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NYU ABU DHABI BULLETIN 2012–13 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI BULLETIN 2012–13 P.O. Box 129188 Behind the ADIA Tower & across Al Nasr Street from the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates INTRODUCTION 274 Grade Changes 274 Grading 2 Welcome from Vice Chancellor 275 Graduation Honors Alfred H. Bloom 275 Incompletes 4 The World’s Honors College 275 Integrity Commitment 6 Pathway to the Professions 275 Leave of Absence 8 About Abu Dhabi: A New World City 276 Midterm Assessment 276 Minimum Grades BASIC INFORMATION 276 Pass/Fail 10 Programs at a Glance 277 Repeating Courses 12 Academic Calendar 277 Transcripts 14 Language of Instruction 278 Transfer Courses 14 Accreditation 278 Withdrawal from a Course 14 Degrees and Graduation Requirements 17 Concentrations STUDENT AFFAIRS AND CAMPUS LIFE 18 Admissions 280 Athletics and Physical Education 282 Health and Wellness Services COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 283 Student Activities 22 Courses in 2012–13 283 Religious Life 29 The Core Curriculum 283 Campus Safety and Transportation 51 Arts and Humanities 111 Social Science THE NYUAD CAMPUS 143 Science and Mathematics 286 The Downtown Campus 189 Engineering 287 Center for Science and Engineering 211 Multidisciplinary Programs 287 Sama Tower 231 Pre-Professional Tracks 288 The Future Campus on Saadiyat Island 247 January Term NYUAD LEADERSHIP AND FACULTY GLOBAL EDUCATION AND STUDY AWAY 290 Leadership PROGRAMS 292 Deans 257 Study Away Programs 293 Faculty 257 General Study Away Policies 260 Study Away at NYUAD ABOUT NYU 317 An Overview of NYU SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES 317 About the Global Network University 262 Student Research 319 NYU Global Academic Centers 262 Regional Study Trips 322 Senior University Administration 263 Directed Study Courses 324 Trustees 263 Summer Programs 264 Advising and Mentors VISITING AND CONTACT INFORMATION 264 Office of the First-Year Dean 264 Career Services, Internships, 326 Welcome Center in Abu Dhabi and Pre-Professional Advising 326 NYUAD in New York City: 265 Office of Community Outreach 19 Washington Square North 266 The Academic Resource Center 327 Directions to NYU Abu Dhabi 266 The NYUAD Library 327 Mailing Address and Telephone 267 The NYUAD Institute 328 Campus Map 329 NYU Abu Dhabi Administration 330 Important Contacts ACADEMIC POLICIES 270 Academic Standing 271 Access to Educational Records 272 Adding and Dropping Courses 272 Advanced Standing The policies, requirements, course offerings, and other information set forth in this bulletin 273 Attendance are subject to change without notice and at the discretion of the administration. For the most 273 Auditing current information, please see nyuad.nyu.edu. 273 Course Load 273 Double Counting This bulletin is printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. The paper is certified by 274 Double Majors and Concentrations the Forest Stewardship Council, carbon neutral, and manufactured with 100% wind-power. 274 Exemptions Our first three undergraduate classes are drawn from the world’s best students—bright, confident, exceptionally talented pioneers, committed Welcome from to our community and to global understanding, and resolved to make a difference through their lives. The faculty who teach them are at once scholars, researchers, and artists Vice Chancellor of extraordinary professional distinction, and accomplished teachers, dedicated to transforming undergraduates into intellectual colleagues and to shaping an education responsive to challenges and opportunities Alfred H. Bloom of global scope. The curriculum builds from an imaginative and comprehensive trans- Welcome to NYU Abu Dhabi! disciplinary base, through 22 in-depth majors, towards a full-year independent project. It is supplemented by formative opportunities Although we are just entering our third year of classes, for research, community participation, and study abroad, for up to NYU Abu Dhabi is already emerging as an international two semesters, at NYU’s other global sites. Focused on depth, breadth, center of research, scholarship, and artistic advancement, and global perspective, an NYUAD education equips students with the intellectual and ethical foundations to set considered priorities for at once vitally linked to NYU New York and NYU’s their societies and the world and to begin to chart their own paths to global sites and poised to lead in capturing, examining contributing to the realization of those priorities. and integrating the insights, ideas, and perspectives I am convinced that no other undergraduate institution brings a deeper of a rapidly evolving global world. commitment to or greater capacity for placing undergraduate education at the service of a more informed, productive, just, and cooperative world. Located in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, NYUAD is already And I am very proud of the success that NYUAD has already achieved and increasingly engaged with its host community, and along this historic course. positioned, through the education it offers, the students it trains, and the research and scholarship it generates, to support Abu Dhabi’s own aspirations for educational, cultural, and scientific contributions on the world stage. Alfred H. Bloom And through the powerfully innovative vision of under graduate education it defines and delivers, NYUAD offers a model of liberal arts and science education, unsurpassed in quality, and distinctive in ability to educate leaders for a 21st-century global world. I invite you through the pages of this Bulletin to take the first step in coming to know this singular undergraduate institution and its educational program. 2 INTRODUCTION | WELCOME INTRODUCTION | WELCOME 3 The World’s Honors College Drawing on the traditions of the finest liberal arts Pre-professional tracks and sciences colleges and the exceptional resources that draw upon the professional schools of NYU and connect with internships and professional opportunities in Abu Dhabi and beyond. of a major research university, NYUAD offers students unmatched attention from professors Residential campus that extends learning beyond the classroom, integrating academics, who are leaders of their fields, and in the company student leadership and service, arts and culture, athletics, student clubs, of a unique and highly-talented peer group. and social activities. The creation of a new university has provided Community-based learning an unusual opportunity to design a curriculum with programs that take advantage of Abu Dhabi’s location, research initiatives, and engagement with world problems, through fieldwork for the 21st century. Ten hallmarks shape this service learning. unprecedented education: Study Away programs during fall and spring semesters as well as January terms that allow NYUAD A strong intellectual foundation students to study at the NYU campus in New York as well as NYU academic in critical thinking, research skills, analysis, and written and oral communication. centers in Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C. Work across the disciplines and collaborative problem-solving to understand complex issues from Creative use of technology multiple perspectives. to connect NYUAD, NYUNY, and other NYU academic centers, and promote interaction between students and faculty on different continents. Global orientation reflecting the international diversity of the student body and the Leadership mission cosmopolitan character of Abu Dhabi. reinforced in course offerings and co-curricular activities that encourage and prepare students to make a difference in their community. 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. 4 INTRODUCTION | THE WORLD'S HONORS COLLEGE INTRODUCTION | THE WORLD'S HONORS COLLEGE 5 Pathway to the Professions NYU Abu Dhabi gives its students exceptional opportunities to explore, To better facilitate this special admissions consideration, the NYUAD Career through pre-professional courses, the professions they might want to pursue, Development Center and a designated admissions officer from each of the and helps them gain entry to graduate and professional schools, including schools will be available throughout the undergraduate years of NYUAD those at NYU. students to counsel them on the school’s admissions process and to provide Most of NYU’s highly selective graduate and professional schools in New one-on-one advising. York will offer special consideration to NYUAD students who apply to these schools for graduate education. This special consideration recognizes the NYUAD’s Pre-Professional Tracks distinctiveness of an NYUAD education and the exceptional talent of the NYUAD students are able to explore different professional options and students who enroll at NYUAD. Participating schools will award scholarships get a jumpstart on graduate education through the seven pre-professional covering full tuition for their studies to a select number of qualifying tracks in the NYUAD curriculum. Expert faculty of NYU’s professional schools NYUAD graduates. participate in the pre-professional programs, connecting NYUAD students with NYU’s internationally ranked graduate and professional schools. The Participating graduate and professional schools include combination of a broad arts and sciences education with pre-professional tracks is a distinguishing feature of the NYUAD curriculum. 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