Department: Stanford in New York

Code Name Description
SINY101 The New York City Seminar This seminar includes all program participants and investigates how New York, as a complex, dynamic city, shapes and is shaped by issues relevant to each quarter's thematic lens. Employing theories of place, concepts of cities and change, and a struc...
SINY104 Art in the City No Description Set
SINY105 Art Meets Life: Social Justice in Urban America New York is the cultural nexus of the performing and visual arts in the United States - or at least, it was, prior to COVID19. We will explore the rebirth of the City as we emerge from the pandemic, meeting with and experiencing the art of musicians,...
SINY106 Music videos and TV commercials in New York City This course takes a New York-focused look at the production, imagery, and history of these brief audiovisual forms. We¿ll also try to get an aesthetic sense of how these forms work, and how they¿ve changed.
SINY107 Making Noise in New York: Experimental Sound Art in History and Practice This course will take a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to experimental sound art, considering intersections between music, dance, video and other media, and experimenting with technological and artistic paradigms through creative exercises and...
SINY109 Walking and Writing New York City Navigating the streets and sidewalks of New York City is both an intensely personal and a complex collective experience. During your time in New York, you will do it nearly every day, and you will almost certainly find yourself describing it to other...
SINY112 Outside In: Arts Organizations and the Changing Cultural Audience Study the major disruptions in how audiences define, seek out, participate in, and share cultural experiences. Research¿based theory with practice, case studies and hands¿on assignments. Analyze newly emerging cultural consumers.
SINY114 Writing in the City The craft of fiction writing and introduction to the literary culture of New York. Writing exercises will tune students¿ senses to the rhythms of New York. Students produce their own short stories, which will be examined in workshop discussions.
SINY116 Off the iPhone and Into the City: Creating a Photography Project Learn components of photography projects and image making including content selection, intention, context, and audience. Talks by professional photographers; field trips to in the city. Two response papers about an exhibition, publication, or long-fo...
SINY117 Design for Extreme Scalability: An Introduction to Global Communication and Media Innovation Transmitting important messages to the public, rapidly and in a compelling format, can help people to lead happier, healthier and more informed lives. We saw this during the COVID-19 pandemic, when an urgent need arose to disseminate science-based he...
SINY121 On Stage and Backstage: Navigating the Landscape of Professional Theater in New York -- Real Artists In this immersive intensive, students will learn the basics from professionals in the fields of Acting, Directing, Theatrical Management, Union Representation and Stage Management. Lectures and interactive workshops moderated and run by Kay Kostopoul...
SINY122 The Agile City Examine the economic, cultural and environmental forces transforming the urban experience globally and understand how cities become agile to adapt to rapidly evolving urban challenges. This course would draw from case studies in New York and elsewher...
SINY126 Intro to Human Values in Design An intensive project-based class that introduces the central philosophy of the product design program. Students learn how to use the lens of human needs to innovate at the intersection of technical factors (feasibility), business factors (viability)...
SINY127 Truth, Trust and Technology One of the central issues of our time is how technology is changing how we lie to and trust one another, from fake news and misinformation to trust in online dating and Airbnb. This course examines the nature of deception and trust, and how technolog...
SINY128 FINANCE IN CONTEXT Targeted at students with an interest in the impact of current events on financial markets (and vice-versa), the class will be a series of discussions about major global themes and events, and will discuss how they impact financial markets. Topics ma...
SINY130 Disrupting the News: How Technology is Transforming the Media Examine how technology has transformed the way news is produced, delivered and consumed from disruption in business models to changes in access. Students read works by leading media scholars, study user data from news organizations and meet key execu...
SINY132 INGENIOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP Examine factors impacting entrepreneurship, including idea generation, writing a business plan, raising capital, developing products or services, the art of marketing and incorporating an entrepreneurial mindset into internships, coursework and futur...
SINY134 The Urban Home Project Current NYC housing reform goals are mired in politics, real estate development, zoning and bureaucracy. Over a ten week period students will engage in the URBAN HOME PROJECT. The four stages of the course will be to Understand/Locate/Propose/Make. I...
SINY136 Opera at the Met: Global Art in the World's Great Metropolis This course allows students to discover the power and beauty of live opera through masterful performances at the Metropolitan Opera House.Often viewed as an elitist art, opera has strong roots in popular culture and politics. These issues will emerge...
SINY140 Mapping, time, space, and culture New York, the financial and cultural capitol of the nation, provides an extraordinary laboratory for exploring the art and science of information representation. The proposed course aims to engage students in a broad swath of art and culture, context...
SINY142 Documenting New York Documenting New York is a film studies course (with a small video production component) exploring the rich history and many cultures of New York through the classic documentary films that have been produced throughout the city¿s past hundred years.Th...
SINY144 The UN in Action This course will offer an opportunity to learn how multilateral diplomacy works in practice, taking advantage of the enormous variety of UN offices, agencies, and related policy institutes based in New York to provide an overview of the different dim...
SINY146 Imaging Change: Global Arts and Social Change This course will examine some of the people, collectives, and organizations working globally that use the realm of the visual to address and advocate for human rights and social justice. Students will learn about practitioners in socially engaged ar...
SINY148 Grappling with the Global: Gentrification, Immigration, and Sustainability in New York City This course will examine the impacts of gentrification, immigration, and global environmental concerns on place-making in New York City, deploying ethnographic fieldwork and first-hand accounts of everyday urban life as tools to document and understa...
SINY150 Biology, Technology, and Society: The City as a Human Life Support System While environmental issues related to cities are often considered in the context of climate change, this course will use New York City as a lab to explore how dense global cities deal with their intense biological needs clean drinking water, sanitati...
SINY152 Film: The City as Muse Has a film ever challenged your beliefs, transformed your understanding of an issue, left an emotional aftershock, or motivated you to act? Was that the intention of the filmmaker or an unanticipated consequence? Since the inception of the motion pic...
SINY154 Improvised Music in New York City: 1959-2019 This course will introduce you to the sounds and practices of improvised music and to some of today's key improvising musicians who live and work in New York City.
SINY156 The Big, Virtual Apple Each week will include a field trip to a VR installation and a subsequent workshop where we break down that VR experience in terms of its usefulness, its fidelity, and its narrative quality.
SINY158 Mapping the Infinite City: Exploring New York's Immigrant Worlds With field-trips allied to visits from the experts whose work is featured in Nonstop Metropolis¿linguists and demographers, activists and artists, scholars of race and of history¿this course will open our eyes to the splendid feast of the city's immi...
SINY160 Performing New York This course is designed to give undergraduate students a foundational understanding of New York City as an object of history and as a site that has fostered the remarkable development of American theater and performance. In this class, we won¿t appro...
SINY162 Sustainable and Resilient Urban Systems in NYC The objective of the course is to develop a qualitative and quantitative understanding of sustainability and resilience for major urban areas. The first part of the quarter will focus on sustainability and the second on resilience. n nThe course will...
SINY164 New York Stories on Screen Taxi Driver, All About Eve, Do the Right Thing, Sex and the City ¿ the list goes on and on. From the beginning of film New York has starred as a complex, shifting arena for iconic and personal stories. This course will investigate feature films and t...
SINY166 Just Art? Equity, Immigration and Art in the Global City This course focuses on relations between art, immigration and equity. Through several case studies, we will learn to think critically about how aesthetics and politics work together. In addition to studying particular works of art, we will travel t...
SINY168 Safe Cities: A Study of Institutional Responses to Gender Based Violence in the Global City The course proposes a broad theoretical as well as an experiential and immersive introduction to some of the most urgent issues surrounding institutional responses to gender based violence (GBV) and related forms of gender discrimination today. The c...
SINY170 Practical Business The purpose of the class is to provide an overview of basic business concepts and tools with a focus on practicality. The course will be project based, broken into three parts ¿ Class case study over 6 weeks, looking at 1-2 companies ¿...
SINY174 Introduction to Finance This weekend Bootcamp introduces students to some of the core concepts of finance. The course will use a series of building blocks (time value of money, risk-reward) to create a foundation before exploring how to determine fair value of two common as...
SINY176 Finance in Depth Building on the skills acquired in the Bootcamp, a series of guest lecturers explore a number of other asset classes in more detail. Classes will examine the purposes of the asset classes, as well as looking at key drivers for price movement for the...
SINY199 Directed Reading No Description Set
SINY56 Business Innovation & Technology for Social Change This course will explore how new types of business models and technologies can be used to address big global problems like poverty, inequality, and climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the vast disparities that exist in the United States...
SINY63 Languages and Culture of Immigrant New York This course explores the working-class immigrant city, using language and culture as a lens for understanding how new communities form, evolve, and integrate. In focus are three of New York's fastest-growing but least-studied groups: Indigenous Latin...
SINY65 Climate Justice in the Megacity (Climate Justice in the Megacity)