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Advertising and Consumer Society (MCC-UE 1015)

Credits: 4
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Fri

This course surveys the history of advertising, branding, and consumer culture in a US and global context. It examines the history of advertising media, consumer practices, the spaces of consumerism, the role that consumption plays in identity, and the environmental impact of consumerism as well as the impact of digital media, social media, and data gathering on the emergence of brand culture.

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

Fall 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Crime, Violence & Media (MCC-UE 1012)

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

The cultural context of crime in relation to conventions of news and entertainment in the mass media. Topics include competing theories of criminogenic behavior, news conventions and crime reporting, the aesthetics and representation of crime in the media, the role of place in crime stories, 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 – 15 Weeks

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

Video Game Economies (MCC-UE 1008)

The course approaches video games through the lens of political economy. This means examining games foremost as commodities, transactional goods through which various modes of economic life occur. This course is designed to introduce students to the structure and economics of the game industry since its emergence in the 1970s, particularly across the United States, China, and Japan. Special attention is brought to the dramatic industry changes catalyzed by digital distribution, mobile gaming, live streaming, and other contemporary developments.

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

Sections (Fall 2025)

MCC-UE 1008-000 (8037)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Fri11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nooney, Laine

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

Censorship in American Culture (MCC-UE 1010)

An upper level course on the topic of censorship in American culture, from the late 19th century to the present. The course explores many of the areas where debates about obscenity and censorship have been urgently contested, from discussion bout birth control, to literature, film, theatre, art galleries and history museums, to public sidewalks, lecture halls, and the internet. The goal is for the students to have an enhanced understanding of the historical contexts in which important cultural and legal struggles over censorship have taken place, and to bring that understanding to bear on contemporary debates about the arts, sexuality, national security, media technology, privacy, and government involvement in the marketplace of ideas and images.

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

Sections (Spring 2023)

MCC-UE 1010-000 (22145)01/23/2023 – 05/08/2023 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gary, Brett

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

Visual Language and Storytelling: Visual Storytelling Through the Ages (OART-UT 290)

An overview of the development of visual storytelling throughout history. From the first creation of early hand drawn cave paintings to modern film production, all the essential elements of visual representation, visual imagery, visual grammar, and visual storytelling are explored. Lectures introduce and explain a variety of methods used to capture a visual image and how visual imagery, both with and without words, is used to convey meaning. Assignments are given for students to create their own visual imagery using these several different artistic formats. In class discussions then analyze the audience reception of the student’s work. The essential nature of visual storytelling is examined by analyzing how images collide to create new meaning, how a multiplicity of visual images are organized into a grammatical system, and how this system is managed in order to tell a visual story. The course examines how the basic tools of traditional narrative storytelling are also used in purely visual storytelling – to create a secondary world and to maintain a suspension of disbelief in order to inform, entertain, and affect the audience.

Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2020)

OART-UT 290-000 (21135)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Tue9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

OART-UT 290-000 (21136)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Thu9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by

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

Creative Fundraising (OART-UT 1093)

This course will cover both traditional and non-traditional financing and fundraising in the worlds of entertainment and the arts. Although our focus will be on the film world (with an emphasis on feature films), we will take occasional forays into the worlds of television, theatre, and music. We will also look at product financing. The goal of the course is to provide students with a framework for understanding the dynamics (as well as the specific routes) to raising funds for artistic endeavors. Many entertainment projects require significant capital before they can be realized. The negotiation and structuring of these deals may be a humbling experience, fraught with compromises that affect creative control over the final product. Producers need knowledge of financing tools and structures, an understanding of current economics driving the business, and skills in understanding new technologies and trends in funding. At its core, the course will help students develop a general understanding of fundraising and financing in the world of entertainment and refine the skills necessary to develop proposals that allow them to one day realize a creative vision.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 13496
Section #: 001
Meets: M 9:30a-12:30p

Spring 2026 Spring 2027 Undergraduate
Fall 2020 Fall 2022 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Intro to Game Development (OART-UT 1601)

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.

Open Arts Curriculum (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

OART-UT 1601-000 (14382)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by

IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Programming & Data) 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 #: 13463
Section #: 001
Meets: W 10a-1p


Class #: 13464
Section #: 002
Meets: T 9:15a-12:15p


Class #: 13465
Section #: 003
Meets: R 5-8p

Fall 2026 General Elective IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) January 2027 Spring 2026 Spring 2027 Summer 2025 Summer 2026 Undergraduate

Sound Design for Media (DM-UY 2113)

Credits: 3
Duration: 15 Weeks
Dates: Mon,Wed

This course explores sound design, primarily within visual contexts. The course will focus on the use of sound within visual and interactive media, including film, video production, interactive user experience, web design, and gaming. Students will create weekly studio assignments in all of these areas, with an emphasis on developing a strong competence in integrating digital audio techniques into other media. Final projects could include novel sound design developed for film, video, web, applications, or games. | Prerequisite(s): DM-UY 1113 or MPATE-UE 1001

Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

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

3D Animation (DM-UY 3133)

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

Students will learn advanced techniques of 3D computer animation, along with the theories and principles of motion including motion capture. Students will become comfortable utilizing cameras, lights, dynamics, motion, and effects in an industry-standard software. Comprehensive critiques will be conducted regularly to encourage good design for time-based animation. | Prerequisites: DM-UY 2133

Integrated Digital Media (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks

Fall 2025 IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Media & Entertainment) Spring 2026 Undergraduate
Fall 2019

Energy and the Environment (CCEX-SHU 203)

This course explores the scientific foundations of current environmental issues and their implications for public policy. The syllabus is divided into sections that each examines a current environmental theme in depth. The first sections investigate the composition of the atmosphere and the chemical processes that cause air pollution, ozone depletion, and global warming. Moving to the study of water, the course explores the properties of this unique solvent and the effect of various aqueous pollutants. The course also includes an investigation of energy from chemical reactions, our continuing reliance on fossil fuels, and the potential of alternative energy sources. The laboratory experiments are closely integrated with the lecture topics and provide hands-on explorations of central course themes. Throughout the course we also will examine how scientific studies of the environment are intimately connected with political, economic and policy concerns.

Exper Discovery in Nat World (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2019)

CCEX-SHU 203-000 (18237)09/02/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Amrita, Pal

CCEX-SHU 203-000 (18238)09/02/2019 – 12/13/2019 Fri10:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at ShanghaiInstructed by Amrita, Pal

Physical Science OR Life Science Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Fall 2020

Introduction to Performance Studies (PERF-UT 101)

To enter the field of Performance Studies is to proceed with a willingness to forgo strict definitions of art “objects” and “events.” The field encourages engagement with everyday life, performers from a variety of media, things inside and outside cultural institutions, and an expansive sense of the stage to reflect on how performance impacts our sense of the world. Music, theater, visual art, dance, and film are not divided into separate areas of study, but are necessarily engaged all together. While the question, “what is performance?” has mystified the minds of many, this course moves beyond this question to investigate: what does performance do? And how does performance help us to ask questions about aesthetics, politics, and the social world? The question “what does performance do?,” opens the line between theory and practice; a line that falsely separates the performer from the critic. Students will work together across these divides. In addition to deepening an understanding of the field of Performance Studies, students read texts that vitalize critical thinking in the humanities. The course engages theories of the field as they emerge from performances themselves, especially from the robust creative repertoires of New York City.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 19185
Section #: 001
Meets: M 9:30-11:15a


Class #: 19186
Section #: 002
Meets: W 9:30-10:45a

Expressive Culture Fall 2026 Undergraduate

Minds and Machines (PHIL-UA 9005)

An introduction to philosophy through the study of issues in cognitive science. Topics may include the conflict between computational and biological approaches to the mind; whether a machine could think; the reduction of the mind to the brain; connectionism and neural nets. Gives training in philosophical argument and writing.

Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

PHIL-UA 9005-000 (11094)09/01/2025 – 12/09/2025 Mon9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at NYU Paris (Global)Instructed by De Vignemont, Frederique

Fall 2025 Featured IMA Electives IMA Electives (Legacy Structure - Seminar/Studies) Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Texts and Ideas Undergraduate
Fall 2019 Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Spring 2021 Spring 2022

Art of Now (ARTCR-UE 55)

This course examines the current developments in contemporary art over the past decade – the art of ‘now’ – from the viewpoint of an artist’s practice & working ideas, looking at current global art production in aesthetic, economic, & social contexts. The major movements in painting, photography, sculpture, installation & performance are examined. Readings will be drawn from first hand interviews & point-of-view accounts, reviews, & critique; a major emphasis on interviews & online studio visits will accompany the texts. Guest artist lectures & off-site museum & gallery viewings will complement the weekly visual presentations & theory conversations. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent – satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures

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

Sections (Spring 2022)

ARTCR-UE 55-000 (12147)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Weiner, Andrew

Expressive Culture Undergraduate

Consumerism in Comparative Perspective (IDSEM-UG 1586)

Consumerism—the linking of happiness, freedom, and economic prosperity with the purchase and consumption of goods—has long been taken for granted as constitutive of the “good life” in Western societies. Increasingly, global economic shifts have made it possible for some developing countries to engage in patterns of consumption similar to those in the West, such that one quarter of humanity now belongs to the “global consumer class.” At the same time, however, nearly three billion people struggle to survive on less than $2 a day. This course takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to examine consumption in different societies, and we do so by asking several central questions: What are the key determinants of patterns of consumption, and how are they changed or reshaped over time? In turn, how do patterns of consumption shape class formation, racial inequality, identity, aesthetic sensibility, and international boundaries? How do practices of consumption inform the ways in which people understand their values and individuality, imagine success and failure, or conceive happiness? By reading widely in sociology, anthropology, and history we will develop a framework for analyzing the ethical, environmental and social justice implications of consumerism. Readings include case studies from the US, China, India, Europe and Africa Some likely authors include: Keynes, Marx, Marcuse, Benjamin, Mary Douglas, Bill McKibben; Arlie Hochschild, Lizabeth Cohen.

Interdisciplinary Seminars (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

IDSEM-UG 1586-000 (9400)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Tue8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Dacosta, Kimberly

Fall 2025 Societies & the Social Sciences 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