Academics

"The Core Curriculum is an opportunity for students to discover interests and passions in disciplines they didn't know. We engage with topics from a local and global perspective. It is a holistic, well-rounded set of classes of a student’s choosing, in four different categories and with two seminar-based colloquium courses."

Learn how NYU professor Wendy Suzuki taps into the neuroscience of exercise in her lab, in the classroom, and in her life.

This Big Ideas Course Series brings together students and speakers from across disciplines—and around the world—to academically explore important topics and challenges. In the Identity course, they joined forces to discuss the complicated nature of identity through many lenses.

Although college is a fun and exciting time, itʼs important to take advantage of various resources in order to make the most of your four years.

This NYU Trailblazers session explains how can we work to make our globalized system of fashion more sustainable and more ethical.

In this undergraduate history course, NYU students across the world look to history to understand the present—and find hope for the future.

The NYU Trailblazer Series features ground-breaking research and provocative insights from NYU’s most compelling professors, who bring bold ideas into the classroom, and share their knowledge with the world.

In this undergraduate forensic anthropology course, NYU students learn how to recover, examine, and identify human skeletal remains.

NYU’s faculty make the virtual classroom exciting by engaging with TikTok and more.

Renowned author and faculty member Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches that great writing is about effort.