Courses

This course examines dystopia as a cultural and political framework for understanding crisis, power, and imagined futures. Students explore how literature, film, journalism, theory, and activist media engage conditions such as authoritarianism, inequality, ecological crisis, war, technological change, and social breakdown. The course also considers how media and cultural production imagine resistance, survival, solidarity, and alternative futures.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts

Public relations means different things to different things to different people but it has one undeniable element: communication. This course is concerned with arranging, handling, and evaluating public relations programs. Students work with actual case histories and deal with contemporary topics such as the use of the computer in public relations.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course will review & extend the material covered in a standard undergraduate music theory sequence, from the phrase of model through elements of tonal counterpoint & chromaticism to a study of large-scale forms. The focus will be on the Western European tonal traditions of the 18th & 19th centuries, with excursions into 20th century repertory as appropriate. Lectures will consider the pedagogy of music theory as well as a range of theoretical viewpoints. Weekly problem sets & analytical assignments will reinforce the class content.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This first course in a two-semester sequence reviews and extends material covered in a standard undergraduate music theory sequence, from the phrase model through elements of tonal counterpoint and chromaticism to a study of large-scale forms. Emphasis on Western European tonal traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, with excursions into 20th-century repertory as appropriate. Lectures focus on analysis, dictation, and written theory skills and homework assignments and dictations reinforce class content. Level I discusses diatonic tonal harmony.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course will review & extend the material covered in a standard undergraduate music theory sequence, from the phrase model through elements of tonal counterpoint & chromaticism to a study of large-scale forms. The focus will be on the Western European tonal tradition of the 18th & 19th centuries, with excursions into 20th century repertories as appropriate. Lectures will consider the pedagogy of music theory as well as a range of theoretical viewpoints. Weekly problem sets & analytical assignments will reinforce the class content.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This second course in a two-semester sequence reviews and extends material covered in a standard undergraduate music theory sequence, from the phrase model through elements of tonal counterpoint and chromaticism to a study of large-scale forms. Emphasis on the Western European tonal traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, with excursions into 20th-century repertory as appropriate. Lectures focus on analysis, dictation, and written theory skills and homework assignments and dictations reinforce class content. Level II focuses on chromatic tonal harmony.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Explores how college campuses became centers of political protest and cultural change. Topics include socialist and feminist student activism in Progressive era; 1920s Black student revolts, campus cultural ferment; 1930s Old Left-led mass student movements: 1960s New Left, antiwar, SNCC and Third World Student Activism, CIA infiltration; post-60s PC struggles, divestment movements, gay liberation, curricular change, unionization, conservative student activism from 1950s segregationists through YAF in and beyond the 60s.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course examines the relationship between media, empire, and revolution from the age of print and colonial expansion through decolonization and globalization. Students explore how media such as newspapers, pamphlets, art, telegraphy, radio, film, television, digital media, and other forms of communication have been used to build, govern, contest, and transform political power. The course considers media as both tools of imperial rule and resources for revolutionary, anti-colonial, and social movements.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

3D Modeling with Rhino is an introduction to 3D modeling using the Rhino computer program for Mac OS X. Students gain the technical knowledge needed to push rigorous exploration of 3D modeling, both in the physical and digital realm. The course covers basic model manipulation and rendering operations. The course also reviews the history of 3D printing and an examination of how modeling for 2D differs from modeling for physical output. By course end, students will have the opportunity to output their work via CNC milling, 3D printing, or 2D rendered visualization.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Students pursuing careers in music creation — songwriters, composers, instrumentalists, vocalists, engineers, producers, and others — need to be well-versed in myriad ways to protect and maximize the rights, revenue streams, and professional relationships that flow from their work. As music marketplace opportunities and distribution channels widen and diversify, music creators have far greater choices than ever before. Students explore the essential elements required to build a career and a life in music, examining them from the creator’s perspective.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students pursuing careers in music creation — songwriters, composers, instrumentalists, vocalists, engineers, producers, and others — need to be well-versed in the myriad ways they can protect and maximize the rights, revenue streams, and professional relationships that flow from their work. As music marketplace opportunities and distribution channels widen and diversify, music creators have far greater choices than ever before. Students explore the essential elements required to build a career and a life in music, examining them from the creator’s perspective.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines the emergence of the Internet as a commercial business. It pays particular attention to the various business models and practices employed in media-related enterprises, tracing their development from the late 1990s to the most recent strategies and trends. Case studies include the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), portals, search engines, early game platforms, the Internet presence of traditional media organizations, and social network platforms.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Examines the concepts & measurement of risk & resilience from the perspective of developmental psychology. Explores mechanisms & processes to disrupt risk & enhance resilience. Models of risk & resilience are analyzed.

• Department: Applied Psychology

The technique of 'stepping into the shoes of someone else' is at the heart of educational drama. This course focuses on the use of role play as a strategy in the classroom and similar settings, and it explores how teachers may employ this complex convention. It will define those characteristics that are specific to educational role-play and will provide participants with opportunities to practice the techniques and skills required or its successful implementation. The course will focus primarily on the strategy of teach-in-role. Students will be required to complete a written assignment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Course introduces students to the theory & practice of role theory & role method in drama therapy. Course provides an overview of sociological & theatrical theory as source material for drama therapy role theory and students will study & analyze the Taxonomy of Roles. Students will be introduced to the clinical applications of role method in working with a range of challenging conditions based in mental status, cognition, socioeconomic conditions & life stressors. In addition, students will be exposed to the extant research literature on role theory & method in the field of drama therapy.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A six-week internship in a scientific laboratory that provides students with a personal experience of the scientific enterprise. Each intern works as a research associate with a practicing scientist and prepares a report on his or her experience.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

The NYU Saxophone Orchestra is a conducted ensemble of 8-20 or more saxophones. Students have an opportunity to perform on the entire family of saxophones: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophones. The ensemble’s repertoire spans all styles, from traditional to contemporary music.(by audition)

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The NYU Saxophone Orchestra is a conducted ensemble of 8-20 or more saxophones. Students have an opportunity to perform on the entire family of saxophones: sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophones. The ensemble’s repertoire spans all styles, from traditional to contemporary music (by audition)

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Comprehensive study of saxophone-related topics, including repertoire spanning all style periods, sound, phrasing, articulation, technique, and physical setup.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Comprehensive study of saxophone-related topics, including repertoire spanning all style periods, sound, phrasing, articulation, technique, and physical setup.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions