Immersive Storytelling
University Curriculum: University Curriculum
CRN: 13725
Immersive Storytelling explores the practice and future of narrative at a moment when physical, virtual, and algorithmic worlds are increasingly intertwined and actively shape one another. As media moves beyond the frame of the screen, storytelling is no longer confined to spectatorship; immersive narratives invite participants to step inside a story, act within it, and experience meaning through interaction. This course examines how immersive experiences are conceived, designed, and encountered as new narrative forms emerge at the intersection of technology, culture, and imagination. Drawing from theatre, film, interactive media, installation art, performance, fashion, and emerging technologies, students will explore how stories unfold across space, time, and participation. Rather than focusing on a single platform or medium, the course emphasizes immersive storytelling as a design practice shaped by human presence, agency and perception. Students may work across a range of forms including spatial XR experiences, participatory installations, AI mediated narrative encounters, location based storytelling, performance as interface, and hybrid physical and digital works while developing a shared language for immersive narrative design. Set against a converging media landscape transformed by immersive technologies and artificial intelligence, this course asks how storytelling evolves when perception, presence, and participation become central to narrative experience. Through experimentation, students are challenged to imagine what storytelling can become when narratives are no longer simply viewed from a distance, but encountered, inhabited, and shaped through experience. The course invites students to create stories that are not confined to screens, but unfold around us, respond to human action, and leave lasting impressions through lived experience. As we look toward the horizon, what will storytelling, the oldest and most human of arts, become? What stories will you create? Students must register for both the lecture and discussion section of this course. [This ULEC is in category 3, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Arts & Humanities.]
College: University Curriculum (UL)
Department: University Curriculum (UNIV)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Lecture (L)
Modality: In-Person
Max Enrollment: 75
Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2026 (Tuesday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 14, 2026 (Tuesday)
Seats Available: Yes
Status: Open*
* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 11:41pm EST 1/31/2026