Undergraduate Courses

Few values have been as unalterably disturbed as privacy by developments in new media and other information technologies. This course presents an inquiry into the impact of information and digital communications technologies upon privacy and its meanings. In order to examine at a deep level technology's place in society and the complex ways that technology and privacy each shape the other in interactive cycles of cause and effect. Philosophical analysis is balanced with significant contributions by legal scholars, computer scientists, social scientists, and popular social critics.

Private instruction for all skill levels in the literature & techniques of playing piano. Designed to foster appreciation of music & an interest in piano repertoire, musical interpretation, & music notation.

This course focuses on the skills necessary to engage in assessment of talent, role, & risk in the contemporary music business. Students will be exposed to the detailed thinking & decision-making process of high-level music business professionals, who will visit to work with them on the evaluation of work submitted by NYU songwriters, performers, producers, & other music creators.

Projects selected by students to reflect their artistic preoccupation or to provide research in particular skills, subjects, or trends in art and media. Students develop major art projects that are fully realized and represent an evolution from sketches to a finished book. Students may work in photography, video art, or digital art.

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest. Aesthetic & technical experiences that will enable the student to advance their understanding of the limitless possibilities inherent in the ceramic medium. Emphasis will be placed upon a sculptural/nontraditional approach to making objects in clay & will encourage invention, creative risk, & a personal interoperation of subject matter.

Focus on particular techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Past topics include art on the Web & advanced techniques in digital art.

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden skills & expression. Past topics have included the figure, the landscape, grisaille, pastels, & charcoal. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

Studio course with emphasis on the student’s evolving art practices in painting, interspersed within the standard studio class environment are lectures, class readings, guest artists & class trips. Class projects are a combination of specific prompts & self directed approaches. Concerns with “context” and “problem solving” factor heavily into the class dialogue. Projects also leave room for experimental approaches to art making, painting and non painting alike.

Students work directly with internationally recognized figures in photography. Topics for workshops range from the techniques of established photographers to discussions of issues in photographic theory, history, and criticism.

Students work directly with internationally recognized figures in photography. Topics for workshops range from the techniques of established photographers to discussions of issues in photographic theory, history and criticism.

Focuses on specialized materials & techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of faculty & student interest.

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills and expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.

Focuses on specialized materials & techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

Focus on particular subjects or techniques allows students to broaden the range of their skills & expression. Projects are chosen as a result of both faculty & student interest.

Overview of major areas in psychology that are critical to education; discussion of concepts & principles fundamental to the learning process & their application to teaching.

This course focuses on techniques of communication in public relations including creation of press releases, press packets and kits, and developing public relations campaigns.

Analysis of the problems of speaking to groups and practice in preparing and presenting speeches for various purposes and occasions. Hours are arranged for student evaluation and practice.

This course examines the political movement of queer and transgender artists and programmers
who are creating games and computational media. Throughout the semester, we will read work by queer,
trans, and feminist scholars and designers and play the games they created in order to situate today’s queer
and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people & people
of color. How might we re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games and software by centering game
studies on queer and trans life, history, & politics?

In this course, we explore queer and transgender identity through practice, theory, and politics. Approaching media from queer, trans, and intersectional lenses can inform the way we understand the circulation of power around media technologies, and enable us to better understand their histories and cultural contexts. Our approach is grounded in theories, case studies, and readings from communication and media studies. Students are equipped to bring tools from queer theory & trans studies to their everyday encounters with media, technology, and culture.

This course shines a bright light on racial inequality in the United States by focusing on structural disparities in key areas of American life: Income, wealth and employment; the right to vote, health and wellbeing, education and juvenile justice. Vanguard leaders from across NYU and across fields of Law, Public Health and Allied Health fields, Education, Social Work, and Public Policy provide insights on key scholarly and community-based frameworks they use to confront problems of inequality in the United States. They share their expertise in designing and implementing policy solutions that offer the promise of a more equitable future.