MASTER OF SCIENCE IN APPLIED URBAN SCIENCE AND INFORMATICS Curriculum (30 credits)
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BUILD An urban informatics FOUNDATION
PRE Semester
CORE COURSES & ELECTIVES
City Challenge Intensive 1-week introduction to CUSP, fellow students, city agencies and partners.
(15 Credits) Foundations of Urban Science Urban ICT and City Operations Urban Informatics Entrepreneurship/Innovation Specialization Seminar or Elective
GET TECHNICAL Discipline Specializations (6 Credits) + Optional
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An internship with a city agency or partner is possible during semesters 2 and 3.
Data Management Data Science Decision Models and Optimization Geographic Information Systems
Simulation and Computational Methods Social Media Visualization
BEcome AN Expert Domain Specializations (3 Credits)
Flexibility Discipline and domain specializations are offered at other NYU schools (see reverse).
Transportation Public Health, Safety, and Emergency Response Environmental Sustainability Buildings and The Built Environment
APPLY WHAT YOU’VE LEARNED Urban Science Intensive Project (6 Credits) A two-semester multidisciplinary project with our industrial or university partners will address a current urban challenge in a particular domain. Using your foundation in urban informatics you will play an important role in the project, working with other researchers—and even entrepreneurs—to unlock the potential in big data to find solutions, making cities around the world better places to live and work.