The Beat: (JOUR-UA 201)

This course is designed to hone the student journalist?s ability to research and report deeply and to be able to imagine and develop fresh ideas, test their ideas with the strength of their reporting and research, and then present them in story form.

Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks

Sections (Summer 2023)


JOUR-UA 201-000 (2398)05/22/2023 – 07/05/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Morning)at OnlineInstructed by Flaherty, Francis


JOUR-UA 201-000 (2491)06/06/2023 – 06/29/2023 Tue,Wed,Thu3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mihai, Adrian

Documenting the African City (ANTH-UA 9087)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This interdisciplinary course combines ethnographic readings, representations, and interpretations of city and urban cultures with a video production component in which students create short documentaries on the city of Accra. The interpretative classes will run concurrently with production management, sights and sound, and post-production workshops. The course will have three objectives: (1) teach students the documentary tradition from Flaherty to Rouch; (2) use critical Cinema theory to define a document with a camera; and (3) create a short documentary film.

Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Documenting The African City (SCA-UA 9124)

Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue

This interdisciplinary course combines ethnographic readings, representations, and interpretations of city and urban cultures with a video production component in which students create short documentaries on the city of Accra. The interpretative classes will run concurrently with production management, sights and sound, and post-production workshops. The course will have three objectives: (1) teach students the documentary tradition from Flaherty to Rouch; (2) use critical Cinema theory to define a document with a camera; and (3) create a short documentary film.

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

Religions of India (RELST-UA 337)

Investigates religious developments in India within their historical context. Familiarizes students with the religions of the subcontinent—including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, and Judaism—through secondary source readings and English translations of primary source materials. Rather than survey religious traditions as closed systems divorced from time or place, students grapple with the central theories and historiographical challenges pertaining to religion in India, especially those that impact our ability to understand everyday religious experience, both past and present.

Religious Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2023)


RELST-UA 337-000 (23005)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by

Film Story Analysis: (DWPG-UT 1105)

This text analysis course is designed to provide a platform for an in-depth study of how the story of a film is presented, what choices are made by the author, how information is offered or withheld and what effect this has on the drama. This class will be an “anthology” of different works, each selected for a different aspect of storytelling, exploring how the stylistic choices, themes, and dramatic devices reveal themselves within the body of work. The course is designed to better help students organize their own narratives by analyzing the techniques employed by various screenwriters in constructing their screenplays. A selection of films will be screened and discussed in terms of continuity of theme; delineation of plot, development of structure, protagonist’s story purpose, dialogue as action and character. After each screening, the instructor will lead a group discussion and analysis of the film, focusing further on the techniques, conventions and devices employed by the screenwriter to both tell a good story and satisfy the demands of the audience.

Undergraduate

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

Ethnicity & The Media (SCA-UA 232)

Examines media images in relation to the making of ethnic and racial identities in the United States. Surveys some of the theoretical approaches to the study of images, paying particular attention to the intersection of history and ideologies or representation. Looks into the nature and politics of stereotypes; inquires into their reproduction through discourses, representations, and practices; and then moves to a comparative examination of media images in relation to the making of African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American images in the media, looking specifically at changes and continuities in the representation of these four minority groups in the media.

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

Sections (Fall 2023)


SCA-UA 232-000 (20866)09/05/2023 – 12/15/2023 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Davila, Arlene

Marx and the Culture of Capitalism (GERM-UA 242)

The course serves as an introduction to the thought and legacy of Karl Marx. Marx’s theory of capitalism centers on the concept of value. Value is the interface between culture and commerce, the hinge on which Marx’s theory and Marxism turn. Although Marx sometimes distinguished between an economic “base” and a legal-cultural “superstructure,” he managed to depict the culture of capitalism as a whole. This method forms one of his crucial legacies, which we will explore in and after Marx. Organized around a slow reading of Capital, Volume 1, the course will also feature short readings from those who inspired Marx (David Ricardo, G. W. F. Hegel, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace) and those his work influenced (Rosa Luxemburg, Theodor W. Adorno, Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway). We will follow the trajectory that Capital itself takes, from the commodity and the concept of value to machinery, cooperation, and accumulation.

German (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)


GERM-UA 242-000 (20010)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Weatherby, Leif

Urban Ethnography (SCA-UA 9868)

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

Through a focus on contemporary Paris, this course aims to explore the insights offered by anthropological approaches to cities and urban life. We will consider the relationships between urban spatial organization and an array of social, economic and political phenomena; the relevance of consumption and display to the shaping of urban identities; and the shifting dynamics of social groups and boundaries within the urban context. This will be accomplished through course readings and also through training in urban ethnographic research methods, supporting each student’s own systematic observation over the semester of one locus of everyday Parisian life. The final project for the course will be a piece of ethnographic analysis based on this field research.

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

Composing Music with Max (OART-UT 1097)

The foundations of Max, a powerful visual programming language for music and multimedia, will be covered in this course. We will examine how computers can be utilized to create situations for music creation, performance, and collaborative improvisation as well as applied to building interactive, generative music. In addition to learning Max’s fundamental building blocks, we will also use fundamental music theory as a tool to better understand music making. We will create programs that examine rhythm, melodies, chords, scales, and recognize other qualities of music like timbre, texture, and dynamics while taking into consideration the principles of harmony, melody, and rhythm defined in basic music theory. The final will require you to develop a collaborative piece of interactive computer music, a collaborative performance environment, or another final project that has been discussed and agreed upon together. This class does not require any prerequisite programming skills or prior music theory knowledge.

Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)


OART-UT 1097-000 (18705)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Wed5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Aguilar, Gustavo

BioDesigning the Future of Food (ITPG-GT 3030)

For centuries, food production practices such as permaculture fostered ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient, while producing nutrient-dense food. Modern farming has introduced harmful monoculture practices proven to cause collateral destruction of biodiversity and seasonal harvesting, distancing us from our food ecosystems. The future of food can be regenerative or continue to contribute to massive health and environmental issues. How can we challenge ourselves to regain connection to our food system? How might we use innovation, personal prowess, design, and biotechnology to reimagine healthier ecosystems? This course examines the historical context of the food ecosystems and encourages students to identify with these systems that we (in urban settings) are disconnected with. Students will build a project around exploring innovative approaches to the future of food and our relationships with it. These projects will incorporate design, technology, science, and research elements.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)


ITPG-GT 3030-000 (15738)09/06/2024 – 12/11/2024 Fri3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Huggins, Nikita

Multisensory Storytelling in Virtual Reality and Original Flavor Reality (ITPG-GT 3026)

“In this course, we will explore how to create narratives that leverage our lesser used senses like touch, taste and smell as well as lesser-known ones like space, time, balance and scale. We will dig into the history of experiential storytelling, starting from immersive theater and Smell-O-vision to cutting-edge haptics and mind-bending illusions of proprioception. To help center this back in practical applications, we will also explore how this evolving art is commonly used in exhibition design, experiential marketing and brick and mortar retail. The class will be a healthy mixture of game theory as well as experienced based learning (meaning there will be a couple field trips and multisensory VR projects to explore). A basic knowledge of game engines is ideal but not mandatory because we will be using predesigned templates in Unreal engine to be experienced and manipulated in real-time through virtual reality hardware.”

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)


ITPG-GT 3026-000 (11390)09/04/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Porter, Winslow

Text-to-Image Ais (ITPG-GT 3020)

“Over the past few years, the unprecedented advancement in text-to-image artificial intelligence models has sparked widespread attention, discussion, and mainstream adoption of these innovative co-creative interfaces, which has resulted in novelty, excitement, and curiosity, as well as concern, anger, and insult. Alongside this, the booming open-sourced text-to-image model development contributes to expanding access to working with AI tools beyond experts, tech giants, and professional technologists. In this 14-week course, we will go over the landscape of text-to-image AIs and dive deep into some of the most well known ones (such as Stable Diffusion and its variants), to see what potential they have in terms of exploring new modes of content creation and helping us re-examine our language pattern. This will be a practice technique course – in the first half, we’ll focus on building good prompting practices, and in the second half, we’ll explore different image synthesis skills related to text-to-image AIs, use Python to train our own models to create customized visuals, and create animations from text. We’ll also discuss how such tools could intervene in the workflows of artists and technologists, what they can provide for researchers, and what are the caveats and things we should look out for when we’re creating with these AIs. Pre-requisites: Introduction to Computational Media (ICM) or the equivalent.” Prerequisite: ICM / ICM: Media (ITPG-GT 2233 / ITPG-GT 2048)

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2024)


ITPG-GT 3020-000 (15729)09/06/2024 – 12/11/2024 Fri3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Zhang, Yuguang

Digital Audio Workstations: Ableton Live (REMU-UT 1022)

We live in an age of digital production where so much of today’s music is produced with comparatively few tools, and at the heart of the modern production set up, whether in the bedroom of the studio, is software that uses MIDI. One of the most versatile of today’s platforms which can be used in production, live performance, and even as a visual tool is Ableton Live. Ableton is unique amongst the contemporary software programs making music in that it is the only one that was created by working musicians who were looking for a tool that allowed for both the seamless creation of ideas and could also serve as a performance instrument. In the past 15 years, Ableton has played an important role in creating countless tracks and records in numerous genres and the go-to software for live performance, whether for vocalists and bands or for massive spectacles like Cirque du Soleil. In this course, we will cover Ableton’s unique abilities to manipulate audio which make it the preferred platform for remixing and mash-ups. We will cover the fundamentals of the software, explore techniques to program beats, chordal and melodic ideas, as well as cover creative workflow – how to use Ableton to quickly generate ideas for producers and songwriters. Finally, we will discuss its use as a live performance tool for use with live instrumentalists and vocalists, as a DJ tool and even as a VJing tool. 

Recorded Music (Undergraduate)
2 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)


REMU-UT 1022-000 (17977)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Fri1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Carrero, Joanne


REMU-UT 1022-000 (17978)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Fri3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Carrero, Joanne


REMU-UT 1022-000 (17979)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Freeman, Dan


REMU-UT 1022-000 (17980)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Freeman, Dan


REMU-UT 1022-000 (17981)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Freeman, Dan


REMU-UT 1022-000 (17982)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Freeman, Dan

Augmented Hacking (ITPG-GT 2356)

With recent advances in hardware and software, millions of us now carry unprecedented spatial computing and world sensing technologies in our pockets. With these technologies in hand, how do we design AR experiences that are contextual at the core – that are sensitive to the spaces we inhabit and the behaviors of people in those spaces? How do we augment this better understanding of reality? This course will be a hands-on workshop where we create spatially aware, contextually driven AR applications unique to particular situations. We will examine the opportunities and challenges when designing for site-specific experiences – museums, live events, retail, medical settings, industrial environments, schools, and others. Topics will include image and object recognition, world mapping, people tracking, location anchors, the ARKit “depth api” (LiDAR enabled features), spatial audio, scene understanding and semantics, and more. For design and development, we’ll primarily use Apple technologies – ARKit, RealityKit and RealityComposer. We’ll also tap a variety of cloud services to store, move, process, and bring intelligence to the data generated and consumed in our experiences. 3D modeling skills are helpful but not required. While we’ll cover the basics, students should expect to spend additional time outside of class learning Swift and other related programming concepts. Full-time access to an iOS device (LiDAR-enabled is ideal but not required) and a Mac laptop running the latest operating systems are required. As part of the design process, we’ll host workshops and guest critiques with designers from top studios around New York City as well as directly interfacing with various teams at Apple.

Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2023)


ITPG-GT 2356-000 (21868)09/07/2023 – 12/14/2023 Thu3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Lam, Nien · Buys, Sebastian

In With The Old, Out With The New: Debates on “Tradition” in Western Music (IDSEM-UG 1823)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Wed

Contests between stalwart custodians of “tradition” and rebels searching for new, untested modes of expression pervade Western music history. This course surveys some of the most contentious debates on music’s past, present, and future waged between music theorists, critics, artists, and audiences, spanning the last five hundred years. Our focus is on the seemingly inevitable tension between what music is, what it should be, and what it can be. Starting with the Greek philosophers of antiquity, we explore debates on the music of Claudio Monteverdi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Carmen Miranda, John Cage, Bob Dylan, and The Slits. We also examine the backlash against and subsequent defense of styles like jazz, rock and roll, punk rock, rap, and 2000s pop. Our goal is to better understand how culture is “made” precisely during these moments of charged debate, where a particular music”s perceived merits or transgressions serve as the pretext for larger often controversial ideological issues. Art in this sense–and music in particular–becomes a platform by which to observe how competing aesthetic value systems reveal deep social and cultural rifts. Each unit within this course has two parts. First, we scrutinize and discuss primary sources related to the debate: letters, scores, newspaper and magazine articles, journal entries, singles, albums, and films. Secondly, we read and discuss secondary sources by scholars, critics, and investigative journalists for context, using this new information as a way to think critically about the primary sources and our own aesthetic judgments. What we will see is that debating music in terms of what’s “good” and “bad,” classical and avant-garde, edifying and dangerous, traditional and innovative, is, in the Western world, a long-standing tradition in its own right.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

The Art of Sound (FMTV-UT 1007)

This is a critical studies course exploring the aesthetics and psycho-acoustics of sound: how sound works in art and life; how it affects emotions and stimulates the imagination; and how it is used in film, radio, television and other creative or artistic contexts, particularly its application as a key element in storytelling. This course examines the meaning and character of the soundscape (the acoustic environment) and the ways it has technically and aesthetically evolved throughout film history from the Kinetophone to the iPhone. The course includes reading in the theory of sound, and listening to examples of sound work by composers and sound designers. In previous semesters we have looked at the soundtrack in such films as: Playtime; Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Aliens, The Evil Dead II, Saving Private Ryan, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Class meetings will be devoted to: 1) lecture and discussion based on assigned readings and listening and viewing assignments; and 2) screening of selected audio and video works. Students are graded on class participation, journals, a paper, and exams. This course allocates as History & Criticism for Film & TV majors.

Undergraduate

History of Editing (FMTV-UT 1003)

The theory and practice of editing, from Griffith to Kubrick. The emphasis will be on experiments in narrative clarity and dramatic emphasis in storytelling. For many, editing is the unique source of the art of filmmaking. This course addresses this point of view. This course allocates as History & Criticism for Film & TV majors.

Undergraduate

The Black Image in Cinema (FMTV-UT 1216)

This is a critical analysis of the Black image in cinema through film screenings, discussions, and selected readings. Film is an art form whose influence dictates how we see others and ourselves. It shapes our worldview and, yet, it is one of the youngest and most misunderstood art forms. On the surface, film viewing might seem like a passive form of learning, but effective films engage us on emotional, intellectual, spiritual, cultural, and political levels. Film is one of the most powerful mediums ever invented and since it’s invention, the Black image and experience has been distorted, demonized, romanticized, erased, appropriated as well as exalted and reified. So, it is our duty and responsibility to know its history, understand its present effects, so we can dictate its future and participate in how the Black image evolves and is treated over time. This course will survey and critically explore an historical range of the Black image on screen and Black films in relation to inspiration, narrative, a scene, set, and site of production. Screening will include a sampling of important Black independently made, and/or Black cast and narrative feature films. We will discuss and analyze specific technical elements (direction, editing, framing and composition, mise-en-scene, music, etc.) that reinforce and demonstrate these larger themes. Accordingly, our discussions and readings will cover the full range of current issues and debates in Black cinema studies, from independence vs. mainstream filmmaking; gender and sexuality; class and color caste; the ghettoization and upwardly mobile integration of urban zones; cooptation and the rise of the bourgeois story as genre, and so on.

Undergraduate