Cross Registration Guide

Office of Special Programs
721 Broadway, 12th Floor
Phone: (212) 998-1500
Fax: (212) 995-4578
Email: tisch.special.info@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/page/openClasses.html

Undergraduate Course Offerings
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/Xregmain.html

The Tisch Open Arts Curriculum consists of a series of Tisch School of the Arts courses open to all undergraduate and graduate students at New York University. These courses span several disciplines from filmmaking to screenwriting to photography to acting and beyond.

Minor Requirements
Tisch offers four minors in Documentary, Performance Studies, Producing, and Film Production. Details can be found here.

Department of Drama
721 Broadway, 3rd floor
Phone: (212) 998-1850
Email: tisch.drama.ug@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://drama.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

Overview
The Department of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts is unique in the nation for its combination of rigorous conservatory training and broad-ranging academic education. Using the incomparable theatrical resources of New York City as well as the superb intellectual resources of New York University, the department has created a uniquely balanced B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) program that aims to establish the artistic and intellectual foundations for a successful professional life in the theatre and allied disciplines.

Registration
The Tisch Drama department offers a number of courses open to non-majors. These courses range in topic from performance technique to studies of contemporary playwrights and foreign forms of drama.

Most non-performance related theatre studies courses (i.e. courses about dramatic literature, dramaturgy, criticism, etc.) should be open to non-majors. If presented with problems registering please contact the department at (212) 998-1850 for assistance. Theatre Studies courses can be found here.

Private Voice Lessons
Individual lessons with Drama Department voice faculty meet once a week for thirty minutes. They are designed to strengthen the actor/singers vocal instrument and provide the student a technical base to build the voice and protect it against misuse. The approach to technique is classical, but material from various genres can be worked on. Day and time will be arranged individually. To be considered, a student must: 1. REGISTER FOR WAITLIST ON ALBERT: Using the course call number, place yourself on the waitlist for the course. Note: Everyone is forwarded to the waitlist so that we can maintain a list that is clearly ranked in order of registration. This way, students can be contacted on a first come, first served basis. 2. FILL OUT THE FORM: At the 3rd floor Drama Department Front Desk, you will find a box with Private Voice Lesson forms. (Forms are also available to download from the Tisch Drama website, under Registration.) Fill one out after you know your class schedule. Include up-to-date contact information. As we proceed down the waitlist, we will use this form to schedule your appointment based on the information and preferences you provide and then contact you to confirm. Remember: NO FORM, NO LESSON. WITHOUT A FORM YOU WILL NOT BE CONTACTED.If you are confirmed for a lesson time, you will be taken off the waitlist and registered (by the Department) in the course after your lessons begin.

Gallatin students are not eligible to audition for Tisch Drama-sponsored plays and performances.

Minor Requirements
A minor in Performance Studies is now being offered. The Performance Studies Minor is intended for students who are interested in delving into the impact that performance can have on culture. It will enable students to develop a greater understanding of how performance has meaning to daily life and how it can shape both a social and political landscape. For more information consult the following link:
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/PSMinor.html

***OPEN ARTS STUDIO***
Only offered in the Spring Semester, the Open Arts Studio provides students with an 8-credit professional studio course of study similar to what Drama majors receive through their studio education. Applications for admission are due in early Fall preceding the Spring semester in which a student wishes to enroll in the studio. More information can be found here:
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ssatacting.html

GMTW Program Office
715 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Phone: (212) 998-1830
Fax: (212) 995-4873
Email: musical.theatre@nyu.edu

Dept Website:
http://gmtw.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

The department offers the course "The American Musical" CINE-GT 1302/GMTW-GT 1002 which is open to all undergraduate and graduate students regardless of major. A description of the course can be found below:

What is The American Musical? What are its roots? Where is it going? How do words, music and drama mesh to create something greater than each element alone? What made the magic of the fabled collaborations? These questions and many others are explored through a survey of the history of the “American Musical.” The course will focus on landmark works and writers, utilizing audio and video recordings, and script analysis. Included are the works of Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jonathan Larson and others. This course counts as TSOA and Gallatin Humanities Requirement, (except for TSOA Drama Students).

If presented with any issues registering for the course, please contact the department at (212) 998-1830.

For general questions:
Department of Cinema Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Phone: (212) 998-1600

For specific registration questions (i.e. about a particular course):

Ken Sweeney
Program Administrator
Phone: (212) 998-1603
Email: kcs1@nyu.edu
or
Melanie Daly
Department Coordinator
Phone: (212) 998-1594
Email: melanie.daly@nyu.edu

Dept. Website:
http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home

Information regarding the minor in Cinema Studies can be found under "Downloads" on the right side of this page:
http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/object/cs_ugba.html

Details for all other Tisch minors can be found here:
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/page/minors.html

Overview:
The Department of Cinema Studies is one of the first university departments devoted to the history, theory, and aesthetics of film and the moving image. The approach to cinema is interdisciplinary and international in scope and is concerned with understanding films in terms of the material practices that produce them and within which they circulate. Film has been the primary object of study in the past; however, in recent years, the department has expanded to include other media that fall within the realm of sound/image studies (e.g., broadcast television, video art, and on-line technologies).

Special Information:
Approximately 3 undergraduate courses each semester are open on Albert to all students.
The majority of Cinema Studies classes open to outside students are restricted with access codes. Interested students should come to the department between 10 am - 4 pm to get an access code.

Course offerings can be found at the link below. Courses open to all students are Tier Three and courses that are open to non-majors but require an Advisement Form are Tier Two. Only Tisch majors can take Tier One courses.

http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ugcinema_courses.html

Please be aware that if a course is described as restricted to cinema studies students it is not open to any students outside the program, regardless of whether their concentration involves cinema studies. Students should not e-mail individual faculty members for permission to register for such courses. Questions or comments about this should be directed to the Program Adminstrator, Ken Sweeny.

Minor:
The Minor in Documentary was designed for students who are interested in using compelling forms of media as a means of social change. It is the first of its kind, offering a structured curriculum that delves into the history, practices the hands-on mechanics of production, and explores the means in which to distribute the final film.

For more information consult the following link:
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/DocMinor.html

Brianne Powell
Administrative Coordinator
Phone: (212) 992-8408
Email: brianne.powell@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://clivedavisdept.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

Overview
The Recorded Music B.F.A. undergraduate program is designed to provide professional training for students who aim to succeed as creative entrepreneurs in the music industry. A creative entrepreneur is a driven, passionate individual who starts and runs an innovative business enterprise.

Registration
Courses open to non-majors:
http://clivedavisdept.tisch.nyu.edu/object/nonmajorcourses.html

Non-major request form
http://clivedavisdept.tisch.nyu.edu/object/remunonmajorrequest.html

New Spring 2011 Course Offering!

Social Entrepreneurship in Music
H85.1270 Business, 4 Credits
Instructor: Lauren Davis
(212) 992-8403
Wednesday Evenings, 6:20pm-9:00pm
Are you inspired by the power of music to cause change? Do you have a bold idea for a new business that fuses your passion for music with your commitment to social change?
Become part of an exciting field by learning successful strategies that will transform your ideas for change into action. Through readings, class discussions, and team projects that are fortified by first-hand field experiences and concrete advice from leading social entrepreneurs in music, you will develop the confidence, skills and strategic framework to achieve and sustain social change.

Contracts and Dealmaking in the Music Industry
H85.1223
Tuesday Evenings, 3:30pm-6:10pm
Learn how to draft and negotiate music industry agreements that are essential to your future career success. Develop strategies for navigating legal conflicts you are likely to face as a rising creative entrepreneur. This class is geared to all Recorded Music majors and non-majors who are planning a career in the music industry.

Topics in Recorded Music: Latino NY
REMU-UT 1108.001
#16867, 2 credits
Ned Sublette, W 6:20pm – 9:05pm
This course meets the first half of the semester, 1/23 – 3/9.
This course investigates the Latino/a presence in New York City through a history of its music. We move chronologically through the genres of Cubop, Mambo, Boogaloo, Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Latin Freestyle, Hip hop, and Reggaeton to think about the performances of these musical styles as forms of documentation. Through engaged and attentive listening to recorded examples, we will begin to develop an ear for nuance. This careful register will enable us to actually hear the particular immigration histories, processes of racial formation in the U.S., shifting conceptions of gender and sexuality, the dynamics of the recording industry, intergenerational conversations and bilingual play, which are articulated in the music itself. We will complement this musical writing of (and on) the city with outside texts including fiction, scholarly articles, class lectures, and field trips.

Topics in Recorded Music: Fela Kuti
REMU-UT 1114.001
#18825, 2 credits
Vivien Goldman, W 6:20pm – 9:05pm
This course meets the second half of the semester, 3/19 – 5/12.
Enhanced by multiple samplings by hip-hop artists, a successful international musical and an upcoming Hollywood feature film, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's popularity has exploded since his passing in 1997. Now Fela's fame and authority has ascended to its rightful place in the pantheon of inspirational activist artists like Bob Marley and John Lennon; the first and - so far - only artist from Africa to attain that level of recognition. In this course we examine a number of topics related to Fela and his music and politics: the history of colonial and post-colonial Nigeria; Nigerian traditional and indigenous popular music and their relationship to global pop; Yoruba arts, culture and spiritual beliefs; the intertwining connections between African and African-American music that underpin Fela's sound, Afrobeat; Fela's family history; his unique trajectory as an activist artist who evolved his own sound, Afrobeat; the formative phases of his musical and political development in Nigeria, London and Los Angeles; his role as bandleader and the opening of his club, the Shrine and his state-within--a-state, the Kalakuta Republic; the truth behind the sensational aspects of his lifestyle; Fela's provocative defiance of a series of military dictatorships and frequent incarcerations; Fela's music and lyrics and their co-relation to his times; his relationship to the African and global music business; Fela's relationship with women. Afrobeat Aesthetics; Fela's visual representation of his message; his and the Queens' fashion and dance style.

Women as Entrepreneurs in Popular Music
REMU-UT 1170.001
#16847, 2 credits
Lauren Davis, T 6:20pm-9:05pm
This course meets the second half of the semester, 3/19 – 5/12.
Women are making significant contributions as creative and business leaders in all areas of the music industry. In this course, students will learn about entrepreneurship as a process that can be applied to launching and sustaining a successful creative business enterprise in the music industry. Students will first engage in a historical and critical examination of the role that women have played, and the skills that have enables them to succeed, as creative and business leaders in popular music. Class discussions will focus on helping students identify and develop the skills and strengths they need to become future artistic and business entrepreneurs. Guest speakers will include women entrepreneurs who are leading companies and who have successfully started their own business ventures in the music industry. Students will learn the circumstances and strategies behind their success. By the end of the course, students will put together an individual short term and long term plan to advance their careers as future executives and leaders in the music industry.

Cosmopolitanism & Pop Music
REMU-UT 1151.001
#18489, 2 credits
Jason King, M 6:20pm – 9:05pm
This course meets on the following dates: 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/27, 3/5, 3/26.
Hugh Masekela, Shakira, Paul Simon, David Byrne, Yma Sumac, Freddie Mercury, Peter Gabriel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Fela Kuti, Youssou N'Dour, Manu Chao, Grace Jones, MIA, K'naan, Damon Albarn....In this seminar, we look at the changing role of the recording artist as world citizen. Cosmopolitanism has been described as the willingness to competently engage in a range of different cultures. We’ll read seminal works on cosmopolitanism and on popular culture by authors like Ulf Hannerz, K. Anthony Appiah, Henry Jenkins and Paul Gilroy. We’ll grapple with the challenging terminology scholars have deployed to address issues related to globalization and diaspora. We’ll analyze work created by artists with cosmopolitan backgrounds and influences as well as cosmopolitan experiences of cities and cosmopolitan objects in transit: mobile and mashed-up pop culture products, often stripped away from their original contexts. We’ll consider the rise of the “world music” genre in the 1980s (spearheaded by artists like Simon and Byrne) and we’ll address the creative output of musicians like N’Dour and M.I.A, each of whom has respectively grappled with the challenge of producing cosmopolitan art and style. We’ll also pause to consider the continually evolving Asian/Asean and Middle Eastern pop culture industries. By the end of the course, students should acquire a greater understanding of the role music play in helping to shape the global world order of the last 30 years; and, conversely, the impact of the current geopolitical climate, particularly after the events of 9/11, on the creation and distribution of pop music.

Emily Brown
Department Administrator
Department of Art & Public Policy
665 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 992-8200
Email: tisch.arpo@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://app.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

Overview
The courses offered by the Department investigate the social, ethical and political issues facing contemporary artists and scholars, and examine public policy issues that affect their ability to make and distribute their work. The courses are interdisciplinary and may be team taught, may include a practicum as well as theoretical and historical investigations, and may be available to graduate as well as undergraduate students. (Courses are designed to fulfill general education requirements for Tisch undergraduates in all disciplines.) While these courses are primarily for students at Tisch, students from other divisions of New York University are welcome to enroll with permission of Randy Martin, Chair of Art & Public Policy.

Registration:
Most courses are open to non-majors and are restricted only by class standing (i.e. Sophomores and Juniors only, Juniors and Seniors only, etc.)

Liz Andrews
Administrative Assistant
Photography & Imaging
721 Broadway, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-1926
Email: photo.tsoa@nyu.edu OR liz.andrews@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

Overview
The Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch offers a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within a university, our program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. We are a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives, and our 130 majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making and multimedia.

Registration
All non-majors who are interested in taking courses in the department must fill out this form for each course: http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/pinonmajorrequestform.html

Students are encouraged to take advantage of Photo & Imaging courses for non-majors listed here (select Photography and Imaging and the semester you're registering for):

http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/Xregmain.html

All other courses can be found via the link below and may require special permission. If such restrictions are not already listed in the course description or on Albert, please contact http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/page/curr_course.html

Spring 2011:

Advanced Photoshop
H82.1260, 3 Credits, Studio
Cate Fallon, Thursday 9:30-1:15
721 Bway, 843
Prerequisite: Photography and Imaging Digital, Photoshop or permission of the department.

The creative potential of digital photography is opening a new world of intellectual and practical questions. Whether using Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, to create images for screen or print, basic concerns of image integrity and quality become paramount. In this class Students will learn how to control and expand their use of Photoshop to create a portfolio of images representing their best and fullest artistic intentions. Emphasis will be placed on using Photoshop to explore the aesthetic and compositional aspects of your images as well as exploring the potential for creating or constructing images from photographic source material and graphic design principals.

A grounding in the basic tools of Photoshop and the techniques of digital photography is assumed, so only the first two sessions will be a review of basic tools and concepts. While Photoshop is a tool for a wide variety of digital platforms, the focus of this class will be on traditional digital printing.

This course has two primary requirements: first, a printed portfolio of at least 10 images and one large exhibition print; and second, to develop an efficient work process and appreciation for contemporary digital imaging, students will be required to complete small weekly assignments and visit local galleries.

Senior Focus: Business of Art
Kalia Brooks; Thursday 11:00-1:00
H82.1100; 2 credits

This class will attempt to demystify the questions and decisions young artists face when choosing a profession in the arts. Central to the course is understanding an artist’s creative growth and lifestyle choices are inextricably entwined with his/her financial security. Young creative professionals need to realistically assess their future goals and aspirations in order to find their niche in the worlds of both art and commerce, while supporting their larger creative vision. This class is largely a survey of the many career choices available to artists. Topics covered will be: graduate schools, careers in teaching, editorial, advertising, stock and corporate photography, art buying and photo editing, photo assisting, galleries, artist’ s residencies, grants and fundraising sources, portfolio preparation and marketing resumes. The class relies heavily on guests from the publishing, business and art world, giving students the chance to show their work to, and elicit advice from, top industry professionals.

This class is designed for Photography & Imaging seniors. Other aspiring photographers should contact the department to register: 212-998-1930 or photo.tisch.nyu.edu

SPRING STUDIO COURSES
Studio courses charge a non-refundable lab fee of $360.

Photography 2 for Nonmajors: Digital Photo for Analog Photographers
PHTI-UT.1002 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT. 1002.001 13255 Matthew Baum Wed. 10-12:30 721 Bway, Rm. 843
PHTI-UT. 2002.001 6141
Prerequisite: College level analog photography course.

This course is a continuation of Photo 1 for NM and is intended for students who have taken an analog photography class but have limited or no experience with digital photographic tools.

Design Boot Camp
PHTI-UT.1020 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1020.001 14445 Yolanda Cuomo Tues. 9:30-1:15 721 Bway, Rm. 843
Prerequisite: Indesign. Permission of the department.

This is an intense design class for the crossover creature who yearns to design their own exhibit, create a street poster, develop an ad campaign, design titles for a film, invent a visual identity for a musical score, etc. This will be a hands-on process-driven class that will push you to imagine, create, and produce.

Directed Projects: Advanced Lighting and Production Techniques
PHTI-UT.1030 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1030.003 16940 Mark Jenkinson Tues. 2-5:45 721 Bway, Rm. 844
Prerequisite: Lighting or permission by the Department. Same as PHTI-UT.1202.

This class picks up on the skills students have learned in basic lighting and allows them to develop a body of work that utilizes more complex lighting and production skills.

Directed Projects: Little Italy
PHTI-UT.1030 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1030.004 18519 Mark Bussell Mon. 2-5:45 721 Bway, Rm. 819
Prerequisite: Permission by the Department.

This class is an evolving group project where students collaborate to document the last Italians still living in New York’s Little Italy.

Drawing
PHTI-UT.1031 Studio 2 Credits
PHTI-UT.1031.001 13264 Paul Owen Tues. 6-8:30 721 Bway, Rm. 844

Students will work in class from still life set-ups and figure drawing from the model.

Business of Art
PHTI-UT.1100 Studio 2 Credits
PHTI-UT.1100.001 13265 Kalia Brooks Thurs. 11-1 721 Bway, Rm. 815
Prerequisite: Open to senior Photography & Imaging majors only.

This class is largely a survey of the many career choices available to artists. Topics covered will be: graduate schools, careers in teaching, editorial, advertising, stock and corporate photography, art buying and photo editing, photo assisting, galleries, artist’s residencies, grants and fundraising sources, portfolio preparation and marketing resumes.

Historical Processes
PHTI-UT.1214 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1214.001 14447 Nichole Frocheur Fri. 9:30-1:15 721 Bway, Rm. 844
Prerequisite: Photography & Imaging Analog and Digital, Photo II, or permission of the Department.
Large Format Photography is recommended.

This course explores a number of 19th century non-silver and silver-based photographic processes that involve unique handmade methods for making negatives and prints.

Community Collaborations
PHTI-UT.1220 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1220.001
PHTI-UT.1220.002 16936
18713 Lorie Novak
Recitation*
Mon. 6-8
See below 721 Bway, Rm. 819
To be scheduled
Offered Spring only. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the Department.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS is a Photography & Imaging and Art and Public Policy Course where NYU students teach digital photo based image making to high school students from throughout NYC in the Photography and Imaging digital labs. http://photoandimaging.net/coco.
NOTE: Groups with the teens meet two afternoons a week in addition to the course time. When you plan your schedule, make sure you have a minimum of two afternoons a week free from 3:30-6. Once you have a sense of your schedule, please email lorie.novak@nyu.edu.

Advanced Digital Printing
PHTI-UT.1236 Studio 2 Credits
PHTI-UT.1236.001 18424 Karl Peterson Fri. 2-5:45 721 Bway Rm. 843
Prerequisite: Photography Analog & Digital or permission by the Department. Please note, this is a seven-week workshop and runs weeks 8-14 (March 19-May 5, 2012).

Advanced inkjet printing and color management workshop. This will be a technical class, with a mix of lectures, demos, and printing sessions.

Advanced Web Design
PHTI-UT.1250 Studio 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1250.001 13276 Elizabeth Kilroy Mon. 9:30-1:15 721 Bway Rm. 843
Prerequisite: Web Design, Photography & Imaging Multimedia or permission by the Department.

This class will continue to explore web technologies, but the focus will be on conceptual and aesthetic aspects designing for the web.

Intermediate Photoshop
PHTI-UT.1255 Studio 2 Credits
PHTI-UT. 1255.001 17062 Catherine Fallon Wed. 10-12:30 721 Bway, Rm. 843
Prerequisite: Basic Photoshop

In this intermediate workshop students will build on their existing knowledge of Photoshop.

SPRING CRITICAL STUDIES COURSES

Arts Writing
PHTI-UT.1118 Lecture 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1118.001 16933 Melissa Harris Thurs. 2–5 721 Bway, Rm. 819
Prerequisites: Departmental permission.
A writing course with the larger aim of getting students to be more critical viewers and hence possess a more convincing voice—whether conveying, describing, analyzing, challenging, and/or critiquing what they see.

Melissa Harris’ bio can be seen at: http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/HarrisM.html.

Advanced History Seminar: Photo/Fiction/Film
PHTI-UT.1120 Lecture 4 Credits
PHTI-UT.1120.001 13267 Fred Ritchin Tues. 10–1 721 Broadway, 815
Prerequisite: Departmental Permission

This seminar will explore some of the ways in which photography has been incorporated in to the novel, the poem and the fictional film. The course will require a considerable amount of reading and writing.

Steven Schwab
Administrative Director, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
721 Broadway, 7th Floor
Phone: (212) 998-1940
Email: s.schwab@nyu.edu

Department website:
http://ddw.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

Overview:
The undergraduate program in dramatic writing, which leads to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, is divided into four parts: writing/text analysis, production/performance, general education and electives. Acceptance into the Department enrolls all students in the Division of Playwriting and the Division of Film and TV Writing. Students study in both divisions, concentrating in at least one medium as their studies advance.

Registration:
Courses in this department are highly restrictive, and it is all but impossible for students not matriculated in the program to register for courses during the academic year. However, chances of taking courses in this department may be increased if the student has taken a summer course in Dramatic Writing.

Out-of-department students are encouraged to take advantage of the Dramatic Writing courses offered in Tisch’s Open-Arts Curriculum. These courses are often taught by the Dramatic Writing Adjunct Faculty, the same faculty who regularly teach students matriculated in the Dramatic Writing Program.

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

Cliff Fuller
Coordinator of Academic Support Services
725 Broadway, Room 1107
Phone: 212-998-1703
Email: clifton.fuller@nyu.edu

Dept Website
http://filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home

Minor Information
http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/MinorProducing.html

Overview:
The mission of the undergraduate film and television department is to educate our students in the art, craft, and technology of film, television video, animation and sound production. Our program offers intensive hands-on production experience coupled with a broad exposure to the liberal arts. We nurture individual talent and skills, and encourage students to become creative, and thoughtful practitioners in the world of media.

Registration:
Students are encouraged to pursue Film/TV courses specially designated for non-majors here first (select Kanbar Institute of Film and Television and the semester you're registering for):

http://filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu/object/UFTV_NonMajor.html

All other courses are open to out-of-department students only after all Tisch Film & TV majors have registered for courses. If spots are open after priority registration, non-majors may take courses in the department. In general, courses are open to non-majors only after the first day of the semester’s classes. Any Tisch Film & TV major on any waiting list has priority over non-majors.

Students hoping to be considered for a spot in any Film & TV course should pick up a “Film & TV Permission Form” (the yellow one) from the large Forms Kiosk outside Room 901 in the 721 Broadway building. The department will honor the course requests in the order they receive them, so it is worthwhile to plan ahead.

At the end of the first week of classes, Gallatin students who have not been contacted by the UG Film & TV department are encouraged to return to 721 Broadway, Room 901, to find out if any spots have opened up in the class.

Special Information:
All Undergraduate Film & TV Fundamentals courses are particularly difficult to get into during the academic year. The department encourages out-of-department students to take these courses over the summer. The course names may vary during the summer sessions, but the material covered is the same.

Out-of-department students may occasionally enter an intermediate or advanced level course with the specific permission of the instructor teaching the course. Students may bypass course prerequisites only by permission of the instructor teaching the course.

Important: Please note that all out-of-department students are charged service fees when they register for any class in Department of Film & TV. These fees are non-refundable. (Please refer to the back of the "Film & TV Permission Form" for a list of fees).