New NYU Shanghai Campus to Offer Film, Acting Classes
From The Hollywood Reporter:
by Jonathan Landreth
BEIJING – Shanghai soon could have its own world-famous New York University film school instruction on NYU’s first campus in China.
NYU, which opened a branch of its Tisch School of the Arts in Singapore in 2007 with Oliver Stone as artistic director, will, in the fall of 2013, open a liberal arts college in Shanghai set to include classes in the cinematic and performing arts, the college said on Tuesday.
NYU Shanghai, where classes will be taught in English, eventually will enroll 3,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, about 40-50 percent of whom will come from within China, NYU president John Sexton and provost David McLaughlin said, calling it a “degree-granting portal campus within NYU’s global network.”
The Shanghai campus, which Sexton and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng broke ground for on Monday, will complement an Abu Dhabi campus opened in 2010 and a study abroad program NYU has run in Shanghai since 2006 with East China Normal University (Huashida, in Mandarin).
