Program Overview

Introduction to Tisch School of the Arts

The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University offers a wide range of programs in the arts, from undergraduate to graduate levels. The school is committed to fostering a community of artists and scholars who are dedicated to the development of their craft.

Programs and Departments

The Tisch School of the Arts is comprised of several institutes, undergraduate, and graduate programs, including:

• Institutes
  • Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
  • Institute of Performing Arts
  • Institute of Emerging Media
  • Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts
• Undergraduate programs
  • Collaborative Arts
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Performance Studies
  • Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies
  • Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
  • Undergraduate Film & Television
  • Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
  • Interactive Media Arts (IMA)
  • NYU Game Center
  • Photography & Imaging
  • Open Arts
  • Minors
  • Courses for Non-Majors
• Graduate programs
  • Art & Public Policy
  • Dance
  • Design for Stage & Film
  • Grad Acting
  • Graduate Musical Theatre Writing
  • Performance Studies
  • Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies
  • Graduate Film
  • Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
  • Virtual Production
  • ITP / Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Low Res.
  • NYU Game Center
  • MA in Media Producing
  • Courses for Non-Majors

High School Programs

The Tisch School of the Arts offers high school programs that provide college-level artistic training in New York City and online. These intensive and enriching courses are taught by Tisch undergraduate faculty.

J-Term/Spring/Summer

Visiting students and non-majors are invited to take classes during January Term, Spring at Tisch, and Summer. Earn credits towards your major or minor, build your résumé with an internship, or take classes to change careers.

Tisch Pro/Online

Tisch Pro/Online Courses are non-credit
on-degree courses that give you professional training in various artistic industries. Build your creative skillset with an online course or join us in New York City.

Study Abroad

Experience the world in a whole new way. Our short-term and semester-long study abroad programs are specially designed to draw on the artistic strengths of our global partners and incorporate the rich history, techniques, and traditions of each country.

Special Programs

The Office of Special Programs at Tisch School of the Arts provides access to the arts. Whether you're an NYU or visiting college student, high school student, or working professional, we provide you with the introductory exposure to the performing or cinematic arts and the advanced-level training to grow your craft.

Student Affairs

The Tisch Office of Student Affairs comprises 20 professionals on a mission to provide you with the support you need to find meaningful community and success as artists and scholars during your time at Tisch and beyond.

Research

The Initiative supports and highlights research in all modalities, present and imagined - encouraging curiosity, investigation, and entrepreneurism, through advocacy, grant planning, mentorship, and funding opportunities.

Graduate Musical Theatre Writing

The Tisch Department of Graduate Musical Theatre Writing offers courses that emphasize craft, the art of collaboration, rewriting, storytelling, and developing an original voice. Students are immersed in all aspects of New York musical theatre, workshopping their material with directors, actors, and major artists in the field and writing original works for the musical stage.

Course

Non-majors may register for the following course:

The American Musical

GMTW-UT 1002.01/GMTW-GT 2002.001 | 4 units | Instructor: Marie Costanza What is The American Musical? What are its roots? Where is it going? How do words, music, and drama mesh to create something greater than each element alone? What made the magic of the fabled collaborations? These questions and many others are explored in this seminar. Each week, in addition to a brief overview, one or two musicals will be analyzed and discussed. The course will focus on landmark works and writers, utilizing audio and video recordings, and script analysis. Included are the works of Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others. This course counts as TSOA and Gallatin Humanities Requirement, (except for TSOA Drama Students). Undergraduate and Graduate students may both register for this course.