Intensive Masters: New York City as a Resource

Teachers College and the rest of Columbia University offer rich educational resources. More than this, the Intensive Program takes unique advantage of the richness of New York City. Students use the incomparable resources of the Metropolitan, Modern Art, and other world-renowned art museums, for example, to gain a sense of the development of written language and of 8,000 years of visual imagery, as the context in which computing, video, and other recent forms of communication mediators must be understood. In this experience, they also attend to the technology humans have developed and used in such visual communication. They sample the unparalleled range of musical performance available in New York also, to gain a still wider contextual background understanding of technology-mediated communication through one of the oldest human vehicles, music.

In addition to these and other New York City riches incorporated in the Intensive Program, students live in a human microcosm of today's world, surrounded by people from every corner and culture of the world, enriched and informed by a diversity of perspectives unparalleled elsewhere in the world.