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All Students must take a minimum of seven theater studies courses. The first two are introductory courses: Introduction to Theater Studies (ITS) and Introduction to Theater Production (ITP). To fulfill the rest of their theater studies requirements, students can choose from dozens of upper level theater studies courses, with topics ranging from [[avant-garde]] to [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], or from classical texts to modern American drama. There are also a series of honors seminars in theater studies, with varying topics from semester to semester.
 
==The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television==
[[Image:tisch post.jpg|thumb|217px|Post-production center on the 11th floor of the Tisch building at 721 Broadway in New York]]
 
Renamed for the benefactor of a large gift to the department in the late nineties, the '''TheMaurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television''' is comprised of an undergraduate film program and a graduate film program. The four year undergraduate program is designed to give students a broad understanding of the aesthetic, technical and practical aspects of film and television production. In 2001, [[US News and World Report]] ranked the Graduate Program at NYU film school as one of the top programs in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=2001 Film School Rankings US News & World Report|url=http://www.d.umn.edu/~tisbell/Courses/FilmSchools.html}}</ref>
 
Notable undergraduate and graduate alumni include directors [[Oliver Stone]], [[M. Night Shyamalan]], [[Joel Coen]], [[Ang Lee]], [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Spike Lee]], [[Jim Jarmusch]], [[Roman Coppola]], [[Martin Kunert]], [[Nancy Savoca]], and more recently, [[James Franco]], [[Brett Ratner]], [[Todd Phillips]], [[Marc Forster]], and [[Ryan Fleck]]. Notable undergraduate faculty include actor/director [[Robby Benson]], director [[Susan Seidelman]] ("[[Desperately Seeking Susan]]", "[[Smithereens (film)|Smithereens]]"), television producer [[James Gardner (producer)|James Gardner]], soundman Chat Gunter ("Law and Order"), documentary filmmakers [[George C. Stoney|George Stoney]] ("All My Babies") and [[Marco Williams]], [[Morgan Spurlock]], and actor [[Haley Joel Osment]] ("The Sixth Sense").