MFA Course List

Studio Courses (LAB)

• ART 509/510 Graduate Seminar 1&2 (F)
• ART 525 Interactive Art & Design 2 (varies)
  
• ART 543 Design and Computational Thinking (F)
• ART 547 History of Graphic Design (F)
• ART 562 Installation: Urban Space (F)
• ART 589 Real Space Electronic Art (Sp)
• ART 573 Performative Action (Sp)
• VS 575 Science, Culture, Media
• Tutorials (Independent Studio Research- Labs)
• ART 599 First Year Graduate Research /tutorial 1-6 credits
• ART 699 Second Year Graduate Research
• ART 666 Art Internship (tutorial)
• ART 690 Graduate Project Supervision

Academic Courses

• VS 500 Topics in Visual Studies past and present courses include:
• VS 500 Documentary Photography
• VS 500 Warhol
• VS 500 Postwar Postmodern
• VS 500 Art, Sex and the Sixties
• VS 500 Image & Gender
• VS 501 Introduction to Visual Studies
• VS 505 Tactics of Praxis
• AHI 508 Studies in Ancient Art
• VS 521 Introduction to Critical Theory (F)
• AHI 522 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art
• AHI 548 History of Photography (F)
• VS 550 Art and Psychoanalysis
• VS 579 The Revolutionary Sublime
• VS 580 Discourse and Deconstruction
• ART 589 Real Space Electronic Art (F)
• AHI 590 Methods of Art History (F)
• VS 590 Theories of Montage
• VS 587 Vision, Space and Power
• VS 594 Wiemar Theory
• VS 595 Independent Study/ Advanced Reading
• AHI 598 Museum Internship
• AHI 599 Independent Study
• VS 695 Advanced Research
• VS 700 PhD Thesis Guidance
• AHI 661 Graduate Research (Art History / MA Thesis Guidance)
• VS 598 MA Thesis Guidance (Visual Studies)
• VS 700 PhD Thesis Guidance (Visual Studies)

(See individual department websites for course descriptions)

American Studies

• AMS 500 Politics of Image: Race, Body and Aesthetics in Latin America
• AMS 500 Feminist Studies
• AMS 500 Contemporary Critical Theory: Biopolitics, Necropolitics and the Management of the Body
• AMS 503/504 Topics in Cultural History 1 and 2
• AMS 520 Politics of Urban Space
• AMS 540 Caribbean Thought
• AMS 560 Black Aesthetics

Anthropology

• APY575 Ethnography and Personal Narrative

Architecture

• AHC 519 Contemporary Theory
• AHC 523 Gender, Architecture and Urban Space
• AHC 564 Behavior and Space
• AHC 579 Sustainable Design
• AHC 590/598 Junk Culture
• AHC 590/598 In-Between Architecture and Landscape
• AHC 590/598 The Social Nature of Architecture

Caribbean Research Center

• CRC 515 Caribbean Arts
• CRC 596 Contemporary Art
• CRC 601 Cuban Film and Insularity
• CRC 608 Contemporary Sculpture

Comparative Literature

• COL 726 The Romantic Sublime
• COL 731 Politics of Beauty

English

• ENG 586 Digital Humanities: Networks, Objects, Games
• ENG 605 Media Curating
• ENG 648 Psychoanalytic Criticism
• ENG 648 Kiarostami/ Corbin/ Lacan
• ENG 653 Critical Theory: Representing Human Rights
• ENG 653 Critical Theory: Foucault and Co.
• ENG 653 Critical Theory: Queer Theory
• ENG 680 Word and Image
• ENG 683 American Film History
• ENG 680 Fieldwork Methodology
• ENG 685 Narrative Voice
• ENG 685 Documentary Praxis
• ENG 699 Ethnopoetics

Gender Studies

• GGS 518 Readings in Feminist Studies
• GGS 591 Writing Women’s Bodies
• GGS 661 Gender in the Humanities: Modes of Interpretation

History

• HIS 551 Intellectual in America
• HIS 556 History of the Book

Media Study
Note: Some DMS courses are labs (studio) others are academics

• DMS 505 Ethnographic Media
• DMS 512 Film Theory
• DMS 515 Wearable Media
• DMS 523 Programming Graphics
• DMS 543 Media Robotics 1: Physical Computing
• DMS 548 Game Studies Colloquium
• DMS 555 Access New York
• DMS 566 Network Landscapes
• DMS 612 Video Analysis

Philosophy

• PHI 544 Aesthetics
• PHI 589 Contemporary Philosophy
• PHI 637 Biotethics
• PHI 698 Simone de Beauvoir

Theatre

• TH 620 Theatre and Performance Scholarship
• TH 610 Theatre and Performance Research