Academic Vision Through outstanding academic programs in architecture, art and engineering, and a Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art prepares talented students to make enlightened contributions to society. From the start, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony. Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills that lead to prosperity while, at the same time, enriching their intellects and sparking their creativity. And he had a third purpose as well: To instill a sense of social justice that would translate into action. In 1859, such a broad pedagogical goal was visionary; today, it is the standard by which excellence in higher education is measured. FOUNDATION BUILDING The Cooper Union’s Foundation Building is a national and city landmark. Its Great Hall has served as a public forum since 1859, when 3,500 people could stand to hear free lectures by the speakers whose views were reshaping society. This exceptional venue served as a platform for Abraham Lincoln’s “Right Makes Might” and the birth of the NAACP and the women's suffrage movement. As a presidential candidate and then returning two years later as President, Barack Obama spoke on financial reform and economic regulation. Today, The Great Hall continues as a forum for civic discourse, cultural events, performances and community activities. 41COOPER SQUARE The Cooper Union’ s new building at 41 Cooper Square—a technologically advanced academic facility—is located on the east side of Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets. Awarded LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), 41 Cooper Square houses the college’s Albert Nerken School of Engineering and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences along with additional facilities for the School of Art and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Designed by 2005 Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis, the nine-story, 175,000 square foot, full-block building replaces more than 40 percent of the academic space at the college with reconfigurable, state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories, studios and public spaces. Built with stringent sustainability goals, 41 Cooper Square is the first LEED Platinum certified academic building in New York City. ALUMNI The college has educated leaders whose contributions have significantly shaped our world, including design of the microchip prototype, cancer detection processes, signature buildings and widely recognized works of art. Just a few celebrated Cooper Union alumni include: Daniel Libeskind Jewish Museum in Berlin Russell Hulse Nobel Prize in Physics (discovered binary pulsar) Wangechi Mutu Internationally known artist Elizabeth Diller/ Ricardo Scofidio Designers of the High Line and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hal Kevin Burke Consolidated Edison CEO and Chairman Alex Katz Legend in contemporary art scene since 1950s
Astor Center is a distinctive place where the love for unique wines, craft spirits, and perfectly concocted cocktails can grow and evolve. Through our public programming, we strive to create an environment where education, hospitality, and enjoyment collide. As an events venue, Astor Center offers a platform for clients to showcase their passions and to bring people together. Regardless of the context, all are welcome to the table.
NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions was established in 1925, and has developed into a major research and practice center in music technology, music business, music composition, film scoring, music performance practices, performing arts therapies, and the performing arts-in-education. Our degree programs—baccalaureate through doctorate—share the Steinhardt School’s spirit of openness and innovation that encourages the pursuit of high artistic and academic goals.
NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions was established in 1925, and has developed into a major research and practice center in music technology, music business, music composition, film scoring, music performance practices, performing arts therapies, and the performing arts-in-education. Our degree programs—baccalaureate through doctorate—share the Steinhardt School’s spirit of openness and innovation that encourages the pursuit of high artistic and academic goals.
NYU Steinhardt offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in applied psychology, art, education, health, media, and music and the performing arts. Our school has a long history of connecting theory to applied learning experiences through dozens of affiliations and partnerships with urban institutions, building communities within and beyond our classrooms, and nurturing the human spirit. Our faculty are intellectually adventurous and socially conscious. Our students study in the expansive environment of a great research university, and use the urban neighborhoods of New York City and countries around the world as their laboratories.
We offer a BA, MA, and PhD in Performance Studies. In Fall 2014, we will accept applications for our first ever undergraduate class. The Performance Studies BA Program begins in the fall of 2015! Our curriculum trains students to document, theorize, and analyze embodied practices and events. Areas of concentration include: contemporary performance, dance, movement analysis, folk and popular performance, postcolonial theory, feminist and queer theory, and performance theory. Career opportunities include: Arts Administration; Education; Journalism; Arts Management; Arts advocacy; Museum Administration; Corporate or Nonprofit Communications; Community Development; Marketing and Market Research; Public Relations; Media Production; Gallery management; Social and Public Service; International and Non-Governmental Organization Work; advanced studies in theater/performance studies, arts curation, cultural studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, art history, law. For information about our programs, please email: [email protected] We look forward to hearing from you!
We offer a BA, MA, and PhD in Performance Studies. In Fall 2014, we will accept applications for our first ever undergraduate class. The Performance Studies BA Program begins in the fall of 2015! Our curriculum trains students to document, theorize, and analyze embodied practices and events. Areas of concentration include: contemporary performance, dance, movement analysis, folk and popular performance, postcolonial theory, feminist and queer theory, and performance theory. Career opportunities include: Arts Administration; Education; Journalism; Arts Management; Arts advocacy; Museum Administration; Corporate or Nonprofit Communications; Community Development; Marketing and Market Research; Public Relations; Media Production; Gallery management; Social and Public Service; International and Non-Governmental Organization Work; advanced studies in theater/performance studies, arts curation, cultural studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, art history, law. For information about our programs, please email: [email protected] We look forward to hearing from you!
Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact. The Study Center's core collection includes an extensive archive of his work, including promotional, editorial and advertising design, typeface designs, posters, logos, and other other materials dating from 1950 to 1980. The collection also includes work by other eminent designers including Otl Aicher, Ruedi Baur, Anthon Beeke, Lucian Bernhard, Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Lou Dorfsman, Karl Gerstner, Tibor Kalman, Alvin Lustig, Push Pin Studios, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Massimo Vignelli, and many more. There is also a library of books and magazines about design and typography, an extensive collection of posters, myriad type specimen books and pamphlets.
The Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch is a four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. The program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives; the 140 majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making and multimedia. Our faculty and staff consist of artists, commercial and documentary photographers, designers, critics, historians, and scholars, offer a wide range of perspectives. Alumni from the department go on to exhibit their work in galleries and museums; publish in national newspapers and magazines; pursue graduate degrees; become art critics; work as documentary photographers and photojournalists, filmmakers, graphic designers, web designers, picture editors, and educators; work in computer graphics and multimedia; and work in museums, educational, and community art settings. The course offerings are extensive and varied in both the studio and critical studies area. Working with faculty advisors, students tailor a program that is best suited to their interests and goals. The curriculum of studio and critical studies courses is aimed to teach students how to think critically, to see and to find their individual vision in order to adapt and excel in a constantly evolving field. “Photography and Imaging provides a rigorous academic environment where critical thinkers, both art and documentary image-makers, can thrive. The students here cultivate their skills and nourish their creativity in a small community where studio practice is immersed in liberal studies. Our graduates are connected to the many worlds of photography and imaging, including photojournalism, art photography, archiving, curating, commercial photography, advertising, academia and publishing. To study photography in New York City is to be at the center of a metropolis where the photo lens becomes your insight into visual experience, including neighborhoods such as the fashion, financial, or meatpacking districts; galleries and museums; individuals; urban life; nightlife; theater; and Central Park. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression.” -Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Chair Become a Fan to stay up-to-date with Current and Upcoming Exhibitions, Scholarships, Art Forums, Open Crits, ISO Magazine, and more!
The Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch is a four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. The program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives; the 140 majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making and multimedia. Our faculty and staff consist of artists, commercial and documentary photographers, designers, critics, historians, and scholars, offer a wide range of perspectives. Alumni from the department go on to exhibit their work in galleries and museums; publish in national newspapers and magazines; pursue graduate degrees; become art critics; work as documentary photographers and photojournalists, filmmakers, graphic designers, web designers, picture editors, and educators; work in computer graphics and multimedia; and work in museums, educational, and community art settings. The course offerings are extensive and varied in both the studio and critical studies area. Working with faculty advisors, students tailor a program that is best suited to their interests and goals. The curriculum of studio and critical studies courses is aimed to teach students how to think critically, to see and to find their individual vision in order to adapt and excel in a constantly evolving field. “Photography and Imaging provides a rigorous academic environment where critical thinkers, both art and documentary image-makers, can thrive. The students here cultivate their skills and nourish their creativity in a small community where studio practice is immersed in liberal studies. Our graduates are connected to the many worlds of photography and imaging, including photojournalism, art photography, archiving, curating, commercial photography, advertising, academia and publishing. To study photography in New York City is to be at the center of a metropolis where the photo lens becomes your insight into visual experience, including neighborhoods such as the fashion, financial, or meatpacking districts; galleries and museums; individuals; urban life; nightlife; theater; and Central Park. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression.” -Deborah Willis, Ph.D., Chair Become a Fan to stay up-to-date with Current and Upcoming Exhibitions, Scholarships, Art Forums, Open Crits, ISO Magazine, and more!
We offer a BA, MA, and PhD in Performance Studies. In Fall 2014, we will accept applications for our first ever undergraduate class. The Performance Studies BA Program begins in the fall of 2015! Our curriculum trains students to document, theorize, and analyze embodied practices and events. Areas of concentration include: contemporary performance, dance, movement analysis, folk and popular performance, postcolonial theory, feminist and queer theory, and performance theory. Career opportunities include: Arts Administration; Education; Journalism; Arts Management; Arts advocacy; Museum Administration; Corporate or Nonprofit Communications; Community Development; Marketing and Market Research; Public Relations; Media Production; Gallery management; Social and Public Service; International and Non-Governmental Organization Work; advanced studies in theater/performance studies, arts curation, cultural studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, art history, law. For information about our programs, please email: [email protected] We look forward to hearing from you!
Liberal Studies offers the Global Liberal Studies B.A. and the two-year Core Program, a foundation for students who will complete their education in one of the university's other undergraduate schools. Both courses of study feature an interdisciplinary core curriculum and opportunities to not only explore, but to experience, ideas from a global perspective.
Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TAC-D) project, formerly known as Chapter 405, at the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (Metro Center), is contracted through the New York State Education Department (NYSED) Office of Special Education to develop, implement, and assess a process of providing comprehensive technical assistance and professional development trainings to New York State School Districts that are addressing issues of disproportionality. Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality’s work includes building the capacity of regions and districts in understanding the root cause and systemically addressing the disproportionate assignment of various subgroups in special education. This entails providing professional development trainings, coaching, training follow-ups, materials, and resources.
NYU Steinhardt offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in applied psychology, art, education, health, media, and music and the performing arts. Our school has a long history of connecting theory to applied learning experiences through dozens of affiliations and partnerships with urban institutions, building communities within and beyond our classrooms, and nurturing the human spirit. Our faculty are intellectually adventurous and socially conscious. Our students study in the expansive environment of a great research university, and use the urban neighborhoods of New York City and countries around the world as their laboratories.
NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions was established in 1925, and has developed into a major research and practice center in music technology, music business, music composition, film scoring, music performance practices, performing arts therapies, and the performing arts-in-education. Our degree programs—baccalaureate through doctorate—share the Steinhardt School’s spirit of openness and innovation that encourages the pursuit of high artistic and academic goals.
The Tobin College of Business prepares graduates for rewarding managerial and professional careers. Our educational programs, combined with progressive technology, furnish the practical experience and knowledge base, global perspective and strong principles our graduates will need to make immediate and valuable contributions as business professionals. The Tobin College of Business faculty carries out this responsibility through excellence in teaching and a commitment to applied business research.
Welcome to the Graduate NYU Housing Community! Spanning apartments within Washington Square Village (WSV) and Stuyvesant Town (StuyTown), we are a diverse community of graduate students at NYU with approximately 300 residents and 7 Resident Assistants. Located in the village and near Union Square our housing staff works together to create a dynamic environment where our graduate students can engage with one another and participate in social, academic, and cultural programming. Grad Housing strives to be a support system and important resource for our residential students. Throughout the year, we collaborate with many campus offices, such as the Office of Graduate Student Life at the Student Resource Center and the Office for International Scholars, to bring you exciting and useful programs. Our staff members are eager to introduce students to the activities and the leadership opportunities found at NYU and in NYC. We look forward to this year with Grad Housing! This page is administered by Grad Housing staff.
Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact. The Study Center's core collection includes an extensive archive of his work, including promotional, editorial and advertising design, typeface designs, posters, logos, and other other materials dating from 1950 to 1980. The collection also includes work by other eminent designers including Otl Aicher, Ruedi Baur, Anthon Beeke, Lucian Bernhard, Lester Beall, Will Burtin, Lou Dorfsman, Karl Gerstner, Tibor Kalman, Alvin Lustig, Push Pin Studios, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Massimo Vignelli, and many more. There is also a library of books and magazines about design and typography, an extensive collection of posters, myriad type specimen books and pamphlets.
Deutsches Haus, New York’s leading institution for culture and language of the German-speaking world. Located in the historic Greenwich Village district, Deutsches Haus is an integral part of New York University. Since 1977, it has provided New Yorkers with a unique forum for cultural, intellectual, and artistic exchange with Germany, Austria, and Switzerland through its three pillars: the language program, the cultural program, and the kids program. Public Transit: Deutsches Haus 42 Washington Mews New York, NY 10003 Closest subway stops: 8 Street - NYU (N, R) Astor Place (6) W 4 Street (A, B, C, D, E, F, M) 14 Street - Union Square (L, N, Q, R, 4, 5, 6)