composite image of students and faculty using new media

Emerging Media Programs

New York University is a leader in the field of emerging media. Our students and faculty are exploring and creating new communications technologies and applications that harness emerging media for art, education, entertainment, business, and human well-being. These programs are especially relevant for students with interests in app development; software design; game design, development, or engineering; digital photography and film; music technology; digital arts; interaction design; digital graphics; media studies; human-computer interfaces; or other forms of emerging media.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology (Minor) New York

New York City is home to major sectors of the entertainment and media industries, including media conglomerates, network and cable television, independent film, book, and magazine publishing, marketing and advertising companies, and digital start-ups. This cross-school minor provides a foundation in the business of media and entertainment and how technology impacts these industries.
>> Read more

Digital Art and Design (Minor) New York

The minor in Digital Art and Design provides students from across the University with technical training, visual communication and digital fabrication skills, along with enhanced creative thinking and critical problem solving abilities.
>> Read more

Digital Communications and Media (BS) New York

The BS in Digital Communications and Media addresses the demand for professionals in the converging and fast-changing media environment. Students acquire the most current knowledge of media concepts and participate in focused, hands-on classes in a chosen area of concentration, including time-based media: video and motion design, or interactive media: web and mobile devices. This program is based in the McGee division and is intended for adult students, not traditional undergraduates.
>> Read more

Film and New Media (BA) Abu Dhabi

The BA in Film and New Media emphasizes interdisciplinary and global approaches to film and new media. Students develop critical and interpretive skills for making and understanding documentary, experimental, narrative, and interactive styles of film and new media, and learn the methods and theoretical models for analyzing film, new media and their histories.
>> Read more

Game Design (BFA) New York

The BFA in Game Design looks at games as a creative form of art. Students learn about game design, game development, and game scholarship, preparing them for careers as game designers, developers, scholars, and critics.
>> Read more

Game Engineering (Minor) New York

The Game Engineering Minor emphasizes mastery of computer programming skills relevant to game engineering, combined with hands-on practice building games with others in studio-style courses, and electives drawn from NYU’s broad offerings in the games domain.
>> Read more

Individualized Concentration (BA) in New Media

At the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, students consult with their advisers to develop individualized, interdisciplinary concentrations that allow them to explore all forms of existing and emerging technologies. By creating a responsive, interdisciplinary curriculum that expands their knowledge and practical skills, students create, use, and evaluate media and technology—from the development of software and apps to storytelling, the moving image, and the construction of virtual spaces.
>>Read more

Integrated Digital Media (BS, BS/MS, Minor) New York

The minor, BS, and BS/MS in Integrated Digital Media are intended for students interested in developing their knowledge and practical skills in digital media production technology. Students learn theoretical context and also gain hands-on production expertise in various areas, such as digital filmmaking, web design, 3D graphics, game design, and digital audio.
>> Read more

Interactive Media Arts (BFA, minor) New York

At the program’s core is the conviction that digital expression is an essential skill for all — artists, writers and designers as well as programmers and engineers. Students will learn to think about the relationship between digital tools, physical objects and environments, human interaction and technology’s impact on the world. The practical work involves creating and critiquing everything from networked software and apps to objects with embedded interactions — games, wearable devices, computational clothing, social tools, novel controllers, the whole range of objects and interfaces that have at their core interaction with a user.
>> Read more

Interactive Media Arts (BS) Shanghai

The BS in Interactive Media Arts explores the expressive possibilities brought about by emerging forms of technology, media, and communication. Students create interactive systems that connect people, facilitate participation, convey information, communicate stories, enhance experiences, and bring meaning and delight to people's lives. This may involve the development of software, the manipulation of digital media, the fabrication of material objects, the production of electronic devices, the construction of virtual and physical spaces, or the investigation of as yet unrealized forms.
>> Read more

Interactive Media (Concentration) Abu Dhabi

Students in the Interactive Media concentration are expected to engage with the ideas offered by their coursework in the core curriculum and in their majors and imagine how those ideas might be communicated with new media technologies.
>> Read more

Media, Culture, and Communication (BS, Minor) New York

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication's Bachelor of Science degree is grounded in the liberal arts, providing students with the necessary tools to understand the sociological, political, and cultural aspects of media technologies and systems.
>> Read more

Music Technology (BM, BM/MM) New York

The Music Technology program prepares students for careers in Audio Mastering, Audio-Visual Production and Post Production, Multimedia, Recording Engineering, Scoring for Film and Multimedia, and Software Development.
>> Read more

Music Theory and Composition, concentration in Scoring for Film and Multimedia (BM) New York

This concentration offers students intensive professional training to develop the diverse skill sets required for writing music for today’s film and media industries. Students become adept in virtual, traditional and hybrid orchestration, conforming midi and audio cues, score preparation, music editing, sample library creation, and audio production. They complete the program with professional and diverse portfolios, having benefited from opportunities to record with a variety of ensembles, from hybrid sessions with virtuosic soloists to scoring for string and symphonic orchestras featuring the top studio musicians in New York.
>> Read more

Photography & Imaging

Centered on the making and understanding of images, this program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a broad grounding in the liberal arts. As a Photography & Imaging major, you’ll work closely with faculty advisors to design a rigorous program of study that suits your passions and challenges you to expand your conceptual and technical boundaries. 
>> Read more

Recorded Music (BFA) New York

The Recorded Music BFA program is designed to provide professional training for students who aim to succeed as creative entrepreneurs in the music industry.
>> Read more

Studio Art (BFA, Minor) New York

The BFA in Studio Art is designed to study forms and ideas together. The interdisciplinary curriculum includes painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, photography, video, digital art, performance, metals, ceramics, design and praxis courses.
>> Read more

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Dance, concentration in Dance and New Media (MFA) New York

This concentration offers students an intensive exploration of existing and emerging technologies. Coursework provides both technical and artistic training in the creation, performance, and documentation of works. Areas of research include cinematic dance practices, multimedia performance, streaming media, interactive computing, motion tracking, innovation in dance documentation, and the development of other hardware and software tools for dance. Students will engage in Dance and New Media courses while participating in the Tisch Dance MFA curriculum.
>> Read more

Digital Media Design for Learning (MA, Adv Certificate) New York

The Digital Media Design for Learning program prepares students to create, use, and evaluate media and technology for learning, from software and websites to video and mobile phone applications.
>> Read more

Educational Communication and Technology (PhD) New York

The PhD program in Educational Communication and Technology is a rigorous research-oriented doctorate that prepares scholars who study the relationship between people, technology/media, and learning in all contexts.
>> Read more

Game Design (MFA) New York

The MFA in Game Design explores the design, analysis, and development of games as a creative practice.
>> Read more

Games for Learning (MS) New York

The MS program in Games for Learning prepares students to create, use, and evaluate digital games for the specific purpose of learning in formal and informal settings.
>> Read more

Individualized Concentration (MA) in New Media

At the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, students consult with their advisers to develop individualized, interdisciplinary concentrations that allow them to explore all forms of existing and emerging technologies. By creating a responsive, interdisciplinary curriculum that expands their knowledge and practical skills, students create, use, and evaluate media and technology—from the development of software and apps to storytelling, the moving image, and the construction of virtual spaces.
>>Read more

Integrated Digital Media (BS/MS, MS) New York

The MS and BS/MS& in Integrated Digital Media are intended for students interested in developing their knowledge and practical skills in digital media production technology. Students learn theoretical context and also gain hands-on production expertise in various areas, such as digital filmmaking, web design, 3D graphics, game design, and digital audio.
>> Read more

Interactive Media Arts Low Residency (MA) New York, Berlin and Shanghai

The Global Low Residency MA degree in Interactive Media Arts is a unique and exciting graduate school experience that aims to challenge the norms for accessibility in higher education. Rooted in a maker culture of “learning by doing”, this program offers students a degree focused on the production, application, and understanding of interactive media for creative expression and critical engagement. By participating in this program, graduates will be empowered to more thoughtfully engage with the interactive media technologies, systems, materials and actors informing our world today. The year-long degree involves 3 site-specific sessions at NYU New York (Summer), NYU Berlin (January), and NYU Shanghai (Summer) interspersed with 2 online semesters in the Fall and Spring.
>> Read more

ITP [Interactive Telecommunications Program] (MPS) New York

The mission of the ITP program is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people's lives.
>> Read more

Media, Culture, and Communication (MA, PhD) New York

The MA program in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University offers a rigorous examination of topics at the intersections of media and culture. The PhD program offers specializations in the areas of: global and transcultural studies, technology and society, visual culture and sound studies, media institutions and politics, and critical theories of media and communication.
>> Read more

Music Technology (BM/MM, MM, PhD) New York

Music Technology Program prepares students for careers in Audio Mastering, Audio-Visual Post Production, Computer Programming, Recording Engineering, Research and Development, Scoring for Film and Multimedia, Signal Processing, and Video Game Audio Production. Students are able to develop expertise within an academic setting where learning by creative experimentation is encouraged.
>> Read more

Music Theory and Composition, concentration in Scoring for Film and Multimedia (MM) New York

This concentration offers students intensive professional training to develop the diverse skill sets required for writing music for today’s film and media industries. Students become adept in virtual, traditional and hybrid orchestration, conforming midi and audio cues, score preparation, music editing, sample library creation, and audio production. They complete the program with professional and diverse portfolios, having benefited from opportunities to record with a variety of ensembles, from hybrid sessions with virtuosic soloists to scoring for string and symphonic orchestras featuring the top studio musicians in New York.
>> Read more

Studio Art (MFA) New York

The MFA program in Studio Art offers students the opportunity to study with accomplished artists and scholars within an interdisciplinary setting. The program provides students with private studios and access to facilities in painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, digital media, and sculpture.
>> Read more

    

Undergraduate

Graduate