New York

Graduate Course List

These are the courses that NYU offers for graduate students.

Department of Applied Psychology

The Department of Applied Psychology offers a wide range of graduate courses. These include:
  • Psychology of Personality and Individual Differences
  • Psychology of Language and Cognition
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Child Development
The list goes on!

Department of Arts, Culture and Media

  • Creative Writing
  • Film and Media Studies
  • Visual Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Digital Art)
  • Music (Composition, Theory and History)
  • Dance (Ballet/Jazz/Modern/etc.)
  • Theater Arts

Department of Biology

  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Department of Civil and Urban Systems Engineering
  • Department of Computer Science (graduate courses only)
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (graduate courses only)
  • Classes in film, video and media studies (graduate courses only).

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology offers a wide range of courses in all areas of chemistry and chemical biology. The department is located in Bobst Library, which is also home to the libraries for the other NYU schools that offer graduate programs (the School of Law and the School of Medicine).

Students can choose from graduate or undergraduate classes, depending on their level of study.

Department of Civil and Urban Systems Engineering

  • The Department of Civil and Urban Systems Engineering offers courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Courses are taught by faculty from multiple departments, including:
    • Computer Science (CS)
    • Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
    • Mathematics
    • Physics & Astronomy
    The courses are offered online, onsite, or abroad in New York City and other United States areas.

Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science is a broad field that includes artificial intelligence, computer graphics, data science, information theory and software engineering. The department has one of the most robust graduate programs in the country, with research strengths in various areas, including machine learning, natural language processing, cybersecurity, robotics and vision systems.

Students can choose to concentrate on one of six areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence (A) – the study of computational models that can perform tasks usually requiring human intelligence, such as reasoning or knowledge representation using techniques such as search/optimization algorithms or probabilistic inference methods applied to problems like planning & scheduling; automated reasoning over complex domains like natural language understanding where these domains have been encoded into formalisms amenable for automated rationale by way of logical representations such as first-order logic with equality predicate symbolized by = (or any other suitable notation).

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences offers various courses that explore the physical, chemical, geological and biological processes that shape our planet.
  • Course Listing: [link to department website]

Department of Economics (graduate courses only)

  • Economics Department:
  • Graduate courses only.

Courses in the English language, literature and writing (graduate courses only)

  • English language, literature and writing courses
  • Graduate courses only
The course list is available on the NYU website

Courses in film, video and media studies (graduate courses only)

  • This list includes courses in film, video and media studies. It is organized by semester and course number (you can also search for specific titles). Please note that this list applies only to graduate-level courses at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
    • Fall 2017: [FILMST 101 – Introduction to Film Studies](https://www.nyuadmissions.com/academics/courses/filmscreening) (1 unit)
    • Spring 2018: [FILMST 121 – Theories of Cinema](https://www.nyuadmissions.com/academics/courses/theoryofscreen) (4 units)

If you’re an aspiring data scientist, this is an excellent opportunity to get your feet wet. The course list is broad enough that there are plenty of options for students who already know what they want to study or have already chosen their major. If you still need to decide which direction to take in school, this could help narrow down your options and give you some insight into what areas are most popular among current NYU grad students.

If nothing else, it’s worth checking out just for its sheer breadth: this list includes everything from “Introduction To Financial Engineering” through “Operations Research” and all stops along between (including several classes on machine learning).