Tuesday, August 25
4:00-4:30pm EDT
The Master's College Calendar of Past Events: AY 2020/2021
FINDING COMMUNITY AS A MASTER'S STUDENT
Come learn about the Master’s College and all the ways we support the master’s student experience! Meet some of our Program Board members and learn how to get involved in putting on events for other GSAS master’s students. You’ll be able to ask questions about graduate student life at NYU, too!
Wednesday, August 26
9:30-10:30am EDT
Thursday, August 27
5:30-6:30pm EDT
NEW GSAS MASTER'S STUDENT MIXER
Come meet other GSAS master’s students at this fun event! Bring a cocktail, mocktail, or anything you’d like as you get to know students from other programs at the Graduate School. You may attend one or both mixers.
Friday, September 25
5:30-6:30pm EDT
CAFÉ DISCOURSE: EXPLORING THE 'SOCIAL' IN SOCIAL DISTANCING
Join the Master's College Program Board for the first Café Discourse event of the 20-21 academic year! Café Discourse is an event series that brings together GSAS master's students from diverse departments to get to know one another and discuss current topics in a laid-back environment.
This time, we contemplate how social interaction has changed since we began social distancing. Consider questions such as: What does the future of working/socializing look like after the pandemic? For whom has the lack of face-to-face interaction had the biggest impact? How does not being able to work/study in-person affect where people decide to live? Discuss these questions and more over a beverage of your choice with your fellow master’s students!
Sunday, October 4
5:30-6:30pm EDT
COOKING WITH THE MASTER'S COLLEGE PROGRAM BOARD
Do you like cooking and hanging out with friends? Do you want to learn a simple yet delicious recipe? Join your fellow students Sunday October 4th at 5:30pm for a Zoom cooking experience! As a group we'll make a delicious Veggie Pasta in a Lemony Cream Sauce. Follow along with the group as we prepare and cook the meal. Then, we'll show off and dig in! You do not need to cook in order to attend; feel free to watch along! *This recipe is vegetarian, but you could add chicken if you wanted. This is not a vegan friendly recipe.
Friday, October 16
5:30-6:30pm EDT
CAFÉ DISCOURSE: SEASON OF FRIGHT! HALLOWEEN IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Join the Master's College Program Board for another Café Discourse, this time with a spooky theme! Café Discourse is an event series that brings together GSAS master's students from diverse departments to get to know one another and discuss current topics in a laid-back environment.
Our Program Board has come up with a few themed beverages, including non-alcoholic options: Pumpkin Spice Russian, Gravedigger, Blackberry Widow, and Fall Fizz!
With Halloween just around the corner and the winter holiday season following shortly after, how does that change how we celebrate traditions? Consider questions such as: How will trick-or-treating and other traditions adapt? How will you celebrate Halloween, if at all? Do horror movies have the same appeal during a pandemic? Discuss these questions and more over a beverage of your choice with your fellow master’s students!
Thursday, October 29
6:30-8:00pm EDT
HOLLYWOOD MURDER MYSTERY
Join the Master's College for thisexciting live interactive Hollywood Murder Mystery event! Follow along as you play games and compete to guess the murderer! This show takes place in the 1920s, so be sure to dress up for the event. There will be a competition for the best dressed! This event is co-sponsored by the GSAS Master's College, Center for Student Life, Tandon, Steinhardt, Global Public Health, and more.
Saturday, November 21
5:00-6:00pm EST
CAFÉ DISCOURSE: REALITY TV
Join the Master's College Program Board for another Café Discourse! Café Discourse is an event series that brings together GSAS master's students from diverse departments to get to know one another and discuss current topics in a laid-back environment.
With colder weather fast approaching in the northern hemisphere, more people are turning to streaming and television for safe entertainment. How does reality TV create an escape from our own lives? Why do we love to watch others thrive/unravel through reality TV shows? Discuss these questions and more over a beverage of your choice with your fellow master’s students. The theme snack for this event will be popcorn!
Thursday, December 10
8:00-9:00pm EST
MCAA COCKTAIL MAKING WITH LEIGH!
The Master's College Alumni Association Officers and the Master's College cordially invite you to join us for a Cocktail Making event with guest mixologist Leigh Bucknam! Leigh has created signature drinks for many NYC restaurants and will demo two cocktail ecipes, one classic and one festive, and talk a little about mixology. Then stay on to enjoy your creations and reconnect with your fellow GSAS alumni! Recipes can be created without alcohol as well.
Friday, January 22
11:00am-12:00pm EST
5:00-6:00pm EST
GSAS SPRING FLING
The Master’s College Program Board will be hosting a Spring Fling kickoff event via Zoom Meeting for both new and returning master’s students! We will be utilizing the breakout room feature to host games, activities, and meetup rooms for students to get to know each other. It'll be like a fun carnival where you can bounce from room to room and meet new people! Be sure to update your Zoom application to utilize the breakout room selection feature!
Friday, February 19
5:30-6:30pm EST
CAFÉ DISCOURSE: LOVE LANGUAGES
Join the Master's College Program Board for another Café Discourse! Café Discourse is a recurring event series that brings together GSAS master's students from diverse departments to get to know one another and discuss current topics in a laid-back environment.
With February being the "Season of Love," what are your preferred methods of giving and receiving care? Do you enjoy words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, or physical touch? To find out, you can take the official 5 Love Languages quiz here. Pour yourself a beverage of choice and grab your favorite snack! We hope to see you there!
Thursday, February 25
2:30-4:30pm EST
GOING BACK TO WRITING BASICS
The Graduate School is happy to announce three workshops focused on graduate level writing skills for master’s students.
Improve your academic writing by going back to writing basics. In this workshop we will review the four types of English sentences, the building blocks of clear and stylish academic writing. As we discuss simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, we will reflect on the value of the short sentence, sentence variation, and repetition in academic writing. In this workshop we will look at and discuss some examples of strong, clear academic writing, and students will have the chance to have their own writing edited in class. Writers who complete the workshop will be able to identify sentence types, employ sentence variety in their writing, and be better editors of their writing.
Tuesday, March 9
2:00-3:00pm EST
Friday, March 12
12:00-1:00pm EST
PRESENTING ON ZOOM WORKSHOP
In this fun and free webinar, NYU Media Production shows you how to apply video production techniques to take your video presence to the next level. Through camera angles, lighting, backgrounds, and audio, we'll cover all the principles you will need to minimize distractions so your audience can focus on your message. We'll chat about Zoom fatigue, check out some useful tools and recording software, and workshop the virtual spaces of volunteer participants. This is a great way to step up your video presentation skills!
Wednesday, March 10
11:00am-12:00pm EST
Monday, March 15
4:00-5:00pm EDT
Tuesday, March 25
2:30-3:30pm EDT
THREESIS NETWORKING
Meet other Threesis participants from across all the Master’s programs at NYU GSAS! Quite a few of you are presenting about similar topics even though you’re in different departments - come find out just how much you have in common, and share your thoughts on the Threesis process with each other!
Monday, March 22
12:00-1:00pm EDT
Tuesday, March 23
10:00-11:00am EDT
Friday, March 26
12:00-1:00pm EDT
COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP
Do you want to work on your public speaking, need to prepare for a job interview, or have a big presentation coming up? Join the Master's College for a Communication Workshop with a guest facilitator from the Upright Citizens Brigade!
This fun and dynamic workshop focuses on all things communication! Learn helpful tips, best practices, and gain practical knowledge from a multi-talented and experienced improvisational instructor from the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). Improve your skills, gain confidence, and present at your best!
Wednesday, March 24
3:30-5:30pm EDT
THE FOUNDATION OF CLEAR ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING
The Graduate School is happy to announce three workshops focused on graduate level writing skills for master’s students.
Organize and clarify your arguments and ideas by consciously structuring your argumentative writing. In this workshop we will review different forms of argumentation before moving into the building blocks of long-form argumentative academic writing, including thesis statements, topic sentences, transitional sentences, and concluding sentences. We will discuss what makes for a good introduction, including why it is important to “define your terms” and provide your reader with a “road map”, and we will consider the role of the conclusion in an academic paper. Throughout the workshop, we will look at examples of well-structured academic writingfrom the humanities and social sciences, and students will have the chance to have their own writing edited in class. Writers who complete the workshop will have a better understanding of argumentation types, and they will be better equipped to structure their academic papers.
Friday, March 26
5:30-6:30pm EDT
CAFÉ DISCOURSE: "MEGXIT" - THE AFTERMATH
Café Discourse is an event series that brings together GSAS master's students from diverse departments to get to know one another and discuss current topics in a laid-back environment.
As a follow-up to last February's "Megxit & Modern Dating," the Master's College Program Board invites you to examine and discuss the aftermath of the recent Royal interview with Oprah. Whose side are you on? How did you feel about Meghan opening up during the interview? What about the backlash she received? What are the international relations and cultural implications of these recent decisions and conversations?
Discuss this and more with your favorite snack and beverage of choice! We suggest tea and scones!
Tuesday, April 13
3:30-5:30pm EDT
BETTER WRITING THROUGH BETTER EDITING
The Graduate School is happy to announce three workshops focused on graduate level writing skills for master’s students.
Improve your writing by becoming a better editor. In this workshop we will learn tricks to fine tune our writing by reviewing what the master writing teacher Helen Sword says in her book, Stylish Academic Writing, and her New York Times article, “Zombie Nouns.” We will discuss how to write with “concrete language” and “active verbs” and how to avoid “clutter” and “nominalizations.” Throughout the workshop we will practice transforming awkward and confusing academic writing into clear and concise prose by working with students’ own writing. Writers who complete this workshop will better understand the editing process and have some new techniques to make them better writers and editors.
Friday, April 23
5:30-6:30pm EDT
CAFÉ DISCOURSE: CONVERSATIONS AROUND "OPENING UP!"
As we start to wrap up another semester at NYU, thoughts naturally drift to looking forward to the summer and fall. While we’re not out of the woods yet, what are you hopeful for as the end of the pandemic inches nearer? We take a spin on the song “Opening Up” from the hit musical Waitress as we think about the eventual return of Broadway, all of the comfort food we’ve been baking and eating, and what this year has meant to each of us. Celebrate the end of another week and buy or make your favorite pie for our last Cafe Discourse of the school year!
Friday, April 30
6:30-8:00pm EDT
THREESIS PREMIERE PARTY
Out of 101 master’s students who applied to compete in this year’s virtual Threesis Academic Challenge, six have emerged as our 2021 Finalists! Competitors had to present their master’s research in just three minutes in a way that non-experts could understand. Be sure to join us for our Threesis 10th Anniversary Video Premiere Party on Friday, April 30 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT to find out who won and vote for your Audience Choice favorite!
2021 THREESIS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE
Out of 101 master’s students who applied to compete in this year’s virtual Threesis Academic Challenge, six have emerged as our 2021 Finalists! Competitors had to present their master’s research in just three minutes in a way that non-experts could understand.
Our 2021 Threesis Academic Challenge Premiere Party was streamed on Friday, April 30 and we would like to take the time to celebrate this year's finalists!
This year’s winners are:
- 1st Place: Marissa Ajamian Grossman, History
- 2nd Place: Arun Mahtani, Biomedical Informatics
- 3rd Place and Audience Choice: Sydney Yaeger, Museum Studies
Runners up:
- Colin Stragar-Rice, XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement
- Daniel Schorr, French Studies
- Sheba Aikawa, Psychology
Congrats to everyone who participated!
If you were unable to attend, you may view a recording of the event Here »
Wednesday, June 30
10:00-11:30am EDT
GSAS MASTER'S COLLEGE SUMMER WELCOME
New GSAS students are invited to attend a virtual welcome event in partnership with the our graduate departments that is designed to support your transition to the Graduate School.
This session will be held via Zoom meeting and will cover the following topics:
- Getting acquainted with NYU
- Learning about student life and support services
- Learning about resources from the Wasserman Center for Career Development
- Hearing directly from current GSAS master's students
- Meeting your graduate department staff and other students from your program
New students will receive invitations via email.
Wednesday, July 14
5:00-6:00pm EDT
GSAS MASTER'S COLLEGE SUMMER SOCIAL
The Master’s College will be hosting a Summer Social via Zoom Meeting for both new and returning master’s students! We will be utilizing the breakout room feature to host games, activities, and meetup rooms for students to get to know each other. It'll be like a fun carnival where you can bounce from room to room and meet new people!