Announcing the Spring 2024 Course Catalog - Fractal University

We're back, and we're bigger than ever.

I am so excited to announce the new and improved Spring ‘24 Semester of Fractal University! We have SO many (read: over 20) great classes this time around, the support from teachers and experts in the community was unbelievable.

You (yes, you!) can apply and register for classes below. Applications close on January 17th — you can apply late, we just can’t guarantee it will be reviewed.

Orientation for Spring will be on January 27th. Since FractalU runs on chaos energy, we also have a couple classes that start early, so be sure to review those.

See classes and and register here:

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The Classes

• AI Research Lab

• Alexander Technique

• At Play with Poetry

• BABIES

• Body, Mind, Work: A Joint Investigation

• Building a Village: How to Live Near Your Friends

• Butoh: Into the depths

• Civic Hacking 101 — Let’s Write Software for New York City

• Coding Bootcamp

• EDM Production 101

• Freestyle Cooking 101

• Freestyle Rap: A Straightforward Introduction

• History of Patronage

• Introduction to Painting

• Introduction to Philosophy

• LLMs in Practice

• Progress Studies Research Lab

• Writing Fiction

Maximum New York Classes:

Maximum New York is a sister civic school dedicated to teaching New Yorkers the mechanisms of their city.

Civics already has a bad reputation as a boring field. But this isn’t the fault of the field—it’s the fault of generations of terrible teachers. Good political and civic instruction requires outcompeting Netflix. If you, as a would-be civics instructor, do not go to open mics or perform your material in public, you are likely not good enough.

— Daniel Golliher, Founder Maximum New York

• The Foundations of New York: City

• The Foundations of New York: State

• The Foundations of the Federal Government

• The American Founding, from 1763 to 1803

• What is the law? An introductory seminar

• What is Freedom of Speech? A Seminar

• How to do Politics with your Friends

• Corporations, Companies, and Public Authorities

• Practical Parliamentary Procedure

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The Instructors

We have 15 instructors this semester.

Want to teach next semester? Email Andrew.

Several of our wonderful instructors

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“Reading a couple hundred books a year is the bare minimum. It’s just the baseline. You also need to be embedded in a community of others who have diverse perspectives to bounce your ideas off of. The key for autodidact-types is to set up ways to avoid insularity.”

— Alan Kay