Cross Registration Guide

Frank Lantz
Interim Director
Email: frank.lantz@nyu.edu

Dylan McKenzie
Program Coordinator
Phone: (212) 998-1973
Email: dylan.mckenzie@nyu.edu

Website
http://gamecenter.nyu.edu

Course Offerings
http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/courses

Overview
The NYU Game Center, established in 2008, is an independent, multi-school center for the research, design and development of digital games. The Center is housed at the Tisch School in the Skirball Center for New Media and is a collaboration with NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Its goal is to incubate new ideas, create partnerships, and establish a multi-school curriculum to explore new directions for the creative development and critical understanding of games. In so doing, the Game Center will help establish New York City as a place of innovation and creativity within this important field.

The mission of the Center is to graduate the next generation of game designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and critics, and to advance the art, science and culture of gaming by carrying out research in an innovative and interdisciplinary environment. The Center’s students, both undergraduates and graduates, will be drawn from disciplines throughout the university, in particular from areas of study beyond those typically associated with game design in order to encourage a free flow of ideas and a broadness of vision throughout the Center.

The Center is currently in its initial phase of development, but once fully established, it will serve as a dynamic training ground of the future creative and business leaders of the gaming field and have a major impact on the game industry and the evolution of games as an art form, a mode of entertainment, an economic force, and a cultural practice.

“At the dawn of the twenty-first century, interactive systems surround us not just as the material reality of our lives but also as our primary method for understanding the world and our place in it. The study of games is the study of the aesthetics of interactive systems—their capacity to move us, to fascinate us, and to connect us in entirely new ways.”

-Frank Lantz

Letizia La Rosa
Program Coordinator
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions
Kimball, 246 Greene Street, 300
Phone: (212) 992-9408
Fax: (212) 995-4832
Email: ll409@nyu.edu

Program Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/humsocsci/history

Dept Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/humsocsci/

New Course - SPRING 2011

Introduction to American Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Course Number : E55.1055 or V57.0664
Credits: 4
Eligibility: Open to all undergraduates
Lecture: Monday and Wednesday, 3:30-4:45
Recitation: Monday, 9:30-10:45, 11:00-12:15, 4:55-6:10, 6:20-7:35

Course description: This course will introduce you to the central themes,
issues, and controversies in American education. What is the purpose of
³school²? How did schools begin, in the United States, and how have they
evolved across time? How do children learn? How are they different from
each other, and why and when should that matter? How should we teach them?
And how should we structure schools and classrooms to promote learning?

For more information, please contact Professor Jonathan Zimmerman at JLZIMM@aol.com.

The department offers two undergraduate History of Education courses:

E55.0610: Education and the American Dream: Historical Perspectives on Democracy and Education

Description:
The course will examine historical perspectives on the relationship between public schooling and the promotion of democratic ideals. Students will explore some of the central goals and purposes of American public education over the past two centuries, and the historiographical debates about those goals and purposes. In the second half of the course, students will the relationship between schooling and civic education, and between schooling and specific communities, in order to ask whether the goals of schooling might promote or contradict the goals of particular groups who seek to benefit from public education, and ways in which education does not promote democratic ideals.

E55.1033: The 'Culture Wars' in America: Past. Present and Future

Description:
This course will examine the origins, development, and meanings of so-called cultural conflict in the United States. Topics will include abortion, gay rights, bilingualism, and the teaching of evolution in public schools.