The Residential College

The Arts and Culture House will focus on encouraging residents to cultivate, collaborate and further develop their relationship with art and the learning of the ever-expansive culture that exists around us. As residents of New York City, students will have the opportunity to explore a city full of diverse experiences through its manifold artistic expressions (e.g., film, theater, museum exhibits, and the culinary arts). Residents will simultaneously deepen their knowledge of its various communities and learn to think about urban experience as a socially and culturally embedded phenomenon. Special emphasis will be placed on how urban experience and artistic representation can prompt us to become more critical and informed citizens of New York—and the world. 

The Global Connections House will focus on what it means to be a citizen, including how students can contribute to NYU, NYC, and the world. This community encourages residents to adopt a lens of international and intercultural perspectives by fostering relationships with one another through meaningful exchanges and interactions. Through the emphasis on interconnectedness, residents will also explore how international relations play out in our current world with its social and political climate. This house calls for those who are interested in engaging with cultures and welcome perspectives that may vary from their own.

The Big City, Small Footprint House will focus on natural science, the environment, and climate change. Residents within this community are passionate about living in a space that centers its discussion about the natural world, specifically unification, collaboration, social justice, and sustainability. This house will give residents the opportunity to learn about and discuss how innovative ideas and impassioned activism lead to sustainable solutions in New York City and beyond. It is designed as a space for residents to be able to further explore how we can consciously move forward in intentionally interacting with the planet as human beings.

The Innovation & Technology House promotes residents’ curiosity on topics related to game/computer design, virtual reality, biology, and chemistry. This house will be a space where residents can come together to appreciate, question, and further explore advancements in science and technology through a social and cultural lens. Topics such as the side effects of a global pandemic, and the rise of social media in its consumption of our daily lives, will allow residents to also reflect on concepts such as safety in the digital age. This discourse will not stop at science and technology, but also study their interface with law, business, and economics.

The Body, Mind, and Self House will focus on building a community where residents will be able to explore ways in which you can practice self-care in relation to physical, mental and emotional well-being. Residents will be encouraged to develop their own ideas surrounding what “healthy living,” looks like to them, and how they aim to adopt this definition into their lives as young adults, as college students, and as members of NYU. This community strives to help residents develop new tools, skills, mindsets and practices that they can incorporate into their everyday lives.

The Social Justice House will focus on discussions around global diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility. Residents will work to develop a space in which they feel empowered to have conversations regarding the political and social happenings of the world. This House will work to enhance cross-cultural understanding through taking a deeper look at injustices that take place in New York City and globally. Residents will be encouraged to take more active roles within civic engagement, and collaboratively engage in solution-based dialogue about ways that they can better tackle the realities of inequality and injustice around the world.