Undergraduate Courses

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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, & 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.

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.

Explores the subject of desire in modern media and culture. Freud's ideas have had a profound influence on everything from the earliest manuals on public relations to the struggles of modern feminism. We will read a range of psychoanalytic theorists while studying how their insights have been put to work by both the culture industry and its critics.

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

Overview of psychological theoretical frameworks, concepts, strategies & tactics of intervention & social change at different levels of analysis. Emphasis is placed on designing & implementing social change interventions in the domains of environmental behavior, poverty, inequality, health, education, conflict & peace, collective action & social movements.

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 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 and 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, and 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.

The course explores queer and transgender identity through the lens of film and
visual media. Through readings, films, and assignments, students investigate key historical moments of queer representation across a range of aesthetic genres, including Hollywood films, television, documentary, and New Queer Cinema, with emphasis on the American cultural context. Using key tools and insights from queer theory, we “read” these works as cultural texts that shed light on the ongoing struggle over gender representation, identity, and appropriate
sexual behaviors.

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.