Check Out All NYU Undergraduate Urban Courses
At NYU, there are 30 academic programs that provide courses on urban-related issues. View our complete list of urban courses offered to NYU students as well as a selection of highlighted courses organized by school and theme.
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New York University (NYU) Undergraduate urban Courses
Featured Courses by School
College of Arts and Science
- American Dilemmas: Race, Inequality, and the Unfulfilled Promise of American Education (SCA-UA 755/TCHL-UE 41.001)
- Community Empowerment (SCA-UA 613)
- History of City Planning: 19th and 20th Centuries (ARTH-UA 663)
- Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661)
- Urban Design and Health (ARTH-UA 682)
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- Design with Climate Change (ARTS-UG 1636)
- New York City Women in the Arts from Dorothy Parker to Patti Smith (IDSEM-UG 2048)
- First-Year Research Seminar: Shadow Cities: Literary Alterity and Urban Underworlds (FIRST-UG 778)
NYU Abu Dhabi
- Art and Architecture: Reinventing the City (VISAR-UH 2121)
- Urban Violence: The Middle East (CSTS-UH 1059X)
- Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies (AFRST-UH 1110J)
NYU Shanghai
- Urban Design Studio: Pocket Space in Shanghai (SOCS-SHU 353)
- Shanghai Stories (HUMN-SHU 266)
- Urbanization in China (SOCS-SHU 133)
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Tandon School of Engineering
- Cities in Developing Countries (URB-UY 3214)
- Geographic Information Systems (URB-UY 2144)
- Introduction to Urban Infrastructure History
Other Programs For NYU
- The Economy of Cities (ECON-UB.237)
Leonard N. Stern School of Business – Economics - Environmental Health in a Global World(UGPH-GU 50)
School of Global Public Health - Media History of New York (MCC-UE 1151)
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development - Popular Music and Protest in the 21st Century (REMU-UT 1157)
Tisch School of the Arts - Real Estate Urban Economic Development(REBS1-UC 1050)
School of Professional Studies - Service Learning with Immigrant Youth(UNDSW-US 72)
Silver School of Social Work
Global Sites
NYU also offers urban-related courses in our 11 global academic centers.
- Art and Politics in the City: Buenos Aires, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico City(SASEM UG 1925)
NYU Buenos Aires - Seeing London’s Architecture (ARTH-UA 9674/SASEM UG 9250)
NYU London - Topics in Literature Writing Workshop: Writing Paris (FREN-UA 9968)
NYU Paris - Urban Greening Lab (ENVST-UA 9495)
NYU Berli