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NYU Abu Dhabi Bulletin 2014-2015 NYU ABU DHABI BULLETIN 2014–15 2 2014–15 | DEPARTMENT | MAJOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI BULLETIN 2014–15 Please note that this pdf was last edited on September 9, 2014, this subsequent to the printed edition. NYU Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Campus PO Box 129188 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates The policies, requirements, course offerings, and other information set forth in this bulletin are subject to change without notice and at the discretion of the administration. For the most current information, please see nyuad.nyu.edu. INTRODUCTION 340 Graduation Honors 340 Incompletes 4 Welcome from Vice Chancellor 340 Integrity Commitment Alfred H. Bloom 340 Leave of Absence 6 Educating Global Leaders 341 Midterm Assessment 8 About Abu Dhabi: A New World City 341 Minimum Grades 9 Pathway to the Professions 341 Pass/Fail 342 Religious Holidays BASIC INFORMATION 342 Repeating Courses 342 Transcripts 12 Programs at a Glance 343 Transfer Credit 14 Academic Calendar 343 Withdrawal from a Course 16 Language of Instruction 16 Accreditation STUDENT AFFAIRS AND CAMPUS LIFE 16 Degrees and Graduation Requirements 19 Admissions 345 Advisement and Mentoring 345 Office of First-Year Programming COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 346 Career Services, Internships, Global Awards, and Pre-Professional Advising 22 The Core Curriculum 346 Office of Community Outreach 58 Arts and Humanities 347 Fitness, Sports and Recreation 140 Social Science 348 Health and Wellness Services 180 Science and Mathematics 348 Student Activities 228 Engineering 349 Religious Life 254 Multidisciplinary Programs 349 Residential Education 282 Pre-Professional Courses 349 Safety and Transportation 302 January Term 316 Summer School NYUAD LEADERSHIP AND FACULTY 318 Physical Education 352 Leadership STUDY AWAY PROGRAMS 352 Emeritus Faculty and Administrations 352 Faculty 324 Study Away Programs 324 General Study Away Policies ABOUT NYU 327 Study Away at NYUAD 364 An Overview of NYU SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES 364 About the Global Network University 365 NYU Global Academic Centers 329 Student Research 368 Senior University Administration 329 Regional Study Trips 368 Deans and Directors 330 Directed Study Courses 369 Board of Trustees 330 Summer Programs 369 Life Trustees 331 Academic Resource Center 369 Trustees Associates 331 The NYUAD Library 332 The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute THE NYUAD CAMPUS ACADEMIC POLICIES 371 Saadiyat Campus 335 Academic Standing VISITING AND CONTACT INFORMATION 336 Access to Educational Records 337 Adding and Dropping Courses 373 Welcome Center in Abu Dhabi 337 Advanced Standing 373 NYUAD in New York City: 337 Attendance 19 Washington Square North 337 Auditing 373 Directions to NYU Abu Dhabi 338 Commencement Marching Eligibility 373 Mailing Address and Telephone 338 Course Load 374 Campus Map 338 Double Counting 376 Important Contacts 339 Double Majors and Concentrations 339 Exemptions 339 Grade Changes 339 Grading Welcome from Vice Chancellor Alfred H. Bloom Welcome to NYU Abu Dhabi! Through the powerfully innovative vision of undergraduate education it defines and delivers, NYUAD offers a model of liberal arts and science education, unsurpassed in quality, and distinctive in preparing wise and effective leaders for a 21st-century global world. I invite you through the pages of this Bulletin to come to know this singular undergraduate institution and its educational program. Our students are drawn from among the world’s best. They are bright, intellectually passionate, committed to maintaining on campus a student community anchored in mutual respect, understanding and care, and resolved to invest their talents along whatever paths of life they choose to advancing a more informed, productive, just, united and peaceful world. Our faculty are scholars, researchers, and artists of extraordinary professional distinction, and at the same time accomplished teachers, dedicated to supporting and challenging their students and to transforming them into intellectual colleagues. The curriculum builds from an innovative cross-disciplinary base (the Core), through 22 rigorous majors, towards a full-year independent (Capstone) project. It is supplemented by opportunities for research with faculty working at the frontiers of their disciplines, by exiting opportunities for community engagement both in Abu Dhabi and around the globe, and by substantial international experience made possible across NYU’s global network of sites. 4 2014–15 | INTRODUCTION | WELCOME In addition, the comprehensive NYUAD educational experience prepares students to construct bridges of common understanding and purpose across human divides, equips them with the intellectual and ethical foundations to set priorities for themselves and the world, and readies them to begin to chart their own paths toward realizing of those priorities. The liberal arts college at NYUAD lies at the heart of an international center of research, scholarship, and artistic advance, at once vitally linked to NYU New York and NYU’s global network and positioned to draw on the insights, ideas, and perspectives of this rapidly evolving century. I am convinced that no other undergraduate institution brings a greater sense of the joy and possibility of the finest liberal arts education or better prepares for leadership of the professions, institutions and societies of our global world. With great pride in the success that NYUAD has already achieved along its historic course, I look forward to our fifth remarkable year, our first year on our new magnificent Saadiyat campus. Alfred H. Bloom 2014–15 | INTRODUCTION | WELCOME 5 Educating Global Leaders Drawing on the traditions of the finest liberal arts and sciences colleges and the exceptional resources of a major research university, NYUAD offers students unmatched attention from professors who are leaders of their fields. The students of NYUAD come from over 110 countries and form a unique, highly-talented peer group. The international diversity of NYUAD combined with its global curriculum sets a new standard for a 21st-century global education. The creation of a new university has provided an unusual opportunity to design a curriculum for the 21st century. Ten hallmarks shape this unprecedented education: A strong intellectual foundation in critical thinking, research skills, analysis, and written and oral communication. Work across the disciplines and collaborative problem-solving to understand complex issues from multiple perspectives. Global orientation reflecting the international diversity of the student body and the cosmopolitan character of Abu Dhabi. 6 2014–15 | INTRODUCTION | EDUCATING GLOBAL LEADERS Undergraduate research woven through the curriculum, culminating in a Capstone Project of significant and original work by each student, and opportunities to participate in advanced faculty research. Pre-professional courses that draw upon the professional schools of NYU and connect with internships and professional opportunities in Abu Dhabi and beyond. Residential campus that extends learning beyond the classroom, integrating academics, student leader ship and service, arts and culture, athletics, student clubs, and social activities. Community-based learning with programs that take advantage of Abu Dhabi’s location, research initiatives, and engagement with world problems, through fieldwork service learning. Study Away programs during fall and spring semesters as well as January Terms that allow NYUAD students to study at the NYU campuses in New York and Shanghai, as well as NYU academic centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington D.C. Creative use of technology to connect NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, NYU Shanghai, and other NYU academic centers, and promote interaction between students and faculty on different continents. Leadership mission reinforced in course offerings and co-curricular activities that encourage and prepare students to make a difference in their community. 2014–15 | INTRODUCTION | EDUCATING GLOBAL LEADERS 7 About Abu Dhabi: A New World City NYU Abu Dhabi brings the benefits of NYU’s international prominence and worldwide network of thinkers, scholars, scientists, artists, and leaders in all fields of human enter- prise to the global crossroads of Abu Dhabi. NYU is helping to build one of the world’s great idea capitals. Abu Dhabi is located in the heart of the The city has built a forward-looking Middle East, on the southwestern coast agenda in health care, the arts, economic of the Arabian Gulf. It is the capital of the and environmental sustainability, and United Arab Emirates. The city is becoming educational and human development, and an educational, intellectual, and cultural is committed to supporting the vital talent capital, and NYUAD will play a central and infrastructure required for it. Together, role in that evolution. The international this strategic location and progressive composition, rigorous academic program, commitment create an astounding array and rich array of extracurricular options of opportunities for developing effective that characterize NYUAD are aligned responses to the world’s critical challenges. with the Emirate’s ambitious vision for its development into a leading global city. As Abu Dhabi’s first American-style, comprehensive, liberal arts and sciences research university, NYUAD is a force for social and educational progress and intercultural understanding. The dynamic relationship between NYU’s campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi links our cities as
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