Urban Systems Immersion for Social Good

Catalog description

The Urban Systems Immersion is one of the experiential learning components of the Urban systems PhD program. It is a 1.5 credit, two-week immersive experience which includes lecture, field work, and computationally intensive exercises. The immersion which will take place either in the summer or winter term allows the students to work on a specific and predefined concern in any urban center around the world, while engaging with requisite urban stakeholders from public or private sectors. The immersion is open to PhD students in any program across NYU, who have passed their qualifying exam and are skilled in data driven analytics. | Prerequisites: CE-GY 6053 or CUSP-GX 6005 or CUSP-GX 8113 (or equivalent) or instructor approval