ethnography, theory, literature, philosophy, and contemporary media, this course reflects on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Critical Video: Theory & Practice (MCC-UE 1142)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This course introduces students to critical video—the use of documentary, ethnographic, and research-based video to investigate and critique contemporary culture. Students gain a theoretical overview of documentary video, a set of conceptual tools to analyze video, and an introduction to the practice of video production for small and mobile screens. Students apply texts on video’s history, culture, and distribution, as well as the ethical challenges of video production, to their own, research-based video project. No prior experience required.

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

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Spring 2020 Spring 2022 Spring 2023

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

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate

Cultural Memory (MCC-UE 1413)

This course examines how cultural memory is enacted through visual culture in a comparative global context. It looks at the rise of a memory culture over the last few decades, in particular in the United States, Europe & Latin America, & how this engagement with memory demonstrates how the politics of memory can reveal aspects of nationalism & national identity, ethnic conflict & strife, the legacies of state terrorism, & the deployment of memory as a means for further continued conflict.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

MCC-UE 1413-000 (8117)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by De Silva, Weligama

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Undergraduate

Social Media Practicum (MCC-UE 1032)

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

In this workshop-based course, students will become well versed in contemporary debates on social media and its impact on self and society, share their own experiences and observations in this area, design an original research project (using methods such as discourse analysis, virtual ethnography, and interviewing), and write a long-form analysis paper.

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

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

Disability, Technology and media (MCC-UE 1026)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon

This course examines the significance of technology to the definition and experience of disability; the relationship between disability and new media; the politics of representation; and debates between disability studies and media studies. Topics include biomedical technology; “assistive technology”; cyborgs and prostheses as fact and metaphor; inclusive architecture and design; visual rhetorics of disability in film and photography; staring and other practices of looking; medical and counter-medical performance; media advocacy, tactical media, and direct action.

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

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Organizational Comm (MCC-UE 1745)

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

This course is designed especially for students entering business, health care, and educational settings who are assuming or aspiring to positions of leadership. Through case studies and class discussion, course work focuses on strengthening communication competency in presentation skills, persuasive ability (i.e., marketing and sales), leadership in meetings, and problem-solving skills.

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

General Elective Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Communicating Gender and Identity (MCC-UE 1700)

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

This course explores the ways people create, maintain, and augment the meaning of gender, developing insight into understanding gender ideology and the media representation of gender. The course examines how ideas about gender shape our communication practices, and how our practices of communication produce gender.

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

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Fall 2021 Fall 2023 January 2021 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Introduction to Media Studies (MCC-UE 1)

Introduces students to the study of media, culture, and communication. The course surveys models, theories, and analytical perspectives that form the basis of study in the major. Topics include dialogue, discourse, mass and interpersonal communication, political economy, language, subject-formation, critical theory, experience, and reception.

Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2023)

MCC-UE 1-000 (11261)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Rajagopal, Arvind

MCC-UE 1-000 (11262)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Yates, Katie Lane

MCC-UE 1-000 (11263)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Yates, Katie Lane

MCC-UE 1-000 (11264)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hytower, Courtney

MCC-UE 1-000 (11265)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Hytower, Courtney

MCC-UE 1-000 (11266)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ainomugisha, Mary

MCC-UE 1-000 (11267)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ainomugisha, Mary

MCC-UE 1-000 (11268)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ọládélé, Noah

MCC-UE 1-000 (11269)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ọládélé, Noah

MCC-UE 1-000 (11270)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cilman, Eva

MCC-UE 1-000 (11271)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cilman, Eva

MCC-UE 1-000 (11272)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Procter, Alice

MCC-UE 1-000 (11273)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Procter, Alice

MCC-UE 1-000 (11302)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fattaleh, Nadine

MCC-UE 1-000 (11303)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Fattaleh, Nadine

MCC-UE 1-000 (11615)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Fotsch, Paul

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate

Producing Essentials (OART-UT 1006)

The role of the creative producer in the entertainment industry is integral to bringing a project to fruition. This introductory course covers both the creative and physical production time-line and provides students with an understanding of the producer’s role through a semester-long team-based pitch project, which culminates in written and verbal pitch presentations. Students are encouraged to work on a project that best suits their area of interest: feature film, episodic/streaming, theatre, performance, podcasts, VR/AR or individualized multi-media. The course focuses on the dynamics of producing, including producer skill sets, tasks and responsibilities necessary to effectively and efficiently develop a project.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 2378
Section #: 001
Meets: MW 2-5:30p


Class #: 2429
Section #: 060
Meets: MW 2-5:30p

General Elective IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Spring 2026 Summer 2025 Summer 2026 Undergraduate

Media and Fashion (IDSEM-UG 1618)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Fri

This course will examine the roles fashion plays in film, television and digital media and their cultural and economic significance. As a signifying system in its own right, fashion contributes to the semiotics of popular forms. It can also operate as a means of authentication (especially in period films and TV) or reveal a variety of ways in which media plays with space and time, purposeful or not. Besides evoking specific temporalities and narrative tone, fashion plays an important role in the construction of gender, both in terms of representation and address. This course will examine the history of the intersection of the fashion and media industries from the free distribution of film-related dress patterns in movie theaters of the 1910s to the current trend for make-over TV, networks like the Style network, the increasing proliferation of fashion blogs and the construction of specifically feminine video games. How does fashion’s specific configuration of consumerism, signification and visual pleasure lend itself to the articulation of modern/postmodern cultures and their presentation of the self? Texts will include Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson, Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explanations and Analysis ; selections from Roland Barthes, The Fashion System ; Elizabeth Wilson, Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity ; assorted articles and selected clips from films and television shows including Marie Antoinette , What Not To Wear , The New York Hat, Fashions of 1934, Now, Voyager and Sex and the City .

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Expressive Culture Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Spring 2022

Introduction to Microeconomics (ECON-UA 2)

Prerequisite: Algebra and Calculus (MATH-UA 9) or equivalent. Focuses on individual economic decision-makers—households, business firms, and government agencies—and how they are linked together. The emphasis is on decision making by households and firms and how these decisions shape our economic life. Explores the different environments in which businesses sell their products, hire workers, and raise funds to expand their operations; the economic effects of trade between nations; and the effects of various government policies, such as minimum-wage legislation, rent controls, antitrust laws, and more.

Economics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

ECON-UA 2-000 (7984)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Paizis, Andrew · Choksi, Keval · Galindo, Jimena · Bhatta, Rahul

ECON-UA 2-000 (7985)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Choksi, Keval

ECON-UA 2-000 (7986)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Choksi, Keval

ECON-UA 2-000 (7987)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Galindo, Jimena

ECON-UA 2-000 (7988)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Galindo, Jimena

ECON-UA 2-000 (7989)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bhatta, Rahul

ECON-UA 2-000 (7990)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bhatta, Rahul

ECON-UA 2-000 (7991)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bhiladwall, Maharukh · Nguyen, Phuong Linh · Lee, Jiwon · Ishmaeva, Guzel

ECON-UA 2-000 (7992)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nguyen, Phuong Linh

ECON-UA 2-000 (7993)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nguyen, Phuong Linh

ECON-UA 2-000 (7994)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lee, Jiwon

ECON-UA 2-000 (7995)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lee, Jiwon

ECON-UA 2-000 (7996)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ishmaeva, Guzel

ECON-UA 2-000 (7997)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ishmaeva, Guzel

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

Introduction to the Galleries and Museums of New York (ART-UE 1002)

Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri
Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu,Fri

Survey a broad spectrum of visual art resources through guided lecture-tour visits to current exhibitions at leading museums, galleries and alternative art spaces located throughout New York City. Onsite meetings with art administrators affiliated with various organizations shed light on a wide range of career and management issues pertaining to the field and add to an understanding of the development and continued growth of New York’s exciting art world.

Studio Art (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Expressive Culture Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Science, Technology and Society (STS-UY 1004)

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

This course introduces important issues, historical and contemporary, related to science and technology from a variety of social, political and philosophical viewpoints. The multidisciplinary approach helps students to understand the interaction between science, technology and society and to discover the conditions that foster technological innovation. The scientific and technological way of thinking becomes clear through historical examples, helping students to consider important issues of science and technology policy, such as how science and technology can be used to benefit society and how one can foster innovation in a society or an organization. | Prerequisites: Completion of first year writing requirements. Co-requisites: None. Notes: Satisfies a HuSS Elective.

Science and Technology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 Societies & the Social Sciences Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Spring 2022

Intro to Psychology (PSYCH-UA 1)

Amodio, Coons, Marcus, Phelps. Offered every semester. 4 points. Fundamental principles of psychology, with emphasis on basic research and applications in psychology’s major theoretical areas of study: thought, memory, learning, perception, personality, social processes, development, and the physiological bases of psychology. Included in the class is direct observation of methods of investigation through laboratory demonstrations and by student participation in current research projects.

Psychology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8464)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cimpian, Andrei · Qu-Lee, Jennie

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8465)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8466)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8467)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8468)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8469)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8470)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8471)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8472)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8473)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8474)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8475)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Van Bavel, Jay · Dumitru, Oana

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8476)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8477)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8478)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8479)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8480)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8481)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8482)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8731)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (8988)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (9067)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (10591)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (10595)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (25978)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

PSYCH-UA 1-000 (25980)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate
Fall 2019

Introduction to Cosmology (PHYS-UA 15)

This course is a technical but elementary introduction to the modern understanding of cosmology, intended for non-science students. Proficiency with algebra is required. We will cover advances in cosmology over the last 100 years, with special emphasis on more recent developments in the field. We will cover topics ranging from the early universe to galaxy formation in the present day universe, through the lens of the theory of relativity and the expanding universe. We will cover the Big Bang, the Cosmic Microwave Background, dark matter, dark energy and the associated evidence for these phenomena. This class is mathematically-based; most topics will be explored both qualitatively and quantitatively. Homework and exams will require calculations.

Physics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2019)

PHYS-UA 15-000 (10211)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate