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Media Studies Faculty

Jonathan Beller Christian Hawkey Rachel Levitsky

Professor Associate Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University; Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-winning Professor Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the
Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, books of poetry, including The Book of Funnels (Wave Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She
Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization, Aesthetics Books, 2004), which won the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event
and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema, Philippine Culture Award, HourHour (Delirium Press, 2005), and Citizen and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics.
and Politics. Of (Wave Books, 2007). His poems have appeared in She is also the author of five chapbooks of poetry,
Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of
Youmna Chlala BOMB, Chicago Review, and Best American Poetry. He Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace
has received awards from the Academy of American (PotesPoets, 1999), 2(1×1) Portraits (Baksun, 1998), and
Visiting Instructor Poets and the Poetry Fund. a series of poetry plays.

Steven Doloff Jeffrey Hogrefe Ellen Levy

Professor, Lecturer in Intensive English Adjunct Assistant Professor Visiting Associate Professor
B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; Steven B.A., UC Berkeley; Jeffrey Hogrefe is an author,
was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished Professor architectural critic, and coordinator of Pratt School of Ira Livingston
(2001–2002) and received the Institute’s Student Architecture’s Writing Program: Language/Making. He
Government Association Faculty Excellence Award is a studio critic at Parsons the New School for Design, Chair , Huma n ities an d Med ia Stu die s
in 1990. Cooper Union, and Columbia; a contributor to Harper’s, Ph.D., Stanford University; Ira Livingston’s primary field
the New Yorker, Smithsonian, New York Observer, is cultural theory. He is the author of Between Science
Amy Guggenheim Washington Post and Vanity Fair; and the author of and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (2006)
O’Keeffe: The Life of An American Legend. and Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity
Adjunct Associate Professor (1997), and coeditor of Posthuman Bodies (1995, with
Amy Guggenheim is a filmmaker and writer. Her work Samantha Hunt Judith Halberstam) and Poetry and Cultural Studies: A
in theater and film has been presented internationally Reader (2009, with Maria Damon).
with support from the New York State Council on the Associate Professor
Arts, the American Embassy, Fulbright Foundation, M.F.A., Warren Wilson Coll; Samantha Hunt is the author
Mellon Fund, and others. Her work has been published of two books, The Seas—for which she was awarded
in American Letters and Commentary, and in the Italian a National Book Foundation award for writers under
literary journal Storie. 35—and The Invention of Everything Else, a novel
about the life of Nikola Tesla. Her stories have appeared
in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, A Public Space,
Cabinet, Seed Magazine and on the radio program This
American Life.

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Jennifer Miller Ethan Spigland

Associate Professor Associate Professor
Circus Amok founder and artistic director Jennifer B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University; Matrise,
Miller has been working with alternative circus forms, University of Paris VIII; has made numerous films and
theater, and dance, for over 20 years. Her work with media works including: Luminosity Porosity, based
Circus Amok was awarded a “Bessie” in 1995 and an on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator Moods,
OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of a French featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and The Strange
documentary film, Un Cirque a New York 2002 and Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won the Gold Medal
Brazilian documentary, Juggling Politics 2004. She has in the Student Academy Awards.
taught at Cal Arts, NYU, and UCLA.
Suzanne Verderber
Tracie Morris
Associate Professor
Associate Professor B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania;
Ph.D., New York University; M.F.A., Hunter College, Suzanne Verderder’s teaching and research focus on
City University of New York; Tracie Morris is an the relationship between subjectivity and power, and
interdisciplinary poet who has worked extensively on the relation between pre-modern periods (medieval,
as a sound artist, writer and multimedia performer. Renaissance, Baroque) and contemporary concerns.
Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Specific fields of study include politics, literature, art,
Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. critical theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.

Negar Mottahedeh Christopher Vitale

Professor Assistant Professor
B.A., State University of New York Binghamton; Ph.D.,
Cecilia Muhlstein New York University; His areas of specialization include
continental philosophy, comparative modernist literary
Visiting Instructor; Tutor and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, queer studies,
Cecilia Muhlstein was born in Texas, but grew up in Los theories of race and ethnicity, radical political thought,
Angeles. Her work and interests reside in fiction, critical and film and film theory. Currently, he is writing a book
theory, art, and eco-poetics. Her current work can about complexity studies and theories of networks. He
be found in the pages of NYArts magazine and in the has taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College.
archives of Safe-T-Gallery.

Mendi Lewis Obadike

Ass i sta n t P ro f e ssor P h.D., Duke Universit y.

Robert Obrecht

Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; TESOL Certificate, Columbia
University Teachers College. His compositions have
premiered in New York at Lincoln Center’s State Theater
and Alice Tully Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Merkin Hall and LaMama E.T.C., among others. He has
scored exhibition videos for the Museum of Modern
Art, the Museum of Natural History, the Jewish Museum
and the Queens Museum of Science. His theme song
for the Disney/Henson “Bear in the Big Blue House” is
broadcast worldwide. Obrecht has been teaching at
Pratt since 1988.

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Pratt provides a well-rounded education in the liberal arts that Humanities and Media Studies
encompasses Humanities and Media Studies, Mathematics and chair
Science, Social Science, and Cultural Studies. In addition, the
Institute supports international students in gaining the English Ira Livingston, Ph.D.
language skills they need to pursue their education and to [email protected]
interact as vital members of the community.
assistant to the chair
humanities and media studies mathematics and science
Danielle Skorzanka
The Humanities and Media Studies The mission of the Department of
Department offers a variety of courses— Mathematics and Science is threefold. Mathematics and Science
English literature, communications, The first is to acquaint students with chair
music, theater, film, foreign languages, scientific methodologies, critical thinking,
and creative writing—as well as a and the history of scientific thought. The Carole Sirovich, Ph.D.
graduate program in Media Studies. What second is to address the interface between [email protected]
unites them, giving them continuity, is science and art, architecture, and design,
the department’s mission: to recognize whether it is through the physics of light, assistant to the chair
and foster the relationship between the chemistry of color, the biology of
visual and written texts; to instill within form, or the mathematics of symmetry. Margaret Dy-So
students critical thinking, reading, and The third is to educate students so that
writing skills that will inspire them in they can respond intelligently and laboratory technician
their professional lives for intellectual critically to today’s new developments
and creative growth; and to promote in science and technology and make Tiffany Liu
understanding and appreciation for informed decisions regarding current
the diverse cultures within the U.S. and scientific matters that affect public policy Social Science and Cultural Studies
throughout the world. issues and ethics. chair

Gregg Horowitz, Ph.D.
[email protected]

assistant to the chair

Sophia Straker-Babb

Intensive English Program
intensive english director

Nancy Seidler
[email protected]

certificate of english
proficiency coordinator

Nada Gordon

computer-assisted language
learning coordinator

Rachid Eladlouni

assistant to the director

Natasha Dwyer

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social science and cultural experiences and language- assess at the exempt level may be required
cultural studies learning technology. to withdraw voluntarily from Pratt or
register for the full-time CEP Program.
The Department of Social Science and Pratt Institute and the School of
Cultural Studies trains students to Liberal Arts and Sciences welcome Good communication skills are
bring critical and analytical skills to international students and offer an array essential to academic success at Pratt
bear on the social world and on their of programs and services to improve Institute. Instruction in the IEP
professional and artistic work. Through English-language skills and academic emphasizes language use for general
the perspectives of social science, history, readiness. All international students with academic and specific purposes in the
philosophy, and cultural studies, students TOEFL scores below 600 (PbT), 250 professions in which Pratt specializes,
explore the cultural achievements of (CBT), or 100 (iBT)—including transfer namely, art, design, architecture, and
humankind and the social forces that students—whose first language is not information and library science. IEP
have influenced the development of English must demonstrate proficiency in faculty are trained and experienced in
culture and human personality. English by taking an English Placement teaching English as a second language,
Test upon arriving at the Institute. The as well as in integrating art and design
Resources in the School of Intensive English Program (IEP) in the content into their courses. Our classes are
Liberal Arts and Sciences Language Resource Center on Pratt’s small (8 to 12 students per session), and
Brooklyn campus administers the test. enrolled international students benefit
intensive english program from their use of the Language Resource
This placement test consists of a and Writing and Tutorial Centers for
The Intensive English Program (IEP) reading test, a writing test, and a personal additional language learning practice.
provides academic English language interview with an IEP faculty member.
instruction to matriculated graduate and Students assessed at the exempt level For information on the Test of
undergraduate students. In addition, of English proficiency satisfy their English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
two certificate programs run under the Intensive English requirement and may requirements at Pratt Institute,
IEP’s umbrella: the full-time Certificate enroll in all Institute courses without please refer to the catalog listing for
(CEP) and Summer (SCP) programs. restriction. Students who are assessed as particular schools and departments.
The mission of all programs in the IEP being in need of English instruction must New international students are strongly
is to support successful matriculation register in consecutive Intensive English encouraged to enroll in IEP summer
of international students by providing courses (including summer IEP classes courses in order to be fully prepared
appropriate English language instruction. should they wish to take other Institute for the academic requirements of their
Internal assessment and advisement courses during those sessions) until they degree programs.
ensure students’ proper placement in achieve exempt status based on IEP exit
English language courses, as well as proficiency criteria. the certificate of english
successful matriculation and degree proficiency program
attainment. The curriculum includes art, Students who, upon entering Pratt, are
design, and architecture content and is assessed below Level 5 may be required to The Certificate of English Proficiency
enhanced by direct exposure to related join the full-time CEP Program. Students (CEP) program at Pratt Institute is a one-
who have registered for three (fall and year English-language program located
spring) semesters are considered “at risk.” at our Brooklyn campus. Students whose
Students who have registered for four (fall TOEFL scores fall below the admission
and spring) semesters and who do not

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minimums established by Institute degree writing and tutorial center
programs may apply to the CEP for full-
time English-language instruction. At The Writing and Tutorial Center provides
the end of the two-semester program of free tutoring for all Pratt students in
English study, those students completing English, math, physics, art history, and
CEP coursework receive a certificate of other academic areas. Special assistance is
English language proficiency. provided for students for whom English
is a second language. Small-group
Courses focus on speaking, listening, and regularly scheduled one-on-one
reading, and writing within the context conversation sessions are also offered.
of art and design, as well as TOEFL The Center also offers periodic workshops
preparation. For more information on in word processing, résumé writing,
Pratt’s Intensive and Certificate English presentation skills, thesis preparation,
programs, contact IEP administrative and other topics suggested by faculty
offices at 718-636-3450, visit the IEP and students.
website at www.pratt.edu/iep or email
IEP at [email protected]. The Writing and Tutorial Center staff
consists of a director, faculty and staff
laboratories and computer tutors, and trained student peer tutors.
facilities The director coordinates scheduling and
appointments in all areas. Any faculty
The science laboratories (chemistry, member, staff member, or adviser may
physics, biology), located in the Activities recommend students who need assistance.
Resource Center, are interdisciplinary
research facilities. Sophisticated The Writing and Tutorial Center is
instruments and equipment are available, located in North Hall 101 (opposite the
and undergraduates are encouraged bank). Daily schedules are posted at the
to use them under faculty supervision. beginning of each semester and at the
Computer facilities are available for beginning of Pratt’s summer sessions.
use by all students of the Institute.
Specialized facilities are employed in
the sciences.



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Liberal Arts Faculty

Andrew Barnes Laura Elrick development projects, involving English for Academic
Purposes in Japan and Korea, English Language Training
Dean of the School of Liberal Arts Visiting Instructor; Lecturer, for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008, and in middle
and Sciences Intensive English; Tutor schools in the People’s Republic of China. He has
B.A., Arts Rhetoric and Communication, University of conducted in-service teacher training in Japan, Korea,
Gloriana Russell Southern California; Laura Elrick teaches in the English Taiwan, Thailand and Brazil. With Ken Wilson, he is the
and Humanities Department and the Intensive English author of First Choice, an integrated skills coursebook
Assistant to the Dean Program. She has published two books of poetry and published by Oxford University Press.
Intensive English numerous essays on contemporary literature and
politics, and regularly performs her work nationally. Helen McNeil
Erich Kuersten She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication from
the University of Southern California and is currently Lecturer, Intensive English
Academic Advisement Coordinator pursuing a Masters in Liberal Studies at the CUNY Master of Arts in TESOL. New York University Helen
Graduate Center in Manhattan. Her interests include earned her ESL certificate from the New School in
Intensive English the intersection between poetics and the production of Social Research in 1990. She taught in the summer
social space, spatiality and scale. program at Nanjing University, China in 1993. She won
Natasha Dwyer her MA in Tesol from New York University in 1998 while
Dana Gordon teaching in their intensive English program. She has
Assistant to the Director also taught in Columbia University and La Guardia
CEP Coor d in ator ; Lectur er , In ten s ive En glis h Community College. She has been teaching in the IEP
Rachid Eladlouni M.A., University of California Berkely; Nada Gordon for the past six years at Pratt. She is currently singing in
has two decades of experience teaching English as a chorus which performs in Carnegie Hall in 2007.
Co mpu t e r -Ass i st ed Lang uag e Learning ( CALL) a Second Language, including eleven years in Tokyo,
Coordinator; Lecturer, Intensive English Japan. She is the author of Folly (Roof Books); Are Jennifer Ostrega
B.A. Ibn Tofail University (Morocco); M.A. Hunter College. Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night Swollen
Mushrooms? (Spuyten Duyvil), foriegnn bodie (Voces Lecturer, Intensive English
Cynthia Elmas Puerulae); V. Imp (Faux Press); and with Gary Sullivan, Bachelor of Arts Theater Arts, Rutgers University,
Swoon (Granary Books). State University; Master of Arts English as a Second
Lecturer, Intensive English Language, Hunter College; Publications: “Using Role
Master of Arts in TESOL Hunter College, B.A. in French Thomas Healy Play as a Metacognitive Tool for Writing,” NYS TESOL
Literature from Rutgers University, where she also Idiom Magazine Winter 2007–2008. Conferences:
studied Art History at the graduate level. She has over 15 Lecturer, Intensive English 2008 National TESOL conference, “English for Artistic
years experience of teaching ESL to adults in New York M.A., University of Ireland; Thomas has an M.A. in English Purposes;” 2007 NYS TESOL Applied Linquistics
and was also Assistant Editor for the multi-disciplinary Literature from the National University of Ireland, and Conference and NYS TESOL Technology Conference;
journal, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics for 8 years. a certificate in TEFL from the Galway Language Centre, Corporate: Facilitator and Consultant of Social
In addition to ESL, she is also a dancer who performs Ireland. He has studied at the Takabijustu School of Art, Dynamics Workshops Through Improvisational Theater:
regularly in the New York area. Tokyo and the Massachusetts Institute of Art, Boston. He Pfizer Inc., Columbia University Awards:National
has taught English in Ireland, Japan and the U.S. Since Endowment of the Arts, Southern Council, and PSNBC
Left: A year-end student reading 1992, Thomas has worked on a number of curriculum grants for Writing/Performance.”

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Eric Rosenblum Humanities and Media Studies Caterina Bertolotto

Visiting Instructor; Lecturer, Donald Andreasen Visiting Associate Professor
Intensive English Laurea in Pedagogia, University of Turin, Italy; Caterina
B.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., Syracuse University; Eric’s Visiting Instructor Bertolotto, a graduate of the University of Turin, Italy,
fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Guernica M.F.A., New School; Don earned his Masters of Fine has received 8 certificates in different language
Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Arts degree in Playwriting from the Actors Studio, New teaching methodologies in both Italy and in New York,
Reader. He teaches Freshman English and ESL at Pratt. School University. He has had one-act plays produced as well as a Distinguished University Teaching Award
at the HERE Theatre and Access Theatre in New York from The New School. She is the author of 4 books,
Nancy Seidler City and was co-writer of a short film produced by Fox 2 audio and 2 PowerPoint CDs. She has also taught
Searchlab Pictures. Don has also worked as a voice-over seminars to language teachers and undergraduates
Director, Intensive English artist doing various commercial work in addition to at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair
Bachelor of Arts, Brooklyn College; Master of Arts in network television. State University, Eugene Lang and Baruch College.
TESOL, Monterey Institute of International Studies. She
was an exchange student at the University of Paris and Saul Anton Warren Burdine
taught at the Sichuan Union University in China. She
has been working at Pratt since 1999, where, in addition Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor
to administering various aspects of the IEP and CEP,
she has taught in the Intensive English Program and Eleanor Bader Philip Carroll
the English Department and has tutored in the Writing
and Tutorial Center. During all this time, she has learned Adjunct Instructor Visiting Instructor
a great deal about art, design and architecture, B.A., New York University; M.S.W., Hunter College of
and has wholly enjoyed working with the international CUNY. In addition to teaching at Pratt, Professor Bader Peter Chamedes
students at Pratt! also teaches at Kingsborough Community College
of CUNY and writes for publications including The Visiting Assistant Professor
Gloria Steil Brooklyn Rail, Lilith, Library Journal, The Progressive, Peter Chamedes is a person with ‘60s values and an
and New York Law Journal. She co-authored Targets of abiding love of literature and art. Following a doctorate
Lecturer, Intensive English; Visiting Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism (Palgrave Macmillan, in English Literature (poetry), family obligations
Instructor; Tutor 2001) and has received writing awards from both redirected him into an extended career in advertising.
B.A., University of California Berkeley; M.A., New York Library Journal and the Independent Press Association This was at last succeeded by a return to scholarship
University; Gloria received her B.A. in Legal Studies of N.Y. and pedagogy. His students have ranged from at-
from the University of California, Berkeley, and MA in risk adolescents to aspiring artists (including many
Education/TESOL from New York University. She has Emily P. Beall remarkable Pratt scholars). His consuming interests
over 8 years of teaching experience. Prior to joining include his two babies, poetry, contemporary art, and
the English and Humanities and the Intensive English Adjunct Assistant Professor African art.
departments at Pratt, she taught English in Tokyo Professor Beall’s academic interests include 20th- and
for the Japanese Ministry of Education; a summer 21st-century experimental poetry and poetics, with Priya R. Chandrasekaran
intensive course in English literature and composition a focus on experimental writing by women. A poet
in Seoul; and English literature at the College of New herself, she is also interested in the intersections of Visiting Instructor
Rochelle, SUNY Westchester, Medgar Evers College, poetics and modern dance, and the ways that such
Hostos Community College, and Borough of Manhattan intersections generate concepts of space, meaning, Youmna Chlala
Community College. and the body.
Visiting Instructor
Jonathan Beller
Ellen Conley
Professor
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University; Adjunct Assistant Professor
Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, M.S., Wagner College; B.A., Penn State; MTMS ASCP,
Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization, Aesthetics Jefferson Medical College; Ellen Conley is a published
and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema, Philippine Culture writer of four books with national reviews:The Chosen
and Politics. Shore (Univ. of Calif. Press), Bread and Stones (Mercury
House), Soon to Be Immortal (St. Martin’s Press) and
Soho Madonna (Avon Original Fiction).

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Kathryn Cullen-DuPont Laura Elrick Amy Guggenheim

Adjunct Assistant Professor Visiting Instructor; Lecturer, Adjunct Associate Professor
B.A., New York University; M.F.A., Goddard College; Intensive English; Tutor Amy Guggenheim is a filmmaker and writer. Her work
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont is the author of the B.A., University of Southern California; Laura Elrick in theater and film focuses on violence, intimacy, and
Encyclopedia Of Women’s History In America (Facts On teaches in the English and Humanities Department and sexuality, and has been presented internationally with
File, 1996, rev. ed., 2000) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton the Intensive English Program. She has published two support from the New York State Council on the Arts,
(Facts On File, 1992); co-author of Women’s Suffrage books of poetry and numerous essays on contemporary the American Embassy, Fulbright Foundation, Mellon
In America (Facts On File, 1992, rev. ed., 2005) and literature, culture, and politics, and regularly performs Fund, and others. Her work has been published in
Women’s Rights On Trial: 101 Historic Trials From Anne her work nationally. She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and American Letters and Commentary, and in the Italian
Hutchinson To The Virginia Military Institute Cadets Communication from the University of Southern literary journal Storie. Her 2008 artistic residency in
(Gale Research, 1997); and editor of American Women California and is currently pursuing a Masters in Liberal Japan—in development for her first feature film-
Activists’ Writings: An Anthology, 1637–2002 (Cooper Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. Her relates to her work as founder of the Center for Artistic
Square Press, 2002). She is currently working on a book interests include the intersection between poetics and Engagement.
about human trafficking. the production of social space, spatiality and scale.
Christian Hawkey
Don Doherty Elizabeth Fow
Associate Professor
Visiting Instructor; Tutor Adjunct Instructor; Tutor Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-winning
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New; M.A., New B.A., University of Waikato, New Zealand; M.F.A., books of poetry, including The Book of Funnels (Wave
York University; Don Doherty has been an instructor Brooklyn College. Books, 2004), which won the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery
at Pratt since 1996, teaching Freshman Composition Award, HourHour (Delirium Press, 2005), and Citizen
and Literature and English as a Second Language. Sacha E. Frey Of (Wave Books, 2007). His poems have appeared in
He did Foundation Year at Pratt before moving into a Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd,
Liberal Arts program at Hunter College, so Pratt was Visiting Instructor BOMB, Chicago Review, and Best American Poetry. He
his first home-away-from-home. His interests include has received awards from the Academy of American
writing short fiction, writing and producing music, video John Gendall Poets and the Poetry Fund, and in 2006 he received a
production, animation, collage and drawing. He rides an Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he
Alien Workshop deck with Tensor trucks and Darkstar Visiting Instructor was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow.
wheels. His Youtube account is papakilatube.
Daniel Gerzog Kwame Heshimu
Steven Doloff
Associate Professor Visiting Instructor; Tutor
Professor; Lecturer, Intensive English Daniel Gerzog (B.A. ‘53, M.A. ‘54, A.B.D. ‘58, NYU) is B.A. in English (with a specialization in writing), New
B.A., State University of New York At Stony; M.phil., Associate Professor of English and Humanities and York University; Kwame Heshimu grew in the shadow of
City University of New York Graduate Center; Ph.D., has been teaching at Pratt since 1959. He is currently the Blue Mountain. Son of a Cuban expatriate, and with
City University of New York Graduate Center; TESOL working with his second generation of fledgling artists, a mother who was a descendant of Jamaican maroons,
Certificate, Columbia University Teachers College; designers and architects, introducing them to the joys he spent his childhood in one of the most inaccessible
Steven Doloff was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished and stimulations of good reading and clear expression. communities on the island. His grandfather, a
Professor (2001–02) and received the Institute’s He also supervises thesis corollary statements in the saxophonist with dance bandleader Ray Coburn,
Student Government Association Faculty Excellence MFA program. frequently accompanied Rastafarian drummers. Kwame
Award in 1990. not only became enthralled with the music, but with
Elizabeth Grinnell the Rastafarian vocabulary, or Iyaric, an intentionally
Helen Easterly created dialect of English, reflecting their desire to take
Visiting Assistant Professor forward language and confront Babylon system. His
Adjunct Assistant Professor M.F.A., Brown University; B.A., Mills College; E. Tracy romance with word, sound, and power had begun.
Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O
Books, 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001).
She is the founding editor of Litmus Press, a nonprofit
publisher of new American poetry and works in
translation.

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Jeffrey Hogrefe Sean Kelly Tracie Morris

Adjunct Assistant Professor Visiting Instructor Associate Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley; Jeffrey Hogrefe is an author, B.A., Loyola College University of Montreal Ph.D., New York University; M.F.A., Hunter College,
architectural critic, and coordinator of Pratt School of City University of New York; Tracie Morris is an
Architecture’s Writing Program: Language/Making. He David D. Kim interdisciplinary poet who has worked extensively
is a studio critic at Parsons the New School for Design, as a sound artist, writer and multimedia performer.
Cooper Union, and Columbia; a contributor to Harper’s, Visiting Instructor Her installations have been presented at the Whitney
the New Yorker, Smithsonian, New York Observer, Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
Washington Post and Vanity Fair; and the author of Rachel Levitsky She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Hunter College and a
O’Keeffe: The Life of An American Legend, a biography Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University.
focused on the artist’s rights of seclusion and personal Adjunct Assistant Professor
identity politics. Professor Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the Negar Mottahedeh
Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She
Kathleen Hopkins is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event Professor
and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics.
Associate Professor She is also the author of five chapbooks of poetry, Cecilia Muhlstein
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., California Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of
State University; Kathleen Hopkins, Associate Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace Visiting Instructor; Tutor
Professor,is a former Director of Intensive English, (PotesPoets, 1999), 2(1×1) Portraits (Baksun, 1998), and Cecilia Muhlstein was born in Texas, but grew up in Los
Chair of the Department of English and Humanities a series of poetry plays. Angeles. Her work and interests reside in fiction, critical
and the first Director of the Writing for Publication, theory, art, and eco-poetics. Her current work can
Performance, and Media program. She has served as Ellen Levy be found in the pages of NYArts magazine and in the
Faculty Trustee to the Pratt Board of Directors. archives of Safe-T-Gallery.
Visiting Associate Professor
Samantha Hunt Mendi Lewis Obadike
Ira Livingston
Associate Professor Ass istan t Profess or Ph.D., D u k e U niv e r sit y.
M.F.A., Warren Wilson Coll; Samantha Hunt is the author Chair , Huma n ities an d Med ia Stud ies
of two books, The Seas—for which she was awarded Ph.D., Stanford University; Ira Livingston’s primary field Robert Obrecht
a National Book Foundation award for writers under is cultural theory. He is the author of Between Science
35—and The Invention of Everything Else, a novel and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics (2006) Adjunct Assistant Professor
about the life of Nikola Tesla. Her stories have appeared and Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity B.A., Sarah Lawrence Coll; TESOL Certificate, Columbia
in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, (1997), and coeditor of Posthuman Bodies (1995, with University Teachers College; Obrecht was born in New
Cabinet, Seed Magazine and on the radio program This Judith Halberstam) and Poetry and Cultural Studies: A York City in 1951. His compositions have premiered in
American Life. Reader (2009, with Maria Damon). New York at Lincoln Center’s State Theater and Alice
Tully Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Merkin
Dexter Jeffries Jennifer Miller Hall and LaMama E.T.C., among others. He has scored
exhibition videos for the Museum of Modern Art, the
Adjunct Instructor Associate Professor Museum of Natural History, the Jewish Museum and
B.A., Queens College, City University of New; M.A., City Circus Amok founder and artistic director Jennifer Miller the Queens Museum of Science. His theme song for
College of New York; Ph.D., City University of New York, has been working with alternative circus forms, theater, the Disney/Henson “Bear in the Big Blue House” is
Graduate Center; Dexter Jeffries was born and raised and dance, and for over twenty years. Her work with broadcast worldwide. Obrecht has been teaching at
in New York City. In between his academic studies he Circus Amok was awarded a “Bessie” in 1995 and an Pratt since 1988.
was a taxi driver and served in a United States Army OBIE in 2000. Circus Amok is the subject of a French
combat engineer battalion in West Germany. Jeffries documentary film, Un Cirque a New York 2002 and Rosemary Grebin Palms
came to Pratt in 1993, and in 1996, in conjunction with Brazilian documentary, Juggling Politics 2004 She has
the Media Arts department, he produced and directed taught at Cal Arts, NYU, and UCLA. Associate Professor
the documentary film, What’s Jazz? In 2003, Kensington B.A., College of St. Teresa (MN), English; M.A., University
Press published his autobiographical memoir, Triple of Texas—Austin, English; Ph.D., University of Texas—
Exposure: Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950s. Jeffries Austin, American Literature; Rosemary Grebin Palms
lives in Brooklyn. was born in Minnesota; she has been a New Yorker
since 1970 and on the Pratt faculty since 1973.

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Kristin A Pape Carole Rosenthal Sharon Snow

Adjunct Assistant Professor Visiting Professor Visiting Instructor
B.A., Penn State; M.A., New York University; M.A., B.A., Vassar College; Master of Arts, French Literature,
Jean-Paul Pecqueur Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Columbia University; spent her junior year in Paris, and
Research; Carole Rosenthal is the author of a short following graduation, received a fellowship to study at
Visiting Instructor story collection in which characters’ inner lives collide the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. After receiving
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.A., Evergreen State explosively with external reality. Her fiction has been her Masters in French at Columbia, she worked at an
College; Jean-Paul Pecqueur is a poet and writing translated into eleven languages and dramatized for art gallery and for the United Nations. She taught at
instructor who has published poems, critical reviews, radio and television networks, including Italy’s RAI Manhattan’s Hewitt School for 14 years and is now
and essays in a number of national publications. and South Africa’s Springbok Broadcasting. Widely visiting instructor at Pratt and at St. Josephs College.
He has taught creative writing, critical writing, and anthologized, she teaches modern and contemporary
literature courses at The University of Washington and ideas in literature and film at Pratt. She is also a former Ethan Spigland
The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. Jean-Paul psychotherapist whose art work has appeared in shows
has been teaching Introduction to Literary and Critical and magazines. Associate Professor
Studies courses at the Pratt Institute since 2006. His first B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University; Matrise,
book of poems, The Case Against Happiness, was the Sandra Ruiz University of Paris VIII; has made numerous films and
winner of Alice James Books’ Kinerth Gensler award media works including: Luminosity Porosity, based
in 2006. Visiting Instructor on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator Moods,
featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and The Strange
Alba Potes Sydney Scott Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won the Gold Medal
in the Student Academy Awards.
Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor
D.M.A. in Composition, Temple University; Alba Potes Sydney Scott is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies Gloria Steil
was born in Colombia. Her compositions have been and holds an MA in Communication Studies. Her
performed by the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, philosophies: “Life may be painful, but learning doesn’t Visiting Instructor
National Symphony of Colombia, Darmstadt 2000 have to be”; “Whoever walks away with the most candy B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A New York
Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Institute wins”; and “Love is far more pragmatic than it’s cracked University. Professor Steil has also taught English
for New Music in Freiburg, The New York New Music up to be” (stolen from Ally McBeal). Her interests include in Tokyo for the Japanese Ministry of Education;
Ensemble, and by music festivals in Latin-America, art, theatre, comedy, TV/film, Seinfeld, Knicks, Yankees, a summer intensive course in English literature and
South Korea, Germany, Canada and USA. Connected to bagels, black coffee, pizza, black and white cookies and composition in Seoul; and English literature at the
her creative work based on Spanish literature, she has anything else that’s totally New York. College of New Rochelle, Medgar Evers College,
also taught Spanish in CUNY and Columbia University. Hostos Community College, and Borough of Manhattan
She teaches music at The Mannes College of Music, Heidi Singer Community College.
College Preparatory Division.
Visiting Instructor Barbara Turoff
Margaux L R Poueymirou Heidi Singer holds a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center
(1983) in German Languages and Literatures, an M.A. in Adjunct Assistant Professor
Visiting Assistant Professor German from Syracuse University (1973), and a B.A. in Ph.D., New York University; Laurea, Universita di Bologna
Psychology from San Francisco State University (1969).
Evan Rehill She has taught at Queensborough College (1981–1991) Suzanne Verderber
and Hunter College (1986–2000) and at The New
Visiting Instructor School (since 1995) and Pratt (since 2001). She was a Associate Professor
translator for The Rockefeller Archive Center, translated B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania;
Eric Rosenblum numerous books and articles, and wrote a book for Suzanne Verderder’s teaching and research focus on
Living Languages: German all the Way (Crown, 1994). the relationship between subjectivity and power, and
Visiting Instructor; Lecturer, Intensive English on the relation between pre-modern periods (medieval,
B.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., Syracuse University; Eric Renaissance, Baroque) and contemporary concerns.
Rosenblum holds a B.A. in English from Ohio University Specific fields of study include politics, literature, art,
and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Syracuse University. critical theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.
Eric’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Guernica
Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader.

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Christopher Vitale Mathematics and Science Jon Hagen

Assistant Professor Damon Chaky Visiting Associate Professor
B.A., State University of New York Binghamton; Ph.D., B.S., Physics, Stanford University; M.S., Physics,
New York University; His areas of specialization include Assistant Professor University of Idaho; Ph.D., Electrical Engineering,
continental philosophy, comparative modernist literary Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; B.S., Rensselaer Cornell University.
and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, queer studies, Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Chaky’s research focuses on
theories of race and ethnicity, radical political thought, the sources, transport and fate of pollutants in the urban Christopher Jensen
and film and film theory. Currently, he is writing a book environment, particularly that of New York City. He
about complexity studies and theories of networks. He regularly teaches Ecology for Architects, Toxics and the Assistant Professor
has taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College. elective course Science and Society. Dr. Chaky is active B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Stony Brook University;
in Sustainable Pratt, a group of students, faculty and staff he teaches courses in Ecology, Human Evolution, and
Elizabeth Williams that works to position Pratt as a leader in sustainable, the Biology of Cooperation. He is active in Sustainable
ecologically-aware design and architecture. Pratt’s efforts to bring ecologically-conscious practices
Adjunct Associate Professor to our campus and beyond. Those activities are
M.F.A., Columbia University; B.A., Middlebury College. Barbara Charton complemented by his research, which focuses on the
stability of systems of interacting organisms.
Thaddeus Ziolkowski Adjunct Instructor
B.A., Brooklyn College; M.S., Pratt Institute; M.L.S., Pratt Cindie Kehlet
Co o r di n ato r , T h e Writ ing P rog ram; Institute; Adv. Cert., Pratt Institute; Barbara Charton is
Professor still doing chemistry and extending it in several new Assistant Professor
B.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Yale directions—into art conservation and environmental Ph.D., M.S., University of Aarhus; Dr. Kehlet teaches
University. Professor Ziolkowski’s work is included in An studies. Introductory Science and the Chemistry of
Anthology of (American) Poets (Talisman Books, 1998) Pigments. Her research interests are in the field of
and Writing from the New Coast (O-blek Editions, 1993). Marvin Charton Conservation Science.
His book-length collection of poems, Our Son, the
Arson (What Books), was published in 1996. Ziolkowski Professor Steve Kreis
has also been a staff reviewer for Artforum magazine. Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 1962; M.A.,
His book reviews, film reviews, cultural criticism, and Brooklyn College, 1956; B.S., College of the City of Visiting Associate Professor
travel writing have appeared in Slate, Bookforum, Travel New York, 1953
& Leisure, and The Village Voice. An account of his surfer Richard Leigh
boyhood in Melbourne Beach, Florida, On a Wave, was Eleonora Del Federico
a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003. Visiting Associate Professor
Ziolkowski’s novel, Wichita, has been selected by Alice Associate Professor B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Columbia University; PE
Sebold and Tonga Books, a new imprint of Europa Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000; (Mechanical), New York State LEED AP; Practiced laser
Editions. Forthcoming in 2012, Wichita will be issued in Licenciada (equivalent to MS degree), University of spectroscopy at City College of NY and l’Ecole Normale
Italian, U.K. and U.S. editions. Ziolkowski is the recipient Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991 Superieure (Paris); joined Brookhaven National
of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008­–2009. Laboratory and switched to energy analysis and
Anatole Dolgoff development of energy-efficient technologies; taught
full time at Pratt 1987–93; back to BNL, acquired NYS
Adjunct Professor Professional Engineering license; then into the non-
profit sector first as Senior Engineer at the Community
Margaret Dy-So Environmental Center, making existing and new
buildings more energy efficient in the NYC metro area,
Assistant to the Chair now as director of advocacy and research at the Urban
Green Council, (NY Chapter of the US Green Building
Aman Gill Council, managers of LEED), working to improve energy
efficiency in building codes and on worker education.
Visiting Instructor
B.S., Integrative Biology and History, University of
California, Berkeley; Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and
Evolution, Stony Brook University.

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Joel Levitt Vincent Tedeschi Josiah Brownell

Adjunct Professor Visiting Instructor Assistant Professor, History
B.S.E.E.; M.S.E.E., Columbia U Sch Engr; M.A.(Physics), B.A., Western Michigan University; M.A., London School
Columbia University; Professional Degree (E.E.), James Wise of Economics; J.D., University of Virginia Law School;
Columbia U Sch Engr; He is the Director of the Anxiety Ph.D. Political Science, School of Oriental and African
and Hypoglycemia Relief Institute and the Chairman Visiting Instructor Studies, University of London.
of The Engineering In Medicine and Biology Society B.A., Hunter College; M.A., Brooklyn College.
(New York chapter), part of the non-profit IEEE. He has Matthew A. Carlin
lectured at Rockefeller U and elsewhere on software Daniel Wright
and health (anxiety and hypoglycemia). Visiting Instructor, Anthropology
Assistant Professor Ph.D., Columbia University.
Tiffany Liu Ph.D., Stanford University; M.S., University of California,
San Diego; B.S., Pennsylvania State University. Paul Dambowic
Lab T ech n i ci a n
Social Science Adjunct Instructor
Ágnes Mócsy and Cultural Studies B.A., New York University; M.A., Yale University.

Assistant Professor Sameetah Agha Mareena Dareedia
Ph.D., University of Minnesota; M.Sc., University of
Bergen, Norway; Dr. Mócsy performs research on Associate Professor, History Vis itin g In structor , Cin ema Stu die s
the fundamental nature of matter, specifically on B.A., Smith College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. B.F.A., York University; M.F.A., Pratt Institute.
the interactions of subatomic particles within the
nucleus of the atom. She has held research positions Robert Ausch Cristina Dragomir
at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen; Theoretical
Physics Institute, Frankfurt; and Brookhaven National Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology Visiting Instructor, Politics
Laboratory. Dr. Mócsy teaches Introductory Physics B.A., New York University; M.A., City College, City B.A., Babes-Bolyai University; M.A. Babes-Bolyai
and Astronomy. University of New York; Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University; A.B.D., New School University.
University of New York.
Carole Sirovich Lisabeth During
Josh Blackwell
Chair Associate Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., New York University; M.S., New York University; Visitin g In structor , Fa s hion an d Des ign B.A., Wesleyan University; MTh., King College, Univeristy
B.S., Brooklyn College. History of London, London, U.K.; Ph.D., Trinity College,
B.A., Bennington College; M.F.A., California Institute Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K. Research
Gerson Sparer of the Arts. interests include European philosophy from 1780–1980,
aesthetics and the philosophy of the arts, dance and
Professor Francis Bradley performance art, Weimar Germany, theology and
B.S., Brooklyn College; M.S., Courant Institute; Ph.D., antiquity, literary theory, and classical film theory. She
Courant Institute. Assistant Professor, History has published on French Surrealism, feminism, the 19th
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. century novel, Hegel, and film, especially the work of
Oscar Strongin André Bazin. Her current project is a book on the history
B. Ricardo Brown and representation of chastity. Before coming to Pratt
Visiting Assistant Professor she taught for 15 years in the Philosophy Department of
Ph.D., Columbia University; Independent Consulting Coordinator, Critical and Visual Studies, the University of New South Wales.
Geologist engaged in oil/gas development as well as Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
environmental impact of extraction of unconventional B.A., Simons Rock College of Bard; M.A., Syracuse Barbara Duarte Esgalhado
fossil fuel resources; also served as Energy Consultant University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City
to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy University of New York. Visiting Instructor, Psychology
and Commerce. B.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., Columbia University.

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John Frangos Shelley Juran Adam Rosen-Carole

Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Professor, Psychology Visiting Instructor, Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Queens College; M.A., C.W. Post Campus, Long B.A., M.A., Brooklyn College; Ph.D., City University of B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.A., Ph.D.,
Island University; Ph.D., New York University. New York. New School University.

David Goodman Josh Karant John Santore

Assistant Professor, History Adj un ct Ass istan t Profess or , Philos oph y, Professor, History
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., New School Food Studies B.A., M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Columbia
University; Ph.D., Indiana University. B.A., Pomona College, M.A., New School; M.A., Rutgers University; Pratt Institute Distinguished Professor
University; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Award 1993–1994.
Monica A. Grandy
Samiha Matin Zachary Sapolsky
Visiting Instructor, Psychology
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D., City University of Visiting Instructor, Cultural Studies Visiting Instructor, Psychology
New York. B.A., Rutgers University; M.A. Teachers College, B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Long
Columbia University; Ph.D., New York University. Island University.
Nelson Hancock
John McGuire Ritchie Savage
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Columbia University; B.A., Princeton University. Adjunct Instructor, Philosophy Visiting Instructor, Sociology
B.A., New York University; A.B.D., New School University. B.S., Bradley University, Sociology and Philosophy;
Mitchell Harris M.A., Ph.D. Candidate and Dissertation Fellow, New
Peter Nekola School for Social Research, Sociology. His recent
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History publications include “Populist Elements in Contemporary
B.F.A., SUNY-Purchase; M.A., M.Phil, City University of Adjunct Associate Professor, History American Political Discourse” forthcoming in an
New York. B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, New School edited volume from The Sociological Review; “The
for Social Research. Complexitites of Re-articulating Autonomy from a
Gabriel Hernández Nietzschean Perspective” in Filos; “Merleau-Ponty’s Use
Darini Nicholas of the Weberian Example: Avoiding Totalizing Meanings
Visiting Instructor, History in History” in Max Weber Matters: Interweaving Past and
B.A., City College of New York; A.B.D., SUNY-Stony Brook. Adjunct Instructor, Anthropology Present (Ashgate, 2008). He received the Janey Summer
B.A., University of Louisville; M.A., Goddard College Research Fellowship from the New School in 2010 in
Ann Holder (Kentucky); Ph.D. candidate, New School University. order to conduct archival research in Caracas, Venezuela,
for his dissertation “A Comparative Analysis of Populist
Associate Professor, History Irving Perlman Discourse in Venezuela and the United States: 1945–1954
B.A., Hampshire College; Ph.D., Boston College. and 1998–present.”
Professor, History
Estelle Horowitz B.A., Brooklyn College; M.B.A., J.D., New York University. Jeff Surovell

P ro f e ss o r Eme r ita Robert Richardson Adjunct Assistant Professor, History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.
Gregg M. Horowitz Adjunct Assistant Professor, Philosophy
B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Kumru Toktamis
Professor, Chair Pennsylvania State University.
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Boston University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Rutgers University. Uzma Z. Rizvi B.A., Middle East Technical Univerity, Ankara, Turkey;
M.A., Ph.D., The New School University.
May Joseph Assistant Professor, Anthropology
and Urban Studies Basil Tsiokos
Professor, Global Studies B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., University
B.A., M.A., Madras Christian College; M.A., Ph.D., of Pennsylvania. Visiting Instructor, Theory and Practice
University of California, Santa Barbara. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., New York University.

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Sal A. Westrich Nelson Hancock and film and film theory. Currently, he is writing a book
about complexity studies and theories of networks. He
Professor, History Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology has taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, and Hunter College.
B.A., City College of New York; M.A., University Ph.D., Columbia University; B.A., Princeton University.
of Wisconsin; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Iván Zatz-Díaz
Columbia University. May Joseph
Associate Professor, Globalization
Justin Williams Professor, Global Studies B.A., State University of New York, Purchase; M.F.A., New
B.A., M.A., Madras Christian College; M.A., Ph.D., York University; Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University
Visiting Instructor, History University of California, Santa Barbara. of New York.
B.A., Columbia College; A.B.D., SUNY-Stony Brook.
Peter Nekola The Writing Program
Rebecca Winkel
Adjunct Associate Professor, History Thaddeus Ziolkowski
Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. candidate,
M.A., Columbia University; M.A., Gordon-Conwell New School University. Coordinator, The Writing Program; Professor
Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The New School for B.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Yale
Social Research. Ethan Spigland University. Professor Ziolkowski’s work is included in An
Anthology of (American) Poets (Talisman Books, 1998)
Iván Zatz Díaz Associate Professor and Writing from the New Coast (O-blek Editions, 1993).
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University; Matrise, His book-length collection of poems, Our Son, the
Associate Professor, Globalization University of Paris VIII; has made numerous films and Arson (What Books), was published in 1996. Ziolkowski
B.A., State University of New York, Purchase; M.F.A., media works including: Luminosity Porosity, based has also been a staff reviewer for Artforum magazine.
New York University; Ph.D., Graduate Center, City on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator Moods, His book reviews, film reviews, cultural criticism, and
University of New York. featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and The Strange travel writing have appeared in Slate, Bookforum, Travel
Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won the Gold Medal & Leisure, and The Village Voice. An account of his surfer
Critical and Visual Studies in the Student Academy Awards. boyhood in Melbourne Beach, Florida, On a Wave, was
a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003.
Jonathan Beller Kumru Toktamis Ziolkowski’s novel, Wichita, has been selected by Alice
Sebold and Tonga Books, a new imprint of Europa
Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology Editions. Forthcoming in 2012, Wichita will be issued in
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University; B.A., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Italian, U.K. and U.S. editions. Ziolkowski is the recipient
Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, M.A., Ph.D., The New School University. of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008­–2009.
Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization, Aesthetics
and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema, Philippine Culture Suzanne Verderber Katherine Baldwin
and Politics.
Associate Profess or , Huma n ities Visiting Instructor
B. Ricardo Brown and Media Studies
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania; Priscilla Becker
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies Suzanne Verderder’s teaching and research focus on
B.A. Simons Rock College of Bard; M.A., Syracuse the relationship between subjectivity and power, and Visiting Instructor
University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City on the relation between pre-modern periods (medieval, M.F.A., Columbia University; Becker’s first book of
University of New York. Renaissance, Baroque) and contemporary concerns. poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review book
Specific fields of study include politics, literature, art, prize, and was published in 2003. Her poems have
David Goodman critical theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis. appeared in Fence, Open City, The Paris Review, Small
Spiral Notebook, Boston Review, Raritan, American
Assistant Professor, History Christopher Vitale Poetry Review, Verse, and The Swallow Anthology of
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., New School
University; Ph.D., Indiana University. Assistant Professor
B.A., State University of New York Binghamton; Ph.D.,
New York University; His areas of specialization include
continental philosophy, comparative modernist literary
and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, queer studies,
theories of race and ethnicity, radical political thought,

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New American Poets; her music reviews in The Nation Gabriel Cohen The Believer, Salon, Wired, The Dallas Morning News,
and Filter magazine; her book reviews in The New York and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other
Sun; and her essays in Cabinet magazine and Open Visiting Lecturer publications and is currently at work on a non-fiction
City. Her essays have also been anthologized by Soft B.A.,Wesleyan University; Gabriel Cohen is the author book about a 17th-century polymath, which will be
Skull Press, Anchor Books, and Sarabande. She teaches of five novels and a nonfiction book and has written published in the fall of 2012. He is also the author
poetry at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and in her for The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Shambhala of a book of photographs, Bicycles Locked to Poles
apartment. Her second book, Stories That Listen, has Sun, Gourmet.com, Time Out New York, and many (McSweeney’s, 2005).
just been released from Four Way Books in 2010. other publications. He has taught fiction and nonfiction
writing at New York University, mentors writing students David Gordon
Anselm Berrigan at the New School, and lectures and gives workshops
frequently. His website is www.gabrielcohenbooks.com. Visiting Instructor
Visiting Assistant Professor M.F.A., Writing, M.A., English and Comparative Literature,
Anselm’s books of poetry include Some Notes on Jon Cotner Columbia University; David Gordon was born in New
My Programming (2006), Zero Star Hotel (2002), and York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and has
Integrity & Dramatic Life (1999), all published by Edge Visiting Instructor worked in film, fashion, and publishing. His first novel,
Books. A serial poem, “Have A Good One,” is being B.A. Humanities, Shimer College; M.A., St. John’s The Serialist, was published by Simon and Schuster in
brought out by Cy Press in 2008. He was Artistic College; Ph.D. candidate in Poetics, SUNY Buffalo. March 2010.
Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church from Professor Cotner is co-author of Ten Walks/Two Talks
2003–2007, where his duties included hosting the (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) and has worked on a James Hannaham
weekly Wednesday Night Reading Series. He co-edited collaboration titled Conversations over Stolen Food and
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of projects for The Believer, the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Adjunct Assistant Professor
California Press, 2005) and is the current poetry editor Elastic City, and the Poetry Society of America. M.F.A., University of Texas; B.A., Yale University; James
at The Brooklyn Rail. Hannaham’s first novel, God Says No (McSweeney’s,
Trinie Dalton 2009), was a finalist for a Lambda Book Award, named
Popahna Brandes an honor book by the American Library Association’s
Visiting Assistant Professor Stonewall Book Awards, a semi-finalist for a VCU Cabell
Visiting Assistant Professor M.F.A., Bennington College; Trinie Dalton has authored First Novelist Award, and made the shortlist for the
B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., Brown University; Popahna’s and/or edited five books. Wide Eyed (Akashic), Sweet Green Carnation Prize in the UK. His stories have been
recent fiction can be found in Tarpaulin Sky. Other works Tomb (Madras Press, 2010), and A Unicorn Is Born published in The Literary Review, Open City, JMWW,
of prose, translation, film, and music have appeared in (Abrams, 2007) are works of fiction. Dear New Girl One Story, and will soon appear in Fence. His criticism
The Encyclopedia Project and Pocket Myth. She was or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney’s, 2005) and and journalism have appeared in The Village Voice,
a fiction editor for the late literary journal, 3rd bed; Mythtym (Picturebox, 2008) are art compilations. She Spin, and Salon.com, where he was on staff, and have
plays cello with My Invisible; and runs annual writing currently teaches writing workshops at Pratt, a bookarts been reprinted in Best African American Essays 2009
workshops in the book village of Montolieu, France. studio course at NYU, and is on the M.F.A. Fiction faculty and Best Sex Writing 2009. He has received fellowships
at Vermont College of Fine Arts. from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Blue Mountain
Bliss Broyard Center, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the
Steven Doloff Arts, Chateau de Lavigny, Fundación Valparaíso, Bread
Visiting Instructor Loaf, and a NYFFA Fellowship in Fiction.
B.A., University of Vermont; M.F.A., University of Virginia. Professor, Lecturer in Intensive English
Professor Broyard’s collection of stories, My Father, B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; Ryan Fischer-Harbage
Dancing (Knopf, 1999), was a New York Times notable Steven was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished
book of the year. She is also the author of the family Professor (2001–2002) and received the Institute’s Visiting Assistant Professor
memoir One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Student Government Association Faculty Excellence B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.F.A., Bennington College.
Race and Family Secrets (Little, Brown, 2007), named a Award in 1990. Professor Fischer-Harbage, a literary agent who runs
best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune. The Fischer-Harbage Agency, represents several
John Glassie New York Times bestselling authors and has placed
books with all major publishers in the U.S. and
Visiting Instructor the U.K. He previously served as an editor at Simon &
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University. Professor Glassie Schuster, Little, Brown & Company as well as
is a former contributing editor for The New York Times The Penguin Group (U.S.A.).
Magazine, where for several years he edited the weekly
“Lives” column. He has written for The New York Times,

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Christian Hawkey free-lance writer he has written for numerous television Tracie Morris
productions and for periodicals, including Bazaar,
Associate Professor Colors, Interview, Playboy, Spy, The Village Voice and Associate Professor
Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-winning The New York Times. He is the author and editor of B.A., M.F.A., Hunter College; M.A., Ph.D., New York
books of poetry, including The Book of Funnels (Wave numerous books and anthologies. University; Tracie Morris is a multidisciplinary poet,
Books, 2004), which won the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery performer, and scholar who works extensively as
Award, HourHour (Delirium Press, 2005), and Citizen Rachel Levitsky a sound artist, writer, bandleader, and actor. Her
Of (Wave Books, 2007). His poems have appeared in installations have been presented at the Whitney
Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, Adjunct Assistant Professor Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica Center
BOMB, Chicago Review, and Best American Poetry. He Professor Levitsky’s first full-length volume, Under the for Arts and Learning, and the New Museum. She
has received awards from the Academy of American Sun, was published by Futurepoem books in 2003. She recently completed her latest poetry manuscript,
Poets and the Poetry Fund, and in 2006 he received a is the founder and co-director of Belladonna*, an event “Rhyme Scheme” and is working on an academic work,
Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he and publication series of feminist avant-garde poetics. “Who Do with Words” on the significance of philosopher
was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. She is also the author of five chapbooks of poetry, J.L. Austin. She is also developing two audio projects: an
Dearly (a+bend, 1999), Dearly 356, Cartographies of untitled CD with music with her band and another CD in
Jason Helm Error (Leroy, 1999), The Adventures of Yaya and Grace collaboration with composer Elliott Sharp.
(PotesPoets, 1999), 2(1×1) Portraits (Baksun, 1998), and
Visiting Assistant Professor a series of poetry plays. Anna Moschovakis
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Sarah Lawrence College;
Jason’s first book, Exposure, a YA sci-fi fantasy novel, is Robert Lopez Visiting Assistant Professor
currently on the market. He is at work on a collection B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Bard
of short stories about mid-nineties gutterpunk culture Visiting Professor College; She is the author a book of poems, I Have Not
in Minneapolis. M.F.A., The New School for Social Research; Robert Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, and a translator
Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World of poetry, fiction, and theory from the French. She is also
Samantha Hunt (Calamari Press, 2007) and Kamby Bolongo Mean an editor, designer, and printer at Ugly Duckling Presse,
River (Dzanc Books, 2009), and a collection of stories, a nonprofit publishing collective based in Brooklyn. She
Associate Professor Asunder (Dzanc Books, 2010). He has taught at The New is pursuing graduate studies in Comparative Literature
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College; Samantha Hunt’s second School and Columbia University and is a 2010 New York at the CUNY Graduate Center.
novel The Invention of Everything Else (Houghton Mifflin Foundation for the Arts fellow in fiction.
Harcourt, 2008) was a finalist for the Orange Prize and Cecilia Muhlstein
winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her first novel, The Laura Minor
Seas (Picador, 2005) won a National Book Foundation Visiting Instructor, Tutor
award for writers under 35. Hunt’s work has appeared in Visiting Instructor California State University, Los Angeles; Cecilia was
The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, Cabinet, M.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence born in Texas, but grew up in Los Angeles. Her work and
Esquire, jubilat, The Believer, Blind Spot, Tin House, New College; Laura Minor is a Brooklyn-based poet, interests reside in fiction, critical theory, art, and eco-
York Magazine, on the radio program This American Life professor, and singer/songwriter. Her work has most poetics. Her current work can be found in the pages of
and in a number of other fine publications. recently appeared in Sixers Review, Lungfull, JMWW: NYArts magazine and in the archives of Safe-T-Gallery.
A Journal of Quarterly Writing, and Mantis/Stanford
Mary-Beth Hughes University. She has released two international and John O’Connor
critically acclaimed records, “Salesman’s Girl” for
Visiting Assistant Professor Hightone Records (2002) and “Let Evening Come,” Visiting Instructor
B.A., Marymount Manhattan College. Professor Hughes’ (Ocean of Sound Recordings, 2009). Her prize-winning B.A., University of Michigan; M.F.A., Columbia University.
stories have appeared in A Public Space, Ploughshares, chapbook is forthcoming on Pudding House Press and Professor O’Connor’s food and travel writing has
The Paris Review, and are collected in the book Double her second solo record is forthcoming on Ocean Sound appeared in The New York Times, Men’s Journal,
Happiness. Her novel is Wavemaker II (Atlantic Monthly Recordings in spring 2011. She is currently publishing The Financial Times, and Gastronomica, and he has
Press, 2002). towards her first collection of poems, “The Ossicles,” contributed essays to the literary journals Open
and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in women’s studies and fine City, The Believer, and Quarterly West, and to the
Sean C. Kelly arts at Rutgers University in fall 2011. anthologies The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 1, The
Gastronomica Reader and They’re At It Again: An Open
Visiting Instructor City Reader.
B.A., University of Montreal; Sean was editor of National
Lampoon and a founding editor of Heavy Metal. He
has been a staff writer for Saturday Night Live, and as a

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Shelly Oria music performances, soundwalks, poetry readings, Writing and Tutorial Center
installations, photography, and sleepovers. He
Visiting Instructor is an active member of the New York Society for Randy Donowitz
B.A., Tel Aviv University; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Acoustic Ecology.
Professor Oria’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Director of the Writing and Tutorial Center
Quarterly West, cream city review, and fivechapters. Justin Taylor
She is a recipient of the 2008 Indiana Review Fiction Terri Bennett
Prize among other awards and curates the monthly Visiting Assistant Professor
series “Sweet! Actors Reading Writers.” B.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., The New School. Tutor
Professor Taylor is the author of the story collection
Nelly Reifler Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (Harper’s Priya Chandrasekoran
Perennial, 2010) and the novel The Gospel of Anarchy
Visiting Assistant Professor (Harper’s Perennial, 2011). He is the editor of The Tutor, Writing, Thesis
B.A., Hampshire College; M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence College; Apocalypse Reader, Come Back Donald Barthelme,
She authored See Through (Simon & Schuster, 2006). and co-editor (with Eva Talmadge) of The Word Made Diane Cohen
Her work has appeared in many publications including Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
McSweeney’s, Bomb, Post Road, Jubilat, Taxi, Black (Harper’s Perennial, 2010). With Jeremy Schmall, Assistant to the Director
Book and Nerve.com.  Her plays have been performed he publishes The Agriculture Reader, a limited-edition
in the U.S. and Australia, and she is the recipient of arts annual. Maura Conley
honors including a Henfield Prize and a Rotunda Gallery
Emerging Curator grant. Holly Tavel Tutor, Writing, Thesis

Eric Rosenblum Visiting Instructor Marissa Forbes
B.A., The New School; M.F.A., Brown University; recipient
Visiting Instructor; Lecturer, Intensive English of a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship in Creative Writing to Tutor, Writing, Conversation
B.A., English, Ohio University; M.F.A., Creative Writing- the Czech Republic.
Fiction, Syracuse University; Eric’s fiction and non-fiction Elizabeth (Lol) Fow
have appeared in Guernica Magazine, the Chicago Ellery Washington
Tribune and the Chicago Reader. Adjunct Instructor,Tutor, Thesis,
Visiting Assistant Professor Graduate Writing
Jonathan Santlofer D.E.U.G., Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Ellery
Washington’s writing has appeared in the French Dominica Giglio
Visiting Instructor publication Nouvelles Frontières, Out Magazine,
B.F.A., Boston University School of the Arts; M.F.A., Pratt The Berkeley Fiction Review and various literary Tutor, Writing, Art History
Institute; Santlofer is the author of five bestselling anthologies, including Griots Beneath the Baobab
crime novels, short stories in many anthologies and (IBWA Press), Geography of Rage (RGB Publisher), Heather Green
collections, winner of the Nero Wolfe Award for Best and State by State (Harper Collins). He is a recipient
Crime Novel, co-author/contributor to The Dark End of of the PEN Center West–Rosenthal Emerging Voices Tutor, Writing, Thesis, Conversation
the Street anthology (Bloomsbury USA, 2010); recipient Fellowship and the IBWA Best Short Fiction Award.
of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, Rome Joseph Herzfeld
Prize; and on the board of directors of Yaddo, the oldest Gina Zucker
arts community in the United States. Lecturer Intensive English,Tutor, Writing
Visiting Assistant Professor
Todd Shalom B.A., Washington University; M.F.A., New School; Kwame Heshimu
Gina Zucker has published fiction and nonfiction in
Visiting Instructor magazines and journals such as Tin House, Salt Hill, The Visiting Instructor,Tutor, Writing
B.S., Boston University; M.F.A., California College Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Post, Elle, Glamour,
of the Arts. Founder of Elastic City walking tours, GQ, Rolling Stone, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan, as well Matt Kubacki
Professor Shalom works with text, sound, and image. as on various online journals. Her writing has been
He collaborates with performance artist/director anthologized in two collections: ALTARED (Vintage, Visiting Instructor, Tutor, Writing
Niegel Smith; together, as Permiso, they conceive 2007) and BEFORE (Overlook Press, 2006). She is a
and stage interactive rituals in public and private recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and a Cecilia Muhlstein
environments. His solo work includes improvisational New School Merit Scholarship.
Visiting Instructor, Tutor, Writing, Thesis

Evan Rehill

Visiting Instructor, Tutor, Writing, Thesis

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Academic Degrees Overview

Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs

school of architecture B. ARCH. 0202 school of architecture M. ARCH. 0202
B. P. S. 0201 M.S. 0202
Architecture B.S. 0201 Architecture (first-professional) M.S. 0205
Construction Management A.A.S. 5317 Architecture (post-professional) M.S. 0206
Construction Management Architecture and Urban Design M.S. 0201
Building and Construction A.A.S. 5012 City and Regional Planning M.S. 0299
A.A.S. 5610 Facilities Management M.S. 0206
school of art and design A.O.S. 5012 Historic Preservation
A.O.S. 5012 Urban Environmental Systems Management M.S. 0831
Graphic Design/Illustration A.O.S. 5012 M.S. 0831
Painting/Drawing B . F. A . 0831 school of art and design ADV. CRT. 0831
Digital Design and Interactive Media B.A. 1003 M.P.S . 1099
Graphic Design B . F. A . 0601 Art and Design Education (init./prf. certification) M.P.S . 1099
Illustration B . F. A . 1009 Art and Design Education (prf. certification) M.P.S . 0599
Art and Design Education B . F. A . 1009 Art and Design Education M.S. 0601
Art History B . F. A . 1010 Art Therapy and Creativity Development M . F. A . 1009
Communications Design B . F. A . 1001 Art Therapy with Special Needs Children M.S. 1099
Digital Arts B.A. 1003 Arts and Cultural Management M.P.S . 0599
Fashion Design B . F. A . 1003 Communications Design M . F. A . 1009
Film B.I.D. 1009 Communications Design M . F. A . 1001
Fine Arts B . F. A . 0201 Dance/Movement Therapy M.S. 1003
History of Art and Design B . F. A . 1011 Design Management M.I.D. 1009
Digital Arts M.S. 0201
Industrial Design B.A. 4903 Fine Arts ADV. CRT. 1003
Interior Design B . F. A . 1599 History of Art and Design M.S. 1009
Photography Industrial Design
B.F.A./M.S. Interior Design
school of liberal arts and sciences Museum Studies
Package Design
Critical and Visual Studies
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combined degree programs

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Graduate Programs, continued

school of information and library science

Library and Information Science M.S. 1601
899.01
Library and Information Science: M.S.
Library Media Specialist 1699
1699
Archives Certificate Program ADV. CRT. 899.01
1699
Library and Information Studies ADV. CRT.
0601
Library Media Specialist ADV. CRT.
1601/
Museum Libraries ADV. CRT. 1009
1601/
school of liberal arts and sciences M.A. 1401
1009/
Media Studies 1001
1009/
combined degree programs M.S./M.F.A. 1601

Library and Information Science/Digital Arts

Library and Information Science/Law M.S./J.D.
History of Art and Design/Fine Arts M.S./L.L.M.

M.S./M.F.A.

History of Art and Design/Information and Library Science M.S./M.S.

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Curricula

School of Architecture

M. Arch. in Architecture semester 5 M.S. in Architecture 3
(First-professional) (Post-professional) 6
5 ARCH-805 Design Studio 5: Vertical Option 5
semester 1 3 ARCH-861 Professional Practice semester 1
3 History/Theory Elective 14
ARCH-601 Design Studio 1: Fundamentals 3 GAUD Elective 5 ARCH-781 Pro Seminar I
5
ARCH-611 Computer Media 1: Multimedia Credits subtotal 3 GAUD Elective 3
3
ARCH-631 Structures I 14 s e m e st e r 6 3 ARCH-803 Summer Design Studio 6: Vertical 3
3 Option 14
ARCH-651 History and Theory 1: Modern ARCH-806 Design Studio 6: Vertical Option 14 Credits subtotal
History 5 History/Theory Elective 5
Credits subtotal 3 All Institute Elective semester 2 3
3 Credits subtotal 8
semester 2 3 Total credits required 5 ARCH-901 Fall Design Studio 36
3 ARCH-982 Pro Seminar II
ARCH-602 Design Studio 2: Context 14 6 ARCH-988 Thesis Research
14 GAUD Elective
ARCH-612 Computer Media 2: Advanced 5 84 Credits subtotal
Multimedia
3 semester 3
ARCH-632 Structures II
3 ARCH-912 Thesis
ARCH-652 History and Theory 2: 3
Architectural Theory 14 All-Institute Elective
Credits subtotal Credits subtotal
5
semester 3 3 Total credits required
3
ARCH-703 Design Studio 3: 3
Urban Mixed Use 14

ARCH-753 History and Theory 3:
Non-Western History

ARCH-761 Environmental Controls

ARCH-762 Material and Assemblies
Credits subtotal

semester 4

ARCH-704 Design Studio 4: CAP

ARCH-861 Professional Practice

History/Theory Elective

GAUD Elective
Credits subtotal

212 curricula M.S. in City and M.S. in Urban Environmental
Regional Planning Systems Management
M.S. in Architecture
and Urban Design semester 1 semester 1

semester 1 5 PLAN-600 Fundamentals: Seminar and 5 EMS-620 Sustainable Communities 3
3 Studio 6
UD-803 UD Studio I Elective Credits 3
UD-813 Methods and Computer PLAN-602 History and Theory of City 3 EMS-640 Environmental Law 12
3 Planning
Applications 11 PLAN-603 Urban Economics 3 Credits subtotal 3
UD-993 Urban Design Theory 3 3
Elective Credits semester 2 3
Credits subtotal 3
5 Credits subtotal 14 EMS-611 Environmental Assessment:
semester 2 Impact Statements 12
3 semester 2
UD-901 UD Studio II EMS-612 Environmental Assessment 3
UD-981A Culmination Project Research 3 PLAN-604 Planning Law 3 (A,B,C) 3
UD-991 Urban Design and Elective Credits 6
8 EMS-621 Green Buildings
Implementation: Case Studies 3 PLAN-605 Planning Method I 3 (A,B,C) 5
All-Institute Electives Elective Credits 5
Credits subtotal 14 Credits subtotal 14 (EMS-624 Environmental 10
Economics) 40
semester 3 semester 3

UD-902 UD Culmination Project 5 PLAN-701 Planning Methods II 3 Credits subtotal
All-Institute Elective
Credits subtotal 3 PLAN-810 Studio: Sustainable semester 3
Total credits required
8 Communities, or EMS-623 Computer Applications: GIS
(A,B,C)
33 PLAN-820 Studio: Land Use and Urban
Design, or
Elective Credits
PLAN-850 Studio: Sustainable Development 5 Credits subtotal

Elective Credits 3 semester 4

Credits subtotal 11 PLAN-601 Planning/Urban Design Studio,
or
semester 4

PLAN-810 Studio: Sustainable PLAN-652 Planning Studio, or
Communities, or
PLAN-653 Land Use Studio
PLAN-820 Studio: Land Use and Urban
Design, or Elective Credits

PLAN-850 Studio: Sustainable Development 5 Credits subtotal
2 Total credits required
PLAN-891 Directed Research

Elective Credits 5

Credits subtotal 12

semester 5

PLAN-892 Demonstration of Professional 3
Competence
6
Elective Credits 9
60
Credits subtotal

Total credits required

curricula 213

M.S. in Minor in Facilities M.S. in Historic Preservation
Facilities Management Management

semester 1 semester 1

FM-621 Computer Applications 3 The Department of Facilities Management offers a PR-510 History and Theory of Historic 3

FM-631 Principles of Facilities 3 nine-credit minor to graduate students in the following Preservation 3
Management departments: Architecture, City and Regional Planning,
PR-511 Documentation/Interpretation 3
FM-633 Managerial Accounting and Urban Enviromental Systems Management, Historic PR-513 of the Built Environment
Finance 3 Preservation, and Interior Design. Students may apply PR-649 3
Building Restoration and 12
FM-663 Real Estate Development to the Minor in Facilities Management program through Investigation
Credits subtotal 3
3 their advisor at any point during their academic Architecture and Urban History I 3
semester 2 career. The completion of the minor will be noted on 3
12 the student’s transcript but will not be shown on the Credits subtotal 3
FM-632 Project Management 12
diploma. semester 2
FM-634 Facility Programming and Design 3
3 Required courses
FM-636 Facility Maintenance and 3
Operations 3 FM-631 Principles of Facilities 3 PR-512 Preservation Law and Policy 3
PR-520 Concepts of Heritage 9
­ Elective Credits 3 Management
Credits subtotal 5
Additional courses must be taken in the following: PLAN-640 Real Estate Development 3
semester 3 3
3 FM-621 Computer Applications for 3 P­ R-650 Architecture and Urban History II 11
FM-731 Strategic Planning and 12 Facilities Managers Credits subtotal 44
Management
FM-632 Project Management 3 semester 3
FM-733 Economic Evaluation of Facilities 3 FM-633
Managerial Accounting and 3 PR-521 Interventions, Additions,
FM-735 Telecommunications: Concepts 3 FM-634 Finance Alterations, and Adaptive Re-use
and Strategies 3 FM-636
Facility Programming and Design 3 PR-620 Preservation Colloquium
FM-771 Legal Issues 3 FM-663
Credits subtotal 12 FM-731 Facility Maintenance and 3 Preservation Elective
Operations
semester 4 4 FM-733 Credits subtotal
FM-735 Real Estate Development
FM-798 Demonstration of Professional 3 semester 4
Competence 1 Strategic Planning and
9 FM-771 Management 3 PR-621 Preservation Studio
HMS-697A Thesis Writing I 14
Economic Evaluation of Facilities 3 Preservation Elective
Elective Credits
Credits subtotal Concepts and Strategies: 3 Elective Credits
Telecommunications Credits subtotal
Total credits required
Legal Issues 3 Total credits required

Total credits (minimum) 9

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214 curricula M.S. in Art and Design M.S. in Art and Design
Education (Initial/ Education (Professional
School of Art Professional Certification) Certification)
and Design

semester 1 semester 1

ADE-506 Literacy and Language 1 ADE-616A Fieldwork in Art and Design
Acquisition in the Art Classroom Education, or

ADE-616A Fieldwork in Art and Design ADE-616B Fieldwork in Art and Design 2
Education or Education (with Special
1
ADE-616B Fieldwork in Art and Design 2 Populations) 3
Education (with Special ADE-616C The Inclusive Art Room 3
Populations) 2
ADE-625 Play and Performance: From 11
ADE-616C The Inclusive Art Room 1 Childhood to Pedagogy
3
ADE-630 Media and Materials: from Studio 3 ADE-630 Media and Materials: From Studio 3
to Classroom to Classroom 3
9
ED-608 Roots of American Education 3 Elective
2
Credits subtotal 10 Credits subtotal
3
semester 2 semester 2 3
8
ADE-522 Student Teaching: Saturday Art ED-602 Survey of Art Education
School, or Literature, or 3
3
ADE-524 Student Teaching: In the 3 ED-603 Survey of Design Education 6
Galleries Literature 34

ADE-619 Foundations in Art and Design 3 ED-605 The Teacher in Film and Fiction
Education
Elective
ED-602 Survey of Art Education
Literature, or Credits subtotal

ED-603 Survey of Design Education 3 semester 3
Literature
ADE-517A Directed Research in Art and
Credits subtotal 9 Design Education, or

semester 3 ADE-517B Directed Research in Art and
Design Education (with Special
ADE-522 Student Teaching: Saturday Art Populations)
School, or
ADE-621 Special Topics in Art and Design
ADE-523 Student Teaching: After School 3 Education

ADE-620 The Art of Teaching Art and 3 ED-660A Thesis I
Design
Credits subtotal
ED-660A Thesis I
3 semester 4
Elective
2 ED-660B Thesis II
Credits subtotal 11 Elective

semester 4 Credits subtotal

ADE-531A Student Teaching: In the Public Total credits required
Schools, or

ADE-531B Student Teaching: 4
With Special Populations

ADE-532A Student Teaching Seminar 1

ED-660B Thesis II 3

Credits subtotal 8

Total credits required 38

(Plus courses and credits listed under “Certification
Requirements”)

curricula 215

Advanced Certificate M.P.S. in Arts and Cultural M.P.S. in
Design Management
in Art and Design Education Management

semester 1 semester 1 (fall) semester 1

ADE-506 Literacy and Language 1 ACM-625 Leadership and Team Building 2 DM-631 Leadership Behavioral 1
Acquisition in the Art Classroom Simulation
ACM-627 Management Communications 2 2
DM-632 Leadership and Team Building 2
ADE-521 Student Teaching: Saturday Art ACM-631 Behavioral Simulation 1 2
School, or DM-652 Design Management 2
ACM-641 Management of Arts and 2 9
ADE-524 Student Teaching: In the 3 Cultural Organizations DM-654 Strategic Technology
Galleries 2
ACM-645 Art in the Urban Environment 2 DM-661 Financial Reporting and Analysis 2
ADE-616B Fieldwork in Art and Design 2 Credits subtotal
Education with Special Credits subtotal 9 2
Populations semester 2
semester 2 (spring) 2
DM-622 Advertising and Promotion 8
ADE-620 The Art of Teaching Art and 3 ACM-623 Financial Planning and Budget 2
Design Management DM-633 Managing Innovation and 1
Change 2
ED-608 Roots of American Education 3 ACM-624 Arts and Cultural Education 2 1
DM-641 International Environment of 2
Credits subtotal 12 ACM-632 Organizational Behavior 2 Business 6

semester 2 ACM-642 Nonprofit Law and Governance 2 DM-651 Management Communications 2
Credits subtotal 2
ADE-522 Student Teaching: Saturday Art Credits subtotal 8 1
School, or semester 3 2
semester 3 (summer i and summer ii)
ADE-523 Student Teaching: After School 3 DM-634 Negotiating 1
ACM-626 Managing Innovation and 2 1
ADE-531A Student Teaching: In the Public Change DM-653 Design Operations Management 9
School, or
ACM-633 Negotiating 1 DM-656 Directed Research 2
ADE-531B Student Teaching: 4
With Special Populations ACM-646 External Relations 2 DM-662 Money and Markets 2
Credits subtotal
ADE-532A Student Teaching Seminar 1 ACM-652 Directed Research 1 2
semester 4
ADE-619 Foundations in Art and Design 3 ACM-664A Capstone Planning: Advisement 2 2
Education DM-621 Strategic Marketing 2
Credits subtotal 8
DM-642 Business Law 10
Credits subtotal 11 semester 4 (fall) 42
DM-643 Intellectual Property Law
Total credits required 23 ACM-621 Strategic Marketing 2
DM-663 Financing: Companies and New
(Plus courses and credits listed under “Certification ACM-622 Fundraising for Arts and Culture 2 Ventures
Requirements”)
ACM-643 Art, Culture, and Social Policy 2 DM-671 Managerial Decision Making
certification requirements
ACM-654 Strategic Technology 2 DM-673 Capstone Planning: Advisement
Credit subtotal
The following academic requirements must be fulfilled Credits subtotal 8
prior to applying for Initial Teaching Certification. semester 5
The courses or workshops may be taken at Pratt or semester 5 (spring)
transferred from another post-secondary school or DM-623 Building Entrepreneurial
institution. ACM-628 Advertising and Promotion 2 Courage

Course in Child/ 3 ACM-644 Cultural Pluralism in the U.S. 2 DM-644 Design Futures: Theory and
Adolescent Psychology Practice
ACM-651 Finances and Financial Reporting 2
for Nonprofit Managers DM-655 New Product Management and
One semester of 3 Development
a foreign language ACM-664B Shaping the 21st Century: 2
Integrative Capstone DM-672 Business Strategy
Workshop in 0
Child Abuse Prevention ACM-671 Managerial Decision-Making 1 DM-674 Shaping the 21st Century:
Integrative Capstone
Workshop in Life Safety and 0 Credits subtotal 9 Credits subtotal

Violence Prevention 0 Total credits required 42 Total credits required

216 curricula

M.S. in M.S. in M.F.A. in
Communications Design Package Design Communications Design

semester 1 semester 1 semester 1

DES-618 Typography I 3 DES-618 Typography I 3 DES-710A Graduate Studio: Visual 3
Language
DES-620 Visual Communications I 3 DES-620 Visual Communications I 3 3
DES-720A Graduate Studio: Technology 3
DES-625 Visual Perception 3 DES-625 Visual Perception 3
DES-730A Graduate Studio: Design 3
DES-680 Digital Design 3 DES-677 Electronic Pre-press 3 Transformation 3
15
Credits subtotal 12 Credits subtotal 12 DES-760A Graduate Seminar
3
semester 2 semester 2 Elective Credits 3
Credits subtotal 3
DES-619 Typography II 3 DES-619 Typography II 3 6
semester 2 15
DES-621 Visual Communications II, or DES-628 Structural Packaging Design 3
DES-741 Cross Disciplinary Studio 3
DES-681 Interactive Design I (DD) 3 DES-630 Packaging: Graphics I 3
DES-751 Design Writing 3
DES-677 Electronic Pre-press, or HA-601 History of Western Art, or 3
DES-791 Thesis Resource
DES-683 Motion Design 1 (DD) 3 HD-662 History of Communications 2 3
Design Elective Credits 1
HA-601 History of Western Art, or Credits subtotal 1
Credits subtotal 3
HD-662 History of Communications Design   2 11 semester 3 17
semester 3
Credits subtotal 11 DES-710B Graduate Studio: Visual 1
Language 1
semester 3 DES-629 Fragrance Packaging Research 3 2
Workshop DES-720B Graduate Studio: Technology
DES-624 Communication Seminar, or 3
DES-631 Packaging: Graphics II 3 DES-730B Graduate Studio: Design 6
DES-682 Interactive Design II (DD) 3 Transformation 13
DES-660 Directed Research 2 60
DES-626 Corporate Image Planning, or DES-760B Graduate Seminar
DES-680 Digital Design 3
DES-634 Marketing, or DES-794B M.F.A. Thesis Resource
Credits subtotal 11
DES-640 Design Management 3 DES-794B M.F.A. Thesis Resource
semester 4
DES-636 Visual Communications III, or DES-796 M.F.A. Thesis I
DES-634 Marketing, or Credits subtotal
DES-684 Motion Design II (DD) 3
DES-640 Design Management 3 semester 4
DES-660 Directed Research 2
DES-699A Thesis I 6 DES-795A M.F.A. Thesis Resource
Credits subtotal 11
Credits subtotal 9 DES-795B M.F.A. Thesis Resource
semester 4
semester 5 DES-797 M.F.A. Thesis Production and
HD-505 History of Design, or Exhibition
HD-505 History of Modern Design, or
HD-506 Concepts of Design 2 DES-799 M.F.A. Thesis II
HD-506 Concepts of Design 2
DES-699A Thesis I 6 Elective Credits
DES-699B Thesis II 3 Credits subtotal
Elective Credits 3
Credits subtotal 5 Total credits required
Credits subtotal 11
Total credits required 48
semester 5
prerequisite courses
DES-699B Thesis II 3
DES-608 Design Procedures 3
Credits subtotal 3
DES-676 Computer Graphic Systems 3
Total credits required 48
These courses may be required as prerequisite courses
(Courses followed by the notation DD should be chosen for students not having an appropriate communications
if completing the M.S. program with an emphasis in design background.
Digital Design.)

prerequisite courses

DES-608 Design Procedures 3

DES-676 Computer Graphic Systems 3

These courses may be required as prerequisite courses
for students not having an appropriate communications
design background.

curricula 217

M.F.A. in 3-D Animation M.F.A. in Interactive Arts M.F.A. in Digital Imaging
and Motion Arts
semester 1 semester 1
semester 1
3 DDA-606A Graduate Seminar I 3 DDA-606A Graduate Seminar I 3
DDA-606A Graduate Seminar I 3 DDA-610 Digital Arts Practicum 3
DDA-610 Digital Arts Practicum 3 DDA-610 Digital Arts Practicum 3 DDA-617 Languages 3
DDA-617 Languages 3 DDA-645 Imaging Studio 3
DDA-643 Animation Studio 3 DDA-617 Languages 3 Studio Elective 3
15 Credits subtotal 15
Studio Elective 3 DDA-643 Imaging Studio
Credits subtotal semester 2 3
3 Studio Elective 3
semester 2 3 DDA-606B Graduate Seminar II 3
15 Credits subtotal 3 DDA-614 3D Modeling 3
DDA-606B Graduate Seminar II 3 DDA-645 Imaging Studio 3
DDA-643 Animation Studio semester 2 3 DDA Elective 15
3 Studio Elective
DDA Elective 3 DDA-585 Interactive Installation 15 Credits subtotal 6
Studio Elective 6
Credits subtotal 3 DDA-587 Art of Electronics semester 3 3
15
semester 3 6 DDA-606B Graduate Seminar II 6 DDA-660A Thesis I
6 DDA Electives 6
DDA-653 Post-Production 3 DDA Elective 3 Art History Elective 3
DDA-660A Thesis I 15 Credits subtotal 3
15 Studio Elective 3
Art History Elective semester 4 15
Credits subtotal Credits subtotal 60
6 DDA-660B Thesis II
semester 4 3 semester 3 3 Liberal Arts Elective
3 DDA Elective
DDA-660B Thesis II 6 DDA-660A Thesis I 3 DDA Elective or Internship
Liberal Arts Elective 15 Credits subtotal
DDA Elective 3 DDA Electives 60 Total credits required
DDA Elective or Internship
Credits subtotal 15 Art History Elective
Total credits required
Credits subtotal

6 semester 4

3 DDA-660B Thesis II

3 Liberal Arts Elective

3 DDA Elective

15 DDA Elective or Internship

60 Credits subtotal

Total credits required

218 curricula

M.S./M.F.A. in Library semester 5 elective courses—m.s. in lis
and Information Science
and Digital Arts M.S. in LIS Required Electives: 6 credits (two 3-credit courses)

semester 1 3 LIS Elective Course (Electives 3 related to digital technology and information; students
may be selected from lists of select two courses from the following:
M.S. in LIS
LIS-651 Information Professions required or recommended LIS-608 Human Information Behavior 3
M.F.A. in DA
DDA-572 Electronic Music and Sound, or courses.) LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation 3
3 M.F.A. in DA LIS-643 3
DDA-626 Audio for Digital Media 3 DDA-614 3D Modeling 3 Information Architecture and
Interaction Design
DDA-600 Digital Arts In Context
3 DDA-660 Thesis I 3 LIS-663 Metadata, Description and 3
DDA-610 Fundamentals of Computer
Graphics Note: 6 credits of non-DDA courses required for the MFA Access

DDA-616 Design for Interactive Media 3 in DA degree are taken in the MSLIS program from list of LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives 3
Credits subtotal 15 MSLIS electives with as asterisks (see list). 3
LIS-680 Instructional Technology 3
semester 2 DDA Electives (See List) 3 LIS-693 Digital Libraries

M.S. in LIS Credits subtotal 12 Recommended Electives: 12 credits (four 3-credit
LIS-652 Information Services and courses). Note: Courses with an asterisk satisfy
3 semester 6
Sources
M.S. in LIS the 6-credits of non-DA required electives. “SS”
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization
M.F.A. in DA 3 LIS Elective Course 3 indicates summer session. Besides these elective
DDA-500 Interactive Studio or courses, students may choose other electives such as
LIS Elective Course 3 Photography Collections, Film and Media Collections,
DDA-585 Interactive Installation
(Electives may be selected from the above lists of and Digital Libraries.
DDA-622 Interactive Media
Credits subtotal 3 required or recommended courses.) LIS-605 Special Topics in Online Data- 3

semester 3 3 M.F.A. in DA base Searching and Services

M.S. in LIS 12 DDA-587 Physical Computing 3 LIS-611 Information Policy 3
LIS-654 Information Technologies
DDA-660 Thesis II 3 LIS-618 Special Topics in The Art World: 3
LIS Course from the list of
“Required Electives:” (See List) Credits subtotal 12 Services and Sources
M.F.A. in DA 75 LIS-621 Special Topics in Electronic 3
DDA-620 Graphics Programming 3 Total credits required Collections and Sources (SS)

DDA-625 Video Editing 3 subtotals by degree: LIS-623 Online Databases Humanities 3
Credits subtotal
M.S. in LIS: 30 and Social Sciences
semester 4
M.F.A. in DA: 45 LIS-629 Special Topics in Museum and 3
M.S. in LIS Library Research
LIS Course from the list of 3 elective c ourses—m.f.a. in da LIS-631 3
“Required Electives” (See List) 3 LIS-634 Academic Libraries and
3 Recommended Electives: 3 LIS-641 Scholarly Communication 3
LIS Course from the list of 12 DDA-587 Physical Computing 3 LIS-642 3
“Recommended Electives” (See 3 Abstracting and Indexing 3
List) DDA-612 Digital Imaging 3 LIS-686
M.F.A. in DA Information Systems Analysis 3
DDA-645 Digital Imaging Studio DDA-614 3D Modeling
3 DDA-620 Graphics Programming Special Topics in Thesaurus
DDA-650 Thesis Research Design and Construction
Credits subtotal 3 DDA-645 Digital Imaging Studio
Other Electives: Special Topics in Performing Arts
Librarianship

DDA-510 Artist Books in the Digital Age 3 LIS-696 Special Topics in Special 3
Collections Institutes 3
DDA-513 3D Lighting and Rendering 3
3 DDA-514 Storyboarding and Storytelling 3 LIS-698 Practicum/Seminar
3 DDA-584 ActionScript
12 DDA-624 3D Computer Animation 3

3

DDA-630 Advanced Interactive Media 3

DDA-643 Digital Animation Studio 3

curricula 219

M.P.S. in Art Therapy M.P.S. in Art Therapy and
and Creativity Development Creativity Development and
and M.P.S. in Art Therapy M.P.S. in Art Therapy with
with Special Needs Children Special Needs Children

academic year program spring/summer
intensive program
semester 1 semester 4

ADT-641/ Creative Arts Therapy I/ Special 3 ADT-646/626 Group Creative 3 year 1
621 Ed. I Arts Therapy II/Special Ed. II

ADT-645/625 Group Creative 3 ADT-650 Advanced Seminar II in Creative semester 1 (spring) 3
Arts Therapy I/ Special Ed. I Arts Therapy Adults, or
ADT-641/ Creative Arts Therapy I 3
ADT-661/671 Fieldwork 2 ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled, or 621 3
Experience and Supervision I/ 3
Special Ed. I ADT-654 Children and Adolescents 3 semester 2 (summer) 3

TECH-634/635 Materials in 3 SS-660 The Psychology of Intergroup 3 SS-640 Development of the Personality I 2
Creative Arts Therapy/Special Relations and Institutional 17
Ed I Process ADT-642/622 Creative Arts
2 Therapy II 3
Credits subtotal 11 ADT-664/674 Fieldwork 2
Experience and Supervision IV/ ADT-645/625 Group Creative
semester 2 Arts Therapy I 3
Special Ed. IV 3
3 TECH-634/635 Materials in
ADT-632/633 Research and 3 E­ lective 14 Creative Art Therapy 3
Thesis, or Research and Thesis: 3
Special Education Credits subtotal 53 s e m e st e r 3 ( fa l l ) 2
19
ADT-642/622 Creative Arts Total credits required ADT-661/ Fieldwork Experience and
Therapy II/ Special Ed. II 3 671 Supervision I

SS-640 Development of Personality I 3 Credits subtotal
3
ADT-647 Art Diagnosis 2

ADT-662/672 Fieldwork year 2
Experience and Supervision II/
Special Ed. II semester 4 (spring)

Credits subtotal 14 SS-630 Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment
Issues
semester 3

ADT-649 Advanced Seminar I in Creative ADT-662/672 Fieldwork
Arts Therapy Adults, or Experience and Supervision II

ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled, or semester 5 (summer)

ADT-653 Children and Adolescents 3 SS-650 Development of Personality II
3
SS-630 Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment ADT-632 Thesis/Research
Issues 2
ADT-649 Advanced Seminar I in Creative
ADT-663/673 Fieldwork 3 Arts Therapy Adults, or
Experience and Supervision III/ 3
Special Ed. III 14 ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled, or

ADT-688 Family Art Therapy ADT-653 Children and Adolescents

SS-650 Development of Personality II ADT-688 Family Art Therapy

Credits subtotal semester 6 (fall)

ADT-663/673 Fieldwork
Experience and Supervision III

Credits subtotal

220 curricula

M.S. in Dance/ M.S. in Dance/
Movement Therapy Movement Therapy

academic year program spring/summer
intensive program
semester 1

DT-671 Theory and Practice of Dance 3 year 1
Therapy I

DT-673 Studies in Movement Behavior I 3 semester 1 (spring)

year 3 ADT-641 Creative Arts Therapy I 3­ ADT-641 Creative Arts Therapy I 3
3 DT-673 Movement Behavior I 3
ADT-645 Group Creative Arts Therapy I 3
2 semester 2 (summer) 3
semester 7 (spring) ADT-661 Fieldwork Experience and 3
2 Supervision I 3
ADT-664/674 Fieldwork 14 SS-640 Development of Personality I
Experience and Supervision IV Credits subtotal ADT-642 Creative Arts Therapy II 2
20
SS-660 Psychology of Intergroup 3 semester 2 3 ADT-645 Group Creative Arts Therapy I
Relations 3
DT-672 Theory and Practice of Dance 3
Therapy II DT-671 Theory and Practice of Dance 3
semester 8 (summer)
3 Therapy I 3
ADT-643 Expressive Modalities 3 DT-674 Studies in Movement Behavior II 2
3 semester 3 (fall)
ADT-646/ Group Creative Arts Therapy II 3 ADT-632 Research and Thesis ADT-661/671 Fieldwork 3
626 Experience and Supervision I 3
ADT-642 Creative Arts Therapy II 3
3 ADT-662 2
ADT-647 Art Diagnosis Fieldwork Experience and 2 Credits subtotal 22
Supervision II
ADT-650 Advanced Seminar II in Creative
Arts Therapy Adults, or SS-640 Development of Personality I 3 year 2
17
ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled, or Credits subtotal

ADT-654 Children and Adolescents 3 semester 3 semester 4 (spring)

Credits subtotal 17 ADT-649 Advanced Seminar I in Creative SS-630 Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment
53 Arts Therapy Adults, or Issues
Total credits required

ADT-651 Developmentally Disabled or DT-674 Movement Behavior II
3 ADT-632
ADT-653 Children and Adolescents 3 Thesis/Research
3 ADT-649
SS-630 Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment 2 ADT-651 Advanced Seminar I in Creative
Issues Arts Therapy

DT-675 Improvisation Adults, or

ADT-663 Fieldwork Experience and Developmentally Disabled, or
Supervision III
3 ADT-653 Children and Adolescents
SS-650 Development of Personality II 14
ADT-662/672 Fieldwork
Credits subtotal Experience and Supervision II

semester 4 semester 5 (summer)

ADT-646 Group Creative Arts Therapy II 3 SS-650 Development of Personality II

ADT-650 Advanced Seminar II in Creative DT-672 Theory and Practice of Dance
Arts Therapy Adults, or Therapy II

ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled, or semester 6 (fall)

ADT-654 Children and Adolescents 3 ADT-663 Fieldwork Experience and
3 Supervision III
SS-660 The Psychology of Intergroup
Relations and Institutional
Process Credits subtotal

ADT-664 Fieldwork Experience and 2
Supervision IV

Credits subtotal 11
56
Total credits required

M.F.A. in Fine Arts curricula 221

M.S. in History
of Art and Design

semester 1 semester 1

year 3 Studio Major 3 HA-602 Theory and Methodology 3
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3
Liberal Arts 3 Art History (Film/Design
2 Elective Credits 3
semester 7 (spring) Credits subtotal 3 Electives)
9
ADT-664 Fieldwork Experience and 3 semester 2 6 Art History (Architecture
Supervision IV Electives) 3
Studio Major 15 Credits subtotal
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3
SS-660 The Psychology of Intergroup 3 Liberal Arts semester 2
Relations Elective Credits 3
Credits subtotal 3 HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and 9
semester 8 (summer) 3 Conservation
semester 3 3
ADT-646 Group Creative Arts Therapy II 3 Art History (Non-Western
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 6 Electives) 3
Advanced Seminar II in Creative 3 FA-650A Thesis I
Arts Therapy 3 Elective Credits 15 Elective Credits 3
14 Credits subtotal Credits subtotal 9
ADT-650 Adults or
56 s e m e st e r 4 3
ADT-652 Developmentally Disabled, or 3 semester 3 3
FA-601 Thesis Statement I
ADT-654 Children and Adolescents FA-650B Thesis II 5 Art History (Pre-Renaissance 3
9
DT-675 Improvisation Elective Credits 8 Electives) 36
Credits subtotal
Credits subtotal Total credits required 16 Art History (Renaissance/
Baroque Electives)
Total credits required

Elective Credits
2 Credits subtotal

5 semester 4

7 HA-605 Thesis
14 Art History (Renaissance/
60 Impressionism Electives)

Elective Credits

Credits subtotal

Total credits required

222 curricula M.S. in History
of Art and Design
M.S. in History
of Art and Design M.F.A. in Fine Arts

M.S. in Library and Theory, Criticism, and History of Art, Design, semester 2 3
Information Science and Architecture Requirements 3
3 Studio Major 3
semester 1 semester 1 3 Art Criticism/Analysis/History 6
15
LIS-651 Information Professions 3 HA-602 Theory and Methodology Liberal Arts
LIS-652 Information Services and 3 Elective Credits 3
3 Art History (Film/Design 5
Sources Electives) Credits subtotal 8
HA-602 Theory and Methodology 16
3 Art History (Architecture 9 semester 3
Art History Elective 2 Electives) 2
Credits subtotal Art Criticism/Analysis/History 5
11 Credits subtotal FA-650A Thesis I 7
semester 2 3 Elective Credits 14
semester 2 60
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization Credits subtotal 90
LIS-654 Information Technologies 3 HA-650 Materials, Techniques, and
HA-650 Materials, Techniques and 3 Conservation 3 3 semester 4
3
Conservation Art History (Non-Western 9 Complete these courses plus 7 elective credits.
Art History Elective Electives) FA-601 Thesis Statement I
Credits subtotal
2 Elective Credits 3 FA-650B Thesis II
semester 3 Credits subtotal Elective Credits
11 s e m e st e r 3
Art History Elective 3 Credits subtotal
Library Science Elective 6 Art History (Pre-Renaissance 3 Master of Fine Arts credits required
Credits subtotal Electives) 9 Total required credits (M.S./M.F.A.)

semester 4 6 Art History (Renaissance/ 3
3
Art History Elective 12 Baroque Electives)
Library Science Elective 3
Credits subtotal Elective Credits 9
30
semester 5 6 Credits subtotal

Art History Elective 6 semester 4
Library Science Elective
Credits subtotal 12 HA-605 Thesis

semester 6 Art History (Renaissance/
5 Impressionism Electives)
HA-605 Thesis 6 Elective Credits
Credits subtotal 11 Credits subtotal
Total credits required
Master of Science credits required

3 Fine Arts Requirements
3
semester 1

60 Studio Major 3
Art Criticism/Analysis/History 3
3
Liberal Arts 6
15
Elective Credits

Credits subtotal

curricula 223

Advanced Certificate M.I.D. in Industrial Design
in Museum Studies
semester 0 semester 3
Required core courses:
HA 560 Museology 3 Take these qualifying courses unless exempt. Take 3 credits from the industrial design core courses.
HA 610 Internship 6 IND-585 Production Methods I
HA 610B Internship 6 IND-586 Production Methods II 2 IND-509 Space Analysis I, or
A choice of 6 elective credits from:
HA 600I Materials and Techniques of IND-612B Industrial Design Technology II 2 IND-510 Space Analysis II 2

Venice, Pratt in Venice Program 3 IND-694 Drawing I 3 IND-540 CAID II: Alias or
ADE 524 Student Teaching in the Gallery IND-695 Drawing II
LIS 629 Museum and Library Research 2 IND-542 CAID II: Solid Works/Pro E. 2
LIS 632 Conservation and Preservation 2 Credits subtotal
ACM 621 Strategic Marketing 2 INDC-620 Process/Product Studio, or
ACM 622 Fundraising for the Arts and 3 semester 1
11 INDC-622 Interdepartmental Studio, or
Culture 3 Complete these courses.
ACM 624 Arts and Cultural Education 2 IND-612A Industrial Design Technology I INDC-624 Design Methodology, or
ACM 642 Nonprofit Law and Governance 2 IND-614A Graduate Color Workshop I (2-D)
ACM 651 Finance and Financial Reporting INDC-626 Design Strategies, or
IND-660A Directed Research I
for Nonprofit Managers 2 IND-672 Graduate 3-D I 3 INDC-628 Furniture Design, or
2 IND-690 Industrial Design Workshop I
2 Credits subtotal 2 INDC-630 Exhibit Design, or

semester 2 2 INDC-632 Tabletop Design 3

Take 3 credits from the industrial design core courses. 2 IND-699A Thesis I 3
IND-539 CAID I: Alias or
2 HD-506 Concepts of Design 2
IND-541 CAID: Solid Works/Pro E.
11 Elective 2
IND-614B Graduate Color Workshop II
(3-D) Credits subtotal 14

INDC-620 Process/Product Studio, or semester 4

INDC-622 Interdepartmental Studio, or IND-515 Prototypes I, or

INDC-624 Design Methodology, or 2 IND-516 Prototypes II 2

INDC-626 Design Strategies, or 2 HD-608 History of Industrial Design 2

INDC-628 Furniture Design, or Elective 2

INDC-630 Exhibit Design, or IND-699B Thesis II 3

INDC-632 Tabletop Design Credits subtotal 9

IND-660B Directed Research II Total credits required 48

IND-673 Graduate 3-D II A minimum of 48 credits of study are required for the

Elective Master in Industrial Design.
Credits subtotal
  The courses with the notation “(QUAL)” represent an

3 additional 11 credits that may be required for applicants
whose undergraduate background need strengthening

2 in Industrial Design.

2

3

14

224 curricula

M.S. in Interior Design School of Information M.S. in Library and
and Library Science Information Science
semester 1 6 3
2 semester 1 3
INT-601 (QUAL) Qualifying Design I
2 LIS-651 Information Professions 3
INT-606 (QUAL) Qualifying rchitecture 2 LIS-652 Information Services and 9
Drawing 12
Sources 3
INT-631 (QUAL) Color and Materials 2 Elective Credits 3
Credits subtotal 3
HD-609 History of Interior Design 9
Credits subtotal semester 2
9
semester 2 LIS-653 Knowledge Organization 9
LIS-654 Information Technologies
INT-560 (QUAL) CADD I: AutoCAD 9
Elective Credits 9
INT-602 (QUAL) Qualifying Design II 6 Credits subtotal 36

INT-604 (QUAL) Qualifying Construction 2 semester 3

HD-610 History of Interior Design II 2 Elective Credits
Credits subtotal
Credits subtotal 12
semester 4
semester 3
Elective Credits
INT-621 Design I 6 Credits subtotal
Total credits required
INT-623 Construction I 2

INT-625 Presentation Techniques 2

INT-633 Lighting Design I 2

Credits subtotal 12

semester 4

INT-561 CADD II: 3-D Max 2

INT-622 Design II 6

INT-624 Construction II 3

INT-698 Directed Research (Required for 2
thesis)

Credits subtotal 13

semester 5

INT-632 Color and Materials II 2

INT-699A/671 Thesis I or 3–5
Exhibition Design I

HD-506 Concepts of Design 2

Elective Credits 3

Credits subtotal 10–12

semester 6

INT-641 Professional Practice 2

INT-699B/ Thesis II or Exhibition Design II 3–5
672

Elective Creditts 2–4

Credits subtotal 9

Total credits required 48

A minimum of 48 credits is required for the Master of
Science in Interior Design. The courses followed by the
notation “(QUAL)” represent an additional 20 credits that
may be required for applicants whose undergraduate
backgrounds need strengthening in art and design.

curricula 225

M.S. in History M.S. in Library and M.S./M.F.A. in Library
of Art and Design
Information Science: Library and Information Science
M.S. in Library and
Information Science Media Specialist and Digital Arts

semester 1 semester 1 semester 1

LIS-651 Information Professions LIS-648 Library Media Centers 3 M.S. in LIS
LIS-652 Information Services and
LIS-651 Information Professions 3 LIS-651 Information Professions 3
Sources
HA-500 Theory and Methodology 3 LIS-652 Information Services and 3 M.F.A. in DA 3
3 Sources DDA-572 Electronic Music and Sound, or 3
Art History Elective 3
Credits subtotal Credits subtotal 9 DDA-626 Audio for Digital Media 3
15
semester 2 3 semester 2 DDA-600 Digital Arts In Context
3
LIS-653 Knowledge Organization 2 LIS-653 Knowledge Organization 3 DDA-610 Fundamentals of Computer 3
HA-550 Materials, Techniques and 11 LIS-654 Information Technologies 3 Graphics
3
Conservation LIS-676 Literature and Literacy for 3 DDA-616 Design for Interactive Media 3
Art History Elective 3 Children Credits subtotal 12
Credits subtotal 3 Credits subtotal
9 semester 2 3
semester 3 semester 3 3
M.S. in LIS
­Art History Elective 3
Library Science Elective 2 LIS-677 Literature and Literacy for Young 3 LIS-652 Information Services and 3
Credits subtotal Adults 3 LIS-653 Sources 12
11
semester 4 LIS-680 Instructional Technologies Knowledge Organization 3
3
Art History Elective 6 LIS-690 Student Teaching: 1–6 3 M.F.A. in DA
Library Science Elective 6 Credits subtotal 9 DDA-500 Interactive Studio, or 3
Credits subtotal 3
12 s e m e st e r 4 DDA-585 Interactive Installation 12
semester 5 3 DDA-622 Interactive Media
LIS-692 Student Teaching: 7–12
Art History Elective
Library Science Elective 6 Elective credits 6 Credits subtotal
Credits subtotal 6 Credits subtotal
12 Total credits required 9 semester 3
semester 6
certification requirements 36 M.S. in LIS
HA-605 Thesis
Credits subtotal LIS-654 Information Technologies
Total credits required
5 The following academic requirements must be fulfilled LIS Course from the list of “Required
prior to applying for Initial Teaching Certification. Electives”(See List)
6 The courses or workshops may be taken at Pratt or
M.F.A. in DA
11 transferred from another post-secondary school or
institution. DDA-620 Graphics Programming

3 DDA-625 Video Editing
Credits subtotal
3
60 semester 4

M.S. in LIS

LIS Course from the list of
“Required Electives” (See List)

LIS Course from the list of
“Recommended Electives”
(See List)

M.F.A. in DA

DDA-645 Digital Imaging Studio

DDA-650 Thesis Research

Credits subtotal

226 curricula

semester 5 elective courses – m.s. in lis L.L.M./M.S. LIS—
Law Librarianship and
M.S. in LIS Required Electives: 6 credits (two 3-credit courses) Information Law—
related to digital technology and information; students Dual-Degree
LIS Elective Course (Electives may 3 select two courses from the following:

be selected from lists of required

or recommended courses.) LIS-608 Human Information Behavior 3

M.F.A. in DA LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation 3

DDA-614 3-D Modeling 3 LIS-643 Information Architecture and 3
Interaction Design
DDA-660 Thesis I 3 semester 1

Note: 6 credits of non-DDA courses required for the LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives 3 LIS 617 Legal Research Methods & Law 3
M.F.A. in DA degree are taken in the M.S. LIS program
from list of M.S. LIS electives with as asterisks (See List)). LIS-663 Metadata, Description and LIS 651 Information Professions 3
Access3

DDA Electives (See List) 3 LIS-680 Instructional Technology 3 LIS 652 Information Services and Sources 3

Credits subtotal 12 LIS-693 Digital Libraries 3 BLS Copyright Law 3

semester 6 Recommended Electives: 12 credits (four 3-credit Credits subtotal 12
courses). Note: Courses with an asterisk satisfy the 6
M.S. in LIS credits of non-DA required electives. “SS” indicates semester 2
summer session. Besides these elective courses,
LIS Elective Course 3 students may choose other electives such as LIS 626 Online Databases: Law 3
Photography Collections, Film and Media Collections,
LIS Elective Course 3 and Digital Libraries. LIS 653 Knowledge Organization 3

Electives may be selected from the above lists of LIS 654 Information Technologies 3
required or recommended courses.
LIS-605 Special Topics in Online Data- 3 BLS Mass Media Law 3
base Searching and Services
M.F.A. in DA Credits subtotal 12

DDA-587 Physical Computing 3 LIS-611 Information Policy 3 semester 3

DDA-660 Thesis II 3 LIS-618 Special Topics in The Art World: 3 LIS 698 Practicum (BLS Library & Archives) 3
Services and Sources
Credits subtotal 12 BLS Internet Law 3

Total credits required 75 LIS-621 Special Topics in Electronic 3 Choose two electives from the following courses:
Collections and Sources (SS)
Subtotals by Degree: LIS 611 Information Policy
M.S. in LIS LIS-623 Online Databases Humanities 3
30 and Social Sciences LIS 613 Government Information

M.F.A. in DA 45 LIS-629 Special Topics in Museum and 3 LIS 616 Business Economics &
Library Research Statistical Information
elective c ourses—m.f.a. in da
LIS 619 International Information
Recommended Electives LIS-631 Academic Libraries and 3
Scholarly Communication
DDA-587 Physical Computing 3 LIS 684 Contemporary Issues in Law 6

DDA-612 Digital Imaging 3 LIS-634 Abstracting and Indexing 3 Credits subtotal 12

DDA-614 3-D Modeling 3 LIS-641 Information Systems Analysis 3 semester 4

DDA-620 Graphics Programming 3 LIS-642 Special Topics in Thesaurus 3 Thesis 3
Design and Construction
DDA-645 Digital Imaging Studio 3 BLS Information Privacy Law 3

Other Electives LIS-686 Special Topics in Performing Arts 3 Choose one elective from the following courses:
Librarianship
DDA-510 Artist Books in the Digital Age 3 LIS 608 Information Behavior
LIS-696 Special Topics in Special 3
DDA-513 3-D Lighting and Rendering 3 Collections Institutes LIS 627 Online Databases: Business

DDA-514 Storyboarding and Storytelling 3 LIS-698 Practicum/Seminar 3 LIS 630 Research Methods

DDA-584 ActionScript 3 LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives

DDA-624 3-D Computer Animation 3 LIS 697 Social Media 3

DDA-630 Advanced Interactive Media 3 Credits subtotal 9

DDA-643 Digital Animation Studio 3 Total credits required 45

summer (optional)

Students may take up to 6 credits in the summer including:

LIS 684 Contemporary Issues in Law 3

LIS 698 Practicum 3

Thesis 3

curricula 227

Advanced Certificate Advanced Certificate Advanced Certificate in
in Archives in Library and Library Media Specialist
Information Studies
semester 1 semester 1

LIS-625 Management of Archives and LIS-699 Independent Study 6 LIS-648 Library Media Centers 3
Special Collections 24 LIS-676 3
Credits subtotal 3 LIS Elective Courses (8) Literature and Literacy for
3 See Concentration Advisor Children
semester 2 Credits subtotal
30 LIS-690 Student Teaching I 3
LIS Elective See list below Total credits required Credits subtotal 9
Credits subtotal 30 s e m e st e r 2

semester 3 LIS-677 Literature and Literacy for Young 3
Adults
LIS Elective See list below 3
Credits subtotal 3 LIS-680 Instructional Technology 3

semester 4 LIS-692 Student Teaching II 3

LIS-698 Seminar and Practicum 3 Credits subtotal 9
Credits subtotal 3
Total credits required Total credits required 18

LIS Elective courses: certification requirements
LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation
LIS-650 Principles of Records 3 The following academic requirements must be fulfilled
3 prior to making an application for Initial Teaching
Management 12 Certification. The courses or workshops may be taken
LIS-663 Metadata at Pratt or transferred from another post-secondary
LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives school or institution.
LIS-669 Management of Electronic
Advanced Certificate in Museum Libraries
Records
LIS-686 Performing Arts Librarianship Four courses are needed in order to obtain the
LIS-687 Special Collections Advanced Certificate in Museum Libraries. This
LIS-688 Map Collections certificate is for students who have already graduated
LIS-689 Art Collections and obtained an MLS, whether from Pratt-SILS or
LIS-697 Special Topics in Ephemera another accredited library school.

Collections 1 course is required:
LIS-697 Special Topics in Film and Media
LIS-698 Seminar and Practicum
Collections
LIS-697 Special Topics in Photography semester 1

Collections LIS Elective from the following courses:
LIS-697 Special Topics in Rare Books
LIS-697 Special Topics in Archives Curatorial:

and Manuscripts LIS-629 Museum Library Research

LIS-632 Conservation and Preservation

LIS-667 Art Librarianship

LIS-686 Performing Arts Librarianship

LIS-687 Special Collections

LIS-688 Map Collections

LIS-689 Art Collections

LIS-697 Special Topics in Florentine Art
and Culture

LIS-697 Special Topics in Museum 3
Librarianship

Credits subtotal 3

228 curricula

semester 2 School of Liberal M.A. in Media Studies
Arts and Sciences
LIS Elective from the following courses: semester 1 3
3 1
Digital Technology: 3 HMS-650A Methodologies I 3
KMS-549A Encounters I 3
LIS-643 Information Architecture 3 10
3 Practices elective
LIS-665 Projects in Digital Archives 3 Seminar or Project Electives 1
3 Credits subtotal 3
LIS-680 Instructional Technologies 12 3
semester 2 3
LIS-681 Usability Leadership 10
HMS-549B Encounters II
LIS-697 Special Topics in Digital Libraries Practices Elective 4
Seminar or Project Elective 6
LIS-697 Special Topics in London/E- 10
Publishing HMS-650B Methodologies II 30
Credits subtotal
LIS-697 Special Topics in Web Design
semester 3
Credits subtotal
HMS-659A Thesis Workshop
semester 3 Seminar or Project Elective
Credits subtotal
LIS Elective from the following courses Total credits required

Museum Library Education and Outreach:

LIS-697 Special Topics in Museum and
Library Education Outreach

LIS-697 Special Topics in Museum
Education Libraries and
Resource Centers

Credits subtotal

semester 4

LIS-698 Seminar and Practicum

Credits subtotal

Total credits required

229

Courses

School of Architecture Structures I International Study: Istanbul Research

ARCH/Architecture ARCH-631  |  3 CR   This course introduces the fun- ARCH-648C  |  3 CR   The seminar intends to close
damentals of structures including statics, strength, and the existing gap between theories and technologies of
Design Studio I: Fundamentals stability of materials. Students are introduced to struc- the 21st-century metropolis and architects’ current data
tural concepts, systems, and the tracing of structural retrieval and representation methods. It will do this by
ARCH-601  |  5 CR   This studio is an introduction loads, using basic principles, physical modeling, and examining the kind of knowledge each data collection
to the fundamental concepts, processes, and skills theoretical and analytic methods. Topics include the technology generates for its own time, place, and
required for graduate architectural design. With a series interrelationship between strain, stress, and stability, as content. Prerequisites: take ARCH-652.
of abstract yet non-reductive exercises, students will well as the implications of tension, compression, shear,
learn to create and discuss formal, spatial and material torsion, and bending. (Prerequisite is a minimum three History/Theory I: Modern
relations. Through design projects and discussions with credits of college-level Physics or Calculus)
the studio critic, students will develop an understand- ARCH-651  |  3 CR   This course investigates the
ing of fundamental design principles, representational Structures II history of modern architecture during the twentieth
techniques, and analytical skills. century. It introduces students to important architects,
ARCH-632  |  3 CR   This course is an exploration of buildings, movements, discourses, and institutions and
Design Studio 2: Context structural design in building using several material traces the transformations ofboth mainstream modern-
palettes including wood, steel, and concrete. This ism and avant-garde practices from the 1920s until the
ARCH-602  |  5 CR   Studio emphasis is on design course introduces specific structural applications of 1960s. Beyond a history of canonical figures and works,
that conceptually and materially addresses a specific materials commonly used in small-scale commercial the course will also address aspects of the history of
site and context. The study and application of building and institutional buildings. Students are introduced to modern architecture that have only recently been
materials and technologies is explored in the design of the design of columns, walls, joinery, and connections introduced into the study of this period.
a small building (renovation and addition) in response appropriate to each material type. Theoretical, analyti-
to a detailed architectural program. Digital representa- cal, and computer simulation methods are employed. History/Theory 2: Arch Theory
tion techniques are also explored. Prerequisites: take Prerequisites: take ARCH-630.
ARCH-620. ARCH-652  |  3 CR   This is an intensive reading
Directed Research course in architectural theory and related philosophi-
Computer Media I: Multimedia cal and critical texts from the nineteenth and twentieth
ARCH-648  |  2–3 CR   This course is intended for centuries. The current state of architectural practice
ARCH-611  |  3 CR   The first media course empha- students who wish to do independent research at a in relation to theory is considered. Students place the
sizes the integrated use of the computer and computer graduate level in a subject of their choice and accept- readings in relation to one another and in cultural/
software for representation, design development, able to the graduate faculty and the chairperson. historical context through class discussion and seminar
and presentation. (A basic knowledge of computers is format, presentation, and papers. Prerequisites: take
required.) International Studies: Rome ARCH-650.

Computer Media II: Advanced ARCH-648A  |  3 CR   Students visit and study ancient Independent Study
Rome sites; Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque
ARCH-612  |  3 CR   This course provides a framework architecture; and modern and contemporary projects ARCH-698  |  1–5 CR   Students may conduct an inde-
for conceptualizing the digital project in architecture. in Rome, as well as in other prominent Italian cities and pendent study project on a problem of interest or as
The course is a hybrid seminar/workshop that is driven towns. This course provides firsthand experience ana- an extension of a regular course. The study may result
by a single course project that, in turn, is driven by lyzing architecture, cultural forces, and urban systems in either a paper or a physical design project. The topic
a series of investigations. These investigations will through architectural investigations. Prerequisites: take must be approved by the chair and may be supervised
approach the functions of software in such a way as to ARCH-652. by any faculty member.
extract critical approaches to the digitization of archi-
tecture. Prerequisites: take ARCH-640. International Studies: Istanbul Thesis in Progress

ARCH-648B  |  2–3 CR   This course is intended for ARCH-700  |  0 CR   If the Thesis course is not com-
students who wish to do independent research at a pleted in the initial semesters, students can continue
graduate level in a subject of their choice and accept- working in ARCH-700 for no more than five semesters.
able to the graduate faculty and the chairperson.

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Design Studio III: Urban Mix Animation in Arch. Design Environmental Controls

ARCH-703  |  5 CR   This design studio will focus on ARCH-713A  |  3 CR   In this course students retool ARCH-761  |  3 CR   This course addresses the design
the contemporary urban condition. Specifically, the digital animation techniques into form generation of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and other systems
students will be introduced to the interrelationships devices for architectural design. In particular, students for providing services in buildings. Heating, cooling,
between urban form, land and building use, transporta- will focus on building interactive, performative models electrical service, lighting, plumbing, fire protection,
tion, and environment. Prerequisites: take ARCH-620 for the evaluation of architectural geometries. Prerequi- vertical transportation, communication and security,
ARCH-621. sites: take ARCH-612. acoustics, and energy conservation techniques are
covered. From physical law to practical applications,
Design Studio IV: CAP Computer Logics building services for houses, institutional and com-
mercial structures and communities are discussed.
ARCH-704  |  5 CR   This is the final studio in a series ARCH-714A  |  3 CR   This course emphasizes an in- Prerequisites: take ARCH-661.
of four core design studios. This studio emphasizes the depth understanding of the logins of computer media
comprehensive nature of architectural design. One employed in architectural design. Instead of accepting Materials and Assemblies
project, of moderate complexity, engages students in a the formal biases of a given software package, students
design investigation for an urban site which includes all are asked to explore methodologies through which the ARCH-762  |  3 CR   Topics include assemblage of
aspects of design development, including documenta- architectural designer can customize a set of computer the structural types: wood, masonry, steel, tensile
tion of typical construction details. Prerequisites: take design tools to correspond to specific architectural form structures, and concrete; selection criteria for non-
ARCH-620 ARCH-621 ARCH-622. agendas. Prerequisites: take ARCH-612. structuralmaterials: glass, plastics, and non-ferrous
materials; building components: stairs, windows, glass,
Parametric Systems and Form Architecture Exhibition Design and interior finishes, and criteria for fire, water move-
ment, sound, and temperature control. Prerequisites:
ARCH-711A  |  3 CR   Students in this course investi- ARCH-715A  |  3 CR   This course teaches the design, take ARCH-630.
gate how computer programming techniques can be curation, and fabrication skills necessary to mount an
used in the generation of architectural form, in particu- architecture exhibition. Students organize content, pres- Integrated Building Systems
lar three-dimensional form. ent conceptual ideas, design exhibition details, build
prototypes, and develop a construction schedule within ARCH-763  |  3 CR   This is an applied science course
Scripting and Form given budget. Prerequisites: take ARCH-612. in which advanced applications of scientific technol-
ogy in structures, materials, and energy are developed.
ARCH-711C  |  3 CR   Students in this course investi- Theory & Practice: Architectural Rep. The lecture format is supplemented by exercises and
gate how computer programming techniques can be individual research projects pertinent to the technology
used in the generation of architectural form, particularly ARCH-716A  |  3 CR   This course gives students of design and construction. Prerequisites: take ARCH-
in the generation of drawings, both still and animated, an overview of the practical and theoretical aspects 661 ARCH-662.
and user-interactive systems. Prerequisites: take ARCH- of architectural representation from the 1960s to the
612. present. Students examine how a variety of media is Teaching Methodologies
incorporated into representations of design, and in par-
Digital Fabrication in Arch. ticular how computer media is used in contemporary ARCH-781  |  3 CR   This course is intended for
architectural practice. Prerequisites: take ARCH-612. students who wish to do independent research at a
ARCH-712A  |  3 CR   This course instructs students in graduate level in a subject of their choice and accept-
the project conceptualization, preparation of drawings, Computer Media: Advanced Modeling able to the graduate faculty and the chairperson.
and production involved in computer aided fabrica-
tion of architectural components. Prerequisites: take ARCH-717A  |  3 CR   The basic premise underlying Summer Design Studio: Vertical
ARCH-612. this seminar is that to better define what architecture
can be and do in a hyper-mediated world, we must turn, ARCH-803  |  5 CR   Coursework studies complex
Computer Aided Construction not to computer paradigms, but to narrative film. To this architecture and urban design problems related to
end, this seminar examines films as if they were works various theoretical premises; cultural, historical, and
ARCH-712B  |  3 CR   This course introduces students of architecture and imagines architecture as film. Archi- technical concepts are examined for application and
to new ways architects can engage the construction tecture is anything but certain, and the fiction of films, contribution to developing appropriate architectural
industry as a result of the computer techniques in as opposed to the insistent actuality of buildings, frees form and aesthetics.
theproduction of building components and assemblies. us from the pretense of knowing with certainty. Also, in
Prerequisites: take ARCH-612. the tradition of architecture theory at its best, looking Design Studio 5: Vertical Option
at films through architecture reveals them in ways not
Integrated Computer Modeling possible through literature or theater. ARCH-805  |  5 CR   This is a Vertical Design Studio
in which students produce a project in a paperless
ARCH-712C  |  3 CR   This course is an introduction History/Theory 3: Non-Western History studio. Sites are located within a negotiation between
to and advancement of computer-aided modeling and the building and the Internet. The premise is to make
rendering of 3-D visuals in architecture. The emphasis of ARCH-753  |  3 CR   This course introduces the issues a digital object that, like digital processes, combines
this course is on the integrated use of various software and personalities that are shaping the built environ- both representation and production. Prerequisites: take
packages and the exploration of how the computer can ment today in much of the non-Western world. The ARCH-620 ARCH-621 ARCH-622 ARCH-623.
be used for the effective generation and visualization course situates and circumscribes the theoretical
of 3-D architectural design concepts. Prerequisites: take debates that are occurring, emphasizing common fea-
ARCH-612. tures where they occur, such as climate, religion, ethnic
composition and social hierarchies, and also shared
problems like low-cost housing or large institutional
projects. Prerequisites: take ARCH-650 ARCH-651.

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Design Studio 6: Vertical II Design Intelligence Theoretical Principals of Materials

ARCH-806  |  5 CR   This studio provides opportuni- ARCH-851C  |  3 CR   Design Intelligence deals with ARCH-853D  |  3 CR   This course explores the theo-
ties for advanced architectural research by graduate the particular moments where established techniques retical principles behind structural engineering and
students. The class investigates and elaborates powers of architectural affect and production shift among building materials, and how new technology can alter
of conviction through architecture, taking as a context design media, environments, and designed artifacts. methodologies in architectural design. Prerequisites:
current issues rather than a particular physical loca- The course traces links between drawing shorthand for take ARCH-753.
tion. Students are enabled and encouraged to design two-dimensional media. and building where specific
their own strategies to carry out the course objectives. confluence, crisis, and shift occurs in the concep- Theory & Practice Architecture
Prerequisites: take ARCH-620 ARCH-621 ARCH-622 tion and practice of each. This traffic back and forth
ARCH-623 ARCH-624. between architecture’s media is examined in archival ARCH-855A  |  3 CR   This course enables students
research, theoretical discourse, and actual production. to make a connection between the academy and the
Multimedia & Computer Methods Prerequisites: take ARCH-753. profession through research and discussion of current
themes in the discipline of architecture. Prerequisites:
ARCH-813  |  3 CR   The basic premise underlying this Nature and Design take ARCH-753.
seminar is that to better define what architecture can
be and do in a hyper-mediated world, we must turn, ARCH-851D  |  3 CR   This seminar examines how Architecture and Culture
not to computer paradigms, but to narrative film. To this nature and design have been considered intrinsically
end, this seminar examines films as if they were works linked throughout history and considers how recent ARCH-855C  |  3 CR   This course will allow for the
of architecture and imagines architecture as film. Archi- technological advancements can alter our under- specific examination of architecture with the respect to
tecture is anything but certain, and the fiction of films, standing of how this relationship can be enacted in cultural systems, including ethical, political, legal, and
as opposed to the insistent actuality of buildings, frees architectural design. Prerequisites: take ARCH-753. property systems. Prerequisites: take ARCH-753.
us from the pretense of knowing with certainty. Also, in
the tradition of architecture theory at its best, looking Critical Geography & Technical Rep. Mass Customization in Architecture
at films through architecture reveals them in ways not
possible through literature or theater ARCH-851E  |  3 CR   This course investigates how ARCH-857A  |  3 CR   This course explores the use
spatial relationships affect a range of subject areas, of mass customization in architecture, both through
Material Articulation in Architecture from the way physical structures and natural condi- historical research and practical exploration. Students
tions affect populations, to the way populations in examine built and theoretical work and study how
ARCH-850A  |  3 CR   Students research historical and turn shape physical spaces. Students will study the mass customization is integrated in the practice of
contemporary architecture precedents and identify sets theoretical work of critical geography through texts by architecture. Students also examine socio-political
of design criteria. Students then use these criteria to Denis Cosgrove and others, as well as the work of the and socio-cultural aspects of mass customization in
fabricate physical models. These models are prototypes Frankfurt School, which includes the work of Walter the discipline of architecture, particularly in relation to
for ways in which technology, technique, and material Benjamin. Students will develop a mapping project that housing. Prerequisites: take ARCH-753.
converge in architectural production. Prerequisites: take researches contemporary relations between the social
ARCH-753. and spatial. Architecture and Information Space

Material Technology in Architecture Composite Structures in Arch ARCH-857B  |  3 CR   This course introduces stu-
dents to the problematic of designing architectural
ARCH-850B  |  3 CR   Students research historical and ARCH-853A  |  3 CR   This course explores the spaces with programs related with the collection,
contemporary architecture precedents and identify sets possibilities and limitations of composite materials in dissemination, exchange and learning of information.
of design criteria. Students then use these criteria to the building industry. Students study how composite Prerequisites: take ARCH-753.
fabricate physical models. These models are prototypes structures take advantage of the different properties of
for ways in which technology, technique, and material its constituent parts. Issues covered in this course range Architecture and Urban Transformation
converge in architectural production. Prerequisites: take from initial analysis and design to implementation in
ARCH-753. architecture projects. Prerequisites: take ARCH-753. ARCH-859A  |  3 CR   This seminar explores histories
and theories of change in cities, focusing, on the role
Architecture in Film Plasticity in Architecture that architectural design plays in producing, imagining,
and justifying the redistribution of spatial, material, and
ARCH-851A  |  3 CR   This seminar introduces stu- ARCH-853B  |  3 CR   This course is about rethinking economic resources. Prerequisites: take ARCH-753.
dents to the scholarship in architecture and film as they questions of technology in architecture. The course
examine the optical and analytical devices of narrative addresses both historical and contemporary issues, Architecture and Society
film within the context of architecture theory. Students including cybernetics, second-order systems theory,
study film as if it were architecture, making space with problems of agency and animations, theories of sus- ARCH-859B  |  3 CR   This course investigates the
moving images and architecture as if it were film playing tainability and computation, in an architectural context. relationship between space, social activism, and the
up the time and psyche of architecture. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: take ARCH-753. environment in America from the 1960’s to the pres-
take ARCH-753. ent. It traced the evolution of environmental design
History Structural Design by looking at the present. It traced the evolution of
Architecture and Geometry environmental design by looking at the complex
ARCH-853C  |  3 CR   This seminar introduces relationships between the American civil rights and
ARCH-851B  |  3 CR   This course examines a number students to the history of structural design and enables environmental movements. This seminar seeks to
of problematics concerning the use of computation, as them to research theoretical and material topics contextualize the history of advocacy and grassroots
its use in design work has shifted the technological and regarding structural engineering. The seminar examines architecture and planning. Prerequisites: take ARCH-
aesthetic understanding of geometry and architecture. the relationship between architecture and engineering. 753.
Students will look at specific historical and contempo- Prerequisites: take ARCH-753
rary definitions of computation as well as its different
uses in different fields related to the discipline ofarchi-
tecture. Prerequisites: take ARCH-753.

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Landscape, Cityscape, Place Graduate Pro Seminar I Computer Applications I

ARCH-859C  |  3 CR   This course traces the relation- ARCH-981  |  3 CR   The course is intended to provide CM-621  |  2 CR   A hands-on study of computer
ship of architecture and urban design to developments a discussion of current theoretical issues in archi- applications that facilitate the construction manage-
in human geography and cultural landscape studies tecture and urban design that will serve to support ment process and extend management capabilities.
from the turn of the 20th century to the present day. investigations being carried out in the graduate design Computerized control systems are investigated from
Prerequisites: take ARCH-753. studios. The course will place a special emphasis on pre-design through construction with an emphasis on
architectural issues related to New York. The course will cost management and scheduling. CM-621 deals with
Housing in Berlin and NY be taught through critical readings, discussion, and pre- contemporary applications of construction manage-
sentations of individual research. This course is taken ment tools.
ARCH-859D  |  3 CR   This course surveys the history concurrently with ARCH-601 and ARCH-602.
of large scale housing projects and housing reform Computer Applications II
movements in Berlin and New York from around 1890 to Graduate Pro Seminar II
the present day, with a focus on architects’ engagement CM-622  |  2 CR   A hands-on study of computer
with the social and economic problems of the modern ARCH-982  |  3 CR   This course is intended to provide applications that facilitate the construction manage-
metropolis. These two cities are exemplary of the vast a discussion of theoretical issues in architecture and ment process and extend management capabilities.
new metropolises that came into existence with the urban design which will serve to support investigations Computerized control systems are investigated from
wave of industrialization ofthe late 19th century and in being carried out in the graduate design studios. The pre-design through construction with an emphasis on
both we find case studies that chronicle the constantly course will place a special emphasis on architectural cost management and scheduling. CM-622 concen-
renegotiated relationship between architectural culture issues related to New York. The course willbe taught trates on project schedule applications. An introduction
and the modern urban situation. Prerequisites: take through critical readings, discussion, visiting lecturers, to web-based project management tools is also investi-
ARCH-753. and presentations of individual research. This course is gated. Prerequisites: take CM-621.
to be taken concurrently with ARCH-601 and ARCH-602.
Professional Practice Prerequisites: take ARCH-601 ARCH-602. Construction Safety Management

ARCH-861  |  3 CR   This course examines the Thesis Research CM-640  |  3 CR   An advanced comprehensive
profession of architecture. What is an architect? What approach to the management of construction site
is the process of licensing? What are the contractual ARCH-988  |  3 CR   This course consists of in-depth safety. Federal and state requirements are reviewed,
responsibilities of an architect? What are the stages of research, concept development, and programming and New York City rules and regulations, building
an architectural project? These and other questions of thesis projects. Students are required to work codes, and fire department requirements and local laws
regarding the practice of architecture are raised and competently between the accumulation of information pertaining to site safety are covered in detail. Topics
answered. The tools for starting, maintaining, and evolv- and the technical transformation of that material into related to establishing and implementing a site-safety
ing in architecture are presented. Prerequisites: take a definitive architectural project. Co-requisite courses: program include: pre-bidding considerations, planning
ARCH-661 ARCH-662 ARCH-663. ARCH-602. and scheduling, personnel training, orientation, and
safety audits. Students prepare a case study Site Safety
Internships CM/Construction Plan for a construction site. This course is approved by
Management the Department of Buildings as meeting the orientation
ARCH-862  |  2–5 CR   Graduate students may course and the 40-hour course requirements for certifi-
participate in architectural office internships in selected Construction Management I cation as a site safety manager in New York City.
architectural firms. An internship is intended to include
all phases of office experience under the supervision CM-601  |  3 CR   Covers construction project Architecture of NYC
of senior members of the firm and is a significant tran- management from conception to completion. Students
sitioned experience leading to architectural practice. explore feasibility studies, site selection, planning, CM-651A  |  2 CR   New York City is a virtual store-
Internships are considered as elective credit only, with programming, design coordination, and contracting house of American architecture. The stock of buildings
credit hours determined by the chair based on the procedures of actual construction. Emphasis is on con- includes examples of nearly every style of architecture
nature of the work assignment and the length of the tractor operations, project administration, job planning, from colonial to postmodern. This course reviews the
internship period. CPM scheduling, and subcontract coordination. various historical eras of architecture in New York City
and analyzes how they were affected by construction
Fall Design Studio for MS students Construction Management II technology and social and economic forces. Lectures
present the stylistic groupings of architecture and are
ARCH-901  |  5 CR   Studio emphasis is on design CM-602  |  3 CR   Covers construction project supplemented by visits to the unique historic districts
that conceptually and materially addresses a specific management from conception to completion. Students and architectural sites of the city.
site and context. The study and application of building explore feasibility studies, site selection, planning,
materials and technologies is explored in the design of programming, design coordination, and contracting Architecture of NYC
a small building (renovationand addition) in response procedures of actual construction. Emphasis is on con-
to a detailed architectural program. Digital representa- tractor operations, project administration, job planning, CM-651B  |  3 CR   New York City is a virtual store-
tion techniques are also explored. Prerequisites: take CPM scheduling, and subcontract coordination. house of American architecture. The stock of buildings
ARCH-620. includes examples of nearly every style of architecture
from colonial to postmodern. This course reviews the
Spring Thesis Design various historical eras of architecture in New York City
and analyzes how they were affected by construction
ARCH-902  |  5 CR   Students work on the detailed technology and social and economic forces. Lectures
design and presentation of an approved thesis subject present the stylistic groupings of architecture and are
that investigates—from a theoretical or pragmatic supplemented by visits to the unique historic districts
position—a subject of sufficient complexity and particu- and architectural sites of the city.
lar relevance to the thesis candidate’s background or
career orientation.

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Building Codes and Zoning Environmental Assessment: Life Cycle Green Buildings/Best Practices

CM-661  |  2 CR   This is a study of zoning and building EMS-612A  |  1 CR   This courses introduces students EMS-621B  |  1 CR   Taught by a practicing high
code requirements. Special emphasis is placed on the to the theory and methodology and underlying life performance/green architect/developer, this course
life safety and accessibility sections of the building cycle analysis, a systematic set of procedures for provides students with the philosophy, theory, his-
code and roles of building departments and their compiling and examining the inputs and outputs of the tory, and best practices underpinning innovations in
authority. The approval and permit process is discussed materials and energy and the associated environmen- high performance green building. Focusing on new
as it relates to various types of alterations and building tal impacts directly attributable to the functioning of construction, the course offers an in-depth look at the
structures. a product or service system throughout its life cycle. process by which several of the architect/developer’s
Students gain practical knowledge by applying the buildings were conceived, designed, and implemented
Restoration & Renovation technique to a product or system of their choice. with a particular focus on the potential for affordable
high performance green development.
CM-662  |  3 CR   This course consists of a series Environmental Assessment: Eco Footprint
of lectures and readings to enable students o assess Architecture & Energy
and restore property damage and to recognize and EMS-612B  |  1 CR   Sustainability indicators measure
appreciate the techniques necessary to rehabilitate progress toward a sustainable economy, society, and EMS-621C  |  1 CR   Taught by a practicing architect,
and renovate old structures. The lectures are designed environment. The Ecological Footprint Analysis is a type this course provides students with the philosophy,
in the chronological order employed by an architect, of sustainability indicator that measures how much bio- theory, history, and best practices underpinning
construction manager and/or general contractor in logically productive land and water area an individual, innovations in high performance green building and
the restoration and renovation of historic buildings. a city, a country, or a region requires to produce the rehabilitation. Focusing on adaptive re-use and rehabili-
This course concentrates on the construction methods, resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it regen- tation, it offers a look at the process by which several of
tools, and materials necessary to restore the style erates. This course introduces the principles underlying the architect’s projects were conceived, designed, and
and grace required to protect our housing stock and sustainability indicators, including Ecological Footprint implemented.
American heritage. Analysis, and will offer students hands-on experience
with these tools. Environmental Mgt: Solid Waste
EMS/Environmental
Management Systems Environmental Theory and Ethic EMS-621D  |  1 CR   This course examines the envi-
ronmental planning implications of various practices
Environmental Assessment: Impact EMS-613  |  3 CR   The purpose of this course is to and technologies relating to solid waste management
Statements discuss the history of environmental concern in the and prepares planners and architects to identify and
United States and explore to what extent social or promote more sustainable ways of managing solid
EMS-611  |  3 CR   Examines the critical, environ- institutional value assumptions are responsible for our waste. Particular emphasis is placed on new innova-
mental, ecological, geological, economic, social, and present environmental condition. With modern tech- tions in solid waste management including recycling,
health-related components that must be considered nologies significantly enlarging our spheres of action reuse, and reduction.
as part of the environmental review process under and responsibility, how far should moral concern extend
national, state, and municipal environmental quality when considering the relationship between culture Environmental Mgt: Water Quality
review laws. The tools and techniques for conduct- and nature? The course deals with basic philosophical
ing assessments, the different models for interpreting and ethical questions that must be answered if we are EMS-621E  |  1 CR   This course examines the
data, and the use of mitigating measures are presented to successfully integrate human action with natural environmental planning implications of practices and
through case analyses. processes. technologies relating to water management, and pre-
pares planners and architects to identify and promote
Environmental Monitoring Sustainable Communities more sustainable practices for managing both drinking
water and wastewater. Particular emphasis is placed on
EMS-612  |  3 CR   Prepares students to interpret and EMS-620  |  3 CR   Examines a range of strategies the science of water and on recent innovations in water
analyze scientific testing information inthe context of for planning communities that minimize the use of quality management including bioremediation, water-
regulatory requirement, community sustainability, and non-renewable energy sources, maximize recycling, shed planning, and natural wastewater systems.
environmental justice. The course examines the chem- and promote healthy living and working environments.
istry of atmospheric, land and water environments, with Its premise is that comprehensive approaches that Environmental Mgt: Energy Systems
particular emphasis on pollution encountered in urban consider both human welfare and resource limitations
and industrial sectors; the effect of air, noise, and water at the local and global levels are required in order to EMS-621F  |  1 CR   This course examines the unique
pollution, hazardous materials, pesticides, and synthet- build and maintain sustainable communities. Strategies nature of energy use and planning in urban areas. It
ics on the quality of community life; and the analysis of examined include sustainable production, transporta- introduces students to key issues associated with local
“brownfields” and contaminated urban sites. tion, infrastructure, and distribution policies. Examples energy planning: how cities use energy; the sources of
are drawn from current community development and this energy; what alternatives exist; the delivery systems
preservation practice in urban, metropolitan, and rural that get energy to cities; the institutional, market, and
areas. The course analyzes public policies and private regulatory environment in which urban energy plan-
practices relating to the urban environment, and inves- ners operate; and what steps cities are taking to better
tigates methods forcreating a more sustainable future. manage their energy use.

234 courses

Environmental Mgt: Toxics and Hazards Environmental Economics Capstone I

EMS-621G  |  1 CR   This course focuses on toxic and EMS-624  |  3 CR   This course examines the relation- EMS-660A  |  2 CR   A demonstration fulfilling an
hazardous substances in the environment, with particu- ship between the environment and socioeconomic approved scope of work showing the analytical capaci-
lar emphasis on trace metals and organic compounds systems. An economic framework is used to identify ties and creative skills expected of a professional in this
associated with construction materials and the urban/ the causes of environmental problems and their field serves as a capstone of the program. The demon-
industrial environment. It examines issues such as potential solutions. The issue of sustainable develop- stration can involve original research, a work-related
urban air quality and indoor air pollution, the persis- ment is examined from an interdisciplinary perspective, project, or an extension of course-related work.
tence of toxic chemicals in the environment, and the incorporating materials from the natural sciences,
regulation and cleanup of toxic substances. Case study philosophy, and other social sciences. Contemporary Capstone II
discussion focuses on sources and exposure to toxic environmental policy is considered in an urban context,
substances in the built environment in general, and the both in the U.S. and globally, with a focus on the equity EMS-660B  |  3 CR   As a capstone requirement of
New York City urban environment in particular. and efficiency aspects of environmental issues, and the program, students demonstrate fulfillment of an
with an emphasis on the potential for application of approved scope of work showing the analytical capaci-
Environmental Mgt: Brownfield alternative economic approaches. ties and creative skills expected of a professional in this
Remediation field. The demonstration can involve original research, a
Independent Seminar work-related project, or an extension of course-related
EMS-621H  |  1 CR   This mini-course offers an work.
introduction to brownfields, defined as abandoned or EMS-630  |  1 CR   Provides a formal setting each
underused properties that are either contaminated or semester for students to discuss substantive issues and Thesis in Progress
perceived to be contaminated, starting with a discus- integrate concerns across the curricula. Since students
sion of the history of brownfields, their relationship to are pursuing different concentrations and/or enter the EMS-700  |  0 CR   If the Demonstration of Profes-
other categories of contaminated properties, and their program with different backgrounds, special attention is sional Competence is not completed in the initial
legal status. The remainder of the course will focus on given to interdisciplinary and integrative needs. Faculty semesters, students can continue working in EMS-700
the practical aspects of brownfield cleanup and rede- and specialists in the field present lectures dealing with for no more than five semesters.
velopment, including government regulation, remedial professional practice.
technologies, and project financing, and the role of Financing Green Infrastructure
brownfields in urban planning. There will be particular Independent Seminar
emphasis on the environmental justice issues surround- EMS-701BP  |  1 CR   Examples of green infrastruc-
ing brownfields and the strategic use of brownfields in EMS-631  |  1 CR   Provides a formal setting each tural systems are increasingly prevalent in the modern
combating sprawl. semester for students to discuss substantive issues and urban context. This course will explore the reasons for
integrate concerns across the curricula. Since students why green infrastructure remains the exception when
Environmental Mgt: Industrial Ecology are pursuing different concentrations and/or enter the major infrastructural projects are undertaken. It will
program with different backgrounds, special attention is explore the process of developing capital programs and
EMS-621I  |  1 CR   Industrial ecology is the practice of given to interdisciplinary and integrative needs. Faculty projects and the critical changes within that structure
transforming production from an “open loop” process, and specialists in the field present lectures dealing with that need to be undertaken to move green infrastruc-
in which resource and capital investments move professional practice. tural practice from a best practice goal to standard
through the system in a linear way to become waste, to practice in cities.
a “closed loop” process in which wastes become inputs Environmental Law
for new processes and enterprises are approached as Green Buildings Rating Systems
ecosystems. This course uses in depth case studies from EMS-640  |  3 CR   Provides a basic framework in
specific industry sectors to demonstrate how industrial environmental law by surveying critical cases, policy EMS-755A  |  1 CR   Taught by a practicing environ-
ecology can promote pollution prevention and waste decisions, and legal history. Regional, national, and mental planner, this course familiarizes students with
reduction. It includes an examination of the economic international issues are addressed with the focus on relevant concepts, literature, and practices relating
development potential of green business. how inter-jurisdictional problems are resolved. The to greenbuilding rating systems at the local, regional,
relationship between legal, constitutional, and political national, and global levels. Skills taught include cost-
Computer Applications: GIS systems in different localities is also considered. ing methodologies, approaches to the evaluation
of sustainable design, and the specific methods for
EMS-623  |  3 CR   Introduces students to basic Contemporary Issues evaluating the contribution of design to environmental
concepts in data management, spreadsheet analysis, quality developed by the “Leadership in Energy and
digital mapping, and Geographic Information Systems EMS-641  |  3 CR   This course consists of special Environmental Design” (LEED) rating system.
(GIS) within the context of planning projects. The uses of seminars held on selected topics of current inter-
selected spreadsheet and GISpackages in various areas est in environmental planning, such as brownfield Waterfront & Wetland Planning
of planning, such as land use, real estate, environmen- remediation and development; wetlands delineation
tal management, transportation, and infrastructure and remediation; coastal zone and waterfront planning; EMS-761BP  |  1 CR   This course focuses on the
planning are investigated. Students receive hands-on sustainable agriculture and food safety; sprawl and various uses of urban waterfronts and wetlands, includ-
experience with Excel, MAP INFO, and dBase packages. growth management systems; high performance/green ing both the upland and the waterways. The course
buildings; sustainable campus planning, etc. Seminars will examine shoreline and water quality conditions,
feature Pratt faculty and visiting practitioners. Sections and will consider waterfront developments, working
of this course are reserved for graduate level students. waterfronts, and natural waterfronts. The class will
The course may be taken up to three times to cover concentrate on NYC and New Jersey, examining the
different topics. environmental, economic and social equity issues
involved in waterfront planning, development, and
preservation.

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ESM/Environmental EMS Internship Facility Programming & Design
Systems Management
ESM-9603P  |  3 CR   Internships are learning experi- FM-634  |  3 CR   Focusing on human/environment
Climate Change & Cities ences in the work place that relate to students’ major relations, this course develops an awareness of the
and career goals. Interns are able to take the skills and design process and the significance of design in facility
ESM-634AP  |  1 CR   Global warming and climate theories learned in the classroom and apply them to performance. Students simulate the planning process
change represent among the greatest challenges to real-life work experience. Students have the opportu- from programming through the delineation of major
global well-being and security and to the future of nity to learn new skills and concepts from professionals design considerations and quality standards. Through a
humans on Earth. This course will examine the science in the field and to test career goals and explore career combination of lectures, seminars, and group exercises
and history of this crisis with a focus on the various options. Students also gain a more objective under- in decision making and role playing, the student experi-
policy initiatives and actions being taken globally and standing of the experience through corollary meeting ences the planning process as designer, owner, and
locally to both mitigate and prepare for the impacts of and by recording their observations and completing manager and examines the impact of the process on
climate change. The class will look at case studies from exploratory assignments. the final building project.
different cities around the world and pay particular
attention to New York’s PlaNYC, which sets the goal of FM/Facilities Management Facility Management/Operation
30% reduction from current greenhouse gas emissions
by 2030. Computer App for Facilities FM-636  |  3 CR   Provides a comprehensive study
of maintenance and operations management of envi-
Green Infra. Build/Design FM-621  |  3 CR   Economic analysis and evalua- ronmental, communications, life/safety, and security
tion of facilities to minimize return on investment are systems in buildings. Areas of study include advanced
ESM-739BP  |  2 CR   The primary focus of this covered in this course. Facilities are viewed as assets to mechanical and electrical systems, evaluation and
design/build course is to provide students with the be managed as a portfolio. Topics include: monitoring integration of systems, energy conservation, upgrading
opportunity to not only design but to understand the market conditions and lifecycle costs of existing facili- systems with tenants in place, preventative mainte-
techniques of construction and implementation, gain- ties, developing performance measurement criteria, nance, and implications of maintenance and operations
ing valuable experience and knowledge of the practical comparing alternatives for owned or leased space, new for planning and design.
aspects of green infrastructure design. The course will or renovated facilities, optimizing the facility as an asset,
contain, in equal parts, learning and design modules analyzing the impact of environmental, construction, Sustainable Construction Management
with weekend site visits as a requirement for the build and marketing issues on project facilities and formulat-
focus. ing a financially-viable development proposal. FM-646  |  3 CR   Sustainable construction is no
longer an option. Issues such as global warming, high
ESM Internship Principles of Facilities Management oil prices, and a global economy have altered the con-
struction industries, the Federal Government, and the
ESM-9601P  |  1 CR   Internships are learning experi- FM-631  |  3 CR   Introduces the role of the facilities world’s outlook on maintaining a sustainable environ-
ences in the work place that relate to students’ major manager and examines facilities management through ment. This course will equip students with the skills to
and career goals. Interns are able to take the skills and forecasting and budgeting, architectural planning and manage sustainable construction projects.
theories learned in the classroom and apply them to design, maintenance and operations management and
real-life work experience. Students have the opportu- the integration of services. Basic principles of business Architecture of NYC
nity to learn new skills and conceptsfrom professionals management are discussed in the context of facilities
in the field and to test career goals and explore career management. FM-651A  |  2 CR   New York City is a virtual store-
options. Students also gain a more objective under- house of American architecture. The stock of buildings
standing of the experience through corollary meeting Project Management includes examples of nearly every style of architecture
and by recording their observations and completing from colonial to postmodern. This course reviews the
exploratory assignments. FM-632  |  3 CR   Covers project management various historical eras of architecture in New York City
from the concept phase through move-in, including and analyzes how they were affected by construction
ESM Internship budgeting and cost estimating, the delivery process, technology and social and economic forces. Lectures
programming and space planning, selecting the design present the stylistic groupings of architecture and are
ESM-9602P  |  2 CR   Internships are learning experi- team, and managing construction and occupancy. supplemented by visits to the unique historic districts
ences in the work place that relate to students’ major Techniques for cost analysis, scheduling, and proce- and architectural sites of the city.
and career goals. Interns are able to take the skills and dures for contracting, construction coordination, and
theories learned in the classroom and apply them to the control of change orders are reviewed. The impact Architecture of NYC
real-life work experience. Students have the opportu- of scheduling on contractor claims is studied along with
nity to learn new skills and concepts from professionals management reporting and feedback. Prerequisites: FM-651B  |  3 CR   New York City is a virtual store-
in the field and to test career goals and explore career take FM-631. house of American architecture. The stock of buildings
options. Students also gain a more objective under- includes examples of nearly every style of architecture
standing of the experience through corollary meetings Managerial Accounting/Finance from colonial to postmodern. This course reviews the
and by recording their observations and completing various historical eras of architecture in New York City
exploratory assignments. FM-633  |  3 CR   Covers aspects of accounting and analyzes how they were affected by construction
and finance of practical use to the facilities manager. technology and social and economic forces. Lectures
Emphasis is on the understanding of financial language, present the stylistic groupings of architecture and are
statements, and instruments, their application, and the supplemented by visits to the unique historic districts
use and interpretation of accounting data as a basis for and architectural sites of the city.
analysis and decision making.

236 courses

Real Estate Development Strategic Planning/Management LEED Existing Building: O + M

FM-663  |  3 CR   Focuses on economic development FM-731  |  3 CR   Focuses on strategies for man- FM-742B  |  1 CR   LEED for Existing Building
issues and the principles of real estate finance. Topics agement to anticipate and accommodate change in addresses whole-building cleaning and maintenance
covered include property descriptions, an overview of corporate-wide facilities. Areas of discussion include the issues (including chemical use), recycling programs,
the real estate development process and its partici- planning framework, establishing goals, developing link- exterior maintenance programs, and systems upgrades.
pants, contract and closing procedures and tools, and age between business planning and facilities planning, It can be applied both to existing buildings seeking
tax shelters. The roles played by the public and private methods for information gathering, building an informa- LEED certification for the first time and to projects
sectors are examined with an emphasis on discerning tion database, inventory and needs analysis, modeling previously certified under LEED for New Construction,
the differences in perspective associated with each techniques, developing an action policy, and effective Schools, or Core & Shell. This class will review in depth
sector. communication of facilities issues to senior management. the requirements, synergies, standards, core concepts,
and building strategies to achieve a LEED O + M rating.
International Facility Management International Business Finance Co-requisite courses: FM-742A.

FM-682  |  3 CR   This course surveys issues unique to FM-732  |  3 CR   This course provides an overview Legal Issues
international facility planning and management. Topics of the environment, concepts, and basic differences
include comparative business practices; site selection; involved in international business and finance. Topics FM-771  |  3 CR   Students review business and
project planning, organization, and management; envi- included country-market differences, trade and invest- building law as they pertain to the facilities manager,
ronmental issues; construction costs and a comparative ment patterns, the international financial environment, with particular focus on contracts, environmental and
parity index; regional influences; communication and issues in business/government relations, and strategies construction law, risk management, and insurance.
information systems; distribution networks; and facility for international business. Contracts are reviewed for consultants, construction,
management. Implications of current events such as and maintenance, procurement, and purchasing agree-
Europe 1992, business globalization, and the world real Econ Evaluation of Facilities ments. The significance of key legal terms and clauses is
estate crisis will be examined. examined as well as procedures and policy implica-
FM-733  |  3 CR   Economic analysis and evalua- tions for dealing with construction claims and disputes,
Facilities Management Research tion of facilities to minimize return on investment are hazardous materials, and multi-state facilities.
covered in this course. Facilities are viewed as assets to
FM-690A  |  1 CR   Students conduct independent be managed as a portfolio. Topics include: monitoring Demonstration of Professional
research in advanced topics in facilities management market conditions and lifecycle costs of existing facili- Competence
under faculty direction. Projects result in reference texts ties, developing performance measurement criteria,
for the Facilities Management library, papers for publi- comparing alternatives for owned or leased space, FM-798  |  5 CR   As a capstone requirement of
cation, or grant publications for further study. Approval new or renovated facilities, optimizing the facility as an the program, students demonstrate fulfillment of an
of the chairperson is necessary. asset, analyzing the impact of environmental, construc- approved scope of work showing the analytical capaci-
tion, and marketing issues on project facilities, and ties and creative skills expected of a professional in this
Facilities Management Research formulating a financially-viable development proposal. field. The demonstration may involve original research,
Prerequisites: take FM-633. a work-related project, or an extension of course-
FM-690B  |  2 CR   Students conduct independent related work.
research in advanced topics in facilities management Telecom: Concepts, Strategies
under faculty direction. Projects result in reference texts Demonstration in Progress
fort he Facilities Management library, papers for publi- FM-735  |  3 CR   This course examines the impact
cation, or grant publications for further study. Approval of telecommunications technology on facilities plan- FM-799  |  0 CR   If the Thesis course is not completed
of the chairperson is necessary. ning and management. Topics include the design and in the initial semesters, students cancontinue working
implementation of local and wide area voice and data in FM-700 for no more than five semesters.
Facilities Management Research communications networks, client service applications,
groupware, and business communications systems for FM Internship
FM-690C  |  3 CR   Students conduct independent enhancing collaborative work. Key technical, policy, and
research in advanced topics in facilities management organizational issues pertaining to the effective deploy- FM-9700  |  0 CR   Students wishing to combine prac-
under faculty direction. Projects result in reference texts ment and use of telecommunications technologies in a tical experience with facilities management study may
for the Facilities Management library, papers for publi- managed facility will be explored. apply for an internship with participating companies if
cation, or grant publications for further study. Approval they have a GPA of 3.0 and a second semester status.
of the chairperson is necessary. LEED Green Associate Students, in conjunction with the faculty advisor and
employer, prepare a written description of the studies
BIM for Facilities Managers FM-742A  |  2 CR   The US Green Building Council to be accomplished as part of their internship, and their
developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental relationship to the curriculum. The application must be
FM-722  |  3 CR   The focus of this class is to learn the Design (LEED) rating system in response to market approved by the faculty advisor, the chairperson, and
fundamental concept of Building Information Model- demand for a common definition and standard of mea- the employer.
ing (BIM), and how it relates to the field of Facilities surement for green building. Based on well-founded
Management. The student will be learning the basics scientific standards, LEED emphasizes state of the art
of modeling through the revision of an existing office strategies for sustainable site development, water sav-
building. Thereafter we will use the officebuilding. ings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor
Thereafter we will use the office building as a source to environment quality. This LEED course will present
generate an FM model that will be used throughout the the history and principles of the LEED rating system;
course. Cutting edge software will be used to modify compare LEED to other environmental rating systems;
and harvest the embedded data from the building provide specific examples of LEED certified construc-
information model, which are then used to inform and tion; and will prepare students to take the LEED Green
plan the maintenance of the building. Associate exam (a course requirement), the USGBC’s
entry-level professional credential. Co-requisite
courses: FM-742B.

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FM Internship PLAN/City and Regional Urban Economics
Planning
FM-9701  |  1 CR   Students wishing to combine prac- PLAN-603  |  3 CR   Presents economic theory and
tical experience with facilities management study may Skills I: Introduction to GIS method through the study of selected urban issues,
apply for an internship with participating companies if including user charges, externalities, and property
they have a GPA of 3.0 and a second semester status. PLAN-601A  |  1 CR   This course introduces students rights, subsidies and vouchers, public services and effi-
Students, in conjunction with the faculty advisor and to Geographic Information Systems software as used in ciency, and the public economy of metropolitan areas.
employer, prepare a written description of the studies city planning practice. Students become familiar with Readings are chosen to introduce economic issues from
to be accomplished as part of their internship, and their and gain experience analyzing data and producing distinct philosophical perspectives.
relationship to the curriculum. The application must be professional maps. The course will be conducted in
approved by the faculty advisor, the chairperson, and coordination with the mini-studio project in PLAN 656: Planning Law
the employer. Fundamentals of Planning.
PLAN-604  |  3 CR   Planners must have an under-
FM Internship Skills I: Writing for Planners standing of how the legal system shapes the analysis,
organization, and articulation of public goals and
FM-9702  |  2 CR   Students wishing to combine prac- PLAN-601B  |  1 CR   This course introduces stu- interests. This course covers the following subjects as
tical experience with facilities management study may dents to professional writing as used in city planning they relate to the definition and achievement of con-
apply for an internship with participating companies if practices. Students become familiar with and gain certed social action: the structure of government; the
they have a GPA of 3.0 and a second semester status. experience producing professional written forms, such scope of authority of agencies and the substantive and
Students, in conjunction with the faculty advisor and as the planning report, the opinion piece or letter to the procedural limits on various kinds of private and public
employer, prepare a written description of the studies editor and public testimony. They also become familiar actions; the major concepts of the law in which plan-
to be accomplished as part of their internship, and their with synthesizing data and writing about graphics. The ning programs may be structured and planning disputes
relationship to the curriculum. The application must be course will be conducted in coordination with the mini- resolved; the vocabulary and procedural framework of
approved by the faculty advisor, the chairperson, and studio project in PLAN 600: Fundamentals: Seminar & legal dispute resolution; the ability to read statutes and
the employer. Studio. regulations, find case law, and comprehend judicial
opinions; the concepts of constitutional law, common
FM Internship Skills I: Manual Graphics law, case precedents and judicial review; and advocacy
and the adversarial process as the basic method of
FM-9703  |  3 CR   Students wishing to combine prac- PLAN-601C  |  1 CR   This mini course is designed dispute resolution. Prerequisites: take PLAN-656.
tical experience with facilities management study may for graduate planning students with little or no design
apply for an internship with participating companies if experience as an introduction to hand-drawn graphics Planning Methods I
they have a GPA of 3.0 and a second semester status. for planning and design. It strives to combines both a
Students, in conjunction with the faculty advisor and critical understanding of the theories and practice of PLAN-605  |  3 CR   Methods employed by planners
employer, prepare a written description of the studies graphical representation with hands-on skill develop- in their professional activities. It includes a discussion
to be accomplished as part of their internship, and their ment. of various uses and types of data, compilation, and reli-
relationship to the curriculum. The application must be ability of data, population and housing characteristics,
approved by the faculty advisor, the chairperson, and Skills I: Computer Graphics population dynamics, methods for estimating popula-
the employer. tion, and models for forecasting population.
PLAN-601D  |  1 CR   The course will consist of lec-
FM Internship tures, readings, in-class demonstrations, and discussion Statistics: Refresher
based assignment reviews. Students will be introduced
FM-9704  |  4 CR   Students wishing to combine prac- to basic graphic concepts, raster/vector graphics, map- PLAN-606A  |  1 CR   Statistics is a prerequisite for
tical experience with facilities management study may ping, screen vs. print composition, graphic voice, weight the required Advanced Methods course. The five week
apply for an internship with participating companies if and emphasis, photo manipulation, storyboarding, course provides a refresher for students who have
they have a GPA of 3.0 and a second semester status. and presentation technique. Students may use course already studied statistics elsewhere. (There is a 3-credit
Students, in conjunction with the faculty advisor and assignments to fulfill requirements for the correspond- statistics course for those who have not studied statis-
employer, prepare a written description of the studies ing mini-studio. tics before.)
to be accomplished as part of their internship, and their
relationship to the curriculum. The application must be History & Theory of City Planning Statistics: Fundamentals
approved by the faculty advisor, the chairperson, and
the employer. PLAN-602  |  3 CR   Theories of planning focus on the PLAN-606B  |  2 CR   Covers fundamental concepts
normative issues that arise in considering why and what and methods in inferential statistics and basic econom-
FM Internship we plan. Under this heading are questions of ideology, ics most widely used by urban planning professionals.
values, purposes, and principles, including gender, race, In the first half of the semester, students cover such
FM-9705  |  5 CR   Students wishing to combine prac- and class. Theories of planning also involve questions statistical techniques as elementary probability theory,
tical experience with facilities management study may of governmental intervention and public legitimization. decision-tree analysis, measures of central tendency
apply for an internship with participating companies if Since the process of planning is affected by changes and dispersion, hypothesis testing and various correla-
they have a GPA of 3.0 and a second semester status. in social, economic, and political contexts, this course tion techniques. Topics covered in economics include
Students, in conjunction with the faculty advisor and examines and evaluates the theory of planning practice concepts of supply and demand, microeconomics, and
employer, prepare a written description of the studies in various historical periods. discounting costs and benefits over time. The course
to be accomplished as part of their internship, and their provides necessary preparation for later courses in
relationship to the curriculum. The application must be demographics and public finance.
approved by the faculty advisor, the chairperson, and
the employer.

BLS Partnership

PEX-600 | 1–15 CR  

238 courses

Real Estate Development Advocacy Planning & Action Community Economic Development

PLAN-640  |  3 CR   Focuses on economic develop- PLAN-711  |  3 CR   Advocacy planning is a major PLAN-713A  |  3 CR   Explores the phenomenon of
ment issues and the principles of real estate finance. force in community, city, and regional decision-making poverty and its causes and consequences. It is intended
Topics include property descriptions, participants in the processes. The evolution, current status, and projected to create a better understanding of poverty and covers
development process, contract and closing procedures role of advocacy in the planning and design domains issues of definition, demographics, geographic distribu-
and tools, tax shelters, types of real estate development are considered. Topics include citizen participation tion, and trends. Through readings, class discussions,
and an overview of the development process.The roles in political and developmental activities; changing and guest lecturers, students examine the relationship
played by the public and private sectors are examined governmental policies affecting neighborhood housing between poverty and employment, specifically focusing
with an emphasis on discerning the differences in and commercial programs; work with established and on the plight of the working poor and critical issues
perspective associated with each sector. underrepresented community groups; the ideological related to women and children in poverty. In the second
premises of advocacy and social action; and the rela- half of the course, students examine interventions
Thesis in Progress tionship of the planner to society and societal concerns. by the public and private sectors to uproot poverty,
The course incorporates lectures, seminar discussions, including the Federal War on Poverty, the Welfare State,
PLAN-700  |  0 CR   If the Demonstration of Profes- guest presentations, and student field-related projects. private sector initiatives, and community development
sional Competence is not completed in the initial It is a prerequisite for further independent study in the involvement. The course concludes with an examina-
semesters, students can continue working in PLAN-700 advocacy field. tion of the “underclass” phenomenon and attempts to
for no more than five semesters. separate myths from realities.
Housing & Community Renewal
Planning Methods II Downtown Economic Development
PLAN-712A  |  1 CR   Housing development, particu-
PLAN-701  |  3 CR   Provides students with larly affordable housing, is a key component of planning PLAN-713CP  |  2 CR   Downtowns are essential for
knowledge of a range of advanced quantitative and for sustainable cities. This course will examine the a community’s economic and civic health. This course
qualitative analytical methods used in urban planning. dynamic relationships among social needs, planning, explores multi-disciplinary strategies to revitalize
This course covers basic survey methodology, advanced and design, financial considerations, infrastructure and downtowns, whether as small as a rural hamlet or as
land use analysis, transportation planning methods, environmental issues, and political and social factors. large as a metropolitan center. The emphasis is on com-
global and local economic trend analysis, methods Students will expand their proficiency in professional mercial revitalization, but downtown and mixed-use
in environmental and regional planning, advanced skills used in housing development, focused on redevelopment are fully addressed. All of the elements
demography, program evaluation, policy analysis, and residential real estate development, financing, and of a successful program are covered, including: surveys,
policy evaluation. Readings include planning texts and financial analysis. market analyses, public participation, access, transit,
case studies. parking, pedestrians, placemaking, streetscape, facade
Affordable Housing programs, regulations, and “main street management.”
GIS I: Fundamentals
PLAN-712B  |  1 CR   Housing is a universal social Green Industry
PLAN-702A  |  3 CR   Introduces students to basic necessity that at once plays a critical role in our built
concepts in data management, spreadsheet analysis, environment and acts as a major force in our economy. PLAN-713P  |  2 CR   This course examines the basic
digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems This minicourse is designed to provide a basic introduc- tools and practice of economic development with par-
(GIS) within the context of planning projects. The uses of tion to residential real estate development, financing, ticular emphasis on efforts to launch a green industrial
selected spreadsheet and GIS packages in various areas and financial analysis for affordable housing develop- sector. Public investment in energy conservation and
of planning, such as land use, real estate, environmen- ment. It focuses on developing critical analysis of the low carbon economy creates a tremendous opportunity
tal management, transportation and infrastructure various constraints which shape housing development to expand domestic manufacturing and create jobs.
planning are investigated. Students get hands-on expe- projects: economic, physical, legal, tax, and market While there are promising pilot projects, their success
rience with Excel, MAP INFO, and dBase packages. concerns. has not translated into the broad city, state, and federal
policies needed to capitalize on the opportunity. In
Advanced GIS Special Needs Housing addition, ultimately, every business must be green and
we will use the policy tools developed for manufactur-
PLAN-702BP  |  3 CR   This course will provide PLAN-712C  |  1 CR   Housing is a universal social ing to examine how governments can incentivize green
advanced instruction in geographic information necessity that at once plays a critical role in our built behavior for all businesses.
systems (GIS) for urban planning applications. Skills environment and acts as a major force in our economy.
covered include database management for GIS, use of This mini course will expand student’s understanding of Social Planning
maps to track social and environmental data over time, affordable housing development by focusing on hous-
interactive mapping technologies, and 3-D applications ing for people with special needs and the supportive PLAN-714  |  3 CR   Utilizes planning techniques in
of GIS. Students develop the ability to analyze data housing model. Topics covered include evolution and the investigation of social problems facing communi-
spatially and use maps to represent complex social, history of supportive housing, current policy implica- ties. The major focus is cross-cutting themes, such as
geographical, and environmental phenomena. Prereq- tions, and the design and financing of supportive the social role of government, poverty, privatization,
uisites: take PLAN-544. housing as well as how to adequately and equitably race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Topical issues on the
plan for supportive housing in cities and communities. public agenda are also analyzed, incorporating issues
Students should have a basic knowledge of affordable such as welfare reform and homelessness. Specific
housing development and finance before taking this issues and topics are selected according to students’
course. backgrounds and interests.

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Land Use & Sustainable City Placemaking Metropolitan Regional Planning

PLAN-722A  |  3 CR   Since World War II, the spread- PLAN-725B  |  1 CR   What is Placemaking and how PLAN-762A  |  3 CR   An introduction to the theory
ing interstate highway systems and home financing can it be used to build stronger communities? How and practice of metropolitan regional planning.
policies have created the ubiquitous American suburb. does one evaluate a plaza, park or other public space to Lectures follow the procedures and substantive com-
Metropolitan regions have spread out along transporta- see if it is serving the needs of a community? How does ponents of a regional plan. Where appropriate, outside
tion corridors absorbing the countryside in a reckless one engage the community in evaluating, transforming, experts drawn from the region’s professional pool
manner. In the 1970s, a new network of global cities tied or creating a great public space? While these methods supplement the course lectures. Students are required
together by electronic communications began to rise. can be applied to any public space, the course focuses to evaluate a plan for a region in either the United States
Examples include command and control centers such most on plazas and “squares,” which have rich history of or abroad. This encourages familiarity with the regional
as London, New York, and Tokyo. Regional growth poles their own in both the U.S. and abroad. planning process and allows comparisons between
such as St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Reno, and Austin began to plans and planning theory. The student also is required
restructure the old dichotomy between the center and Transportation Planning to assume the role of a personality involved in a region-
the periphery—or between town and country—and to shaping issue. A mock public hearing is held with each
re-link cities in a new global economy. This class exam- PLAN-728A  |  3 CR   Provides the urban planner with student testifying as the chosen figure. Reports from the
ines the economic, demographic, cultural, and political a working knowledge of the concepts, technologies, student’s own perspective are required.
reformulations that have transformed metropolitan and practices involved in planning, operating, and eval-
areas into global cities and backwater towns into new uating present and future urban transportation systems. Policy, Law & Planning
growth centers. While the primary focus is on technical transportation
matters, technology-policy relationships are noted, PLAN-763  |  3 CR   This course draws on a particular
Land Use Regulations complementing the fuller treatment of transportation city planning issue—transportation, solid waste
policy in other coursework within the curriculum. management, and waterfront redevelopment are
PLAN-722B  |  3 CR   This course presents the nuts example—to explore the interconnections among poli-
and bolts of land use planning as practiced in the US Transit Equity tics, economics, and the built and natural environments
today and gives students the opportunity to develop/ in New York City. The course is taught by a practitioner
design a land use plan for a small hypothetical city. The PLAN-728B  |  1 CR   Students examine equity issues who introduces students to diverse issues in public
focus is on what constitutes a comprehensive plan, inherent in transportation systems. The main product sector management, public finance, urban design, and
principles of good plan-making, where to start, specific of the class is a paper on a case study of transportation grassroots and electoral politics as they bear on the
steps to take, information needs, and how to choose equity issues in a specific place (a city or metropoli- planning issue under examination.
methods to accommodate a range of community tan region, in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world). For
situations. example, it could be an analysis of equity issues as they Shrinking Cities
manifest in a specific transportation policy, approach, or
Sustainable Site Planning mode (e.g. greenways, Transit-Oriented Development, PLAN-764  |  1 CR   What will be the fate of America’s
etc.); it could be an examination of how political pro- older industrial cities industrial cities like Detroit or Buf-
PLAN-723  |  3 CR   Especially intended for students cesses and transportation funding and policies interact falo, cities that have been losing jobs and population for
concentrating in physical planning, this seminar (e.g. factors that might shape the next transportation decades? Can these cities become stronger, healthier,
provides an introduction to the basic principles, latest authorization bill). as well as smaller places? This course will look at the
practices, and tools for three-dimensional visualization reasons that these cities are shrinking, how job and
and analysis in site planning and design. Understand- Pedestrians & Bicycles population loss affect their economic and physical
ing that the context of any site is the interrelation of environment, and their prospects for the future. We will
social, economic, historic, cultural, and environmental PLAN-728C  |  2 CR   Transportation planning is about take a particular look at the reuse of urban land, and the
factors, this course focuses on the physical planning more than just traffic counts and parking policy. This opportunities to rethink redevelopment with green land
of the site by drawing from contemporary practices in course focuses specifically on planning for pedestrians uses as open space and urban agriculture.
ecology, landscape design, zoning, energy efficiency, and cyclists, the importance of public spaces, street
and resource management and bridging the disciplines design, and public safety. Planning For Disaster
of engineering, landscape design, architecture, and
planning. The class provides students with both and Policy Planning Changes PLAN-765  |  3 CR   The frequency of natural disasters
understanding of the broader implications of site pan- has been increasing over the past two decades. Despite
ning and the skills and tools for the planning and design PLAN-761  |  3 CR   Participants develop practi- increased investment and advances in hazard-man-
of a singular site and building project. Prerequisites: cal skills in analyzing community change. Technical agement technology, human and economic losses
take 3 credits from course PLAN-656. methods, such as survey and sampling techniques and from disasters have been rising worldwide. This class
selected topics in regional economics and demograph- provides an introduction to planning for disaster mitiga-
Parks & Open Space ics, are covered in class through lectures. The class is tion. After an overview of the changing approaches to
divided into working groups, which jointly select and disaster policy and planning, local and federal planning
PLAN-725AP  |  3 CR   This is a lecture and workshop carry out a case study of a community. As part of the strategies will be discussed in depth around recent case
exploring programming, planning, and design concepts group project, a community survey is developed and studies.
of urban open space. The scope of design projects administered. The group projects may be linked to one
becomes progressively larger throughout the semester, of the department’s studio courses. Urban Policy: Gender/Race/Immigrants
starting with small recreation areas, corporate plazas,
and cultural facilities, and leading to the programming, PLAN-766  |  3 CR   Large metropolitan areas such as
planning, and design of pedestrian malls, waterfront New York City are experiencing dramatic demographic
rehabilitation and civic scale plazas. In conjunction with and employment shifts. These transformations are
workshop projects, lectures with illustrative material profoundly influencing both the urban structure and
are given on the specific issues of site feasibility, site attitudes toward the built and natural environments.
programming, site planning, and design strategies. Students examine the roles of gender and class and
how these factors and demographic trends affect plan-
ning and design practices.

240 courses

Art & Social Change Independent Study in Planning III Studio: Int’l Plan. & Sustainability I

PLAN-771A  |  3 CR   What will be the fate of Ameri- PLAN-808D  |  2 CR   In addition to regular course PLAN-880A  |  3 CR   This seminar introduces and
ca’s older industrial cities industrial cities like Detroit or offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits explores in depth the urban policies and institutions
Buffalo, cities that have been losing jobs and popula- as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of of Third World nations as they relate to the nation’s
tion for decades? Can these cities become stronger, independent study on a topic of interest to the student physical and socioeconomic development. Emphasis
healthier, as well as smaller places? This course will or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member is on the comparative analysis of current experiences
look at the reasons that these cities are shrinking, how may supervise the student. in major metropolitan areas. Planning issues, such as
job and population loss affect their economic and migration, homelessness, and the informal economy,
physical environment, and their prospects for the future. Studio: Sustainable Communities are considered in both pre- and post-industrial service
We will take a particular look at the reuse of urban land, societies. Experts on international planning and design
and the opportunities to rethink redevelopment with PLAN-810  |  5 CR   The neighborhood (as defined are invited as guest lecturers.
green land uses as open space and urban agriculture. by a number of physical, political, and socioeconomic
criteria) is the level at which most planning efforts Directed Research
Special Topics in Planning I affect citizens. Increasingly, the neighborhood has
also become the official focal point for city, state, and PLAN-891  |  2 CR   The demonstration of an approved
PLAN-801A  |  1 CR   In addition to regular course federal programs in both service delivery and physical scope of work showing the analytical capacities and
offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits development planning and implementation. This studio creative skills expected of a professional planner is
as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of introduces the student to basic techniques in neighbor- the capstone of the program. The demonstration can
independent study on a topic of interest to the student hood needs analysis and comprehensive planning. involve original research, a work-related project, or an
or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member Utilizing a neighborhood of appropriate size and type, extension of course-related work. An advisory commit-
may supervise the student. the students, working in teams, develop an area-wide tee of faculty members judge the demonstration.
plan (based on primary and secondary research and
Special Topics in Planning II needs analysis) providing for residential, commercial, Demo of Professional Competence
and industrial land use and related services and infra-
PLAN-801B  |  2 CR   In addition to regular course structure. In order to maximize the usefulness of the PLAN-892  |  2 CR   The demonstration of an approved
offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits semester’s work, as well as to provide a realistic assess- scope of work showing the analytical capacities and
as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of ment of plans produced by the studio, written, and creative skills expected of a professional planner is
independent study on a topic of interest to the student graphic materials are prepared for presentation to the the capstone of the program. The demonstration can
or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member “client”, usually a locally—based nonprofit organization involve original research, a work-related project, or an
may supervise the student. representing the neighborhood under study. extension of course-related work. An advisory commit-
tee of faculty members judge the demonstration.
Special Topics in Planning III Studio: Land Use & Urban Design
Professional Competence in Progress
PLAN-801C  |  2 CR   In addition to regular course PLAN-820  |  5 CR   This course combines basic
offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits principles and practices of city planning and urban PLAN-893   |  0 CR   If the Demonstration of Profes-
as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of design to a specific topical project. Physical, social, sional Competence is not completed in the initial
independent study on a topic of interest to the student economic, cultural, and political factors are considered semesters, students can continue working in PLAN-700
or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member in order to produce a workable plan and viable design. for no more than five semesters.
may supervise the student. Projects are selected from actual planning/design
situations in urban and/or regional contexts and require PLAN Internship
Special Topics in Planning IV documentation and development strategies for politi-
cal discourse. In addition to typical studio work, there PLAN-9600P  |  0 CR   Internships are learning experi-
PLAN-801D  |  1 CR   In addition to regular course are lectures, site visits, written reports and input from ences in the work place that relate to student’s major
offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits official and community representatives. Each semester, and career goals. Interns are able to take the skills and
as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of this studio undertakes a comprehensive land use plan- theories learned in the classroom and apply them to
independent study on a topic of interest to the student ning study for a key piece of urban property. The study real-life work experience. Students have the opportu-
or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member tests the physical, environmental, social, and financial nity to learn new skills and concepts from professionals
may supervise the student. feasibility of developing the area for mixed urban uses. in the field and to test career goals and explore career
It examines the problems and opportunities that are options. Students also gain a more objective under-
Independent Study in Planning I present in the area and focuses on the development standing of the experience through corollary meetings
of a number of alternative plans for both short-term and by recording their observations and completing
PLAN-808A  |  1 CR   In addition to regular course (three to five years) and long-term (15 years) futures. exploratory assignments.
offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits The layout, design, and character of proposed housing,
as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of industry, social services, and open spaces are included PLAN Internship
independent study on a topic of interest to the student in the development plan, as are issues of equitable
or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member development and the creation of environmentally- PLAN-9601P  |  1 CR   Internships are learning experi-
may supervise the student. sensitive sustainable communities. ences in the work place that relate to students’ major
and career goals. Interns are able to take the skills and
Independent Study in Planning II theories learned in the classroom and apply them to
real-life work experience. Students have the opportu-
PLAN-808B  |  2 CR   In addition to regular course nity to learn new skills and concepts from professionals
offerings, students may take up to 12 additional credits in the field and to test career goals and explore career
as Directed Research. Directed Research may consist of options. Students also gain a more objective under-
independent study on a topic of interest to the student standing of the experience through corollary meetings
or an extension of a regular course. Any faculty member and by recording their observations and completing
may supervise the student. exploratory assignments.