Professor Jing Chai teaches intermediate and advanced Chinese at NYU Shanghai. She discusses how teaching online has expanded the ways students have been able to learn languages.
Global Locations
Documenting the African City When You Can’t Go to the African City
Professor Yahaya Alpha Suberu’s film course is a popular way for NYU Accra students to learn filmmaking and explore their host city. The shift to remote instruction meant finding new ways to accomplish the course’s mission.
NYU Instructors and Students Get Creative with Remote Instruction
Now that NYU has shifted to remote instruction for the remainder of the semester, instructors and students are exploring new ways to teach and learn.
Using Technology to Analyze Political Expression across Continents
During this past semester, teams of students in New York and Buenos Aires archived murals, graffiti, performances, and installations in selected neighborhoods of the two cities, using tablets and GIS software.
NYU Accra: Supporting Scholarship through Improved Technology
NYU Accra, the University’s sixth study abroad location and first in Africa, opened in Ghana’s capital city in 2005. The program was established as a place for students to learn firsthand about African culture while completing coursework that counts toward their degree.
The Summer Colloquium
Each summer, incoming NYU freshmen are typically given a reading assignment to serve as a shared intellectual experience. During Orientation Week, the book serves as a catalyst to stimulate student-faculty conversations under debate, such as multiculturalism, racism, immigration, or environmental ethics.