Summer 2023
Additional courses for Summer 2023 will be added. Course listings are subject to change. Please check back regularly for updates and email global.academics@nyu.edu if you have any questions.
Students should submit a study away application and plan to enroll in a minimum of four in-person credits.
Use this google spreadsheet (www.bit.ly/summer23-global-courses) to view in-person courses and remote courses across global sites.
Abu Dhabi and Shanghai course equivalencies
- For Abu Dhabi students, please see the Abu Dhabi course equivalencies on this page. Please note this is only applicable to NYU Abu Dhabi degree students.
- For Shanghai students, please see the Shanghai course equivalencies on this page. Please note this is only applicable to NYU Shanghai degree students.
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Spanish for Beginners I - SPAN-UA 9001 - 4 Credits
Open to students with no previous training in Spanish and to others on assignment by placement test. 4 credits. Beginning course designed to teach the elements of Spanish grammar and language structure through a primarily oral approach. Emphasis is on building vocabulary and language patterns to encourage spontaneous language use in and out of the classroom.
Intensive Spanish for Advanced Beginners - SPAN-UA 9015 - 6 Credits
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 1 or the equivalent.
Intensive Spanish for Advanced Beginners is an intensive language course designed to help students with limited knowledge of Spanish strengthen their language skills and develop their cultural competency. The course covers the materials of Spanish 2 and Spanish 3 in one semester. Successful completion of this course prepares students for a fourth semester college Spanish language course.
Intensive Spanish for Advanced Beginners - Sample Syllabus (PDF)
Intensive Intermediate Spanish - SPAN-UA 9020 - 6 Credits
Prerequisite for NYU students: SPAN-UA 10 or SPAN-UA 2. Conducted in Spanish.
Completes the equivalent of a year's intermediate course in one semester. Promotes proficiency in reading and writing as well as oral performance. This course provides direct contact with and immersion in the Madrid community, supplemented by cultural activities, lectures, and excursions with professional guides and professors whose field of expertise corresponds to any given activity.
Intermediate Spanish II - SPAN-UA 9004 - 4 Credits
Prerequisites for NYU students: SPAN-UA 0003
Conducted in Spanish.
Intermediate Spanish Level II is a four-credit course that reviews and continues the material covered in Spanish SPAN-UA 0003. The principal goal of this course is to provide you with the opportunity to improve your oral and written communication skills in the language, by applying all the grammar rules you have learned and will be reviewing. You will be expected to substantially increase your working vocabulary and make solid progress in reading and writing skills.
Advanced Spanish - SPAN-UA 9050 - 4 Credits (IN SPANISH)
Prerequisite: SPAN-UA 4 or SPAN-UA 20, assignment by placement test, or permission of the director of the Spanish language program. Conducted in Spanish.
For non-native speakers only.
Designed to expand and consolidate the student's lexical and grammatical understanding of the language and to introduce the student to the fundamental principles of expository writing as they apply to Spanish, through exercises, readings, and intensive practice of various prose techniques and styles.
Topics in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture: Translation through Contemporary Film - SPAN-UA 9360 - 4 Credits (IN SPANISH)
Prerequisite of SPAN-UA 50 Advanced Spanish (or equivalent courses) OR Qualifying Placement Test Score. For non-native Spanish speakers only.
Comparison of Spanish and English grammar, syntax, and style, mainly by examining American and Spanish movie scripts and plays. Special attention is paid to colloquial expressions and cognates in both languages.
Blogging Spain - SPAN-UA 9112 - 4 Credits (IN SPANISH)
Prerequisite: Prerequisite of SPAN-UA 50 Advanced Spanish (or equivalent courses) OR Qualifying Placement Test Score. For non-native Spanish speakers only.
Conducted in Spanish.
This course aims to develop students’ written skills in a more sophisticated and academic manner in order to be able to report on their overall cultural experience in Spain. We will work with newspaper articles, podcasts, radio, and TV programs from Spanish media to cover current social, political and cultural issues. The coverage of political and cultural developments in Spain in American media will also be examined to complement our newsgathering and research.
Students will publish a blog that includes their different journalistic articles and their summaries about the different class and program activities. Therefore, our aim will be to acquire a broad understanding of Spanish modern society while developing new linguistic skills in Spanish.
Spanish Culture Through Cinema - SPAN-UA 9361 or DRLIT-UA 9551 - 4 Credits (IN SPANISH)
Prerequisites: SPAN-UA 50 Advanced Spanish OR SPAN-UA 51 Advanced Spanish for Spanish-Speaking Students (or equivalent courses) OR Qualifying Placement Test Score
Course can be taken concurrently with SPAN-UA 9050 or SPAN-UA 9051 (if offered).
Conducted in Spanish.
A survey of Hispanic cinema from the early beginnings of the silent movie to the present day. The works of important film directors from Spain and Latin America, like Buñuel, Gutiérrez Alea, María Novarro, and Almodóvar, are studied, as well as the phenomenon of cinema as a reflection of the political, social, and cultural development of the country and its people. A selection of the most representative films is shown in class and in theatres of arte y ensayo, such as the well-known filmoteca of Madrid.
Masterpieces in the Prado Museum - ARTH-UA 9338 - 4 Credits (IN ENGLISH)
Conducted in English. A gallery course focusing on the Baroque schools of Rubens and Rembrandt, "tenebrist" painting, Velázquez, and the etchings and paintings of Goya. Ends with a survey of the painters of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Texts and Ideas: Topics - Visible and Invisible Cities - CORE-UA 9400 - 4 Credits (IN ENGLISH)
The experience of living in a city is one vital thread that connects us with our ancient, medieval, and early modern ancestors, and that continues to provide a unifying element in millions of our contemporaries’ disparate lives across the globe. Urban life is a constant environment and stimulus, whether you find yourself in Madrid, New York, Florence, Accra, or Shanghai. Our aim is to supply conceptual frameworks and historical contexts for this experience by exploring the ways that human communities have been theorized and imagined throughout history.
The primary texts encompass utopian writings and works of political theory, but also texts describing and analyzing real-world communities as well as visual and cartographic representations of cities and urban space. The course will ideally make thorough use of the city of Madrid both as a resource (archives and museums, eg) and an object of analysis.
Spanish Culture Through Cinema - SPAN-UA 9361 or DRLIT-UA 9551 - 4 Credits (IN SPANISH)
Prerequisites: SPAN-UA 50 Advanced Spanish OR SPAN-UA 51 Advanced Spanish for Spanish-Speaking Students (or equivalent courses) OR Qualifying Placement Test Score
Course can be taken concurrently with SPAN-UA 9050 or SPAN-UA 9051 (if offered).
Conducted in Spanish.
A survey of Hispanic cinema from the early beginnings of the silent movie to the present day. The works of important film directors from Spain and Latin America, like Buñuel, Gutiérrez Alea, María Novarro, and Almodóvar, are studied, as well as the phenomenon of cinema as a reflection of the political, social, and cultural development of the country and its people. A selection of the most representative films is shown in class and in theatres of arte y ensayo, such as the well-known filmoteca of Madrid.
Comparative Fascism - HIST-UA 9290 or POL-UA 9516 - 4 Credits (IN ENGLISH)
Conducted in English.
This course will examine the intellectual history, social roots and historical evolution of fascist political movements in Europe. The course is comparative in method and scope concentrating on the common characteristics of all fascist regimes. Historically, the course will focus on the paradigmatic cases of the interwar period--Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany--as well as on the more unorthodox case of Francoist Spain.
Performance of the City: Madrid - PERF-UT 9103 - 4 points (IN ENGLISH)
A founding tenet of the Performance Studies field is the significance of the site where performance takes place–including its metropolitan environment. This course serves to introduce students to the many performance cultures of Madrid and to the ways in which its unique urban environment, its many histories, cultures, sub-cultures, and multi-cultures are staged and performed by the city’s residents, migrants, and visitors. The class will take Madrid itself as its main “performance” to analyze – by exploring the city’s past and present, its significant live art venues, and the varied public spaces where the population gathers in a collective spectacle of social relations. Readings in urban performance studies will be supplemented by class trips to all sorts of live events: from flamenco to skateboarding ramps, from public parades and religious processions to experimental theater and dance, from jazz to tourism performance, from small art galleries to its grand museums.
Comparative Fascism - HIST-UA 9290 or POL-UA 9516 - 4 Credits (IN ENGLISH)
Conducted in English.
This course will examine the intellectual history, social roots and historical evolution of fascist political movements in Europe. The course is comparative in method and scope concentrating on the common characteristics of all fascist regimes. Historically, the course will focus on the paradigmatic cases of the interwar period--Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany--as well as on the more unorthodox case of Francoist Spain.
Experiential Learning Seminar - CP-UY 2002G - 2 Credits (IN ENGLISH)
Enrollment by permission only. Application will open in December.
This is the required corequisite course for the Summer European Internship Program. This program provides students the opportunity to receive credit for a course associated with an internship found on your own. This program does not place students, but instead helps students who need an internship course to associate with existing internships. The application (coming soon) will require the most up to date version of your resume, the offer letter from your internship, and any contracts which need to be signed (i.e. Conventions de Stage, Convenios, etc.). Internships must be for a minimum of 6 weeks, beginning no sooner than May 20 and ending no later than August 15. For further questions, please contact global.internships@nyu.edu.