Please note that the language of instruction is noted at the end of each course title. (ie IN FRENCH or IN ENGLISH). For courses taught IN FRENCH prerequisites are listed above the course description. All French Language courses are taught primarily in French.
Enrollment in a FREN-UA 4-6 pts course taught in French is required for all students. This course must be taken for a letter grade.
Language Course Requirements and Placement- NYU Paris
Other students should refer to the NYU French Department's webpage here: http://french.as.nyu.edu/object/language.placement (under the heading language placement) for information about placement based on Exams. Please note that students that have some experience in the language but do not have a AP/IB/SAT test score or prior university course work in the language must take the NYU's Online Placement Examination to determine placement.
Open to students with no previous training in French. Not equivalent to FREN-UA 9010. Only by following FREN-UA9001 with FREN-UA9002 can a student complete the equivalent of FREN-UA9010 and then continue on to the intermediate level.
Presentation and systematic practice of basic structures and vocabulary of oral French through dialogues, pattern drills, and exercises. Correct pronunciation, sound placement, and intonation are stressed. For students with little or no command of French. Completes the equivalent of one year's elementary course. Textbook: Alors?
Continuation of FREN-UA 1. To continue on to the intermediate level, a student must complete both FREN-UA9001 and FREN-UA 9002. This two-semester sequence is equivalent to FREN-UA 9010.
Open to students who have completed the equivalent of a year's elementary level and to others on assignment by placement test. Not equivalent to FREN-UA9020. Only by following FREN-UA9011 with FREN-UA9012 can a student complete the equivalent of FREN-UA9020 and then continue on to the post-intermediate level.
Intermediate French I - Sample Syllabus Coming Soon
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 10 or FREN-UA 1-2. Open to students who have completed the equivalent of a year's elementary level and to others on assignment by placement test. Completes the equivalent of a year's intermediate level in one semester.
A continuation of FREN-UA 10, this course is designed to provide students that have already studied one year of French (or the equivalent thereof) with the remainder of the fundamentals of the French language and to give those students that have mastered the basics of French vocabulary, culture, pronunciation, and grammar the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the French language and the cultures for which it is a vehicle. Conducted in French.
Continuation of FREN-UA9011. To fulfill the MAP requirement and continue on to the post-intermediate level, a student must complete both FREN-UA9011 and FREN-UA9012. This two-semester sequence is equivalent to FREN-UA9020.
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 11-12 or FREN-UA 20. Open to students who have completed the equivalent of a year's intermediate level and to others who have passed the proficiency examination but who wish to review their French in order to take advanced courses in language, literature, and civilization.
This course is designed to give those of you who have already begun to deepen your understanding of the French language and French and francophone cultures the opportunity to complete your fifth semester of French by mastering a fuller range of vocabulary, structures, pronunciation, and cultural information. This class will thus prepare you to tackle the classes at the advanced level and eventually to delve into more specialized literature and civilization courses.
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 30, or assignment by placement test, or approval of the director.
Assumes a mastery of the fundamental structures of French. May be taken concurrently with FREN-UA9105. Helps the student to develop vocabulary, to improve pronunciation, and to learn new idiomatic expressions. Introduction to corrective phonetics and emphasis on understanding contemporary French through a study of authentic documents; radio and television interviews, advertisements, spontaneous oral productions, etc.
Spoken Contemporary French - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 30 or assignment by placement test
This course provides advanced French language students the opportunity to improve their pronunciation through a detailed analysis of the sound systems of both French and English.
French Phonetics - Sample Syllabus coming soon
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 30, assignment by placement test, or approval of the director.
This course is designed to help students to develop their vocabulary, further their mastery of grammar, and improve their ability to write informally and, more importantly, formally in French. There will be an emphasis on the understanding and production of sophisticated written French through a study of authentic documents such as newspaper articles and excerpts of longer works. There will also be considerable work on learning how best to proofread, edit, and rewrite written work.
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 30 or assignment by placement test.
Use of drama and theatre techniques to help students overcome inhibitions in their oral use of language. Exercises and activities are designed to improve pronunciation, intonation, expression, and body language. Students work in collaboration with the professor, trained in the experimental methods of the French director Jacques Lecocq. This semester's focus will be to analyze and reenact excerpts from Molière’s plays.
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 30, FREN-UA 105, or permission of the instructor.
Designed for students who wish to become familiar with the specialized language used in French business. Emphasis is on oral and written communication and the acquisition of a business and commercial vocabulary dealing with the varied activities of a commercial firm: advertising, transportation, banking, etc. Group work in simulated business situations and exposure to "authentic" spoken materials are stressed. Qualified students have the option of taking the Exam of the Chamber of French Commerce at the end of the course.
Prerequisite: FREN-UA 105 or FREN-UA 101 or assignment by placement test.
Helps students to strengthen and refine their abilities to express themselves with accuracy and fluency in both spoken and written French. Emphasis on debate, presentation, and argumentation in different settings (academic and non-academic).
This course combined and replaced FREN-UA 9102 and FREN-UA 9106 as of Fall 2019.
Pre-requisite: Either LING-UA 1, LING-UA 3, LING-UA 11, or LING-UA 13; students must also have taken FREN-UA 30 or an equivalent
This course provides a linguistic introduction to the French language. Students will learn how to analyze the underlying structures of the language by using formal tools developed in linguistic theory. We will focus on the following core areas of grammar: phonetics and phonology (sound system), morphology (word formation), syntax (phrase and sentence structure) and semantics (meaning). This course should be of interest to those who wish to strengthen their knowledge of French and to develop their formal linguistic tools on the analysis of the grammatical structure of the language. Conducted in French.
The Structure of French - Sample Syllabus Coming Soon
Prerequisite: Prior knowledge of French or at least one semester of French ie Elementary French I or the equivalent of 1 semester of French.
In this workshop students have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of phonetics and improve their pronunciation and comprehension of spoken French. Through listening exercises, poetry, and role-plays, students will work on articulation, rhythm and intonation.
Through a focus on contemporary Paris, the course explores the insights offered by anthropological approaches to cities and urban life. We consider the relationships between urban spatial organization and an array of social, economic and political phenomena; the relevance of consumption and display to the shaping of urban identities; and the shifting dynamics of social groups and boundaries within the urban context. Course readings are complemented by an opportunity to develop skills in ethnographic research methods; each student will carry out a sustained fieldwork project over the semester within a locus of everyday Parisian life, culminating in a final piece of ethnographic writing and analysis.
Students may work in a variety of realms such as drawing, painting, photography and/or folding. Students have the opportunity to create alongside the professor in her art studio, to develop a cohesive body of work over the course of the semester. The course includes visits to museums to explore the wide range of subjects and materials available to contemporary artists, and concludes with an exhibit of student work at the end of the semester.
Conducted in English.
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Art Practice - Sample syllabus
This course aims to understand and appreciate the creativity and dynamism of the Parisian art scene today through an exploration of contemporary art in the capital. The course will focus on the diversity of resources provided by the city, with special attention to new artistic practices and loci of production, as well as the multiple actors involved, from artists themselves to private galleries to art critics and museum curators. Reference to major avant-garde art movements of the past such as dada, geometrical abstraction, surrealism and expressionism will also be made in order to better situate today’s artistic concerns.
Conducted in English.
Topics in Visual Art & Culture: Art in Contemporary Culture - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
Note: Students are advised to leave space open in their schedule immediately (before/after) this course in order to allow travel time to and from museum visits which constitute an integral part of the class program.
Explores the contemporary arts in France in their historic and social context. Beginning with current trends, attempts to situate what’s new within a longer tradition of artistic production. Themes include the nature of the object, the monochrome, the body, the idea of nature, personal mythologies, the importance of light. The course includes visits to contemporary galleries and museums.
Some of the world's greatest non-Western art can be seen in Paris, in such museums as the Quai Branly, the Musée Guimet, or in the Sessions Pavilion of the Louvre. Students learn about these art works in relation to their religious, political, and social meanings and functions. In addition, the courrse addresses questions of collecting and display, asking how these objects arrived in Paris and their significance for the Paris art and museum world. In English.
For students seeking to gain Art History Major Credit this course bears a prerequisite of History of Western Art II (ARTH-UA 2), or Modern Art (ARTH-UA 6), or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Students taking this course for elective credit are permitted to enroll without this prerequisite.
Beginning by considering how impressionism refined and redirected the artistic aims of 19th-century realism, follows the development of progressive art to the brink of cubism and pure abstraction in the first years of the 20th century. Following impressionism and post-impressionism, close attention is paid to symbolism, aestheticism, art nouveau, the Arts and Crafts movement, fauvism, and expressionism. The aesthetic aims of these movements are analyzed in tandem with the social and cultural conditions that generated them.
Students conceive, produce, direct, and edit a short film exploring the Paris experience with smartphone technology. A survey of cellphone cinema history leads to the study of visual storytelling principles and techniques, which students apply through practical exercises. Choosing among available short film genres (experimental, documentary, portrait, essay, fiction), students are trained through every stage of the movie making process: pitching the idea, scripting and storyboarding, shooting, and editing. Each student finishes the coursewith a facility in smartphone video technology as well as a coherent film record of his or her particular vision of Paris.
Smartphone Cinema: Capturing your Paris Story - Sample Syllabus
Registration priority for CORE courses will be given to NYU CAS students. Other students will be able to register as space remains available. Please pay close attention to course notes displayed in Albert.
Students outside of CAS can find a list of pre-approved CORE equivalents below. Please note this list only includes Cultures & Contexts, Expressive Culture, and Text & Ideas, and may not be exhaustive. Consult your advisor for additional information on staying on track with your CORE requirements while studying away.
Cultures & Contexts Equivalents (approved by Steinhardt and SPS)
Expressive Culture Equivalents (approved by Steinhardt and SPS)
NYU Art History Majors and Minors: This course counts for Art History elective credit.
For all of the staid elegance and grandeur of Paris today, for much of its history the city developed in an ad-hoc manner, in fits and starts, beset by adversity, invasions, repression and want. We retrace this history through field study in the city’s different quarters, examining how the city’s urban form developed, and studying celebrated works of architecture, as well as the workaday structures that have defined daily life here. We explore how innovations in building, landscape design, and urbanism have sought to give the city a more livable, sustainable form, to inspire and create a sense of shared purpose and identity, but also how these arts have been used to suppress and control an often restive population. Throughout, we also consider contemporary questions facing Paris today: how can the city maintain the rich architectural and urbanistic heritage that has made it famous, while also remaining vital, sustainable, and providing quality of life and opportunities for all its residents?
Expressive Culture: Architecture in Paris Field Study - Sample Syllabus
Registration priority for CORE courses will be given to NYU College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) students. Other students will be able to register as space remains available. Please pay close attention to course notes displayed in Albert.
French films and French culture, examined by situating the films in their social, historical, and philosophical context. Topics include the relationship between the Avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century (futurism, cubism, expressionism, surrealism) and the cinematographic Avant-garde (Buñuel, L’Herbier, Cocteau), the echoes of classical French theatre (Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Musset) in the cinema of Renoir, the troubled period of the German Occupation and the work of filmmakers who deliberately chose to stay in France to continue their calling (Clouzot, Carné), and the influence of the existentialist circles of Saint Germain des Prés (Sartre, Camus) on the Nouvelle Vague.
Pre-requisite: MATH-UA 121: Calculus I or equivalent, MATH-UA 140 or MATH-UA 9140, MATH-UA 235, and grade of C or better in CSCI-UA 102: Data Structures.
Machine learning is an exciting and fast-moving field of computer science with many recent consumer applications (e.g., Microsoft Kinect, Google Translate, Iphone's Siri, digital camera face detection, Netflix recommendations, Google news) and applications within the sciences and medicine (e.g., predicting protein-protein interactions, species modeling, detecting tumors, personalized medicine). This course introduces undergraduate computer science students to the field of machine learning. Students learn about the theoretical foundations of machine learning and how to apply machine learning to solve new problems. Assuming no prior knowledge in machine learning, the course focuses on two major paradigms in machine learning which are supervised and unsupervised learning. In supervised learning, we learn various methods for classification and regression. Dimensionality reduction and clustering are discussed in the case of unsupervised learning
The course will consist of lectures and lab sessions.
Prerequisite: CSCI-UA 0201 Computer Systems Organization and experience with computer systems-level programming languages (e.g. C and C++ programming)
Recommended Prerequisite courses include CSCI-UA 0202 Operating Systems and CSCI-UA 0480 Computer Networks. Experience with web development also helpful
Technology increasingly permeates every aspect of our lives (including communication, finance, health, utilities, etc.) and the security of the computer systems that enable these services has become a critical issue. This course will cover basic principles of computer security and security engineering. It will provide an introduction to fundamental cybersecurity concepts, principles, and techniques. The course will focus on security from an attacker's perspective (threat modeling) and the defender's perspective (building and deploying secure systems). Specific topics will included operating system security, network security, web security, security economics and security psychology. Course projects will focus both on writing secure code and exploiting insecure code.
Prerequisite: CSCI-UA 101: Introduction to Computer Science
Use and design of data structures, which organize information in computer memory. Stacks, queues, linked lists, binary trees: how to iimplement them in a high-level language, how to analyze their effect on algorithm efficiency, and how to modify them. Programming assignments
Prerequisites: will be updated soon.
This course studies the fundamental concepts and principles of operating systems. Batch, spooling and multiprogramming systems are introduced. The parts of an operating system are described in terms of their functions, structure and implementation. Basic policies for allocating resources are discussed.
Introduction to Operating Systems - Sample Syllabus available soon
In this course we focus on four contemporary novels in which the world of the character, the narrator, or the author, is read through the lens of a literary classic. In each case, the reading and rewriting of the primary text involves temporal and spatial displacements (from the 18th to the 20th century, from Europe to the Caribbean and to the South Pacific) that generate shifting perspectives and a constant reshuffling of center and periphery. Between a reverential affiliation to the past and a creative misreading and rewriting of it, these intertextual encounters with « great » Western literary works insistently raise the questions of identity, originality, and “writing back”. Exploring these questions will therefore also involve drawing on comparative, translation, and postcolonial studies.
Studies in Prose Genres: Post-Colonial Readings of Classic Texts - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
Focuses on the historical and institutional bases of European integration in order to provide students an understanding of the European Union and how it works, its impact on everyday policies of the member states as well as the life of European citizens, and the kind of world actor the EU is or might become. Focuses as well on current-day concerns and in particular the on-going sense of crisis that has rocked the Union for the past several years.
France and the European Union: Europe in Crisis - Sample Syllabus
Enrollment by permission only. Application required.
This 4 credit course includes a weekly seminar and two full days and one half day (Monday-Friday) for their internship. Internship placements are made by EUSA, an organization partnering with NYU.
The seminar portion of the course explores many different aspects of your internship site. The goal is to finish the semester with an in-depth understanding of the company or organization, including its approach, its policies, and the context in which it operates. We will also discuss more generally the state of the contemporary workplace and ourselves as workers. Finally, you will use the seminar to reflect critically and analytically on the internship experience and as a way to refine your own personal and professional goals.
This course is reserved for MCC First Year students accepted into the MCC program.
This foundational writing course is required for CAS, Stern, Nursing, Social Work, Steinhardt and Tandon incoming undergraduates. Writing the Essay provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative and logical thinking, and clear, persuasive writing. Students learn to analyze and interpret written texts, to use texts as evidence, to develop ideas, and to write exploratory and argumentative essays. Exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning are emphasized.
Writing the Essay - Sample Syllabus coming soon
This course allows students to discover “Theater of the absurd”, a theoretical and practical approach to theater born of the complex historical, literary, and philosophical context of the Second World War. We will analyze the characteristics of this type of theater which continues to influence avant-garde themes and esthetics. Students will perform excerpts from selected works with a focus on the absurdity of situations, de-structuring language, and corporal expression. The approach of the course is intellectual, physical and creative. Theater outings and projections will be included. The principal works studied include: Ubu Roi d’Alfred Jarry, La Cantatrice Chauved’Eugène Ionesco et Huis Clos de Jean-Paul Sartre.
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
Focuses on the historical and institutional bases of European integration in order to provide students an understanding of the European Union and how it works, its impact on everyday policies of the member states as well as the life of European citizens, and the kind of world actor the EU is or might become. Focuses as well on current-day concerns and in particular the on-going sense of crisis that has rocked the Union for the past several years.
France and the European Union: Europe in Crisis - Sample Syllabus
An exploration of the historical and on-going contact between France and the Muslim world, including, most notably, the important Muslim population living in France today. The course examines the historical links between France and its colonial possessions in North and West Africa and the Middle East, the place of Islamic religious practice in a traditionally Catholic, and officially secular, France, and the frictions generated by newly politicized forms of Islam. Also considered is the ‘crisis’ of the banlieue, or French suburbs, and the cultural, generational, and religious tensions in evidence there.
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
An introduction to the problems of gender as they have been expressed in France. Beginning with an historical overview, we consider the category of ‘woman’ as it was defined from the Revolution to the founding of French feminism at the end of the 19th century. The second part of the course is devoted to an exploration of gender as a political issue during the past 20 years, through consideration of such topics as parité, prostitution, colonialism, post-colonialism, and queer studies.
In this course we focus on four contemporary novels in which the world of the character, the narrator, or the author, is read through the lens of a literary classic. In each case, the reading and rewriting of the primary text involves temporal and spatial displacements (from the 18th to the 20th century, from Europe to the Caribbean and to the South Pacific) that generate shifting perspectives and a constant reshuffling of center and periphery. Between a reverential affiliation to the past and a creative misreading and rewriting of it, these intertextual encounters with « great » Western literary works insistently raise the questions of identity, originality, and “writing back”. Exploring these questions will therefore also involve drawing on comparative, translation, and postcolonial studies.
Studies in Prose Genres: Post-Colonial Readings of Classic Texts - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
Fabulous Versailles, the synthesis of baroque and classical aesthetics and the cult of kingship, serves as an introduction to the study of major aspects of 17th- and 18th-century culture and French influence on European civilization. Approaches the intellectual, artistic, and social complexities of the period through the works of contemporary philosophers, dramatists, artists, memoirists, and field trips, and multimedia presentations of music and art.
Versailles, Life as Art in the Age of Grandeur - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
Given in the form of a workshop, this course allows students to improve their written expression through the study and practice of a variety of literary registers, mostly drawn from contemporary literature. The workshop associates literary creation and French language instruction with the firm belief that creative writing in French is possible for students at all levels. Its primary objective is the reinforcement of students’ written competencies in French, accomplished through intensive writing sessions with the common theme of Paris. Students are invited to appropriate Paris through various writing activities, inspired by writers such as Baudelaire, Perec, or Modiano, designed to help students capture the city through its movements, its images, and its different facets. The regular practice of creative writing as well as systematic re-writing of all work will allow students to reinforce grammatical structures while expanding vocabulary.
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
This course offers an introduction to central works in French literature, while presenting students with a toolkit for literary analysis. Eschewing a strictly chronological approach, we will explore some of the key lines of thought animating French literary production from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. Students will have the opportunity to refine their skills in reading and writing through in-class workshops devoted to techniques for close reading, developing a thesis from textual evidence, and identifying arguments in critical texts. Our objectives will be both to understand the diverse functions of literature as a cultural practice and to prepare students to take Discovery courses and other advanced seminars in literature.
In 2010 the "French gastronomic meal" was added to the UNESCO list of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity", thus granting official recognition of the important place food holds in the lore, tradition, and lifeways of France. Food in France is both broader and more complex, however, than the official appellation of the gastronomic meal might suggest. In this course we consider food and the myriad rituals of food preparation and eating as a means to gain insight into French history and expressive cultures, and as a way also of addressing contemporary concerns related to rapid social, economic, and political change. Topics include regional and ethnic diversity, taste and distinction, invented traditions and national identity, urban ecology, globalization, and terroir. Students will be encouraged to make ample use of resoruces in and around Paris.
The rediscovery and reinterpretation of scientific texts from antiquity in the sixteenth century, the invention of the scientific method in the 17th century, and the deep connections between science and Enlightenment philosophies in the 18th century are key moments in the way in which scientists, philosophers, and writers have sought to map the relationship between knowledge, the physical world, and society. This progress, for many, is the very mark of modernity. In this course, such connections will be explored, as well as the way notions of rationality, progress, ethics, and of the role of nonhumans have shaped social relations and humans’ relationship to the so-called “natural” (i.e. physical) world. Through readings in the history of science, literature, philosophy, ecocriticism, and anthropology, from the 17th century to today and our entrance into the “Anthropocene,” this course aims to tease out some of the major strands that constitute the scientific world view, as well as some of the ways in which literary texts and cultural productions nuance or question that world view, especially in our times of ecological crisis. Includes site visits in and around Paris.
Topics in French Culture: Science & Reason from Descartes to the Present - Sample Syllabus
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
The course explores how literature and cinema from 1945 to the present have covered the topic of the "Années noires" ("the Dark years"), or the period of German occupation in France. Figured against the backdrop of the events of World War II and the Occupation, the course examines the complexity of questions of identity, memory, and narrative in relation to this complex moment in French history. Includes texts by Sartre, Vercors, Modiano, Perec, Duras. Films include Les Jeux Interdits (René Clément), Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle), Night & Fog (Alain Resnais). In addition students are invited to participate in an overnight trip to visit important WWII memorial sites in France.
The German Occupation in French Literature and Cinema - Sample Syllabus
Enrollment by permission only. Application required.
This 4 credit course includes a weekly seminar and two full days and one half day (Monday-Friday) for their internship. Internship placements are made by EUSA, an organization partnering with NYU.
The seminar portion of the course explores many different aspects of your internship site. The goal is to finish the semester with an in-depth understanding of the company or organization, including its approach, its policies, and the context in which it operates. We will also discuss more generally the state of the contemporary workplace and ourselves as workers. Finally, you will use the seminar to reflect critically and analytically on the internship experience and as a way to refine your own personal and professional goals.
Through a focus on contemporary Paris, the course explores the insights offered by anthropological approaches to cities and urban life. We consider the relationships between urban spatial organization and an array of social, economic and political phenomena; the relevance of consumption and display to the shaping of urban identities; and the shifting dynamics of social groups and boundaries within the urban context. Course readings are complemented by an opportunity to develop skills in ethnographic research methods; each student will carry out a sustained fieldwork project over the semester within a locus of everyday Parisian life, culminating in a final piece of ethnographic writing and analysis.
It would be a misnomer to assume that technology is something we “use.” Rather, there is something quite non-technical about technology, which has an intrinsically social nature: technology socializes, it canalizes creative powers, and subjects us to mechanical and material manipulation. What is the relationship between techniques and technologies and their respective effects (ethical, cultural, aesthetic) on the category of the human? This course attempts to grapple with these questions through the development of a critical heuristic to help us map the topoi of the socio-eco-techno system. Drawing on mediology, ethics, and the French school of the anthropology of techniques, we explore such topoi in terms as both “deep” historical sediment and also futurology with a view to illuminating how our values are negotiated and transformed in relation to the technological. Conducted in English.
Open to Global Liberal Studies students only.
Course offered on pass/fail grading basis.
“Experiential Learning” is a 2-credit, Pass/Fail course that supports students in the Spring semester as they enter the workplace culture of the city through Community Placements which may include, but are not limited to, volunteer work, internships, or in some cases, independent research. Through class meetings, reflective writing, and individual conferences, faculty guide students to define an independent research project that grows out of the workplace experience, and which reflects a nuanced understanding of how the workplace culture relates to the social and cultural milieu of the city.
Lift your eyes as you walk down any street in Paris and you'll soon see a building adorned with the tricolore and the words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Turn a corner and in the distance you'll see the Arc de Triomphe built to the glory of Napoleon's army or the Eiffel tower erected for the centennial of the fall of the Bastille. Even the metro stops, Concorde, Nation, République, Austerlitz, Iéna, echo with the memory of the years of the French Revolution and the First Empire.
But what historic reality does all this evoke? What led some French people to overthrow their age old Monarchy, turn their backs on the Church and launch into a new era of Republican government? What caused others to resist such changes with all their might? And why did the experiment end within 10 years, giving way to military dictatorship and an Empire which spread French rule across Europe. This semester we shall explore these issues and others pertaining to the Age of the French Revolution & Napoleon through lectures, readings, discussions and site visits in and around the city of Paris.
Pre-requisite: Either LING-UA 1, LING-UA 3, LING-UA 11, or LING-UA 13; students must also have taken FREN-UA 30 or an equivalent
This course provides a linguistic introduction to the French language. Students will learn how to analyze the underlying structures of the language by using formal tools developed in linguistic theory. We will focus on the following core areas of grammar: phonetics and phonology (sound system), morphology (word formation), syntax (phrase and sentence structure) and semantics (meaning). This course should be of interest to those who wish to strengthen their knowledge of French and to develop their formal linguistic tools on the analysis of the grammatical structure of the language. Conducted in French.
The Structure of French - Sample Syllabus Coming Soon
Pre-Requisites: MATH-UA 121 Calculus I with grade of C or higher OR MATH-UA 211 Math for Economics I with grade of C or higher OR MATH-UH 1012 Calculus with Applications to Science and Engineering OR MATH-UH 1013 Calculus with Applications to Economics OR MATH-SHU 121 Calculus OR MATH-SHU 201 Honors Calculus
Linear algebra is an area of mathematics devoted to the study of structure-preserving operators on special sets (linear operators on vector spaces). Linear algebra is a cornerstone of any mathematics curriculum for two very important (and related) reasons: 1) The theory of linear algebra is well understood and so a first step in many areas of applied mathematics is to reduce the problem into one in linear algebra. 2) The spaces and operations studied in the subject are commonplace in many different areas of mathematics, science, and engineering.
Pre-Requisites: Math-UA 123 Calculus III OR Math-UA 213 Math for Economics III (for Economics majors) AND one higher level course such as MATH-UA 140 Linear ALgebra with grade of C or better.
Complex numbers and complex functions. Differentiation and the Cauchy-Riemann equations. Cauchy's theorem and the Cauchy integral formula. Singularities, residues, and Laurent series. Fractional Linear transformations and conformal mapping. Analytic continuation. Applications to fluid flow etc.
Pre-Requisites: Math-UA 123 Calculus III OR MATH-UA 213 Math for Economics III (for Economics majors) AND MATH-UA 140 Linear Algebra with a grade of C or better.
This course is an introduction to rigorous analysis on the real line. Topics include: the real number system, sequences and series of numbers, functions of a real variable (continuity and differentiability), the Riemann integral, basic toplogical notions in a metric space, sequences and series of functions including Taylor and Fourier series.
Introduces students to the study of contemporary forms of mediated forms of communication. The course surveys the main topics in the field and introduces students to a variety of analytical perspectives. Issues include: the economics of media production; the impact of media on individual attitudes, values and behaviors; the role of media professionals; the impact of new media technologies. With special emphasis on the study of news, advertising, political economy of the media, identity and representation.
Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society & Social Sciences for Steinhardt students
Debates about the role of crime in the media have been among the most sustained and divisive in the field of communications, and they are dependent on a foundation of equally divisive debates about “media influence.” This course will broaden this discussion to consider the culture of crime in relation to conventions of news and entertainment in the mass media, and its larger social and political context. Topics will include crime reporting, the role of place in crime stories, the aesthetics of crime, moral panics and fears, crime and consumer culture, and the social construction of different kinds of crimes and criminals.
Registration priority for Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) courses offered at NYU Paris will be given to NYU MCC majors. Other students will be able to register as space remains available. Please pay close attention to course notes displayed in Albert.
This course examines fashion both from its diffusion in a globalized society, and as a form of communication and culture. We will examine how fashion has been valued through social sciences – history and sociology on the one hand, and economy on the other hand, from its production to its consumption. The course will address fashion in terms of issues of consumerism and sustainability in a post industrialized society. Conducted in English.
Registration priority for Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) courses offered at NYU Paris will be given to NYU MCC majors. Other students will be able to register as space remains available. Please pay close attention to course notes displayed in Albert.
This course introduces students to the basic structures and practices of media in Europe and their relationship to everyday social life. It pays special attention to the common models and idioms of media in Europe, with an emphasis on national and regional variations. Specific case studies highlight current trends in the production, distribution, consumption, and regulation of media. Topics may include: national or regional idioms in a range of media genres, from entertainment, to advertising and publicity, to news and information; legal norms regarding content and freedom of expression; pirate and independent media; and innovations and emerging practices in digital media. Conducted in English.
Note: All Music and Performing Arts courses, Private Lessons, and Ensembles are conducted in English.
The aim of the Collegium is to provide music students with a variety of experiences which reflect Paris's unique musical history and culture. The course has two strands: a series of weekly lectures and/or concerts to acquaint students with French music and culture, and guided projects to ensure each student's contact with Parisian peers, institutions, or mentors in their chosen area.
Prerequisite: Music History I, or success in placement exam
The history of musical styles in the baroque and classical periods.
Music History II: Baroque and Classical - Sample syllabus
Prerequisite: MPATC-UE 1077, Music History III, or success in placement exam
Evolution of contemporary compositional techniques traced from impressionism to the latest avant-garde experiments.
Music History IV: Twentieth Century Music - Sample syllabus
Prerequisite: MPATC-UE 35 Music Theory I. Corequisite: MPATC-UE9007 Aural Comp in Music II
Further projects in diatonic tonality and an introduction to simple forms.
Prerequisite: Music Theory III, or success in placement exam
Introduction to the materials and organizing principles of 20th-century music, including extended chromaticism, modes, atonality, and jazz.
Music Theory IV: 20th Century - Sample syllabus
Prerequisite: MPATC-UE 6 Aural Comprehension in Music I. Corequisite: MPATC-UE 9036 Music Theory II.
Continued training in elementary musicianship skills.
Prerequisite: MPATC-UE 8, Aural Comprehension III, or success in placement exam
Continued training in intermediate musicianship skills.
Prerequisite: Keyboard Skills I, or success in placement exam
Development of functional keyboard skills for music majors. Emphasized skills: technique, score reading, melodic harmonization, transposition, popular chord reading, & harmonization.
Prerequisite: Keyboard Skills III, or success in placement exam
Development of functional keyboard skills for music majors. Emphasized skills: technique, score reading, melodic harmonization, transposition, popular chord reading, & harmonization.
Registration priority will be given to Steinhardt Music Tech students. Other students will be able to register as space remains available. Experience with music technology required with knowledge of Max/MSP. Please pay close attention to course notes displayed in Albert.
This course focuses on three important areas in music technology: spatialization, computer aided composition, analysis & synthesis techniques. In each area, concepts & implementations will be explored in a variety of artistic & technological contexts. Students will work with the latest technologies including IRCAM Tools, Spat plugin, Max Bach library, Ambisonics, & Wave Field Synthesis. The course includes a 3-hour weekly lecture, 3-hour studio lab, & workshops at IRCAM. This course is taught in collaboration with IRCAM in Paris, one of the world leading institutions in computer music and acoustics.
Sound Design and Spatialization - Sample Syllabus Coming Soon
Private lessons are available only to Steinhardt performance majors for whom lessons are required. Students may register for only one private lesson per semester.
No prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may only register for one private lesson per semester. Visiting students who are Music majors should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
One hour per week. (Includes Classical and Jazz styles).
No prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may only register for one private lesson per semester. Visiting students who are Music majors should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
One hour per week. (Includes all string orchestral instruments and guitar, classical and jazz styles).
No prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may only register for one private lesson per semester. Visiting students who are Music majors should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment. One hour per week. (Includes traditional, music theatre, film scoring and jazz).
No prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may only register for one private lesson per semester. Visiting students who are Music majors should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
One hour per week. (Includes classical, music theatre and jazz styles).
No Prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may register for one private lesson per semester. Music majors from visiting schools should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
Private or group lessons (by examination) in woodwind instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.
No Prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may register for one private lesson per semester. Music majors from visiting schools should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
Private or group lessons (by examination) in brass instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.
No Prerequisite. Private lessons are restricted to Music Majors only. Students may register for one private lesson per semester. Music majors from visiting schools should email Maura Fenotti at maura.fenotti@nyu.edu to request permission to enroll.
Private or group lessons (by examination) in percussion supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.
Provides an overview of important developments in French philosophy from the 16th century to the 1940s and 1950s. Beginning with the epistemological and metaphysical debates that followed the rediscovery of Ancient philosophy and the Copernican revolution in the sciences, we will consider Montaigne’s skepticism, Descartes’ attempts at securing our knowledge of the soul, God, and the external world, and Condillac’s empiricist critique of Descartes’ theory of knowledge. We will then focus on major developments in French political philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries, closely intertwined with political events in France at the time, including such figures as Rousseau, Proudhon, and Tocqueville. Finally, we will look at two of the major movements in French philosophy in the first half of the 20th century: Henri Bergson’s attempts to understand the temporal duration conscious beings inhabit, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir’s distinctive development of existentialism, a philosophy that grapples with the radical consequences of human freedom. Conducted in English.
Prior introduction to logic or linguistics is welcome, but not mandatory.
Examines various philosophical and psychological approaches to language and meaning, as well as their consequences for traditional philosophical problems in metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Discusses primarily 20th-century authors, including Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine.
This course is reserved for MCC First Year students accepted into the MCC program
Building on the tradition of the bildungsroman, or the notion of coming of age, this course will examine how various forms of cultural expression, including visual art, poetry, literature, film, and music, reflect and trace paths of emotional and intellectual development. Students will study and discuss a selection of artistic works across a variety of genres and historical eras with a view to understanding how art is tied to experience, and the importance of the search for meaning as fundamental to all education. Literary examples may include works by Austen, Chaudhuri, Joyce, Goethe, Dangarembga, etc., but should include some texts from the French tradition and/or about the French experience (eg. Voltaire, Rousseau, Stendhal, Flaubert, Balzac).
(Liberal Arts Core/CORE-MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures).
Literature, Art, and the Path of Life - Sample Syllabus (from NY Campus offering)
Prerequisite of FREN-UA 30 or FREN-UA 9030
Focuses on the historical and institutional bases of European integration in order to provide students an understanding of the European Union and how it works, its impact on everyday policies of the member states as well as the life of European citizens, and the kind of world actor the EU is or might become. Focuses as well on current-day concerns and in particular the on-going sense of crisis that has rocked the Union for the past several years.
France and the European Union: Europe in Crisis - Sample Syllabus
Courses at our Partner Universities and Institutes are offered in both English and French.
Students interested in enriching their immersion experience in Paris should strongly consider taking a course at one of the French Universities campuses with which NYU has a partnership agreement and that offer high quality teaching. These include the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris 7 Paris Diderot (also called University of Paris), University Paris Dauphine PSL and the prestigious Institute of SciencesPo.
Be sure to take the time to look through the course offerings below in order to make the choice that best fits your academic interests. Please note that the course offerings listed here are for reference only and are subject to change.
In order to take a course at the University of Paris you must first be administratively enrolled at that university. You will be asked to choose which university you want to administratively enroll in when you fill out your University of Paris Registration Form on your Enrollment Portal. This will lead to deadlines and specific procedure instructions that must be scrupulously respected.
Department of Anglo-American Studies at the University of Paris 7 Diderot
A selection of past course offerings, for reference only:
A selection of past course offerings, for reference only:
Globalization and Economic Integration (in English); the list will be available in December or January.
Transformations and Revolutions: exploring English History (16th-18th centuries) in English.
Migration and Mobility in Early Modern Europe (In English).
Empires and Imperialism (19th and 20th centuries).
Students may compliment their local course load by enrolling in an online or remote-taught course. Some of NYU's online courses can be found using the Instruction Mode filter in the Albert Course Search. Please keep in mind that you must be enrolled in at least 12 credits of courses at your study away site (remote-taught/online courses do not count towards the 12 credit minimum requirement). Note, online/remote taught courses are not scheduled on the same session as the courses offered by the study away site, add/drop dates and other academic deadlines will vary. Please refer to Albert course notes for more details. Online/remote taught course commitments should not interfere with student attendance in local classes and required program activities (including orientation).