Courtesy of Bob Handelman/NYU Photo Bureau Bulletin 2014-2016 New York University Bulletin 2014-2016 Liberal Studies

THE CORE PROGRAM Announcement for the 43rd and 44th Sessions

GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES Announcement for the 6th and 7th Sessions

New York University Washington Square New York, New York 10003

Notice: The online version of the Bulletin (at www.ls.nyu.edu) contains revisions and updates in courses, programs, requirements, and staffing that occurred after the publication of this version. Students who require a printed copy of any portion of the updated online Bulletin but do not have Internet access should see a Liberal Studies advisor or administrator for assistance.

The policies, requirements, course offerings, schedules, activities, tuition, fees, and calendar of the school and its departments and programs set forth in this bulletin are subject to change without notice at any time at the sole discretion of the administration. Such changes may be of any nature, including, but not limited to, the elimination of the school or college, programs, classes, or activities; the relocation of or modification of the content of any of the foregoing; and the cancellation of scheduled classes or other academic activities.

Payment of tuition or attendance at any classes shall constitute a student’s acceptance of the administrations’ rights as set forth in the above paragraph. Contents

An Introduction to New York University ...... 4

The Schools, Colleges, Institutes, & Programs of the University .. 5

New York University & ...... 6

University Administration ...... 8

An Introduction to Liberal Studies ...... 11

Directory for Liberal Studies Administration & NYU Services ..... 12

Liberal Studies Academic Programs ...... 14

Liberal Studies Academic Advising ...... 19

Liberal Studies Global Study ...... 23

Liberal Studies Course Descriptions ...... 28

Liberal Studies Faculty ...... 35

Liberal Studies Student Awards & Honors ...... 38

Academic Policies & Procedures ...... 40

Student Life Resources ...... 51

Admission to Liberal Studies ...... 53

Tuition, Fees, & Financial Aid ...... 57

Global Academic Centers ...... 61

Academic Calendar ...... 66

CONTENTS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 3 An Introduction to New York University

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The founding of New York University Thomas Jefferson and secretary of the academic centers: Accra, Ghana; Berlin, in 1831 by a group of eminent private treasury in Jefferson’s cabinet. Gallatin Germany; Buenos Aires, Argentina; citizens marked a historic event in and his cofounders envisioned a Florence, Italy; London, England; American education. In the early 19th “national university” that would provide Madrid, Spain; , France; Prague, century, the major emphasis in higher a “rational and practical education for Czech Republic; Sydney, Australia; education was on the mastery of Greek all.” Tel Aviv, Israel; and Washington, DC, and Latin, with little attention given to United States. Although overall the The result of the founders’ foresight is modern subjects. The founders of New University is large, the divisions are today a university that is recognized York University intended to enlarge small- to moderate-size units—each both nationally and internationally as the scope of higher education to meet with its own traditions, programs, and a leader in scholarship. NYU is one of the needs of those aspiring to careers faculty. only 26 private universities in the nation in business, industry, science, and the to have membership in the distinguished Enrollment in the undergraduate arts, as well as in law, medicine, and the Association of American Universities. divisions at NYU ranges between 129 ministry. The opening of the University Students come to NYU from all 50 and 7,330, and the University offers of London in 1828 convinced New states and from 141 foreign countries. over 9,000 courses and grants more Yorkers that New York, too, should have than 25 different degrees. Classes vary a new university that fed off the energy New York University includes three in size, but the University strives to and vibrancy of the city. degree-granting campuses: New York create a sense of community among City, United States; Abu Dhabi, United The first president of New York students within and among the different Arab Emirates; and Shanghai, China. In University’s governing council was disciplines. addition, the University has 11 global , former adviser to

AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4 The Schools, Colleges, Institutes, & Programs of the University

1832 College of Arts and Science 1938 Robert F. Wagner Graduate www.cas.nyu.edu School of Public Service www.wagner.nyu.edu 1835 School of Law www.law.nyu.edu 1960 Silver School of Social Work www.nyu.edu/socialwork 1841 School of Medicine www.school.med.nyu.edu 1965 Tisch School of the Arts www.tisch.nyu.edu 1854 Polytechnic School of Engineering (January 2014) 1972 Gallatin School of www.poly.edu Individualized Study www.nyu.edu/gallatin 1865 College of Dentistry www.nyu.edu/dental 1972 Liberal Studies (including the www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu College of Nursing [1947], www.nyu.edu/nursing) 2006 Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 1886 Graduate School of Arts and www.nyu.edu/isaw Science www.gsas.nyu.edu 2010 New York University Abu Dhabi 1890 Steinhardt School of www.nyuad.nyu.edu Culture, Education, and Human Development 2013 New York University www.steinhardt.nyu.edu Shanghai www.shanghai.nyu.edu 1900 Leonard N. Stern School of Business www.stern.nyu.edu

1922 Institute of Fine Arts www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart

1934 School of Professional Studies www.scps.nyu.edu

1934 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences www.cims.nyu.edu

THE SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, INSTITUTES, AND PROGRAMS OF THE UNIVERSITY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 5 New York University & New York City

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY unparalleled Fales Collection of English the Ancient World (ISAW) is a resource LIBRARIES and American Literature; the Marion for advanced research and graduate The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Nestle Food Studies Collection, the education in ancient civilizations from designed by Philip Johnson and Richard country’s largest trove of cookbooks, the western Mediterranean to China. Foster, is the flagship of an 11-library food writing, pamphlets, paper, and The Bern Dibner Library serves the NYU system that provides access to the archives, dating from the 1790s; and the Polytechnic School of Engineering. world’s scholarship. Bobst Library serves Downtown Collection, an extraordinary The libraries of NYU Abu Dhabi and as a center for the NYU community’s multimedia archive documenting the NYU Shanghai provide access to all the intellectual life. With 4.5 million print avant-garde New York art world since resources in BobCat and are building volumes, 235,000 serial titles, 120,000 1975. Bobst Library also houses the their own collection of books and other electronic journals, 1 million e-books, Tamiment Library, the country’s leading print materials in support of the schools’ 163,000 audio and video recordings, repository of research materials in the developing curricula. Complementing and over 41,000 linear feet of special history of left politics and labor. Two the collections of the Division of collections archival materials, the fellowship programs bring scholars Libraries are those of the libraries of collections are uniquely strong in the from around the world to Tamiment NYU’s School of Medicine, College of performing arts, radical and labor to explore the history of the Cold Dentistry, and School of Law. War and its wide-ranging impact on history, and the history of New York The NYU Division of Libraries American institutions and to research and its avant-garde culture. The library’s continually enhances its student academic freedom and promote public Web site, library.nyu.edu, received 2.5 and faculty services and expands its discussion of its history and role in our million visits in 2012–2013. research collections, responding to the society. Tamiment’s Robert F. Wagner extraordinary growth of the University’s Bobst Library offers approximately 2,500 Labor Archives contain, among other academic programs in recent years and seats for student study. The Avery Fisher resources, the archives of the Jewish to the rapid expansion of electronic Center for Music and Media, one of the Labor Committee and of more than 200 information resources. Bobst Library’s world’s largest academic media centers, New York City labor organizations. has 134 carrels for audio listening and professional staff includes more than 33 video viewing and three multimedia Beyond Bobst, the library of the subject specialists who select materials classrooms. The Digital Studio offers renowned Courant Institute of and work with faculty and graduate a constantly evolving, leading-edge Mathematical Sciences focuses on students in every field of study at NYU. resource for faculty and student projects research-level material in mathematics, The staff also includes specialists in and promotes and supports access to computer science, and related fields. undergraduate outreach, instructional digital resources for teaching, learning, The Stephen Chan Library of Fine services, preservation, electronic research, and arts events. The Data Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) information, and digital information. Service Studio provides expert staff and houses the rich collections that support access to software, statistical computing, the research and curricular needs of THE LARGER CAMPUS geographical information systems the institute’s graduate programs in analysis, data collection resources, and art history and archaeology. The Jack New York University is an integral data management services in support of Brause Library at SCPS Midtown, the part of the metropolitan community quantitative research at NYU. most comprehensive facility of its kind, of New York City—the business, serves the information needs of every cultural, artistic, and financial center The , a special collection sector of the real estate community. The of the nation and the home of the within Bobst Library, is home to the Library of the Institute for the Study of United Nations. The city’s extraordinary

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND NEW YORK CITY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 6 resources enrich both the academic famous for its contributions to the other legally protected basis. programs and the experience of living at fine arts, literature, and drama and its Inquiries regarding the application New York University. personalized, smaller scale, European of the federal laws and regulations style of living. NYU itself makes a Professors whose extracurricular concerning affirmative action and significant contribution to the creative activities include service as editors for antidiscrimination policies and activity of the Village through the high publishing houses and magazines; as procedures at New York University may concentration of faculty and students advisers to city government, banks, be referred to Mary Signor, executive who reside within a few blocks of the school systems, and social agencies; director, Office of Equal Opportunity, University. NYU’s Polytechnic School and as consultants for museums New York University, 726 Broadway, of Engineering, located in Downtown and industrial corporations bring to 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003; Brooklyn, connects academics with teaching an experience of the world and 212-998-2352. Inquiries may also be creative research and technology in a professional sophistication that are referred to the director of the Office the burgeoning Tech Triangle and is difficult to match. of Federal Contract Compliance, U.S. just a short subway ride away from Department of Labor. Students also, either through course Washington Square. work or in outside activities, tend to be New York University is a member of the University apartment buildings provide involved in the vigorous and varied life Association of American Universities housing for over 2,100 members of of the city. Research for term papers in and is accredited by the Middle States the faculty and administration, and the humanities and social sciences may Association of Colleges and Schools University student residence halls take them to such diverse places as the (Commission on Higher Education accommodate over 11,000 men and American Museum of Natural History, of the Middle States Association of women. Many more faculty and the Museum of Modern Art, a garment Colleges and Schools, 3624 Market students reside in private housing in the factory, a deteriorating neighborhood, Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215- area. or a foreign consulate. 662-5606). Individual undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs and Students in science work with their schools are accredited by the appropriate professors on such problems of A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY specialized accrediting agencies. immediate importance for urban Since its founding, New York University society as the pollution of waterways has been a private university. It operates and the congestion of city streets. under a board of trustees and derives Business majors attend seminars in its income from tuition, endowment, corporation boardrooms and intern grants from private foundations and as executive assistants in business and government, and gifts from friends, financial houses. The schools, courts, alumni, corporations, and other private hospitals, settlement houses, theatres, philanthropic sources. playgrounds, and prisons of the greatest The University is committed to a policy city in the world form a regular part of equal treatment and opportunity of the educational scene for students in every aspect of its relations with its of medicine, dentistry, education, faculty, students, and staff members, social work, law, business and public without regard to race, color, religion, administration, and the creative and sex, sexual orientation, gender and/or performing arts. gender identity or expression, marital The chief center for undergraduate or parental status, national origin, and graduate study is at Washington ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or Square in , long military status, age, disability, and any

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND NEW YORK CITY• LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 7 University Administration

SENIOR UNIVERSITY Lynne P. Brown, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Lauren Benton, B.A., Ph.D., Dean, ADMINISTRATION Senior Vice President for University Graduate School of Arts and Science Relations and Public Affairs , B.A., M.A., Ph.D., J.D., Charles N. Bertolami, D.D.S., President Norman Dorsen, B.A., LL.B., D.Med.Sc., Herman Robert Fox Dean, Counselor to the President College of Dentistry

Paul M. Horn, B.S., Ph.D., Senior Alfred H. Bloom, B.A., Ph.D.; hon.: David W. McLaughlin, B.S., M.S., Vice Provost for Research; Senior Vice LL.D., Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu Ph.D., Provost Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Dhabi Richard S. Baum, B.A., Chief of Staff Entrepreneurship, Polytechnic School of Dominic Brewer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., to the President Engineering Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, Steinhardt Robert Berne, B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Debra A. LaMorte, B.A., J.D., Senior School of Culture, Education, and Executive Vice President for Health Vice President for Development and Human Development Alumni Relations Martin S. Dorph, B.S., M.B.A., J.D., Thomas J. Carew, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.; Executive Vice President, Finance and Ron Robin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., hon.: MA, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Information Technology Senior Vice Provost for Global Faculty Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science Development, NYU; Senior Vice Provost Katherine Fleming, B.A., M.A., Joy Connolly, B.A., Ph.D., Dean for for Faculty Development, NYU Abu Ph.D., Deputy Provost and Vice Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science Dhabi and NYU Shanghai Chancellor, Europe Dennis DiLorenzo, B.A., Harvey J. Matthew S. Santirocco, B.A., B.A. Richard Foley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Vice Stedman Dean, School of Professional [Cantab.]; MPhil, MA [Cantab.], Chancellor for Strategic Planning Studies PhD; hon.: MA, Senior Vice Provost for Alison Leary, B.S., Executive Vice Academic Affairs Sherry L. Glied, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., President for Operations Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, B.E., M.E., of Public Service Linda G. Mills, B.A., J.D., M.S.W., M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: DSc, Executive Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Global Vice Provost for Engineering and Applied Allyson Green, B.F.A., M.F.A., Dean, Programs and University Life, NYU; Sciences; Dean, Polytechnic School of Tisch School of the Arts Associate Vice Chancellor for Admissions Engineering Robert I. Grossman, B.S., M.D., and Financial Support, NYU Abu Marc L. Wais, B.S., M.B.A., Ed.M., Saul J. Farber Dean, NYU School of Dhabi; Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor Ed.D., Senior Vice President for Student Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, NYU Ellen Schall, B.A., J.D., Senior Affairs Hospitals Center Presidential Fellow Cheryl G. Healton, B.A., M.P.A., Diane C. Yu, B.A., J.D., Deputy DEANS AND DIRECTORS Dr.P.H., Director, Global Institute of President Public Health; Dean of Global Public Roger Bagnall, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Health Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Peter Blair Henry, B.A., B.A., Ph.D., Bonnie S. Brier, B.A., J.D., Senior Vice Dean, Leonard N. Stern School of President, General Counsel, and Secretary Gérard Ben Arous, B.S., M.Sc., Business of the University PhD, Director, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Vice Provost for Science and Engineering Development

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 8 Steven E. Koonin, B.S., Ph.D., Yu Lizhong, B.Sc., Ph.D., Chancellor, Executive M.B.A. Director, Center for Urban Science and NYU Shanghai Lisa Yoo Hahn Progress , B.A., J.D. Mitchell Jacobson Michael Laver, B.A. (hons.), M.A., , B.A., J.D. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ph.D., Dean for Social Sciences, Faculty Boris Jordan, B.A. of Arts and Science Martin Lipton, B.S. in Econ., LL.B., Chair Jonathan C. Kim, B.S. Jeffrey S. Lehman, B.A., J.D., M.P.P., Vice Chancellor, NYU Shanghai Ronald D. Abramson, B.A., J.D.; Charles Klein, B.A., J.D. hon.: D.F.A. Carol A. Mandel, B.A., M.A., Andre J. L. Koo, B.A., M.B.A. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak M.S.L.S., Dean of Libraries Mark Leslie, B.A. Geeta Menon Ralph Alexander, B.S., M.S., M.S. , B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Brian A. Levine, B.S., M.S., M.D. Dean, Undergraduate College, Leonard Phyllis Putter Barasch, B.S., M.A., Jeffrey H. Lynford, B.A., M.P.A., J.D. N. Stern School of Business M.B.A. Trevor W. Morrison Kelly Kennedy Mack, B.A., M.B.A. , B.A. (hons.) Maria Bartiromo, B.A. [British Columbia]; J.D., Dean, School Mimi M. D. Marziani, B.A., J.D. of Law Marc H. Bell, B.S., M.S. Howard Meyers, B.S. Michael D. Purugganan, B.S., M.A., William R. Berkley, B.S., M.B.A. Ph.D., Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts Steven S. Miller, B.A., J.D. Casey Box, A.A., B.A., M.P.A. and Science Constance J. Milstein, B.A., J.D. Bill Brewer, B.A., J.D., LL.M. Paul Romer, B.S., Ph.D., Director, David C. Oxman, B.A., LL.B. Marron Institute of Urban Management Heather L. Cannady, B.A., J.D. John Paulson, B.S., M.B.A. Patricia Rubin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Sharon Chang, B.A., M.A. Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Catherine B. Reynolds, B.A. Evan R. Chesler, B.A., J.D. Institute of Fine Arts Brett B. Rochkind, B.S., M.B.A. Steven M. Cohen, B.A., J.D. Fred Schwarzbach, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., William C. Rudin, B.S. Dean of Liberal Studies, Faculty of Arts William T. Comfort, III, B.S.B.A., and Science J.D., LL.M. (in Taxation) Suresh Sani, B.A., J.D.

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, B.E., M.E., Florence A. Davis, B.A., J.D. John Sexton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., J.D. M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: D.Sc., Dean, Polytechnic School of Engineering; Michael Denkensohn, B.S. Constance Silver, B.S., M.S.W., Ph.D. Executive Vice Provost for Engineering Barry Diller Lisa Silverstein, B.A. and Applied Sciences Gale Drukier, B.S. Jay Stein G. Gabrielle Starr, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Joel S. Ehrenkranz, B.S., M.B.A., Joseph S. Steinberg, B.A., M.B.A. Science LL.B., LL.M. Judy Steinhardt, B.A., Ed.M. Eileen Sullivan-Marx, B.S.N., M.S., Laurence D. Fink, B.A., M.B.A. Michael H. Steinhardt, B.S. Ph.D., C.R.N.P., R.N., F.A.A.N., Luiz Fraga, B.A., M.B.A. Dean, College of Nursing Jessica Swartz, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Mark Fung, B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D. Lynn Videka, B.S.N., M.A., Ph.D., Chandrika Tandon, B.A., M.B.A. Dean, Silver School of Social Work Jay M. Furman, B.S., J.D. Daniel R. Tisch, B.A. Susanne L. Wofford, B.A.; B.Phil. Jonathan M. Herman, B.A., J.D. John L. Vogelstein [Oxon.], Ph.D., Dean, Gallatin School Natalie Holder-Winfield, B.S., J.D., of Individualized Study

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 9 Wenliang Wang Marie Schwartz

Casey Wasserman, B.S. Larry A. Silverstein, B.A., LL.B.

Nina Weissberg, B.A., M.A. Joel E. Smilow, B.A., M.B.A.

Anthony Welters, B.A., J.D. Sheldon H. Solow

Shelby White, B.A., M.A. Lillian Vernon

Leonard A. Wilf, B.A., J.D., LL.M. (in Robert F. Wright, B.A., M.B.A. Taxation) William D. Zabel, B.A., LL.B. Fred Wilson, B.S., M.B.A. Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli Marimò Tamara Winn, B.A., J.D., M.B.A.

Charles M. Zegar, B.S., M.S., M.S. Trustee Associates Bruce Berger, B.S. Life Trustees Leonard Boxer, B.S., LL.B. Diane Belfer Jane Eisner Bram, B.A., M.S.W., Mamdouha Bobst, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. M.P.H.; hon.: L.H.D. Betty Weinberg Ellerin, B.A., J.D. John Brademas (President Emeritus), Norman Goodman, B.A., J.D. B.A.; D.Phil. [Oxon.]; hon.: D.C.L., L.H.D., Litt.D., LL.D. Marvin Leffler, B.S., M.B.A. Arthur L. Carter, B.A., M.B.A. Geraldine H. Coles

John J. Creedon, B.S., LL.B., LL.M.

Maurice R. Greenberg, LL.B.; hon.: J.D., LL.D.

Henry Kaufman, B.A., M.S., Ph.D.; hon.: L.H.D., LL.D.

Helen L. Kimmel, B.A.

Richard Jay Kogan, B.A., M.B.A.

Kenneth G. Langone, B.A., M.B.A. Donald B. Marron

Thomas S. Murphy, B.S.M.E., M.B.A.

Herbert M. Paul, B.B.A., M.B.A., J.D., LL.M.

Lester Pollack, B.S., LL.B.

E. John Rosenwald, Jr., B.A., M.B.A. William R. Salomon

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 10 An Introduction to Liberal Studies: The Core Program & the Global Liberal Studies B.A.

Liberal Studies houses two programs: liberal arts college within the framework of NYU’s many international campuses the Core Program, a two-year core of a major research university. in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and curriculum program (HEGIS Code Latin America. The senior year in New The Core Program was founded in 5699*) from which students transition York combines advanced course work 1972. Its faculty are actively engaged in to other NYU schools to complete with a guided research project that their scholarly, creative, and professional their bachelor’s degree, and the Global integrates the four years of study. fields, and they bring enormous Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts four- enthusiasm and dedication to their Graduates of GLS will be world year degree program (HEGIS Code teaching. The program fosters close leaders, proficient in a foreign language, 4901*). contact between faculty and students engaged in international cultures, and The Core Program is a full-time, two- in and out of the classroom, and all well-prepared for their careers and for year liberal arts program. It offers a students are assigned a faculty mentor admission to professional and graduate comprehensive liberal arts background from the beginning of their studies. The schools. that serves as a strong foundation for hallmarks of the Core Program—small *HEGIS: Higher Education General further study. At the end of their studies, classes, an outstanding teaching faculty, Information Survey. students who successfully complete the individual advisement, and an integrated program requirements with a minimum program of study—create an ideal Degree and Certificate Programs GPA of 2.0 will enroll as juniors in learning environment. Over 16,000 as registered by the New York State one of NYU’s liberal arts bachelor’s students have successfully completed Department of Education degree programs in the College of the program and graduated from one of Office of Higher Education Arts and Science; Liberal Studies; NYU’s baccalaureate programs. State Education Building the Gallatin School of Individualized 89 Washington Avenue The Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Study; the Preston Robert Tisch Center 2nd Floor, West Mezzanine Arts (GLS) is an innovative program that for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Albany, NY 12234 features core course work in the liberal Management; the Silver School of Social arts with a focus on great works in a Work; or in select liberal arts programs Telephone: 518-474-5851 global context, bringing the traditional Web site: www.highered.nysed.gov at the Steinhardt School of Culture, liberal arts into the twenty-first century. Education, and Human Development and the Tisch School of the Arts. GLS offers a rigorous course of study that combines ideas, materials, and The Core Program academic experience methodologies from multiple fields of is built upon an interdisciplinary core inquiry, including literature, history, curriculum that fulfills the liberal arts philosophy, political science, physical requirements of all the undergraduate and biological sciences, mathematics, programs at NYU. The Core Program foreign language, music, and art. The is distinguished by small classes and core curriculum is infused with global an environment in which faculty and perspective, and sophomore seminars students work closely together to develop both reinforce this and prepare students a community dedicated to learning. The to spend their junior year abroad at one Core Program functions like a small

AN INTRODUCTION TO LIBERAL STUDIES: THE CORE PROGRAM AND THE GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES B.A. • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 11 Directory for Liberal Studies Administration & NYU Services

Liberal Studies Departmental Offices Billy Helton, M.S. Office of Residential Life and 726 Broadway, 6th Floor New Jersey Institute of Technology Housing Services New York, NY 10003-9580 Senior Director, Administration 726 Broadway, 7th Floor 212-998-7120 Telephone: 212-998-3760 Telephone: 212-998-4600 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/housing www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu www.core.ls.nyu.edu Robert Squillace, Ph.D. Off-Campus Housing Services www.gls.nyu.edu Columbia University Kimmel Center for University Life Associate Dean, Academic Affairs 60 Washington Square South, Master Teacher Suite 210 LIBERAL STUDIES Telephone: 212-992-8735 Telephone: 212-998-4411 ADMINISTRATION E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/offcampus- Fred Schwarzbach, Ph.D. living University of London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Department of Public Safety Dean, Liberal Studies SERVICES Master Teacher 7 Washington Place Telephone: 212-998-7175 Office of Undergraduate Admissions Telephone: 212-998-2222 (To report E-mail: [email protected] 665 Broadway, 11th Floor an emergency) Telephone: 212-998-4500 Web site: www.nyu.edu/public-safety Web site: www.nyu.edu/admissions/ Peter Diamond, Ph.D. undergraduate-admissions Center for Student Activities, Johns Hopkins University Leadership & Service Coordinator, Core Program Office of the University Registrar Kimmel Center for University Life Master Teacher Student Services Center 60 Washington Square South, Telephone: 212-998-8890 25 West Fourth Street Suite 704 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-4800 Telephone: 212-998-4700 Web site: www.nyu.edu/registrar Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Leah Guarino-Ramirez, M.A. studentactivities New York University Office of the Bursar Assistant Director, Students Student Services Center Student Resource Center Telephone: 212-998-7938 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Kimmel Center for University Life E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-2806 60 Washington Square South, Web site: www.nyu.edu/bursar Suite 210 Wilnelia Gutierrez, M.P.A. Telephone: 212-998-4411 New York University Office of Financial Aid Web site: www.nyu.edu/src Office Manager and Executive Student Services Center Assistant, Dean’s Office 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Academic Resource Center Telephone: 212-998-7290 Telephone: 212-998-4444 18 Washington Place E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/admissions/ Telephone: 212-998-2272 financial-aid-and-scholarships Web site: www.nyu.edu/arc Beth Haymaker, M.F.A. Indiana University (Bloomington) Director, Global Programs Telephone: 212-998-7146 E-mail: [email protected]

DIRECTORY FOR LIBERAL STUDIES ADMINISTRATION AND NYU SERVICES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 12 The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Wasserman Center for Career 70 Washington Square South Development Telephone: 212-998-2500 133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor Web site: www.library.nyu.edu Telephone: 212-998-4730 Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Main Bookstore & Computer Store careerdevelopment 726 Broadway Telephone: 212-998-4667 NYU Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Web site: www.bookstores.nyu.edu Center 50 West 4th Street Student Health Center Telephone: 212-998-4550 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors Web site: www.nyu.edu/admissions/ Telephone: 212-443-1000 undergraduate-admissions/visit-us Web site: www.nyu.edu/health

Counseling and Wellness Services 726 Broadway, Suite 471 Telephone: 212-998-4780 Web site: www.nyu.edu/counseling

Wellness Exchange 726 Broadway, Suite 402 Telephone: 212-443-9999 Web site: www.nyu.edu/life/safety- health-wellness/wellness-exchange.html

Henry and Lucy Moses Center for Students with Disabilities 726 Broadway, 2nd Floor Telephone: 212-998-4980 (voice and TTY) Web site: www.nyu.edu/life/safety- health-wellness/students-with- disabilities

NYU Office of Global Programs 110 East 14th Street, Lower Level Telephone: 212-998-4433 Web site: www.nyu.edu/globalprograms

Office of Global Services 561 LaGuardia Place Telephone: 212-998-4720 Web site: www.nyu.edu/ogs

Center for Multicultural Education and Programs Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, Suite 806 Telephone: 212-998-4343 Web site: www.nyu.edu/cmep

DIRECTORY FOR LIBERAL STUDIES ADMINISTRATION AND NYU SERVICES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 13 Liberal Studies Academic Programs

THE CORE PROGRAM Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism baccalaureate program, students may The Core Program is a liberal education and Sports Management; the Silver also take a course in the natural sciences curriculum that is based on the reading School of Social Work; and the College and mathematics. of Nursing, as well as select majors of great works and includes courses Sophomore Curriculum in the Tisch School of the Arts and drawn from NYU’s other undergraduate Requirements schools and colleges, allowing students the Steinhardt School of Culture, During the sophomore year, students to begin their major during their first Education, and Human Development. are required to complete Cultural two years. All courses in the program In order to transition, students must Foundations III and Social Foundations take an interdisciplinary and global meet specific program requirements and III that bring the sequences begun in the approach to the study of primary works be in good academic standing at the end first year up to the present day. In the from around the world. Students may of their sophomore year at NYU. Good sophomore year, students also complete begin their studies in New York, or at academic standing is defined as a 2.0 a second science (if required by the NYU in Florence, London, or Paris. All semester and cumulative grade point school to which they will transition), classes emphasize discussion in small average and making good academic explore possible majors, and begin the groups. Writing classes are capped at progress. coursework toward those majors in the fifteen students, all other classes are *The Core Program is a four-semester appropriate academic departments. capped at twenty-five. At each site, the program. Core Program students are expected to cultural resources and contemporary Freshman Curriculum Requirements schedule meetings with their advisor life of the city are an important part during which they receive advice about of coursework. Students extend their All freshmen are required to complete a choosing additional courses from education outside the classroom by two-semester freshman writing sequence NYU’s extensive offerings. By the end of exploring different ethnographic focusing on expository writing, the the sophomore year, a student should be spaces, attending musical and theatrical presentation of argument, and the able to declare a major. presentations, visiting museums, and elements of research. The freshman core sites of historical and contemporary courses Cultural Foundations I and II and Other Requirements social interest. Social Foundations I and II are based on Residency Requirement the study of great works from antiquity Curriculum Overview and to the beginning of the modern era. The Core Program is a four-semester Requirements In the Cultural Foundations sequence, program. Students planning to transition The Core Program offers a comprehensive students study literature, the visual to one of the baccalaureate programs liberal arts background that serves as and performing arts, and music. In the at NYU normally must complete four a strong foundation for further study. Social Foundations sequence, students semesters of full-time enrollment in the At the end of two years* students in focus on philosophy, religion, political Core Program. Full-time enrollment the Core Program who successfully and social theory, and history. Taken is defined as the completion of a complete program requirements will together, the two sequences can be seen minimum of 12 credit hours in each enroll as juniors in one of NYU’s liberal as a global cultural history. The sequences of the four semesters. Summer session arts bachelor’s degree programs: the also provide an introduction to skills in enrollment will not be counted toward College of Arts and Science (CAS); critical analysis and synthetic thinking the residency requirement. Note: Other the Gallatin School of Individualized that students need for successful study NYU schools and colleges have specific Study; Global Liberal Studies; or in all academic disciplines. Depending residency requirements. Students should degree programs in the Preston Robert on the requirements of their intended consult the Web sites and bulletins of

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 14 those schools and colleges for up-to-date Required Courses* information about these requirements. Courses and Course Numbers Writing Proficiency Requirement Freshman Core Courses LS Course Number Credits Writing proficiency is required for the Writing I WRI-UF 0101 4 NYU bachelor’s degree. The writing Writing II WRII-UF 0102 4 proficiency requirement is fulfilled by Cultural Foundations I CFI-UF 0101 4 completing the Writing II course with a Cultural Foundations II CFII-UF 0102 4 minimum grade of C. Social Foundations I SFI-UF 0101 4 Quantitative Reasoning (Mathematics) Social Foundations II SFII-UF 0102 4 Requirement Sophomore Core Courses Students in the Core Program must Cultural Foundations III CFIII-UF 0103 4 fulfill the mathematics and/or science Social Foundations III SFIII-UF 0103 4 requirements for the bachelor’s degree Science† 4-8 to be conferred by an undergraduate (Science courses offered by Liberal Studies are: ENSTU-UF 0101 school or college of NYU. The Core Environmental Studies, Life Science, History LISCI-UF 0101 Program requires only one mathematics of the Universe, Science of Technology) HOU-UF 0101 or one science course prior to transition; SCTEC-UF 0101 however, it is recommended that students transitioning to CAS take LS Elective Courses 24-28 both science courses required by CAS (Includes Mathematics** courses, courses AFGC-UF 0101 while in Liberal Studies (LS). The taken in other NYU schools, or elective EAGC-UF 0101 choice of major often determines which courses offered by Liberal Studies. Electives INTGS-UF 0101 offered by Liberal Studies are: African LAGC-UF 0101 mathematics class is required. LS does Cultures, East Asian Cultures, Introduction MEGC-UF 0101 not offer mathematics courses; students to Global Studies, Latin American Cultures, SAGC-UF 0101 take the appropriate courses offered at Middle Eastern Cultures, South Asian ELEC-UF 0101 CAS. Students should consult the LS Cultures,Topics in the Humanities, Creative CWP-UF 0101 Advising Center staff and refer to the Writing: Places, Creative Writing: Global CWGV-UF 0101 specific departmental Web sites and Voices, Principles of Macroeconomics, ECI-UF 0101 Principles of Microeconomics, Internship) ECII-UF 0102 bulletins for information about the INT-UF 0201 mathematics requirements for their Total Credits 64 bachelor’s degree program.

Core Program Electives (See page 28 for detailed course descriptions.)

While enrolled in the Core Program, *LS students studying in Florence, London, and Paris take equivalent LS and NYU students take courses at the NYU courses and credit hours. For more information, go to: school or college where they will earn www.nyu.edu/global/global-academic-centers/freshmen-abroad-programs.html. their bachelor’s degree. While these †Students pursuing a prehealth track do not take LS science courses but will be advised to courses are considered electives in the take appropriate required courses at the College of Arts and Science. The LS curriculum Core Program, they should be selected guidelines for students transitioning to the College of Arts and Science for prehealth are so that they fulfill either school, major, posted at www.nyu.edu/as/lsp/advising/StudentAdvising. or minor requirements in the school to which students intend to transfer. †**Some students take these courses during the sophomore year. Students in the Core Program may also **See “Quantitative Reasoning (Mathematics) Requirement” at left for more information. take any of the electives open to Global

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 15 Liberal Studies students, as well as additional requirements outlined below. in their concentration: Approaches, Advanced Writing Studio, Global All GLS classes are small, discussion- Junior Independent Research Seminar, Topics, and Approaches courses—space based, and writing-intensive. Students and the year-long Senior Colloquium/ permitting. Core Program students may and their instructors chart their progress Thesis class; a sequence that provides not register for the Junior Independent through use of an ePortfolio, building instruction in the theories and methods Research Seminar, Experiential Learning their portfolios and making new of a particular area of the Global Studies I and II, or the Senior Colloquium/ connections with other students and field. Students take progressively greater Thesis. They may petition to take a faculty members throughout all four responsibility for directing their own Senior Seminar. years, and gathering resources to draw independent projects, culminating in upon in composing their senior theses. the senior thesis. Students have sufficient elective credits In addition to their concentration- GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES B.A. to complete a minor or a second major specific classes, students take a variety The Global Liberal Studies (GLS) at NYU. of required seminars and electives on Bachelor of Arts is part of the family The Core Curriculum global topics, from economic and of Global Studies degrees offered political issues to arts and media, from at universities around the world. The basis of the GLS curriculum is an the growth of immense global networks Global Studies examines the causes, eight-course core that equips students to to the nature of ethnicity in everyday consequences, and nature of globalization write in numerous genres and contexts, local life. These seminars require the from its beginnings in the ancient world acquaints them with foundational great completion of a significant research to the present. GLS is distinguished works from around the world that project. Sophomores also normally by its humanistic emphasis; it focuses remain influential today, introduces complete an intensive language course on understanding the political, social, fundamental scientific concepts and in preparation for the junior year of and cultural ramifications of living in a methods, and involves them in close international study. world of intersecting local, national, and study of at least one non-Western global forces. GLS students are trained region. Students read the foundational The Junior Year Curriculum in strategic thinking by engaging in works of many world cultures in their All GLS juniors spend a full year interdisciplinary study of the entire material and intellectual contexts studying at an NYU global academic world as an interconnected system, and independently make critical and center. The sites available in a given year and they get practical experience living imaginative connections across time and are carefully selected to ensure that all and working across cultures through a space. required courses are available and to required junior year at an NYU global Students may begin GLS in New York or optimize access to experiential learning site. GLS students focus their work in at NYU Florence, London, or Paris. The options. The locations for junior year a particular area of expertise during the GLS programs in Florence, London, and study in a typical year include NYU junior and senior year, preparing them Paris fit in seamlessly with the academic global sites in Asia, Europe, Latin for more advanced studies or work in program at Washington Square so that America, and the Middle East. (See such fields as international finance, course requirements are met on time for page 61 for descriptions of every NYU global media, and human rights. graduation in four years. global site.) Students do not just study at an international site—the site itself The Upper Division Curriculum Curriculum Overview and becomes an important subject of study. Requirements The GLS upper division curriculum Experiential learning, special topics, GLS is an integrated, four-year centers on a student’s concentration, and language courses immerse students curriculum. All students must complete which they declare in the fall of in the history and contemporary culture a core curriculum, a concentration sophomore year. Students may begin of the site and sets it in a global context, selected from among departmental taking upper division courses as early while students prepare for their senior offerings, the junior year at an NYU as the spring of freshman year and theses by developing a substantial global site, a senior thesis, and must take a minimum of four courses research essay in an online course that

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 16 connects them with their classmates at The Senior Year Curriculum and integrating the interpretations of other sites to create a global perspective prior thinkers, and writing an extended During senior year, students return to on issues. argument—are all germane to almost New York for a year of coursework and any future career. The Experiential Learning component guided research that integrates their comprises two courses that involve junior year of international study with Other Requirements students in a cycle of experience, the liberal arts foundation established Writing Proficiency Requirement reflection, and the formulation in freshman and sophomore year. Two of concepts that, in turn, guide required Senior Seminars challenge Writing proficiency is required for the the understanding of place-based students to engage at an equal level NYU bachelor’s degree. The writing experiences. These experiences take with the major scholarship and most proficiency requirement is fulfilled by the form both of group community advanced practices concerning any of an completing the Global Writing Seminar excursions and individual community array of global issues and themes. Guided with a minimum grade of C. placements (such as internships, electives allow students to extend their Intensive Language Study Requirement volunteer opportunities, and, on studies on topics of personal interest or occasion, individual research projects). to complete a minor or second major. Language study is a keystone of GLS, The goal is to involve students with the as one cannot understand global history The full-year Senior Colloquium/Thesis workplace culture and social practices and issues without extended study of course completes the student’s progress of the site city so that they may reflect a language besides English. All GLS toward full intellectual independence on and formulate concepts about students engage in advanced foreign while allowing him or her to investigate the creation of the city’s cultural and language study, regardless of their in a global framework the particular social milieu and its relation to global initial level of proficiency. GLS has a experiences of the junior year site. frameworks in a way that is informed by language study requirement as well as Drawing on the insights from across their concentration. a language proficiency requirement. their four years in the program, students Students must both attain proficiency The principal aim of Experiential master the precise aspect of global through at least the intermediate level Learning I is immersion in the current interchange on which they choose to and study in the language of their and historical character of the site. focus, ensuring they graduate with junior year international site during Classroom instruction provides an genuine expertise on a topic important each semester at the site; in addition, interdisciplinary perspective on the to them, potential future employers, students must have proficiency through local, regional, national, and global and graduate or professional schools. the beginning level (normally courses I/ forces that have shaped the character of Each section of the course unites II in a sequence, which may be taught life in the site city. Experiential Learning students in the same concentration in a single intensive semester) before II focuses on the student’s community who have spent their junior year at studying at an international site. Thus, placement; with the guidance of the various locations; thus helping students a student who does not speak the instructor, students independently gain a global perspective on their language of the junior year site host reflect on and formulate concepts topics. The Colloquium/Thesis course country will be expected to take at relating directly to their community offers grounding in the theoretical least one semester of the appropriate placement. The community placement, texts relevant to advanced work in the intensive language course before the which the student actively participates concentration, close guidance in the junior year or one year of the language in securing with guidance from relevant composition of the thesis, and practice if it is not offered in intensive format. personnel, falls within the area defined in the oral presentation of complex But regardless of the level of prior by the student’s GLS concentration and, ideas. In addition to subject expertise, fluency, study of the site language must as much as possible, relates to individual the skills the Colloquium/Thesis course continue in each semester of the junior academic interests. teaches—defining a major project’s year. Students who already have some parameters, testing concepts against level of proficiency in the language of actual experience, interpreting evidence the junior year site will take a placement

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 17 test and either continue language Degree Requirements study at a higher level (for example, in Core Curriculum Required Courses an advanced grammar class and one Freshman Year LS Course Number Credits conversation class) or take one higher Global Writing Seminar GWS-UF 0101 4 level language instruction class and one class taught in the language of the host Cultural Foundations I CFI-UF 0101 4 country. Students who already have Cultural Foundations II CFII-UF 0102 4 advanced or near-native proficiency will Social Foundations I SFI-UF 0101 4 take two classes taught in the language Social Foundations II SFII-UF 0102 4 of the host country during the junior Courses that may be taken any year year. Fluency is established by testing Global Cultures AFGC-UF 0101 4 out of the intermediate level (normally, (Any one of: African Cultures, East Asian EAGC-UF 0101 level IV) in the language department’s Cultures, Latin American Cultures, Middle LAGC-UF 0101 placement test. Eastern Cultures, South Asian Cultures) MEGC-UF 0101 SAGC-UF 0101 GLS Electives Science I (Physical Science; choose HOU-UF 0101 4 Students complement their GLS course between: History of the Universe, Science SCTEC-UF 0101 of Technology) work with a wide array of electives in GLS and in other NYU schools chosen Science II (Life/Environmental Science; ENSTU-UF 0101 4 choose between: Environmental Studies, LISCI-UF 0101 in careful consultation with their Life Science) advisor. These may include Introduction to Global Studies, Principles of Upper Division Required Courses Macroeconomics, Principles of Sophomore Seminar: Approaches APR-UF 0201 4 Microeconomics, Creative Writing: Sophomore Seminar: Global Topics GT-UF 0201 4 Global Voices, Creative Writing: Places, Internship Seminar, various Topics In Upper Division GLS Elective GT-UF 0201 4 Humanities electives, and advanced (Any one of: A second Global Topics AWS-UF 0201 language instruction in CAS. Students course, Advanced Writing Studio, Cultural CFIII-UF 0103 Foundations III, Social Foundations III) SFIII-UF 0103 also may pursue a cross-school minor, of which more than 100 are available, Advanced Global Cultures AGCI-UF 9301 4 including several languages and Experiential Learning I EXLI-UF 9301 4 economics in CAS, business studies Experiential Learning II EXLII-UF 9302 2 in CAS and NYU Stern School of Junior Independent Research Seminar IRS-UF 0301 2 Business, and communication studies in Senior Colloquium SCOI-UF 0401 4 the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Senior Thesis SRTH-UF 0402 6 Education, and Human Development. 2 Senior Seminars SCAI-UF 0401 8 Electives (includes language courses, 54 courses taken in other NYU schools, or elective courses offered by Liberal Studies) Total Credits for B.A. Degree 128

(See page 28 for detailed course descriptions.)

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The academic advising system is about meeting deadlines for registering FACULTY MENTORS designed to help students navigate a for courses, making schedule changes, In addition to the services offered by the complex university, identify students’ withdrawing from courses, satisfying LS Advising Center, all LS students are academic goals, and provide advice and incompletes, applying for internal also mentored by an LS faculty member. information about how best to achieve transfer, and applying for study abroad. Faculty mentors engage in discussions those goals. Liberal Studies (LS) is E-mail announcements are sent to flag about student interests, aspirations, and student-oriented: class size is kept small these deadlines and to announce the new perspectives on life. Faculty mentors to ensure substantial faculty-student schedule of pre-registration information may also refer students to a professional interaction, faculty know their students sessions each semester. Core Program advisor in the LS Advising Center to have by name, and the academic advising students can register for classes via Albert an academic or registration issue solved; system provides academic support and (NYU’s online registration system) only to the NYU Student Health Center problem-solving services. Together, after being cleared to register, and they for medical treatment or psychological students and their advisors and mentors are approved for registration clearance counseling; to the Wasserman Center establish working relationships that each semester by their advisor. All for Career Development to get expert foster academic excellence and personal Core Program students are required to advice about finding an internship, growth. Visit the Academic Advising attend a pre-registration session before developing a résumé, or beginning Web site (www.nyu.edu/as/lsp/advising/ scheduling a registration meeting with a job search; or to specific NYU StudentAdvising) for additional advising their advisor. Advisors remind students departments, resources, or Web sites to resources. of the degree and transfer requirements obtain additional information. Students yet to be satisfied, give advice about have a responsibility to be proactive in choosing electives, and answer students’ arranging and keeping appointments PROFESSIONAL STAFF ADVISORS questions about majors, requirements, with their faculty mentor. The LS Advising Center, located at and deadlines. 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, Core Program NY 10003, is open Mondays through Global Liberal Studies Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. LS All Core Program students are assigned All GLS students are assigned a academic advising staff is available for a faculty mentor, who they are normally professional staff advisor who will individual in-person meetings with advised by for the two years that they work with them throughout their students or via e-mail and Skype for spend in the Core Program. Faculty undergraduate career. The academic students studying abroad. mentors in the Core Program engage advisor is a resource to assist students students in conversations about with matters such as registering, Core Program the curriculum, its relation to their understanding degree requirements, undergraduate experience, and its All Core Program students are assigned selecting electives, choosing minors intended impact on lifelong intellectual a professional academic advisor who will and second majors, understanding and professional pursuits. They focus work with them throughout the two study abroad options, making schedule their mentorship on guiding students years that they spend in the program. changes, satisfying incompletes, and to realistic academic goals, encouraging The academic advising staff is a resource withdrawing from courses. GLS students self-reliance, and making informed for students regarding transition can register for classes via Albert only decisions. requirements to their baccalaureate after being cleared to register, and they program. The LS Advising Center are approved for registration clearance also provides information to students each semester by their advisor.

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 19 Global Liberal Studies Students must be in good academic required, to sample at least one course standing with the University (typically in the department of their prospective A designated faculty mentor works with defined as 2.0 semester and cumulative major. Prehealth students have particular each entering GLS class (in the cohort grade point average and making good course requirements that must be taken model) during the freshman year. In the academic progress) and have successfully in sequence and finished within a certain sophomore year, GLS students declare completed the Core Program time period. Core Program prehealth a concentration and are assigned a requirements in order to be eligible students should visit www.nyu.edu/ concentration-specific faculty mentor, for transition. Core Program students as/lsp/advising/StudentAdvising for who works with his or her mentees until have the option to build on their curriculum guidelines, as well as meet they graduate. Students work closely global, interdisciplinary foundation by with their LS prehealth advisor. with their faculty mentor throughout pursuing the Global Liberal Studies B.A. the semester and may discuss the offered within Liberal Studies, or they GLS curriculum, its relationship to may choose to enroll as juniors in one ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC the total undergraduate experience, of NYU’s other degree-granting schools: OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS and its impact on lifelong intellectual the College of Arts and Science (CAS); IN GLS pursuits. Students should also discuss the Gallatin School of Individualized Global Liberal Studies (GLS) students the relationship of their interests to their Study; the Preston Robert Tisch Center are eligible to take advantage of the academic aspirations. Students maintain for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports academic programs listed below. close contact with their faculty mentor Management; the Silver School of Social Each program offers GLS students during their junior year, and in their Work; and the College of Nursing; as the opportunity to add an area of senior year, students also work closely well as select majors in the Tisch School expertise or academic study to their with their thesis supervisor. of the Arts and the Steinhardt School GLS educational experience by earning of Culture, Education, and Human credits for a minor or second major in TRANSITION REQUIREMENTS Development. another field, or a combined bachelor’s/ master’s degree. FOR STUDENTS IN THE CORE Some programs and schools require PROGRAM students to complete specific courses to Each program has specific requirements, Core Program students who complete be eligible for transition to their degree- and students should refer to the the two-year curriculum will have met granting programs; the most current Web sites listed below for additional most or all of the liberal education transition information is available in information. Students are also advised to requirements of other schools or colleges the LS Advising Center. Tisch School confer with an academic advisor in the at NYU. Core Program students identify of the Arts programs require successful Liberal Studies (LS) Advising Center, to their advisors their intended degree- demonstration of talent through an who can help students consider available granting school in their sophomore audition (for drama or dance) or a options for taking courses in other NYU year, prior to registering for their portfolio (for film, photography, or schools and choose those that best fit spring semester classes. Students must dramatic writing). Core Program their academic goals. The opportunity confirm their school of transition with students transitioning to Steinhardt’s to pursue and complete any of these the admissions office by March 1; this Media, Culture and Communication academic programs depends on a variety deadline is strictly enforced. However, (MCC) program are encouraged to of factors including academic record, discussions regarding the various NYU have one MCC core course on their academic goals, course scheduling and schools and potential majors should be transcript before transition. Core sequencing, program requirements, an ongoing element of all conversations Program students transitioning to and advance planning. Note: These between Core Program students and Gallatin are encouraged to have one optional programs supplement the GLS their professional academic advisor and Gallatin interdisciplinary seminar on bachelor’s degree and do not replace faculty mentor. their transcript before transition. Core GLS requirements. Program students intending a transition to CAS are encouraged, but not

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cross-School Minors Qualifying students are typically bachelor’s degree (at least one semester accepted into a program toward the in LS is also required for transfer and The cross-school minors program end of the sophomore year or during transition students), and prior to their allows students to complete the course the junior year. In their remaining final two undergraduate semesters. To be requirements for certain minors in undergraduate semesters, they can then eligible, students must have a minimum an NYU school in which they are not accelerate by taking some graduate of two full semesters remaining in enrolled. The specific minor designation courses during regular terms and/or CAS or GLS during which they are will appear on the student’s NYU during the summer. In the graduate still working towards completion transcript. A number of academic portion of the program, students can of undergraduate requirements. departments in several NYU schools qualify for a scholarship covering up to Participating departments set minimum offer cross-school minors in a range of 50 percent of the tuition for the master’s GPA requirements for admission to and disciplines. For additional information degree. The scholarship is only for one continuation in the program; neither about declaring a minor and enrolling year. may be below 3.5. in classes, students should consult with their academic advisor and the The program is intended for students Scholarships and Financial Aid Web site provided, which also lists whose career goals will be furthered Students admitted into the B.A./M.A. contact information of the school by graduate-level training but do not program are eligible for a tuition and departmental representatives plan—at least not immediately—to go scholarship covering 50 percent of for each cross-school minor: on for doctoral work in the field of their the credits required for the master’s www.nyu.edu/cross-school-minors. M.A. degree. portion of the program. The scholarship Curriculum is provided upon completion of the Double Major bachelor’s degree. It is calculated on Students in the program must satisfy Students may take a double the basis of (a) the remaining credits all of the requirements of both the (second) major in the CAS. The needed for the master’s degree and (b) bachelor’s degree and the master’s same requirements, including the additional payments the student may degree; there is no double-counting of maintenance of a minimum grade point have made in order to accelerate study courses. average of 2.0, apply to the second while matriculated for the bachelor’s major as to the first. In some cases, In order to complete the program in five degree (tuition for more than 18 credits courses may be applicable to both years, students are advised to complete during a fall/spring semester due to majors. Students must then obtain the at least a quarter of the graduate courses graduate course enrollment, or for written approval for the shared course(s) required for the master’s degree before summer graduate courses). The tuition from the directors of undergraduate earning the bachelor’s degree. This scholarship will remain available for studies of both departments. To declare would mean two graduate courses for twelve months from the start of the a major, students must go to the office of a master’s program consisting of eight student’s first term in GSAS. Beyond the department or program to declare a courses, or three graduate courses for the tuition scholarship, students may be major and have it posted in the Student a program consisting of nine or more eligible for additional forms of financial Information System (Albert). courses. If more credits, a significant aid once they matriculate into GSAS. thesis, or a capstone project is required Application Procedures Accelerated B.A./M.A. Program for the master’s, students can accelerate more rapidly by taking additional Students interested in the accelerated GLS and the Graduate School of graduate courses before they complete B.A./M.A. program should consult their Arts and Science (GSAS) offer GLS the bachelor’s degree. academic advisor for the application students the opportunity to earn both procedures. As early as possible, students the Bachelor of Arts degree in GLS Admission and Eligibility Criteria should discuss with their professional and a master’s degree in numerous Applicants must have completed a advisor how the program might fit departments in a shorter period of time minimum of three semesters toward the into both their curricular program and and at less cost than is normally the case.

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 21 their long-term plans. Students are also chosen from the student’s anticipated directed to the LS Advising Center. encouraged to discuss their plans with area of specialization. Only courses in Students are also encouraged to discuss their faculty mentor. See www.gls.nyu. which students earn a B or better will their plans with their faculty advisor. edu/page/bama for more information. count toward the M.P.A. degree.

Note: GLS students participating in the Dual Degree B.A./M.P.A. Program B.A./M.P.A. dual degree are granted GLS and the Robert F. Wagner the opportunity to enroll in graduate Graduate School of Public Service coursework before completing the have created a dual-degree program to undergraduate degree, but this does enable students to earn both a Bachelor not guarantee outright acceptance into of Arts degree in GLS and a Master of the Wagner M.P.A. program. Students Public Administration (M.P.A.) degree wishing to pursue the M.P.A. degree in either Wagner’s Public and Nonprofit must also complete a regular Wagner Management and Policy Program (PNP) M.P.A. Application for Admission or its Health Policy and Management during their senior year in GLS. Program (HPAM) in less time than it Applicants will be expected to meet would take to complete the programs the same admissions standards as other separately. This dual degree is designed Wagner applicants, which include for students with a strong commitment strong academic qualifications and to public leadership and will allow such the equivalent of at least one year of students to enhance and focus their relevant professional experience (i.e., opportunities for learning while helping internships, volunteer work, part-time them to build a career in public service. jobs). As such, before matriculating in the Wagner School and after completing Taken separately, a student would the B.A. degree in GLS, students need to complete 188 credits to earn admitted to Wagner’s M.P.A. program both degrees in four years of study at are required to complete at least one Liberal Studies and two years of study additional year of full-time professional at Wagner. The B.A./M.P.A. dual degree experience relevant to their anticipated will allow a GLS student to complete field of study for the M.P.A. degree. In both degrees in as few as 160 credits. short, GLS B.A./M.P.A. students must The dual degree permits GLS students defer starting their M.P.A. by at least to accelerate their progress toward the one year after graduating from GLS. M.P.A. by earning a maximum of 28 credits toward the M.P.A. as part of their Advisement And Questions GLS degree. Students who are interested in the GLS students may complete a maximum accelerated B.A./M.P.A. program should of 28 of the 60 credits required for the consult the LS Advising Center. As early M.P.A. while still working on the B.A. as possible, students should discuss with (Note that 28 credits is a maximum. an advisor how the program might fit Fewer credits may be taken, but this will into both their curricular program and likely result in a less accelerated timeline their long-term plans. toward completion of the dual degree.) Questions about eligibility for, or These 28 credits typically comprise five application to, the B.A./M.A. program Wagner core courses and two courses or the B.A./M.P.A. program should be

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 22 Liberal Studies Global Study

LIBERAL STUDIES OFFICE OF the opportunity to travel internationally in preparation for enrolling as juniors GLOBAL PROGRAMS as part of the program. in one of NYU’s liberal arts bachelor’s The Liberal Studies (LS) Office of Global degree programs. Programs, located at 726 Broadway, 6th Freshman Global Study *Passports valid six months beyond the Floor, New York, NY 10003, is open Core Program students may choose to end date of the academic year will be Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to begin their program in New York or at required for LS students who wish to 5 p.m. The Director of Global Programs NYU in Florence, London, or Paris.* enroll in the freshman program at a global site. In addition, the majority of and a team of global academic advisors Students in these global programs enroll students attending the freshman year are available for individual in-person in three full-year core courses (Cultural program in Europe will be required to meetings with students, email or Skype Foundations, Social Foundations, independently secure a student visa valid meetings with students studying away and Writing) and additional courses for the dates of the program. Tourist visas from the New York City campus (ls. designed to enhance their international are not acceptable for the purposes of [email protected]), and on-site meetings experience (for example, Italian study. each semester with students studying at language in Florence) and to more one of the global academic centers. The deeply integrate them into the local Students must be eighteen years of age on Global Programs staff serves as a resource community. Students in these global or before the date of travel to the site for to assist study abroad students with programs live and learn at NYU global the purposes of study. matters such as registration deadlines, academic centers, which offer NYU degree requirements, making schedule courses in NYU-managed academic Freshman Year in Florence changes, pre-departure preparation, and facilities, a full-time staff, faculty hired Core Program students who spend more. locally and appointed by a committee their freshman year at NYU Florence in New York, and guaranteed student participate in an intellectual and housing assignments. Detailed THE CORE PROGRAM GLOBAL cultural community that explores the information about these and all the STUDY intersection of history and current NYU global sites can be found at www. affairs. Students will take required Core NYU encourages every undergraduate to nyu.edu/studyabroad or on page 61. Program courses in the humanities, have an international study experience. Core Program students may be selected arts, and social sciences, as well as The Core Program offers freshmen and by the Office of Undergraduate Italian language. The academic program sophomores an extraordinary array of Admissions for a particular freshman in Florence includes visits to many opportunities to study outside of New site abroad based on their Admissions important museums and historic sites in York City at any of NYU’s many global application profile. Additionally, the region. academic centers. students may indicate on their Freshman Year in London In addition to the academic programs Admissions application that they would outlined below, LS students in the like to begin at a freshman year site in Core Program students who spend their Core Program also may participate in Europe instead of New York City. freshman year at NYU London pursue NYU Summer Study Abroad programs. an academic program that integrates At the completion of their freshman For more information, visit www. liberal arts education with the city’s year abroad, students matriculate as nyu.edu/summer/abroad. LS students centuries-old historic landmarks and sophomores in the Core Program at the who are members of the Dean’s Circle its contemporary cultural resources. New York City campus, where they will University Scholars program may have Students take required Core Program continue the Core Program curriculum

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 23 courses in the humanities, arts, and cultural community that explores the students will need to participate in the sciences. intersection of history and current regular application process through affairs. Students take required Core the Office of Global Programs by the Freshman Year in Paris Program courses, Cultural Foundations appropriate deadlines. For details visit Core Program students who spend III and Social Foundations III, in a www.nyu.edu/studyaway. their freshman year at NYU Paris unique, paired format that completes In addition, requirements for transition engage in an immersive academic the sequence in one semester. Students during the junior year should be and cultural program. Students take may also take appropriate introductory carefully mapped out with an advisor, required Core Program courses in the courses in Economics, Politics, and because NYU’s global academic centers humanities, arts, and social sciences, as Psychology, or electives in other majors do not offer Cultural Foundations III well as French language. The academic such as Art History and History. All or Social Foundations III, with the and extracurricular programs include Core Program sophomores at NYU exception of NYU Washington, D.C. activities that expose students to the rich Florence participate in field trips and NYU Florence in the fall. See history and cultural offerings of Paris. throughout Italy and in the high-level “Academic Planning for Sophomore political, social and cultural programs For more information about LS’s global Study Abroad.” held on campus. programs for freshmen, visit www.nyu. Core Program students interested in edu/global/global-academic-centers/ Fall in Washington, D.C. sophomore study abroad must submit a freshmen-abroad-programs/liberal- Core Program sophomores who petition for permission to: studies-freshmen-programs.html. their spend fall semester at NYU 1. Study away for a semester in the Washington, D.C. experience America’s Sophomore Global Study sophomore year political and cultural hub. Students Students interested in sophomore study take required Core Program courses, 2. Take Cultural Foundations III and away opportunities should consult with Cultural Foundations III and Social Social Foundations III in the same an advisor no later than the spring Foundations III, in a unique, paired semester while in New York semester of freshman year to ensure format that completes the sequence in Academic Planning for Sophomore that they plan their academic program one semester. Students may also take Study Abroad accordingly. appropriate introductory courses in Economics, Environmental Studies, In addition to the freshman core Fall Away Programs Journalism, and Politics. Core Program curriculum (Writing I and II; Social Core Program students may choose to sophomores at NYU Washington D.C. Foundations I and II; Cultural study away in the fall semester of their also have the opportunity to earn credit Foundations I and II), Core Program sophomore year at one of two NYU through an internship with one of many students are expected to complete global academic centers: NYU Florence government, NGO, corporate, and arts Cultural Foundations III, Social and NYU Washington, D.C. Unique organizations in the city. Foundations III, and at least one of their math and science requirements prior to Liberal Studies, this “Fall Away” Additional Sophomore Study Abroad to transition to their bachelor’s degree academic program allows students to take Opportunities their required courses at one of NYU’s school. However, with the exception of global academic centers, to maximize Core Program students are permitted NYU Florence and NYU Washington, their study away opportunities, and to to study abroad at any of NYU’s global D.C., NYU global academic centers explore new fields through electives in academic centers for one semester of do not offer these courses. In order to small and supportive class settings. their sophomore year as long as they study abroad at a site not offering those meet certain conditions as well as make required courses, students must submit Fall in Florence the appropriate academic plans as a petition to the LS Office of Global Core Program sophomores who spend outlined below. Programs and receive approval to take Cultural Foundations III and Social their fall semester at NYU Florence As with other NYU students, Core participate in an intellectual and Foundations III simultaneously during

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 24 the semester when they are planning to met in time for graduation in four years. required core curriculum courses in the be in New York. humanities, arts, and social sciences, as *Passports valid six months beyond the well as Italian language. The academic Prior to submitting the petition, end date of the academic year will be program in Florence includes visits to students should speak with their required for LS students who wish to many important museums and historic academic advisor to discuss their study enroll in the freshman program at a global site. In addition, the majority of sites in the region. abroad plans, selecting the optimal time students attending the freshman year for overseas study given major, minor, or Freshman Year in London program in Europe will be required to school requirements, and which site is independently secure a student visa valid GLS students who spend their most appropriate given their academic, for the dates of the program. Tourist visas freshman year at NYU London pursue professional, and personal goals. are not acceptable for the purposes of an academic program that integrates Completed petition forms should be study. liberal arts education with the city’s submitted to the LS Office of Global centuries-old historic landmarks and Students must be eighteen years of age on Programs at 726 Broadway, 6th floor, its contemporary cultural resources. or before the date of travel to the site for New York, NY 10003 or by email at Students take required core curriculum the purposes of study. [email protected]. Forms are available courses in the humanities, arts, and on the LS Advising Web site. Freshman Global Study sciences.

GLS students may choose to begin their Freshman Year in Paris Other Opportunities for Global program in New York or at NYU in Study GLS students who spend their Florence, London, or Paris. During the freshman year at NYU Paris engage in After transitioning from the Core freshman year, all GLS students examine an immersive academic and cultural Program to their bachelor’s degree the world’s major cultural traditions and program. Students take required core school, juniors and seniors may choose the ways in which they are connected curriculum courses in the humanities, to study at one of many NYU global through six core curriculum courses arts, and social sciences, as well as academic centers. A full list of available (Writing I and II; Cultural Foundations French language. The academic and global academic centers and details I and II; Social Foundations I and II) extracurricular programs include about each can be found at www.nyu. that are offered at all the freshman activities that expose students to the rich edu/studyabroad or on page 61. global academic sites. Two additional history and cultural offerings of Paris. courses will fit into the freshman year program of study and vary depending For more information about LS’s global GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES on site: for example, language classes programs for freshmen, visit www.nyu. GLOBAL STUDY or courses taught in the local language edu/global/global-academic-centers/ Global Liberal Studies (GLS) students in Paris and Florence; content courses freshmen-abroad-programs/liberal- have multiple opportunities to study focusing on British history, politics, studies-freshmen-programs.html. outside of the New York City. During literature, culture, or economics in the freshman year, students can choose London. Detailed information about Sophomore Global Study to study in Florence, London, or Paris.* these and all the NYU global sites can GLS students may be permitted to In addition, students may choose to be found at www.nyu.edu/studyabroad study away during the sophomore year. study in Florence or Washington, D.C. or on page 61. Students interested in this opportunity during the fall of sophomore year. Freshman Year in Florence should consult with the LS Office of Finally, all GLS students spend the Global Programs as early as possible. junior year outside of the United States, GLS students who spend their freshman regardless of prior global study. The GLS year at NYU Florence participate in an programs abroad fit in seamlessly with intellectual and cultural community Junior Year Global Study the academic program at Washington that explores the intersection of history The junior year of required international Square so that course requirements are and current affairs. Students will take study is a unique feature of the GLS

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 25 B.A. In their first three semesters of In addition to ranking their site medical, or other issues may choose to study, GLS students acquire a broad preferences, students must also submit submit a petition to study at a non-GLS understanding of the interconnections a brief proposal that outlines how their site, to switch from one GLS Academic between world cultures. In their fourth preferred site suits their academic, Center to another, or to spend the semester, students begin to explore the professional, and personal goals. junior year in New York. These will be cultural context and language of the site Students may find the Study Abroad considered on a case-by-case basis. at which they will study as juniors. The Web site (www.nyu.edu/studyabroad)— Students are eligible to petition to stay sites available in a given year are carefully especially the Academic Courses tab on in New York for health or wellness selected to coordinate with every aspect each site’s page—useful in indicating reasons at any time. However, switches of a student’s four-year course of study. their preferences. Students will also have after the initial matching are not Junior year global academic sites for access to members of the GLS team for guaranteed. In addition, students are 2014-2015 are listed below; see www. discussion about the site placement, only permitted to petition to switch nyu.edu/studyabroad or page 61 for in addition to regular information from one site to another only once. A descriptions of each site. sessions, to help students make the most sound academic rationale for the switch informed choice for global study. • NYU Berlin must be prepared and must include Site placements are communicated to intended (or completed) coursework • NYU Buenos Aires students by mid-March of the freshman relating to the proposed site, language • NYU Florence year, in time for registration of classes proficiency, completed global study for the fall semester. Students will be (for those students who have already • NYU Madrid matched with the site that will best help spent the freshman year abroad), the • NYU Paris them to achieve their educational goals proposed research and thesis, and any and should note that their top choice(s) other information useful for the review • NYU Shanghai of site are not guaranteed (and, in fact, of the petition. may not be the most appropriate site, • NYU Tel Aviv GLS Requirements for Eligibility to given their goals). The junior year abroad requires a full Participate in the Junior Year Away Note: Transfer students admitted to immersion year at the specific site. A required junior year away at one of GLS after the Preference Form deadline Students are expected to spend both NYU’s global academic centers is both are asked to submit the form as soon as semesters of their junior year at one a hallmark of the GLS degree and possible. Students will be matched with site, given that the sophomore year a requirement for graduation. As a the most appropriate junior year site on courses and senior year course work condition for overseas study, students a space available basis. are connected to the junior year site enrolled in GLS must meet certain selected. Petitions for Change of Site, Study at a minimum program requirements prior Junior Year Global Site Selection non-GLS Site, or Study in New York to studying away—as outlined below— and must maintain those requirements Students must submit the Junior Year The Junior Year Global Site Preference to be permitted to spend the full year Site Preference Form to the LS Office form is intended to match GLS students at one of these global academic centers of Global Programs by the posted with the most suitable global site in the and graduate with the degree. Questions deadline at the beginning of the spring junior year based on multiple factors, about program requirements for global semester in the freshman year to be from academic goals, experiential study can be addressed to gls.abroad@ matched with one of the available GLS learning interests, language proficiency, nyu.edu. senior thesis intentions, and more. global academic centers. The matching This Junior Year Global Site Preference of student to junior year site should Academic Requirements be considered final once conveyed to form is due to the LS Office of Global In addition to completing the elementary the student in mid-March. However, Programs at the beginning of the spring level of language (or its equivalent) of students with outstanding academic, semester of the student’s freshman year. their junior year site, students must have

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 26 earned 64 credits with a minimum 3.0 linked, online, NYC-led Junior that its members cultivate a significant cumulative GPA prior to departure for Independent Research Seminar) degree of mutual respect, consideration, junior year study abroad. and concern for the well-being of • Courses in the language of the others as well as, uphold a high level Students must also have successfully site (either content or language of personal integrity and maturity. completed the following courses to be instruction) Students whose behavior has been permitted to study overseas: • Advanced Global Cultures determined through the University • Cultural Foundations I and II student conduct process to have been During junior year, students must disruptive to the University community • Social Foundations I and II continue to maintain satisfactory and/or antithetical to these qualities progress toward the degree in order to • Global Writing Seminar (or may be precluded from participation in spend the full year abroad. equivalent) the study away experience. Immigration and Travel Requirements • Sophomore Seminar: Approaches Accordingly, information concerning a To be permitted to study at one of student’s conduct is made available to LS • Sophomore Seminar: Global NYU’s global academic centers, students and the LS Office of Global Programs. Topics must also comply with local laws to be Students who have been placed on • Advanced GLS elective legally permitted to study at the site. University disciplinary probation or on [Advanced Writing Studio, Depending on students’ immigration deferred suspension from University Social Foundations III, Cultural status, citizenship, and junior year site housing are ineligible to participate Foundations III, or an additional of study, this generally entails securing in the study away program during Sophomore Seminar: Global a visa prior to departure. Students the period of their probation and/or Topics] should refer to the Office of Global deferred status. Students who have been Programs for more information about suspended, withdrawn, or dismissed Students are not permitted to depart requirements. from the University and those who for the junior year abroad with an have been dismissed or suspended from “Incomplete” on their transcript. In addition to their responsibility University housing are permanently Any student who plans on taking an for the visa (or equivalent acceptable ineligible to participate in the study incomplete in the semester prior to immigration status for study at away programs at NYU, including the study away should sign an Incomplete the site), students must also follow required GLS junior year abroad. Contract with their faculty member. Global Programs guidelines on other Remaining work required to post a requirements necessary for overseas In cases where a student’s disciplinary grade for the course should be received study. status changes due to conduct during no later than August 15. In addition, the course of the junior year away, Students will be responsible for their students are strongly advised to have the student may face ineligibility to own travel to and from the site at the completed Global Cultures and at least continue study at their respective global beginning and end of each semester. one science course (or the equivalent) site. Most of NYU’s global academic centers prior to departure for the junior year. do not provide lodging between the fall University Leave Policy and Global Students must maintain the minimum and spring semester for students. Those Study students not planning on traveling 3.0 cumulative GPA to continue Students who have been on leave from between mandatory check-out and for the full year at their global study the University must return to the New check-in dates will be responsible for site. Students must be registered as a York City campus and successfully their own lodging. full-time student, as well as take the complete the spring academic semester following courses while abroad: Disciplinary Requirements of full-time coursework prior to study • Experiential Learning I away for the GLS junior year abroad Given its unique nature, the success of through NYU. • Experiential Learning II (plus the a global campus community requires

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 27 Liberal Studies Course Descriptions

Courses listed are expected to be for exposition, exploration, synthesis, team-teaching a text, interviewing same available during academic year 2014- and argumentation. The course subject, co-authoring, etc.), and will also 2015 but are subject to change. Refer includes a variety of forms of writing include some treatment of how writing to page 15 for Core Program course to help students recognize the habits, in the mode under consideration and its numbers and requirements and page practices, and intellectual assumptions analysis is transferable to other kinds of 18 for GLS course numbers and degree that may limit their writing and writing practices. requirements. scholarship. Emphasis on independent Creative Writing: Global Voices and work of increasing sophistication in Forms research methodologies yields a fuller CWGV-UF 0101 4 credits WRITING understanding of the role of the essay in The conversations and work in Creative contemporary writing. Course materials Writing: Global Voices and Forms are Writing I and II and activities engage global issues and guided by a reading list that has been WRI-UF 0101 and WRII-UF 0102 perspectives, with an emphasis on the constructed with an emphasis on the 4 credits each potential junior year global site as one global writing community. Readings are The Writing sequence advances the of the objects of investigation. drawn from the diverse international global emphasis of Liberal Studies by Advanced Writing Studio tradition of modern and contemporary engaging students in reading, analyzing, AWS-UF 0201 4 credits writing in order to facilitate a discussion and interpreting works throughout Involves advanced study and practice of of the role national or geographic the English-speaking world and, in writing and is intended for those who identity plays in the construction of translation, beyond it; in the classroom, wish to develop their writing and who creative works. The course considers, instructors deal with the attendant seek to explore and utilize writing as an when appropriate, the national or issues of geography, political and social important aspect of inquiry. Typically, geographic origin of particular forms— difference, and translation. Students also the course will involve the study and in fiction, for example, magical realism produce original work based on research practice of one mode or genre of writing and its ties to Latin America, and the and the incorporation of dialogue (e.g., the screenplay, the poem, the nouveau roman and its ties to France— with other writers and thinkers. The personal essay, literary journalism, the and the ways those forms have migrated Writing sequence forms the foundation scholarly essay, short fiction, the book or and influenced creative works around of a student’s writing career and shares movie review, etc.-- the number of genres the globe. Students complete creative important writing-intensive values with or modes that students may practice in writing exercises inspired by and related all other areas of the program. a single course will be at the instructor’s to the readings and discussions of form, Global Writing Seminar discretion), and the study and practice some of which might turn into longer GWS-UF 0101 4 credits of interpretive or reflexive prose that works. Introduces students to the kinds analyzes, synthesizes and reflectively Creative Writing: Places of observational, reading, research, engages with the mode or genre under CWP-UF 0101 4 credits analytic, and writing practices upon consideration. The class will incorporate This course considers place, setting, which they will depend throughout the study of global traditions (that is, or location as central concerns of their undergraduate careers and beyond. across several large geographic regions) the creative writing craft. Students Students work in modes from self- in which the particular mode or genre examine contemporary theories and examination to cultural analysis that lead is practiced and studied. All classes poetics around issues of place, as well into the research process, helping them will involve the student in some form as consider how writers use place, recognize the role of writing as a tool of collaboration (group presentations, geography, landscape, and nationality

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 28 to shape their creative work. Students influences and assimilations, both local in China. This course takes a global consider how one makes places with and external. Diverse cultural traditions perspective and uses an interdisciplinary language, how one conveys what it feels are also considered in relation to one approach, and part of its aim is to like to be in a place, and how place another: by direct comparisons of explore enduring questions such as the influences narrative. works even in the absence of historical relation between the individual and cultural contact; by consideration society, between justice and power, and of mutual interactions, exchanges, between humanity and the divine. The CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS and contestations; by the assertion of ancient societies from which the texts SEQUENCE cultural dominance; and by resistance emerged are as much objects of study as to such assertions. the ancient texts themselves. Students Cultural Foundations I consider many ideas with which they Cultural Foundations III CFI-UF 0101 4 credits CFIII-UF 0103 4 credits might not agree, and they ask how these Introduces the arts from their origins earlier conceptions speak to their own Explores the arts from the late 17th/ to the end of antiquity, as defined lives and connect to the world today. early 18th centuries to the post-World for these purposes by the roughly Students are encouraged to distinguish War II era, examining how they define coincident dissolutions of the Gupta, between understanding a text in its and reflect both local cultural views and Han, and Western Roman empires, historical settings and engaging in broad rapidly shifting global understandings focusing on how individuals and social historical criticism. Accordingly, writing of the world. The course considers how relations are shaped in literature and assignments strive to strike a balance the diverse conceptions and conditions the visual, plastic, and performing arts, between close reading and comparative of modernity shaped and were shaped as well as through music. Conceptions assessment. In addition to drawing on by the arts around the world. Many of the divine, the heroic, power and seminal texts from the Mediterranean of the issues pertinent to the course— disenfranchisement, beauty, and love world and the Middle East, instructors industrialization/urbanization; the are examined within the context of the give extended attention to at least one outcomes of cross-cultural contact; art and literature of East and South Mediterranean/non-European culture. colonialism, decolonization, conflicts Asia, the Mediterranean world, and of political ideology, and liberation Social Foundations II contiguous regions (such as Germania, struggles; fundamental redefinitions SFII-UF 0102 4 credits Nubia, and Mesopotamia). Concepts of of mind, language, gender, and sexual Spans a thousand years, from the Cultural Foundations II are introduced identity—have had very different effects rise of Islam and the reunification through the discussion of models by in various parts of the world. Instructors of China under the Tang Dynasty which cultural transmission occurred encourage students to explore what (in the 7th century CE) through the across these regions prior to the rise of it means to study the arts from global Scientific Revolution and the decline Islam. perspectives and to examine what of the Mogul Empire in India. Students Cultural Foundations II “globalization” itself has meant and consider great ideas that have often CFII-UF 0102 4 credits means in the context of the arts. helped earlier peoples organize their Examines the arts produced within lives—but which have also set them in diverse cultural traditions across the conflict either with other communities globe from the rise of Islam at the SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS or among themselves. Such ideas have beginning of the 7th century to the SEQUENCE sparked movements for ethical and global empire building of the late social reform, conquest, recovery of lost 17th/early 18th centuries. The course Social Foundations I classics, and religious renewal. Vast new explores the distinctive conventions SFI-UF 0101 4 credits empires appear during this period, but and traditions of different media and Introduces students to the ancient so do challenges to their rule. Religious the development of cultural traditions world and ends with the dissolution of conflicts lead to civil war, and modern from their ancient foundations to the the Western Roman Empire, the Gupta science emerges as a challenge to early modern period through successive Empire in India, and the Han Dynasty traditional beliefs. Throughout, different

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 29 conceptions of human nature emerge effects of industrialization. In addition, artistic works. Topics may include the and collide. Oppression gives rise to instructors discuss postmodern attempts roots and growth of East Asian culture, new movements for greater equality and to question and undermine the national or cultural identity in relation individual rights, and bitter struggles for institutions and practices that structure to imperialism and colonialism, East- power lead to the creation of large new contemporary societies. Students West tensions, modernism’s clash colonial empires, whose effects linger consider criticisms of Western practices with tradition, the persistence of the to the present day. In addition, the that form both within the West and traditional within the modern, the East world’s different civilizations come into from other regions of the world, giving Asian diaspora, and questions of East increasing contact through exploration special attention to the reception of Asian “modernities.” and trade. Students consider these ideas Western texts by other traditions and, Latin American Cultures and developments critically, with an eye conversely, the influence of these other LAGC-UF 0101 4 credits to their philosophical, political, and traditions on the West. Offers a broad, interdisciplinary historical significance; and they explore introduction to the diversity in the the ways in which texts that have Caribbean and the Americas beyond the often been read in exclusively Western GLOBAL CULTURES United States and Canada. Given the contexts yield new meaning when European, American, African, Asian, placed in non-Western settings. African Cultures and indigenous Indian influences on the AFGC-UF 0101 4 credits Social Foundations III region’s varied cultures and societies, the Offers a broad interdisciplinary SFIII-UF 0103 4 credits course focuses on one or more of such introduction to the great diversity of Examines major intellectual and topics as the social, political, artistic, peoples, places, and cultures on the historical events from the Enlightenment economic, and ethnological issues of the African continent. Students use a and the Qing Dynasty (around 1700) pre-Columbian, colonial, independence, variety of historical sources, literature, to the contemporary world, a period and contemporary periods. It traces both and film to explore the paradigms that features some of the most rapid cultural communities and differences of traditional cultures of precolonial and significant changes in human within Latin America. The course also societies and the disruptions of those society and scientific understanding. At explores Latin American ideas about structures by the incursions of Islam the same time, many of the enduring the place that the region occupies in the and European colonialism. The course questions of humanity have become Americas and the world. also explores the decolonialization of even more critical as disparate cultures the continent, the attendant struggles Middle Eastern Cultures interact in a new global arena. This for independence, and post-liberation MEGC-UF 0101 4 credits course is a capstone to the Foundations problems. The impact of modernity on Offers a broad interdisciplinary sequence; accordingly, authors and cultural roles and the transformation introduction to the societies, cultures, themes come from a range of texts both of African cultures in the diaspora also politics, and history of the contemporary interdisciplinary and international. receive attention. Near East and Islamic North Africa. Among the themes the course explores Sociological, historical, and political are the philosophical and political East Asian Cultures texts, as well as achievements in the debates that followed the creation of EAGC-UF 0101 4 credits fine and performing arts, films, and global colonial empires, as societies Offers a broad interdisciplinary literary works, are employed to examine from around the world confronted introduction to China, Japan, and the region’s rich historical legacy and imperial polices and institutions. Korea, generally concentrating on one of current complexity. Topics include the The course also considers the rise of these regions. Students study aspects of historical-cultural relations between the vast, new international markets; the the traditional and/or modern cultures Middle East and the West; the impact spread of revolutionary and national of one or more of these countries, of historical, economic, and political liberation movements in the 19th such as the foundational texts of major change in the region’s cultures and and 20th centuries; new challenges to schools of thought, as well as literary, societies; and the contemporary state of established property; and the social political, philosophical, religious, and the region.

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 30 South Asian Cultures ends with the multinational world of journals, newspaper articles, and recent SAGC-UF 0101 4 credits present-day science. Students acquire books expose students to the relevance Offers a broad interdisciplinary an understanding not only of modern and application of scientific work to introduction to the society and science but also of its development their everyday lives, focusing particularly culture of the Indian subcontinent, and of the methods, strengths, and on genetic disease, the function and concentrating on one or more of the limitations of the scientific method. treatment of HIV infection, and other nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, current important frontiers and ethical Environmental Studies Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Students study ENSTU-UF 0101 4 credits issues in the discipline. The course also aspects of the traditional and/or acquaints students with the historical Students learn about modern modern cultures of one or more of these development of life science by reference environmental science in the context of countries, such as the foundational to key figures from Galen to Averroës to contemporary global issues, exploring texts of major schools of thought, as Mendel and Darwin. the impact that the decisions of nations well as literary, political, philosophical, and individuals have on local and world Science of Technology religious, and artistic works. The course ecologies. The course emphasizes the SCTEC-UF 0101 4 credits explores the interactions of historical science involved in environmental Follows the intertwined histories tradition and change and illuminates decisions while also examining the of science, technology, and society, such issues as colonialism, sectarianism, role of ethics, politics, and economics focusing mainly on the technology of and modernization. in environmental decisions at both communication from the earliest means personal and governmental levels. of communicating across space and time SCIENCE Students examine such topics as ecology to present forms of communication. and biodiversity, including the nature Students investigate the science behind and effects of succession, evolution, the technology by engaging in inquiry- History of the Universe and invasion species; the atmosphere, based group activities and group projects HOU-UF 0101 4 credits including air pollution, ozone that illustrate the scientific method Students examine the nature of science as depletion, and climate change; sources, and the role of experimentation in a way of looking at the world and study use, and misuse of water resources; producing scientific results. The course that world as revealed through the work human population and feeding the also looks at the impact technology of scientists over the years. They learn world’s people, including developments has had on societies, and the way the about the nature of matter and energy in agriculture and genetic modifications structure and values of different societies and how the universe has evolved. Topics of organisms; and the nature of Earth’s have conditioned how technologies are include the origin and development of energy resources and their use by actually used. Student research projects the stars, galaxies, planetary systems, humankind. investigate the basic science, history, and the universe itself, as well as study and impact of technologies in other of the Earth and the development of Life Science fields such as energy, medicine, or life on Earth and its potential to exist LISCI-UF 0101 4 credits transportation. elsewhere in the universe. The course Examines fundamental principles and begins with the development of scientific processes of biological science. The theme of evolution is woven throughout thought at multiple locations around GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES the course. Topics include genetics, the pre-modern world by reference to UPPER DIVISION COURSES Babylonian and Chinese astronomy, cancer, cell biology, biochemistry, Indian numerical systems, and the work biotechnology, and bioethics, with Sophomore Seminar: Approaches of such scientists as Aristotle, Ptolemy, special emphasis on the human species. APR-UF 0201 4 credits Al-Sufi, Copernicus, Kepler, and Many of the topics are discussed Approaches seminars are concentration- Galileo. It continues with discoveries within a social and historical context, specific courses that acquaint students by the likes of Newton, Darwin, Curie, demonstrating the global nature of with the most influential theories Einstein, and Hubble during the period scientific problems and scientific and methods that inform the study of Western scientific hegemony and process. Selected readings from science

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 31 of global issues and questions in their (normally, an internship, volunteer instructor and in active communication concentration. Emphasis falls on current opportunity, or independent study with other students in the course, thinkers, practitioners, and methods, opportunity) immerses the student in each student creates an annotated with some reference to their immediate the contemporary life of the city, giving bibliography, an essay that might serve antecedents. These theoretical models an advanced introduction to the city’s as a draft chapter of the thesis, and a are examined both for the ways they local character and its intersection with prospectus outlining a potential thesis illuminate the interpretation of specific global forces along four dimensions: topic growing out of the essay. (Students texts and as important texts in their Arts and Media, Politics, Economics, do not actually begin the thesis in the own rights. Theory is contextualized and the social practices of everyday life. seminar; ideally, their work will form by application to a small number of The historical development of the city is the basis for the thesis, but it is not particular cases in the field (such as a diffused through each of these units, but required that it do so.) The seminar particular legal issue or literary text). the instructor may also choose to begin focuses on the methodology of writing with a preamble devoted explicitly to in the disciplinary areas of the student’s Sophomore Seminar: Global Topics GT-UF 0201 4 credits the geographical situation and historical concentration; the precise readings development of the city. that will inform the student’s research Global Topics seminars put topics of will be determined by each student in contemporary or historical interest into Experiential Learning II consultation with the instructor. Under a global framework. They normally EXLII-UF 9302 2 credits the direction of the instructor, students draw examples from the regions in A two-credit, Pass/Fail course focused provide online feedback to each other at which the global academic centers are primarily on a community placement least once a week. located, but their primary purpose each student undertakes in close is to study the global networks of conjunction with the course’s classroom Advanced Global Cultures influence and exchange that allow one component. With the guidance of the AGCI-UF 9301 4 credits to understand a specific topic across instructor, students independently Concentrates on issues that place the disparate places. Emphasis is placed reflect on and formulate concepts particular international site where the on students encountering the global in relating directly to their community course is taught into a global context. the University’s urban setting, as well placement. The community placement, The course typically gives students as in the classroom. The concentration which the student actively participates the chance to study alongside their designation provided for Global Topics in securing with guidance from the colleagues from other NYU schools. courses is informational; students may relevant site or professional personnel, It includes components that take full freely choose Global Topics courses falls within the area defined by the advantage of the specific site—e.g., outside the concentration they plan to student’s concentration and, as much as museum trips and architectural tours, pursue. possible, relates to his or her individual explorations of neighborhoods, lectures academic interests. by or conversations with members of Experiential Learning I the community, and the like. The course EXLI-UF 9301 4 credits Junior Independent Research illuminates aspects of the culture and Comprises both classroom instruction Seminar history of the host country in relation to and community experience to immerse JIRS-UF 0301 2 credits regional and local issues. students in the current and historical A mandatory, concentration-specific character of their junior year study class taken online during spring of Senior Seminars* abroad site. Whenever possible, junior year. Students begin to prepare SCAI-UF 0401 4 credits each students practice foreign language skills for the rigorous independent research Address a focused global topic from as part of this immersion. Classroom they will conduct and present as a broad interdisciplinary standpoint. instruction provides an interdisciplinary seniors. Students use library research Students independently analyze issues perspective on the local, regional, (including online resources) and, when of global significance. The courses are national, and global forces that have relevant, their own experiences at the interdisciplinary both in the range of shaped the character of life in the sites to shape their topics and inform primary material they address and in site city. The community experience their work. In consultation with the synthesizing and applying secondary

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 32 or theoretical sources from multiple practice in the oral presentation of Cosmopolitanism, Postnationalism, disciplines. The work students produce complex ideas. Deterriorialization, Glocalization, and for the course is similarly global in scope Hybridity. The thesis normally runs approximately and interdisciplinary in approach and 40-50 pages (or the equivalent in a Topics in the Humanities methods. Students develop advanced different medium) and concerns a ELEC-UF 0101 4 credits understanding of a narrowly-defined topic related to the student’s junior year Elective courses that concern any one of aspect of global contact, encounter, international study experience and a a broad range of topics, with a special or connection. The courses are taught global issue of contemporary importance emphasis on connecting coursework seminar-style, and as such, students in the student’s concentration. with experiences in the city. Recent have primary responsibility for setting topics have included Studies in Peace the agenda of class discussion. and Conflict, and Self-Fashioning *An upper-level College of Arts and GLS ELECTIVES in Print and Visual Cultures. Some Science (CAS) course, including those electives may provide training in uses of cross-listed with the Graduate School of Introduction to Global Studies multimedia tools and take the form of Arts and Science, may (with permission) INTGS-UF 0101 4 credits a studio course. Electives, by definition, be substituted for one semester of the Introduces some of the most influential do not meet any degree requirement senior capstone seminar, providing the thinkers and key concepts of Global in LS, but do count as credits toward course is required for the student to Studies, the multi-disciplinary academic graduation. complete a second major or minor, or study of globalization. In its least meets a B.A./M.A. requirement. contentious sense, “globalization” refers Senior Colloquium and Thesis to the rapidly developing and ever- ECONOMICS SCOI-UF 0401 4 credits (Fall) and deepening network of interconnections SRTH-UF 0402 6 credits (Spring) and Interdependencies that characterize Principles of Macroeconomics Constitute a full-year course that acts contemporary life. What is hotly ECI-UF 0101 4 credits as the final realization of the degree’s debated in Global Studies is less the Introduces basic concepts of emphasis on independent inquiry from empirical reality of globalization than macroeconomic theory. Topics include a global perspective. Students take a its drivers, outcomes, and historical unemployment, inflation, aggregate concentration-specific course associated origins. Is globalization essentially an demand, income determination with the senior thesis in each semester: economic process or set of processes that and stabilization policies, fiscal and Senior Colloquium in the fall and Senior has political and cultural implications, monetary policies, and the Keynesian Thesis in the spring, when the final draft or a multi-dimensional set of processes monetarist debate over stabilization of the thesis is submitted and reviewed for which no single social domain holds policy. Not a prerequisite of Principles by its first reader (the instructor of causal priority? Is “globalization” simply of Microeconomics. Equivalent to the Colloquium/Thesis course) and a another word for “Westernization,” Introduction to Macroeconomics second reader who provides additional “Americanization,” or capitalism and its (ECON-UA 1) in CAS. expertise in the thesis topic. Each attendant ideologies? Did globalization Principles of Microeconomics section of the course unites students in begin in the last quarter century or ECII-UF 0102 4 credits the same concentration who have spent several centuries ago or even several Introduces basic concepts of their junior year at various locations; millennia? This course will examine microeconomic theory by examining thus, students gain a global perspective answers made to these questions by price theory and its applications. on their topics by drawing on the such thinkers as Immanuel Wallerstein, Topics include consumer demand and experience of their peers. The course Anthony Giddens, Arjun Appaduria, choice, indifference curve analysis, offers grounding in the theoretical Roland Roberston, Joseph Stiglitz, John big business and public policy, and texts relevant to advanced work in the Tomlinson, and Jan Nederveen Pieterse, factor markets and the distribution of concentration, close guidance in the and introduce such key concepts as income. Not a prerequisite of Principles actual composition of the thesis, and World-Systems Analysis, Neoliberalism, of Macroeconomics. Equivalent to

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 33 Introduction to Microeconomics apprenticeship (that is, skills and clerical or non-field-related work (ECON-UA 2) in CAS. responsibilities graduate over the • Do not provide for frequent course of the internship) contact between intern and INTERNSHIPS • May incorporate a research supervisors/colleagues component Students do not need permission from • Limit intern’s work to a narrow LS to take paid internships. Following • Provide opportunities to use and repetitive activity are guidelines for internships for credit. academic skills (e.g., writing, • Restrict the exercise of Only LS students who have completed analysis, computer literacy, public independent judgment the first semester of freshman year may speaking) receive academic credit for internships • Do not articulate clear objectives • Require a variety of work by taking the Internship Seminar. and methods for internship assignments training Internship Seminar • Include progressively challenging INT-UF 0201 1-4 credits • Have unrealistic expectations for tasks/assignments The goal of the Pass/Fail Internship the student’s performance and Seminar, which meets weekly for • Engage the intern in a culture of outcomes variable credit, is to guide students in teamwork and collaboration developing an academic project that • Encourage autonomous decision- relates to the experience they are having making and production in an approved internship outside the classroom. Students read texts devoted • Give opportunities for synthesizing to the intellectual analysis of the knowledge and information working world, share their internship As part of the intensive LS liberal experiences with their peers, and write arts curriculum, it is important that regular reports on their experience. internships situate the student in an They complete a substantial final project interdisciplinary, challenging, and whose precise nature is to be determined flexible environment. During the in consultation with the faculty director course of the internships, students and submitted by the end of the term. should develop their communication The faculty director provides written abilities, knowledge of the field, comment on the work; students must and analytical and critical thinking. pass all elements of the course in order Ideally, internships will train students to receive a passing grade. in a variety of methodologies and Students must submit internship promote self-confidence as the student application forms through LS Advising; moves forward. Internships should the internship must be approved by also familiarize students with ethical the course instructor for a student to procedures and restrictions within the be given permission to register for the organization. seminar. Acceptable internships: Internships characterized by the • Must be located in New York City following are not acceptable within LS criteria: • May include governmental, corporate, or nonprofit • Take place at a location outside organizations New York City

• Will be structured as an • Involve an excessive amount of

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 34 Liberal Studies Faculty

Rochelle Almeida, Ph.D. Robert Fitterman, M.A. Catherine King, M.S. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher St. John’s University Temple University University of Montana

Joyce Apsel, Ph.D. Ifeona Fulani, Ph.D. William Klein, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher University of Rochester New York University Johns Hopkins University

Emily Bauman, Ph.D. Robin Goldfin, M.F.A. David Larsen, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher University of Pittsburgh New York University University of California, Berkeley

Rhoda Berenson, Ph.D. Regina Gramer, Ph.D. Matt Longabucco, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University Rutgers University New York University

Jacqueline Bishop, M.F.A. Jessamyn Hatcher, Ph.D. Farzad Mahootian, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University Duke University Fordham University

Kevin Bonney, Ph.D. Brendan Hogan, Ph.D. Molly M. Martin, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher Northwestern University New School for Social Research Columbia University

Davida Chang, M.Phil. Susanna Horng, M.F.A. Heather Masri, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher Columbia University Sarah Lawrence College New York University

Brian Culver, Ph.D. Gerceida Jones, Ph.D. James McBride, J.D./Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University New York University Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York Nina d’Alessandro, M.A. Roxanna Julia, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Afrodesia McCannon, Ph.D. New York University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Master Teacher University of California, Berkeley Lindsay Davies, Ph.D. Philip Kain, M.P.S. Master Teacher Master Teacher Ascension Mejorado, Ph.D. Temple University New York University Master Teacher Complutense University of Madrid Peter Diamond, Ph.D. Karen Karbiener, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Suzanne Menghraj, M.F.A. Johns Hopkins University Columbia University Master Teacher Columbia University Sean Eve, M.F.A. Stephanie Kiceluk, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Lina Meruane, Ph.D. New York University Columbia University Master Teacher New York University

LIBERAL STUDIES FACULTY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 35 Carley Moore, Ph.D. Luis Ramos, Ph.D. Lenny Tevlin, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University University of California, Berkeley The Graduate Center, City University of New York Patricio Navia, Ph.D. Mitra Rastegar, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Marion Thain,Ph.D. New York University The Graduate Center, City University Master Teacher of New York University of Birmingham (UK) Roberta Newman, Ph.D. Master Teacher Nancy Reale, Ph.D. Tilottama Tharoor,Ph.D. New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University New York University Lori Nicholas, M.S. Master Teacher Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. Elayne Tobin, Ph.D. New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Carnegie Mellon University University of Pittsburgh Eugene Ostashevsky, Ph.D. Master Teacher J. Ward Regan, Ph.D. Timothy Tomlinson, M.F.A. Stanford University Master Teacher Master Teacher State University of New York at Stony Columbia University Christopher Packard, Ph.D. Brook Master Teacher Peter Valenti, Ph.D. New York University Martin Reichert, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University Christian Parenti, Ph.D. New York University Master Teacher Shouleh Vatanabadi, Ph.D. London School of Economics Tamuira Reid, M.F.A. Master Teacher Master Teacher State University of New York at Louis Pataki, Ph.D. Sarah Lawrence College Binghamton Master Teacher Yale University T. Anthony Reynolds, Ph.D. Kyle Wanberg, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Albert Piacente, Ph.D. New York University University of California, Irvine Master Teacher University of Virginia Laura Samponaro, Ph.D. Julianne Lutz Warren, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher James Polchin, Ph.D. Columbia University University of Illinois, Urbana- Master Teacher Champaign New York University Fred Schwarzbach, Ph.D. Master Teacher Philip Washburn, Ph.D. Stephen Policoff,B.A. University of London Master Teacher Master Teacher Columbia University Wesleyan University Theresa Senft, Ph.D. Master Teacher Heidi White, Ph.D. Joseph Portanova, Ph.D. New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher New School for Social Research Columbia University Michael Shenefelt, Ph.D. Master Teacher Amy Wilkinson, Ph.D. Ronald Rainey, Ph.D. Columbia University Master Teacher Master Teacher University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia University Robert Squillace, Ph.D. Master Teacher Columbia University

LIBERAL STUDIES FACULTY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 36 Deborah Williams, Ph.D. Master Teacher New York University

Rolf Wolfswinkel, Ph.D. Master Teacher University of Cape Town

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, Ph.D. Master Teacher State University of New York at Binghamton

Jennifer Zoble, M.F.A. Master Teacher University of Iowa

LIBERAL STUDIES FACULTY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 37 Liberal Studies Student Awards & Honors

The honors and awards available for major research projects. Students may year abroad. The scholarships have been 2014-2015 are listed below. The award submit an application for either a Thesis funded through the generosity of the programs may vary from year to year. Research Grant or an Open Research Guen family in the interest of assisting Visit www.ls.nyu.edu for current honors Grant, which supports research projects students in international study. Ten and awards programs. not related to the senior thesis. scholarships of $5,000 for the year will be awarded based on a combination of merit and financial need. GLS students DEAN’S CIRCLE DEAN’S LIST may apply at the end of the sophomore Students who complete the freshman At the end of each academic year, a year. Scholarships will be applied to year having earned at least 30 credit Dean’s Honors List is compiled. This is tuition charges for the junior year. The hours are eligible to apply for the Dean’s an honor roll of matriculated students award is for one year only and is not Circle University Scholars program, the who have achieved an average of renewable. honor society of Liberal Studies (LS). 3.65 or higher for that academic year Additional requirements may apply. (September-May) in at least 28 graded Dean’s Circle scholars receive an award credits. In order to be listed, a student LATIN HONORS (GLOBAL from the University to participate in a must not have any grades of Incomplete LIBERAL STUDIES ONLY) range of activities with faculty, including or N at the time the list is compiled. To graduate with Latin honors, a visits to cultural events and an academic Grade point averages are not rounded student must have completed at least travel experience. Members are also off. 64 credits in the GLS B.A. in courses expected to engage in community in which the letter grades A through service and to work over the course of D were received. All graded courses the year on a major research project on ELAINE KUNTZ MEMORIAL taken while enrolled in GLS, including a topic related to Dean’s Circle travel. In WRITING PRIZE courses taken from other divisions of the recent years, the Dean’s Circle scholars The Elaine Kuntz Memorial Writing University, will be used in computing have traveled to the Czech Republic, Prize was established in 1988 in memory the honors average. Pass grades are not England, France, Germany, and Spain. of Dr. Kuntz, who was the program’s counted, and grades received in courses Dean’s Circle members who are Core first associate director and a member of taken at other institutions are also not Program students also receive favorable the faculty. The prize is awarded to an LS included. The student must also have consideration for the University freshman each year for an outstanding a satisfactory record of conduct. Latin Scholars program in the school in which essay produced in a writing course. The honors will be determined on the basis they enroll as juniors. writing faculty nominates students for of cumulative GPA so that summa cum this prize. laude is limited to the top 5 percent of the graduating class, magna cum laude DEAN’S GLOBAL RESEARCH to the next 10 percent of the graduating GRANT (GLOBAL LIBERAL GUEN SCHOLARSHIP (GLOBAL class, and cum laude to the next 15 STUDIES ONLY) LIBERAL STUDIES ONLY) percent of the graduating class. Global Liberal Studies (GLS) GLS sophomores are eligible to apply for emphasizes independent research. a limited number of Guen Scholarships, As such, GLS students can apply for which provide additional financial aid grants to help offset travel or other to GLS students spending their junior extraordinary expenses associated with

LIBERAL STUDIES STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 38 MICHAEL L. PROBST SCHOLARSHIPS The Michael L. Probst Scholarships were endowed by a distinguished former NYU administrator. The awards are based solely on merit and are open to LS students at the end of the freshman year. Students do not need to be eligible for financial aid to receive the award. Scholarships will be applied to tuition charges for the sophomore year. The awards are for one year only and are not renewable. To be eligible to apply, students must have a cumulative NYU GPA of 3.75 or better with no outstanding incomplete grades, must have earned at least 32 credit hours in LS, must not have been subject to any disciplinary sanctions, and must enroll full time for the fall semester. Eligible students must submit an application that includes an essay and a letter of support from an LS faculty member.

LIBERAL STUDIES STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 39 Academic Policies & Procedures

The following policies apply to Liberal Note: LS students are strongly cautioned The refund schedule is based on the Studies students enrolled in either the that they should not add courses or total applicable tuition, excluding Core Program or Global Liberal Studies change sections of courses after the nonrefundable fees and deposits. (GLS), unless otherwise indicated. second week of the semester. Students Students who are due a refund can who wish to add a course in the third expedite the process by going to the week must secure permission from the Office of the Bursar at 25 West Fourth COURSE REGISTRATION instructor in advance. Students who Street and filing a refund request form. add a course or change a section at any For more information about NYU Online Course Registration time are fully responsible for all work (Albert) tuition policies, contact the Office of previously assigned. the Bursar: www.nyu.edu/bursar. Albert is the NYU student information After the ninth week of classes, students services Web site. Students can use can withdraw from a course only in case Auditing a Course Albert to register for courses, change of severe emergency. Late withdrawals addresses, and review transcripts and Students may audit a designated course must be approved by Associate Dean financial aid information. Albert with the consent of the LS Associate of Students. Undergraduates are not can be accessed via NYUHome at Dean for Academic Advising and the allowed to completely withdraw from www.home.nyu.edu. permission of the instructor. Auditors all courses through Albert. For complete may not preempt space required for withdrawal, students must see a member registered students. Audited courses Change of Schedule of the LS advising staff. will not appear on students’ official Students may access Albert online to Refunds For Withdrawals transcript, nor will credit or a grade adjust their schedule by dropping and be awarded. Students should not audit adding courses until the end of the Each semester, the Office of the Bursar courses required by their curriculum. second week of classes; all schedule establishes a refund schedule that applies Audited courses will not be considered changes made after the third week of the to withdrawals. The first calendar week to satisfy prerequisite requirements for semester must be approved by the LS consists of the first seven calendar days advanced courses. Auditors are allowed Advising Center. Ultimately, the courses beginning with the official opening to attend classes but not to participate that students sign up for are their date of the term. Students who receive in other ways. Auditors may not submit responsibility. When not certain about financial aid should consult the Office papers or take exams. Students who changes they want to make, students of Financial Aid immediately if they wish to audit should fill out the approval should check with the LS Advising register for, or drop to, fewer credits form no later than the first day on which Center. Students may withdraw from than they indicated they would take the class meets. Forms are available in a course up until the ninth week of on the application for financial aid. A the LS Advising Center. the semester. Courses dropped during change in enrollment status may affect the first three weeks of classes will not the financial aid students receive. It appear on the transcript. After the third may also affect their financial obligation GRADES week of classes, students can no longer to the University by making them To receive a final grade for a course, a add a course, and a W (“Withdrawal”) immediately responsible for any charges student must be in regular attendance will be recorded on their transcript if incurred up to the point of withdrawal. and satisfactorily complete all they withdraw from a course. This grade The refund schedule is not applicable to examinations and other assignments will not be included in the calculation of students whose registration remains in prescribed by the instructor. A student their grade point average. the flat-fee range (12-18 credits).

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 40 will not receive a grade for any course The total grade points (58.6) is divided The pass/fail option is not available for for which she or he is not officially by the number of credits earned (18) to courses completed at other institutions. registered. obtain the GPA (3.255). Note: There The pass/fail option is not permitted for are no A+, D-, or F+ grades. See “Pass/ any required course. Students who request faculty to review Fail Option,” below, for information the calculation of a final grade must do The choice to elect pass/fail grading in about pass/fail policies, including those so within one month after the course any course must be made before the that apply specifically to LS students. ends. The review must normally be completion of the ninth week of the completed within one month but may I Grade term (or the third week of a six-week be extended in the case of a formal summer session); after that time, the The grade of I (“Incomplete”) is a grade appeal to the Associate Dean for grading option cannot be changed. Note temporary grade that indicates that Academic Affairs. that once elected, the choice of pass/ the student has, for good reason, not fail grading cannot be changed back to The following grades are awarded and completed all of the course work but the letter grade option. No grade other are computed in the grade point average: that there is the possibility that the than P or F will be recorded for students A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, and student will eventually pass the course choosing the pass/fail option. P includes F. In general, A indicates excellent work; when all of the requirements have all passing grades and is not counted in B indicates good work; C indicates been completed. A student must ask the grade point average. F is counted in satisfactory work; D indicates passable the instructor for a grade of I, present the grade point average. work and is the lowest passing grade; documented evidence of illness or the and F indicates failure. The weights equivalent, and clarify the remaining The form for declaring the pass/fail assigned to the grades in computing the course requirements with the instructor. option may be obtained in the LS grade point average are as follows: Advising Center. The incomplete grade is not awarded A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, automatically. It is not used when there Note: Core Program students should B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, is no possibility that the student will note that in other schools of NYU, C = 2.0, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, eventually pass the course. In general, the pass/fail option generally is not D = 1.0, and F = 0.0. students have one semester to finish the permitted for any Core Academic Plan Computing the Grade Point Average work for a course in which an incomplete courses, for any degree requirements, grade was received. If the course work is for courses in the major and the minor, The grade point average (GPA) can be not completed after the statutory time or for required preprofessional courses. obtained by determining the total of for making up incompletes has elapsed, Students who change majors may not be all grade points earned and dividing the temporary grade of I shall become an able to use courses taken under the pass/ that figure by the total number of F and will be computed in the student’s fail option to satisfy requirements of the credits completed. For example, if an grade point average. new major. Students contemplating the LS student has completed an 18-credit pass/fail option should consult with a W Grade schedule and receives grades of A, A-, LS professional staff advisor about the B, and C+, respectively, in four 4-credit The grade of W (“Withdrawal”) likely effect of such grades on their courses and a B+ in a 2-credit course, indicates an official withdrawal from a academic and career plans. the student’s semester GPA would be course. computed as follows: Grade Appeals Pass/Fail Option 4.0 (A) x 4 credits = 16.0 Students who have complaints about 3.7 (A-) x 4 credits = 14.8 Applies to both the Core Program and grades or other academic matters should 3.0 (B) x 4 credits = 12.0 GLS students: Students may elect no attempt in the first instance to resolve 2.3 (C+) x 4 credits = 9.2 more than one pass/fail option each them by contacting the instructor of 3.3 (B+) x 2 credits = 6.6 term, including the summer sessions, the course and speaking to the Associate Total grade credits 58.6 GPA = 58.6 divided by 18 = 3.255 for a total of no more than 16 credits Dean of Students before the end of the while they are degree candidates in LS. term, who may attempt to bring about

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 41 an informal resolution. If the matter the University community. The see “Advanced Placement Credit and cannot be resolved in this way, students center is located at 411 Lafayette Global Liberal Studies Requirements” may file a petition in writing setting Street, 4th Floor. Visit www.nyu. below for more information. forth the basis for the appeal with the edu/cas/ewp/html/writing_center. Advanced standing credits must be Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; html. submitted to the NYU Undergraduate such a petition must be filed no later • Math tutoring is available through Admissions Processing Center and are than 30 days after the final grade for the University Learning Center only then evaluated by the LS Advising the course has been posted. Petitions and also at the College of Arts Center. Students should request that should be filed at: Liberal Studies, 726 and Science Department of official AP scores, college transcripts, Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 676, New Mathematics, in the Courant and other documentation be sent to York, NY 10003. Petitions will be Institute of Mathematical Sciences. the NYU Office of Undergraduate heard by the Committee on Academic Visit www.math.nyu.edu. Admissions, New York University, Standards. The committee will deliver 665 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, its recommendation to the Dean of NY 10012-2339. AP scores may Liberal Studies within 30 days of CREDIT also be sent electronically through the petition’s submission. Students, www.collegeboard.com/student. responsible faculty, and administrators Advanced Standing Credits shall preserve the confidentiality of any Students should also note that the various Advanced standing credits are college student’s grade appeal. undergraduate schools and colleges of credits earned before entering NYU. NYU have different policies on whether Examples of advanced standing credits AP or other advanced standing credit are credits earned at other colleges ACADEMIC SUPPORT SERVICES will be accepted in fulfillment of major and universities before admission to Students who seek academic support and other requirements. Students NYU in which the grades earned were services may contact any of the following should consult with the LS Advising B or better, and for which scores of 4 resources: Center about advanced standing credits or 5 were obtained on the Advanced and how they will be counted. • The Academic Resource Center Placement (AP) examinations. (ARC), a resource for academic International Baccalaureate (IB), For detailed and up-to-date information support, is located at 18 French Baccalaureate, Advanced Level on AP, IB, and A-Level equivalences, Washington Place. ARC includes (“A-Level”), Abitur, and some other please refer to the CAS bulletin: cross-school advising services to foreign maturity examination credits www.cas.nyu.edu. help students navigate beyond may also result in advanced standing *Students should consult the web sites and the offerings of their own schools credit. Some courses taken at other bulletins of other NYU schools and colleges when exploring courses, areas of colleges may not be honored by NYU. for specific residency requirements. study, minors, graduate degrees, LS accepts a maximum of 32 credits of and more. Visit www.nyu.edu/arc. Advanced Placement Credit and advanced standing.* While GLS accepts Global Liberal Studies Requirements • The University Learning Center up to 32 advanced standing credits, (ULC) offers academic support the structure of the program does not GLS participates in the Advanced workshops, group review sessions, typically allow for early graduation. The Placement (AP) Program of the College and peer tutoring. The ULC has work reflected by advanced standing Entrance Examination Board. GLS multiple locations. Visit credits will not substitute for any of the students who present AP test scores www.nyu.edu/ulc. required courses in the Core Program with the appropriate grade (usually 4 or in GLS. The only requirements or 5) may receive college credit toward • The Writing Center, part of the that advanced standing credits may the bachelor’s degree. Students who Expository Writing Program at the satisfy for the Core Program and GLS receive AP credit may not take the College of Arts and Science (CAS), are mathematics and science. Please corresponding NYU course for credit. offers tutorial help in writing for

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 42 If they do so, they will lose the AP credit. study proposals must be sponsored at NYU will require approval from the by a full-time LS faculty member and appropriate NYU school or college, Science is the only GLS degree approved by the Associate Dean for as well as from the LS department. To requirement that AP credit may satisfy. Academic Affairs. receive NYU credit once permission is AP credit in Biology, Chemistry, or granted, a student must earn a grade Physics B may be used to substitute for Summer Session/Winter Session of B or better and then arrange for all Natural Science I and II. AP credit in official transcripts and scores to be Environmental Science may be used NYU Summer Session serves more than forwarded to the LS Advising Center, to substitute for Natural Science II (as 10,000 NYU and visiting graduate, New York University, 726 Broadway, opposed to Natural Science I for Core undergraduate, professional, non- 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10003, and Program students). credit, and high school students at to the Undergraduate Admissions NYU campuses around the world. Note that the AP equivalencies listed Processing Center, New York University, Programs include the NYU Pre-College below are for students in GLS only. 665 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, program, Summer Study Abroad, and Students who declare certain cross- NY 10012. Summer in Greenwich Village. Over school minors should consult the LS 1,000 courses covering introductory to Advising Center about credits that may advanced materials enable graduate and or may not apply to particular minors ATTENDANCE undergraduate students to enrich and or that may satisfy certain departmental Although the administration does deepen their educational experience, prerequisites. The Core Requirement not supervise attendance of classes, add additional minors, complete will be satisfied with a score of 4 or 5 on it supports the standards imposed requirements, and explore new areas of the AP examination listed. by instructors. Students who, in the study. judgment of the instructor, have not AP Examination Core Requirement NYU Winter Session, a three-week substantially met the requirements of Satisfied session that runs before the spring the course or who have been excessively Biology Natural Science I semester, offers courses at NYU and II absent may be considered to have Washington Square as well as at selected withdrawn unofficially and may be Chemistry Natural Science I and II NYU global locations. given a final grade of F. See “Grades” on page 40. Environmental Natural Science II NYU does not normally accept summer Science school transfer credits taken at another Final Examinations Physics B Natural Science I university. In rare circumstances, and and II only with prior approval, students may Students are required to be present for Physics Natural Science I take such summer courses. Students all scheduled examinations. Makeup C—Mech. and II who wish to apply for approval must examinations are at the discretion of and Physics do so by filing a petition (forms are C—E&M an instructor. The semester calendar available at the LS Advising Center) no indicates a week at the end of each Physics C— Natural Science I Mech. later than the first of May preceding the semester during which examinations summer in which work is to be taken. Physics Natural Science I are to be given. The syllabus for each C—E&M No late applications are considered. course should indicate the date of Students are also advised that courses the final examination; if a syllabus Independent Study taken during the summer at other does not indicate the date of the final universities may not fulfill requirements examination, this should be brought to In special circumstances (such as when toward degrees and majors in the other the attention of the Associate Dean for a student is working on a preapproved undergraduate schools and colleges of Academic Affairs. Students should make research paper with a faculty member), NYU. LS students who wish to have their holiday travel plans with scheduled a student may be able to take an summer work at another university examination dates in mind. Early independent study course. Independent substitute for courses or requirements departure from New York at the end of

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 43 a semester is no excuse for missing an Leave of Absence professional researchers and writers do. examination, nor should students expect Giving credit to someone whose work Students who wish to take a semester off that instructors will change the date of has helped one is courteous and honest. must obtain an official leave of absence the examination to accommodate their Plagiarism, on the other hand, is a form from the Assistant Director of Students travel plans. of fraud. Proper acknowledgment marks before the beginning of the semester. the difference. Those who do not obtain an official leave Religious Policies of absence must apply for readmission. A hallmark of the educated student is New York University, as a nonsectarian A leave may be requested for one the ability to acknowledge information institution, adheres to the general policy semester or for the entire academic derived from others. The LS community of including in its official calendar only year. Leave of absence applications expects that a student will be scrupulous certain legal holidays. However, it has may be obtained from, and should be in crediting those sources that have also long been University policy that submitted to, the LS Office of Student contributed to the development of members of any religious group may, Affairs, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room his or her ideas. In particular, it is the without penalty, absent themselves 608, New York, NY 10003. Students responsibility of the student to learn the from classes when compliance with may apply for a medical leave of absence proper forms of citation. Refer to the their religious obligations requires it. at any time. This will be granted upon LS “Academic Integrity Guide” posted In 1988, the University Senate affirmed the recommendation of a physician or on the Liberal Studies Web site at www. this policy and passed a resolution that therapist, the NYU Student Health ls.nyu.edu. elaborated on it as follows: Center, or the NYU Counseling and Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s Behavioral Health Services office. 1. Students who anticipate being work as though it were one’s own. More Program changes may also be requested absent because of any religious specifically, plagiarism is to present as based on medical conditions. observance should, whenever one’s own a sequence of words quoted possible, notify faculty in advance Students who leave for medical or without quotation marks from another of such anticipated absence. psychological reasons will be required writer, a paraphrased passage from to show medical documentation stating another writer’s work, or facts or ideas 2. Whenever feasible, examinations that the student is able physically and/ gathered, organized, and reported by and assignment deadlines should or emotionally to continue school. In someone else, orally and/or in writing. not be scheduled on religious addition, students who take a leave of Since plagiarism is a matter of fact, not holidays. Any student absent from absence for psychological reasons must of the student’s intention, it is crucial class because of religious beliefs be evaluated by NYU’s Counseling and that acknowledgment of the sources shall not be penalized for any Behavioral Health Services office before be accurate and complete. Even where class, examination, or assignment returning to school. there is no conscious intention to deadline missed on that day or deceive, the failure to make appropriate days. acknowledgment constitutes plagiarism. 3. If examinations or assignment ACADEMIC STANDARDS Penalties for plagiarism range from a deadlines are scheduled, any failing grade for a paper or a course to Academic Integrity student who is unable to attend dismissal from the University. class because of religious beliefs In the process of learning, students When an instructor finds that a student shall be given the opportunity to acquire ideas from many sources and has violated the policy on academic make up that day or days. exchange ideas and opinions with integrity, the instructor will impose an classmates, professors, and others. 4. No adverse or prejudicial effects appropriate sanction and also notify the This occurs in reading, writing, and shall result to any student who Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. discussion. Students are expected— avails him/herself of the above Sanctions may range from a failing often required—to build their own provisions. grade for the assignment to a failing work on that of other people, just as grade for the course. The record of the

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 44 finding will be kept on file while the Students who wish to contest their The following are examples of the offenses student is in LS. academic dismissal must appeal, for which students may be subject to in writing, to the Associate Dean disciplinary action (please note, this list In the event of a second violation of of Students within 20 days of the is not exhaustive): cheating, plagiarism, the policy, the matter will be referred notification of academic dismissal. After or forgery of academic documents to the Committee on Academic a review of the appeal, a decision will be or form of identification; deliberate Standards. The committee treats all such rendered in writing. destruction, theft, or unauthorized use violations seriously, and they may result of laboratory data, research materials, in the imposition of sanctions such as Note: Students receiving federal or computer resources, or University academic probation, suspension, or state financial aid or other forms of property; disruption of an academic expulsion. Decisions of the committee external financial aid are required event, program, or class; actual or may be appealed to the Dean of Liberal to make “satisfactory progress.” It is threatened violence or harassment; use, Studies. the responsibility of the student to possession, or storage of any weapon, determine what effect any academic dangerous chemicals, fireworks, or Academic Progress action taken against him or her may explosives; hazing; and violations of any have on the student’s financial aid The Committee on Academic Progress local, state, and federal laws. entitlements. monitors the academic performance of Complaints alleging a violation of this students and places students on academic Note: Students receiving financial aid policy and other University policies warning and academic probation. It also should note that the University’s Office will be reviewed and adjudicated by LS makes recommendations on terminating of Financial Aid defines “satisfactory (in intra-school cases) or by the NYU students who have not made sufficient progress” for full-time students as Office of Community Standards and progress. Its decisions may be appealed maintaining a grade point average of Compliance (in inter-school cases). If to the Associate Dean of Students. 2.0 or better and completing 32 credit a complaint involves a claim of sexual hours per year (exclusive of summer Students are expected to progress harassment, sexual violence or sexual sessions). toward the degree and to remain in good assault, Liberal Studies will follow standing. Good standing is defined as Such progress is essential for students the University’s standard procedures maintaining a semester and cumulative to remain eligible for student aid. for responding to such incidents as GPA of 2.0 or above. Therefore, while I and W grades are not outlined in NYU’s Sexual Misconduct, computed in a student’s grade point Relationship Violence, and Stalking Students whose GPA falls below 2.0 in average, they will affect the student’s Policy. any semester will be placed on academic eligibility for financial aid. Students probation. Normally, these students will Students who violate Code of Conduct who have any questions about this can be expected to raise their GPA above 2.0 policies may be subject to disciplinary call the Office of Financial Aid at 212- in the following semester or they will charges by the University Office of 998-4444 to determine if their financial either be placed on terminal probation Community Standards (refer to the aid is in jeopardy. or dismissed from NYU. Students on Office of Community Standards’ terminal probation who do not make University Disciplinary Policies and Student Conduct and Discipline academic progress as stipulated in their Procedures at www.nyu.edu/about/ notice of probation will be dismissed. Students are expected to familiarize policies-guidelines-compliance/ themselves and to comply with the rules policies-and-guidelines/disciplinary- Students who receive a notice of of conduct, academic regulations, and policies-and-procedures.html). academic dismissal after they have established practices of the University registered for the next semester are A member of the faculty, administration, and LS. NYU Student Community required to discontinue attendance and staff, or any student may file a complaint Standards can be found at www. will receive a full refund of their current against any student for a student offense nyu.edu/life/student-life/student- semester tuition. with the Dean of the school in which communitystandards.html. the student is enrolled. Although a

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 45 complaint may be filed at any time, it is violation of specified regulation, outcome of the complaint. Decisions strongly preferred that the complaint be including the possibility of more of the Committee may be appealed to submitted as soon as possible after the severe disciplinary sanction in the dean. No record of the disciplinary reporter/complainant became aware of the event of conviction for the proceeding will be entered in the the matter. A complaint should include violation of a school regulation student’s file unless a final disciplinary a description of the incident giving within a period of time stated in sanction is found to be warranted. rise to the complaint, the identity of the letter of reprimand. the accused student(s), and the names 3. Disciplinary Probation: Exclusion of others who may have been present, TRANSCRIPT REQUESTS from participation in privileges observed the incident, or who otherwise Official copies of a student’s University or extracurricular school activities have information related to the matter. transcript can be requested when a as set forth in the notice of Complaints should be filed in writing stamped and sealed copy of the academic disciplinary probation for a to the Associate Dean of Students in record is required. There is currently specified period of time. Liberal Studies, 726 Broadway, 6th no charge for paper transcripts. There Floor, New York, NY, 10003. 4. Restitution: Reimbursement for is no limit to the number of official damage to or misappropriation of transcripts that can be issued to a The LS Committee on Student property. Reimbursement may take student. Transcripts cannot be produced Discipline (composed of members the form of appropriate service to for anyone whose record has been put of the LS administration) will review repair or otherwise compensate for on hold for an outstanding University the complaint and begin a prompt damages. obligation. investigation. The Committee will also notify the student(s) named in 5. Suspension: Exclusion from Students who attended NYU after 2001 the complaint or report of the filing classes and other privileges or and are able to access Albert, NYU’s of the complaint/report and request to extracurricular activities as set web-based registration and information meet with those individuals. During forth in the notice of suspension system, have the option of requesting the respective meetings/discussions, the for a definite period of time. an official paper or electronic transcript students (Complainant and Accused) Students may not make academic from the Albert Student Center. Albert shall be informed of their rights and progress at another institution can be accessed via NYUHome at www. responsibilities within the student and then transfer those credits home.nyu.edu. conduct process, be apprised of the back to NYU during the term of Students are able also to access their University’s related procedures, and suspension. A student who has grades at the end of each semester via asked to discuss the incident giving rise been suspended and who is not Albert. to the report/complaint. Written notice found to be responsible for the of a filing of a formal complaint shall be violation of school policy shall be given to the accused student. allowed full opportunity to make Former Students Unable To Access NYUHome/Albert up whatever work was missed due The committee may impose the to the suspension. Former students who no longer have following sanctions: a valid NetID and are thus unable 6. Monetary Fine: For any offenses. 1. Warning: Notice to the student, to access NYUHome/Albert, or who in writing, that continuation or 7. Dismissal: Termination of student attended New York University prior repetition of the conduct found status for an indefinite period. The to 1990, must complete the Online wrongful, or participation in conditions for readmission, if any Transcript Request Form on www.nyu. similar conduct, within a period of are permitted, shall be stated by edu/registrar and mail, fax, or email time stated in the warning, shall be the panel in order of dismissal. the signature page to the Office of the cause for disciplinary action. Registrar. E-mail confirmation will be Both the Complainant and the Accused sent when the Office of the Registrar has 2. Censure: Written reprimand for student will be notified in writing of the received the signed request form.

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 46 Alternatively, former students unable and for other services that are available • School of the University attended to access NYUHome/Albert may fax to individuals enrolled in colleges and • Dates of attendance or mail a written letter requesting the universities. transcript. A signed consent form is • Date of graduation New York University has multiple required. The fax number is 212-995- procedures for obtaining enrollment • Full name & address of the 4154; the mailing address is New York verification documents. NYU students person or institution to which the University, Office of the Registrar, can obtain verification directly from enrollment verification is to be sent Academic Records, P.O. Box 910, New the Office of the University Registrar, York, NY 10276-0910. Requests must be addressed to: while third party verifications should be A request letter must include all of the requested through the National Student Office of the University Registrar following information: Clearinghouse. For more information, Enrollment Verification and Graduation see the Office of the Registrar Web site: • University ID number P.O. Box 910 www.nyu.edu/registrar. New York, NY 10276-0910 • Current name and any other name Please note, an individual who is not an under which NYU was attended NYU student or alumnus must follow Or, signed requests may be faxed to • Current address the instructions outlined in the third- 212-995-4154. Allow seven business party request procedure. days from the time the Office of • Date of birth the University Registrar is in receipt • School of the University attended Student Request Procedure of request. To confirm receipt of a request, please contact the Office of the • Dates of attendance Students can view/print their own University Registrar at 212-998-4280. enrollment certification directly from • Date of graduation Albert using the integrated National Third-Party Request Procedure • Full name and address of the Student Clearinghouse student portal. person or institution to which the This feature can be accessed from the To verify enrollment of a New York transcript is to be sent “Enrollment Certification” link on the University student/alumnus, use the Albert homepage. EnrollmentVerify service available from Requests may indicate transcripts the National Student Clearinghouse. should be forwarded to the requester’s Eligible students are also able to view/ Visit www.studentclearinghouse.org. home address, but the name and address print a Good Student Discount of each institution is still required. Certificate, which can be mailed to Degree verification is also available from The Office of the Registrar should be an auto insurer or any other company the National Student Clearinghouse. notified immediately of any change of that requests proof of status as a good Please note that there is a fee for address and may be contacted with any student (based on the cumulative GPA). all services that are provided by the questions or concerns at 212-998-4280. This feature is available for students in National Student Clearinghouse. all schools except School of Law. Arrears Policy ENROLLMENT VERIFICATION Requests for verification of enrollment or graduation may be made by The University reserves the right to Enrollment Verification provides details submitting a signed letter with the deny registration and withhold all on whether a student is/was enrolled following information: full-time, half-time or less than half- information regarding the record of any time for the current semester or for • University ID number student who is in arrears in the payment all of the semesters that the student of tuition, fees, loans, or other charges • Current name and any name under is/was enrolled at NYU. Enrollment (including charges for housing, dining, which you attended NYU certifications are frequently needed to or other activities or services) for as long verify eligibility for health insurance • Current address as any arrears remain. coverage, certain types of financial aid, • Date of birth

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 47 Diploma Arrears Policy Education Records Covered Under Veterans and eligible dependents should FERPA: The Guidelines describe those contact the Office of the University Diplomas of students in arrears will be education records that are covered Registrar each term for which they held until their financial obligations to by FERPA and that are available for desire Veterans Affairs certification of the University are fulfilled and they have student review. “Education records” enrollment. been cleared by the Bursar. Graduates refers to any record or document with a diploma hold may contact the All veterans are expected to reach the containing information directly related Office of the Bursar at 212-998-2806 to objective (bachelor’s or master’s degree, to a student and is not limited to a file clear arrears or to discuss their financial doctorate, or certificate) authorized by with the student’s name on it. status at the University. Veterans Affairs with the minimum Student Access: Requests by students number of credits required. The Family Educational Rights and for access to their education records Department of Veterans Affairs may Privacy Act (FERPA) should be referred to Assistant Provost not authorize allowance payments for for Academic Program Review Barnett credits that are in excess of scholastic The Family Educational Rights and W. Hamberger at 212-998-2310 or requirements, that are taken for audit Privacy Act (FERPA) establishes [email protected]. purposes only, or for which nonpunitive requirements for the protection of the grades are received. privacy of students. FERPA and its VETERANS BENEFITS attendant regulations govern the release Applications and more information of information from student educational Various Department of Veterans Affairs may be obtained from the student’s records, provide for student access to programs provide educational benefits regional office of the Department of their records, and establish a means for for spouses, sons, and daughters of Veterans Affairs. Additional guidance students to request the amendment of deceased or permanently disabled may be obtained from the Office of the records that they believe are inaccurate, veterans as well as for veterans and University Registrar. misleading, or otherwise in violation in-service personnel, subject to certain Since interpretation of regulations of their rights of privacy. New York restrictions. Under most programs, the governing veterans’ benefits is subject to University’s “Guidelines for Compliance student pays tuition and fees at the time change, veterans should keep in touch with the Family Educational Rights and of registration but will receive a monthly with the Department of Veterans Affairs Privacy Act” summarizes the rights of allowance from Veterans Affairs. or NYU’s Office of the University the University’s students under FERPA Veterans with service-connected Registrar. and its attendant regulations, as well disabilities may be qualified for as the corresponding obligations of the educational benefits under Chapter 31. University, and may be viewed at www. Yellow Ribbon GI Education Applicants for this program are required Enhancement Program nyu.edu/apr/ferpa.htm. to submit to the Department of Veterans NYU participates in the Yellow Ribbon Disclosure: Generally, personally Affairs a letter of acceptance from the GI Education Enhancement Program identifiable information regarding a college they wish to attend. On meeting (Yellow Ribbon Program), a provision student cannot be disclosed without the requirements for the Department of of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational his or her written consent, although Veterans Affairs, the applicant will be Assistance Act of 2008. The program there are exceptions to this rule, given an Authorization for Education is designed to help students finance, which are explained in the Guidelines. (VA Form 22-1905), which must be through scholarship assistance, up to Information is personally identifiable if presented to the Office of the University 100 percent of their out-of-pocket it would make a student’s identity easily Registrar before registering for course tuition and fees associated with traceable. This includes the student’s work. education programs that may exceed the name, address, Social Security number Veterans’ allowance checks are Post-9/11 GI Bill tuition benefit, which or other such identifying number, usually sent directly to veterans by will only pay up to the highest public photograph, or parent’s name and/or the Department of Veterans Affairs. in-state undergraduate tuition. address.

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 48 Beginning in the 2009-2010 academic student qualifies for the Yellow Ribbon to, firearms, knives, explosives, etc., in year, NYU will provide funds toward Program, please contact Clara Fonteboa, and/or around any and all University the tuition of each qualifying veteran at [email protected] or 212-998-4823. facilities—academic, residential, or who has been admitted as a full-time others. This prohibition extends to all The Office of the University Registrar undergraduate, with the VA matching buildings—whether owned, leased, or must certify to the Department of NYU’s tuition contribution for each controlled by the University, regardless Veterans Affairs that the eligible person student. of whether the bearer or possessor is is enrolled as a full-time undergraduate licensed to carry that weapon. The To be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon student in order for the funds to be paid possession of any weapon has the benefits, an individual must be entitled under the Yellow Ribbon Program. potential of creating a dangerous to the maximum post-9/11 benefit. An situation for the bearer and others. individual may be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon Enhancement if: CAMPUS SAFETY The only exceptions to this policy are duly authorized law enforcement • He/She served an aggregate period Immunization Requirements personnel who are performing official of active duty after September 10, New York State Public Health Law 2165 federal, state, or local business and 2001, of at least 36 months. and 2167 and/or NYU require that instances in which the bearer of the • He/She was honorably discharged all students (graduate, undergraduate, weapon is licensed by an appropriate from active duty for a service transfers and returning students who, licensing authority and has received connected disability and had to date, have not complied) taking six written permission from the executive served 30 continuous days after or more credits in an approved degree vice president of the University. September 10, 2001. or registered certificate program in a degree-granting institution must New York University Simulated • He/She is a dependent eligible provide proof of immunity to measles, Firearm Policy for Transfer of Entitlement under mumps, and rubella and acknowledge the Post-9/11 GI Bill based on New York University strictly prohibits receipt of information regarding the a veteran’s service under the simulated firearms in and/or around disease meningitis/or provide proof of eligibility criteria, as described on any and all University facilities— meningitis vaccine. the U.S. Department of Veterans academic, residential, or other. This Affairs Web site. If a student is not in full compliance, prohibition extends to all buildings— New York State requires that the whether owned, leased, or controlled The Department of Veterans Affairs is University exclude him/her from by the University. The possession of a currently accepting applications for the attending classes 30 days after the first simulated firearm has the potential of Post-9/11 GI Bill. To qualify for the day of class for New York State residents creating a dangerous situation for the Yellow Ribbon Enhancement, students and 45 days after the first day of class for bearer and others. must apply to the VA. The VA will out-of-state and international students. then determine a student’s eligibility The only exceptions to this policy are For more information, visit the Student for the Post-9/11 GI Bill and issue the instances in which (1) the bearer is Health Center Web site: www.nyu.edu/ student a Certificate of Eligibility. Note: in possession of written permission health. Students can apply using the VA Form from a dean, associate dean, assistant 22-1990 (PDF), and the form includes dean, or department head and (2) such the instructions needed to begin the New York University Weapons possession or use of simulated firearms Policy process. is directly connected to a University- New York University strictly prohibits or school-related event (e.g., play, film After a student is issued a Certificate the possession of all weapons, as production). Whenever an approved of Eligibility from the Department of described in local, state, and federal simulated firearm is transported from Veterans Affairs, indicating that the statutes, that includes, but is not limited one location to another, it must be placed

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 49 in a secure container in such a manner that it cannot be observed. Storage of approved simulated firearms shall be the responsibility of the Department of Public Safety in a location designated by the vice president for public safety. Under no circumstances, other than at a public safety storage area, may approved simulated firearms be stored in any University owned, leased, or controlled facilities.

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Liberal Studies (LS) students have Center for Student Activities, Center for Multicultural Education extraordinary opportunities to Leadership & Service and Programs participate in student life at NYU. Kimmel Center for University Life Kimmel Center for University Life Students participate in a wide variety 60 Washington Square South, 60 Washington Square South, Suite 704 Suite 806 of University activities, including Telephone: 212-998-4700 Telephone: 212-998-4343 hundreds of student clubs, volunteer E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/cmep programs, and intercollegiate sports. Web site: www.nyu.edu/ LS also sponsors several student clubs, studentactivities The NYU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, advised by faculty and led by student Transgender and Queer Student officers. Program Board Center Kimmel Center for University Life Kimmel Center for University Life To learn more about student life 60 Washington Square South, 60 Washington Square South, activities and opportunities, contact Suite 707 Suite 602 Telephone: 212-998-4700 the resources listed below or consult Telephone: 212-998-4424 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] the comprehensive list of University Web site: www.nyu.edu/lgbtq Clubs at www.nyu.edu/clubs or email NYU Office of Civic Engagement [email protected]. 25 West 4th Street, 5th Floor Telephone: 212-998-2329 ALUMNI ACTIVITIES E-mail: [email protected] University Development and Alumni STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES AND Relations SERVICES Fraternity and Sorority Life 25 West Fourth Street, 4th Floor Kimmel Center for University Life LS Student Council Telephone: 212-998-6900 60 Washington Square South, E-mail: [email protected] 726 Broadway, 6th Floor Suite 704 Web site: www.alumni.nyu.edu E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-4710

LS Office of Student Affairs Ticket Central Box Office ATHLETICS 726 Broadway, 6th Floor Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Department of Athletics, E-mail: [email protected] 566 LaGuardia Place Intramurals, and Recreation Telephone: 212-998-4941 Jerome S. Coles Sports and Recreation Student Resource Center Web site: www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral Kimmel Center for University Life Center 60 Washington Square South, 181 Mercer Street Commuter and Off-Campus Student Telephone: 212-998-2020 Suite 210 Programs Telephone: 212-998-4411 Web site: www.gonyuathletics.com Kimmel Center for University Life E-mail: [email protected] 60 Washington Square South, Web site: www.nyu.edu/src Palladium Athletic Facility Suite 210 140 East 14th Street Telephone: 212-998-4411 Telephone: 212-992-8500 Academic Resource Center E-mail: [email protected] 18 Washington Place Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Telephone: 212-998-2272 palladiumathleticfacility Web site: www.nyu.edu/arc

STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 51 BOOKSTORE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS MEDICAL SERVICES Main Bookstore & Computer Store Office of Global Services Student Health Center 726 Broadway 561 LaGuardia Place 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors Telephone: 212-998-4667 Telephone: 212-998-4720 Telephone: 212-443-1000 Web site: www.bookstores.nyu.edu E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/ogs Web site: www.nyu.edu/shc

Student Health Insurance Services CAREER SERVICES RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL 726 Broadway, Suite 346 Wasserman Center for Career RESOURCES Telephone: 212-443-1020 Development Center for Spiritual Life E-mail: [email protected] 133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor 238 Thompson Street, Fourth Floor Web site: www.nyu.edu/health/ Telephone: 212-998-4730 Telephone: 212-998-4959 insurance Fax: 212-995-4197 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/spiritual-life Immunization Record Services/ Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Allergy and Immunology careerdevelopment 726 Broadway, Suite 336 SAFETY ON CAMPUS Telephone: 212-443-1199 Department of Public Safety Telephone for appointments: COMPUTER SERVICES AND 7 Washington Place 212-443-1188 INTERNET RESOURCES Telephone: 212-998-2222 (To report E-mail: [email protected] Information Technology Services an emergency); 212-998-2220 (TTY) Web site: www.nyu.edu/shc/ (ITS) E-mail: [email protected] immunization 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor (IT Service Web site: www.nyu.edu/public.safety Desk) Pharmacy Services 726 Broadway, 4th Floor Telephone Help Line: 212-998-3333 SERVICES FOR STUDENTS WITH Web site: www.nyu.edu/its Telephone: 212-443-1050 DISABILITIES Web site: www.nyu.edu/shc/pharmacy Henry and Lucy Moses Center for DINING Students with Disabilities Women’s Health Services NYU Campus Dining Services 726 Broadway, 2nd Floor 726 Broadway, Suite 404 33 Third Avenue, Lower Level Telephone: 212-998-4980 (voice and Telephone: 212-443-1166 Telephone: 212-995-3030 TTY) Web site: www.nyudining.com Fax: 212-995-4114 Emergencies and After-Hours Crisis Email: [email protected] Response Web site: www.nyu.edu/csd HOUSING • For a life- or limb-threatening Office of Residential Life and emergency, call 911. COUNSELING SERVICES Housing Services • For a non-life-threatening 726 Broadway, 7th Floor Counseling and Wellness Services emergency, call Urgent Care Telephone: 212-998-4600 726 Broadway, Suite 471 Services at the Student Health Fax: 212-995-4099 Telephone: 212-998-4780 Center (SHC), 212-443-1111. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/counseling When the SHC is closed, call the Web site: www.nyu.edu/housing NYU Department of Public Safety, The Wellness Exchange 212-998-2222. Off-Campus Housing Services 726 Broadway, Suite 402 Kimmel Center for University Life Telephone: 212-443-9999 • For mental health emergencies, 60 Washington Square South, Email: [email protected] call the Wellness Exchange hotline Suite 210 Web site: www.nyu.edu/999 at 212-443-9999 or the NYU Telephone: 212-998-4411 Department of Public Safety at Web site: www.nyu.edu/offcampus- 212-998-2222 to be connected to living a crisis response coordinator.

STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 52 Admission to Liberal Studies

Applicants are selected by the Admissions however, should include English, with (approved options can be found Committee each year. The Admissions heavy emphasis on writing; social on the Office of Undergraduate Committee offers admission to only a studies; foreign language; mathematics; Admissions Web site: www. select group of freshman applicants who and laboratory sciences. The Admissions admissions.nyu.edu) then may begin their NYU studies at Committee pays particular attention The NYU Code for the SAT, SAT the campus in New York City. A smaller to the number of honors, Advanced Subject Test, AP, and TOEFL is 2562. group of candidates may be awarded the Placement (AP), and International The NYU Code for the ACT is 2838. opportunity to begin their studies at Baccalaureate (IB) courses the applicant one of NYU’s global academic centers has completed in high school (if offered). For students who have taken multiple in Florence, London, or Paris. Transfer The students most competitive for examinations that meet NYU’s applicants are not eligible for admission admission will exceed these minimums. standardized testing requirements, the to the Core Program; Global Liberal Admissions Committee recommends The minimum requirements for Studies does admit a select number of that in the spirit of marshaling the best consideration are as follows: internal and external transfer students case for admission, students choose each year. • 4 years of English which examination(s) they want the committee to review in the evaluation The Admissions Committee carefully • 3-4 years of mathematics process. If a student feels one type considers each candidate’s application • 3-4 years of foreign language of examination positions himself and gives weight to a number of or herself more favorably, only that factors: academic record, standardized • 3-4 years of laboratory sciences examination should be submitted – as test scores, recommendations from • 3-4 years of history/social studies long as the results submitted meet the counselors and teachers, and essays. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions’ committee also seeks a class that is diverse Freshman candidates should submit standardized testing requirements. in all respects and carefully considers official score reports for standardized Students do not have to submit multiple the applicant’s special talents, alumni tests: test types and should only do so if they affiliation, geographic location, and • The SAT Reasoning Test; or want additional examination results more. The committee is also interested to be reviewed. All examinations are in applicants who have an active and • The ACT with Writing Test; or considered equally and applicants will sustained level of involvement in school • Three SAT Subject Test scores; or not be placed at a disadvantage for not and/or community activities and who sending SAT/ACT testing. have taken on the responsibility of • Three AP exam scores; or leadership. Admission is highly selective. With regard to the SAT specifically, • The International Baccalaureate NYU participates in Score Choice, Applicants must file their application by Diploma; or which enables students to elect which the stated deadlines in order to be given tests to send to NYU. If a student full consideration. • Results from a nationally accredited exam that is considered does take the SAT multiple times, the locally to signify the completion committee will only review the highest ADMISSIONS PROCESS of secondary education, is Critical Reading, the highest Math, and administered independently of the highest Writing score submitted – Admission to Liberal Studies is based on the student’s school, and has been regardless of test dates – creating the the quality of the applicant’s secondary approved by the NYU Office highest possible composite score for the school record. Sound preparation, of Undergraduate Admissions evaluation process. For the ACT, NYU

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 53 will review the highest composite ACT requirements for non-native English Information about the TOEFL may be score with Writing – regardless of test speakers. Non-native English speaking secured on the TOEFL Web site (www. dates. applicants to the campus in New York ets.org/toefl) and information on the are required to submit TOEFL (Test of IELTS is available on the IELTS Web Students who submit SAT Subject English as a Foreign Language), IELTS site (www.ielts.org). Note: TOEFL is no Tests, AP, or IB scores (for students (International English Language Testing longer accepted by the U.K. as evidence not submitting an IB Diploma) must System), or PTE Academic (Pearson of English language proficiency for visa- submit: one literature or humanities Test of English Academic) results, which granting purposes. score; one math or science score; and have been issued within the past two a score from one test of the student’s years. Early Decision choice in any subject. Exemption from English language Students for whom NYU is their first- In addition to SAT, ACT, and IB proficiency testing will be given: choice college are encouraged to apply results, the Office of Undergraduate under the Early Decision Plan. Early Admissions considers a wide range of • If the student’s native language is Decision candidates should submit regional and national examinations to English; or the application and all supporting fulfill an applicant’s standardized testing • If the student has been studying credentials by November 1 for Early requirement. Check www.admissions. in a school or college/university Decision I or by January 1 for Early nyu.edu for the most updated list. where the sole language of Decision II. NYU’s obligation under Applicants should not assume that any instruction is English for at this arrangement is to provide applicants examinations will meet NYU’s testing least three years at the time of with an admission decision beginning in requirements unless they are listed on application AND submit SAT, mid-December for Early Decision I or the Office of Undergraduate Admission’s ACT, AP, or IB testing; or in mid-February for Early Decision II. Web site. Please email admissions. The applicant’s obligation would be to [email protected] with questions regarding • If the student’s education has been enroll at NYU if admitted and offered a examinations that are not included on completed entirely in schools/ financial aid package that enabled him the list online. colleges/universities where the or her to attend. language of instruction is English. Test scores or examination results should be submitted directly from the Even if students are exempt from taking Applicants Without U.S. testing organization by the appropriate the TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE exam, Citizenship Or Permanent application deadline. SAT, SAT they may still submit their scores to Residency Subject, ACT, and AP scores must be demonstrate their English proficiency. Financial documentation is not required final at the time of application. For Students should take one of these when filing an application. If the student other examinations, if final results are examinations regardless of any other is accepted, instructions for completing unavailable at the time of application, test scores they submit to NYU if they the Application for Certificate of predicted results may only be submitted do not quality for an exemption. The Eligibility (AFCOE) online will be by a school official via the Naviance/ TOEFL/IELTS/PTE Academic score included in the acceptance packet. Common Application Web site, mailed will be used in conjunction with, not Appropriate evidence of financial ability on official school letterhead in a sealed/ in lieu of, other required standardized must be submitted with the AFCOE to signed envelope, or emailed from a testing. the Office of Global Services in order clearly identifiable school email address Students should be aware that while for the appropriate visa document to to [email protected]. NYU NYU does not have any minimum be issued. If the applicant’s studies are reserves the right to withdraw an offer of test score requirements, the most being financed by means of his or her admission if final results are not within competitive applicants score about 100 own savings, parental support, outside close range of the predicted results. on the TOEFL Internet-based Test private or government scholarships, or NYU also has English language testing (iBT) and 7.5 or above on the IELTS. any combination of these, he or she

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 54 must arrange to send official letters or Admissions Web site (www.nyu.edu/ before admission to NYU in which the similar certification as proof of such admissions/undergraduate-admissions/ grades earned were B or better may also support. Additional information may visit-us/hotels-and-travel-discounts. result in advanced standing credit. Some be consulted at www.nyu.edu/global/ html) to ensure the NYU Admissions courses taken at other colleges may not international-immigration-services. discounted rate is received. be honored by NYU. html. In order to receive evaluation of Student Visas And Orientation advanced standing credits, students Campus Visits Matters pertaining to student visas, pre- should request that official AP All prospective students and their departure preparation, and orientation results, college transcripts, and other parents are invited to visit the New programs at the Liberal Studies sites documentation be sent to the Office of York University campus at Washington in New York City, Florence, London Undergraduate Admissions, New York Square. Opportunities to tour the and Paris will be provided to admitted University, 665 Broadway, 11th Floor, University, to meet students and faculty, students upon receipt of the tuition New York, NY 10012-2339. and to attend classes are available to deposit. The Core Program accepts a maximum interested students. of 32 credits of advanced standing. Readmission Of Former Students Although interviews are not available, GLS accepts a maximum of 32 a visit to the campus is strongly Any former student who has been credits; however, the structure of the recommended. Tours of the campus out of attendance for more than three program does not normally allow early and admissions information sessions are consecutive terms and who wishes to graduation. Please refer to “Advanced conducted several times daily, Monday return to Liberal Studies must apply Placement Credit and Global Liberal through Friday and on select Saturdays. for readmission. The NYU application Studies Requirements,” in Academic for readmission is available at www. Policies and Procedures, on page 42. To make an appointment for a tour, an admissions.nyu.edu. Advanced standing credits are college- information session, or a class visitation, level credits earned before entering visit the Undergraduate Admissions Students who have attended another NYU. They are submitted to the NYU Web Site at www.admissions.nyu.edu or college or university since their last Office of Undergraduate Admissions call 212-998-4524. It is suggested that attendance at New York University and evaluated by the LS Advising arrangements be made several weeks must complete the regular application Center. prior to visiting the campus. for undergraduate admission, submit an official transcript, and pay the $70.00 While LS accepts advanced standing Students admitted to the Liberal Studies application fee. credits, the work reflected by these credits sites in Florence, London, and Paris will not substitute for any of the LS core for the freshman year of study will classes. The only LS requirements for be invited to visit these campuses in ADVANCED STANDING CREDITS which advanced standing credits may the spring, prior to the May 1 tuition NYU participates in the Advanced substitute are mathematics and science. deposit deadline. Placement Program (AP) of the College Students should also note that several NYU Guest Accommodations at Entrance Examination Board. In undergraduate schools and colleges of Washington Square accordance with New York University NYU have different policies on whether AP or other advanced standing credit NYU’s Office of Undergraduate policy, if test results are 5 or 4, depending will be accepted in fulfillment of major Admissions has partnered with local on the subject examination, the student and other requirements. Students hotels to offer guests special, discounted may receive college credit toward the should consult with the LS Advising rates for their stay while visiting the degree. International Baccalaureate, Center about advanced standing credits NYU campus. Reservations should be French Baccalaureate, A-levels, and and how they will be counted toward completed through the reservation forms Abitur credits may also result in the baccalaureate degree. found on the Office of Undergraduate advanced standing credit. Credits earned at other colleges and universities

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 55 See also “Academic Policies and Program or Global Liberal Studies) will Procedures” on page 40. follow the guidelines listed above and, upon payment of the tuition deposit, For information regarding the will be provided with all the pertinent possibility of advanced standing credit information for securing a student for other maturity certificates, please visa to enroll at New York University. contact the Office of Undergraduate Please note that upon acceptance, non- Admissions at www.admissions.nyu.edu U.S. citizens and non-U.S. permanent or 212-998-4500. residents must submit appropriate evidence of financial ability. See ENROLLMENT PROCESS “Applicants Without U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency,” above. To be enrolled, an admitted candidate must do the following: Students are advised that registration in other than state-registered or otherwise • Accept the University’s offer of approved programs may jeopardize their admission and pay the required eligibility for certain student aid. All nonrefundable tuition deposit. Liberal Studies programs are registered • If he or she plans to live by the New York State Education on-campus in New York, or at one Department. of NYU’s global sites in London, Paris, or Florence, for freshman year, submit the required housing ADDITIONAL INFORMATION deposit. All students planning Current data on full-time to begin in London, Paris, or undergraduate retention and Florence are required to live on graduation rates is maintained by the campus (and thus pay the housing NYU Office of Institutional Research: deposit). www.nyu.edu/ir.

• Have his or her high school and For more information about admission, college (if applicable) forward a please contact the NYU Office of final transcript to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions: www. Undergraduate Admissions. nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate- admissions.html or 212-998-4500 • File a medical report.

• Pay balance of tuition and/or housing fees by the stipulated deadlines.

• LS students should await contact by their assigned academic advisor about the advising and registration process.

International applicants (non-U.S. citizens and non-U.S. permanent residents) admitted to LS (the Core

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 56 Tuition, Fees, & Financial Aid

New York University awards financial Tuition: Other Students Maintenance Of Matriculation aid in an effort to help students meet Tuition, per unit, academic year 2014– Per term varies, plus nonreturnable the difference between their own 2015: $1,289 registration and services fee: resources and the cost of education. All awards are subject to availability of Fall 2014 term: Per term: $461 funds and the student’s demonstrated Nonreturnable registration and services need. Renewal of assistance depends on Health Insurance fee, first unit: $461 annual reevaluation of a student’s need, NYU requires that all students registered the availability of funds, the successful Nonreturnable registration and services in degree-granting programs maintain completion of the previous year, and fee, per unit, for registration after first health insurance. Most students are satisfactory progress toward completion credit: $65 automatically enrolled in either the of degree requirements. In addition, Spring 2014 term: Basic Plan or the Comprehensive students must meet the published filing Plan as part of the course registration deadlines. Nonreturnable registration and services process. Students automatically enrolled fee, first credit: $461 in the basic plan or the comprehensive TUITION AND FEES: 2014-2015 Nonreturnable registration and services plan wishing to change to a different fee, per unit, for registration after first plan may do so by completing the Following is the schedule of fees unit: $65 online enrollment process before the established by the Board of Trustees of appropriate deadline; for details, please New York University for undergraduates Books And Supplies see www.nyu.edu/health/insurance. in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the year 2014-2015. The Board Academic year: $1070 Basic Health Insurance Benefit Plan: of Trustees reserves the right to alter 2014–2015 this schedule without notice. Tuition, Room And Board For additional and updated information fees, and expenses may be expected to Academic year: $16,782* beyond 2014–2015, please see www. increase in subsequent years. Students nyu.edu/health/insurance. should consult www.nyu.edu/bursar for *Actual room and board varies depending updated information. upon several factors. Annual: $2,094 Fall term: $810 Tuition: Full-Time Students Personal Expenses Spring term: $1,284 (coverage for the Tuition, 12 to 18 credits flat rate, per Academic year: $2000 spring and summer terms) term: $21,873 Academic Support Fee Summer term: $568 (only for students Nonreturnable registration and services who did not register in the preceding fee for flat rate, per term: $1,212 All students must pay an academic term) support fee. For those taking 12 credits Additional tuition, 19 or more units per or more, it is $55 per term. For those Comprehensive Health Insurance term, per unit (includes a nonreturnable taking fewer than 5 credits, it is $14 Benefit Plan: 2014–2015 registration and services fee of $65): per credit, up to a maximum of $25 per $1,354 For additional and updated information term. beyond 2014–2015, please see www. nyu.edu/health/insurance.

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 57 Annual: $3,236 SPECIAL PROGRAMS eligible to submit the CSS Profile.

Fall term: $1,249 For expenses for study in NYU study • Students with divorced, separated, away and in NYU international or unmarried parents will need to Spring term: $1,987 (coverage for the exchange programs, contact the NYU submit the CSS Non-Custodial spring and summer terms) Office of Global Programs, 110 East Parent Profile (or the CSS Non- Summer term: $877 (only for students 14th Street, Lower Level, New York, Custodial Parent PROFILE waiver who did not register in the preceding NY 10003-4170; 212-998-4433. Also request) by the deadlines below to term) see www.nyu.edu/global.html. qualify for scholarships/grants.

Stu-Dent Plan: 2014–2015 • NYU’s CSS/PROFILE deadlines FINANCIAL AID are: November 1st (Early Decision For additional and updated information I applicants), January 15th (Early beyond 2014–2015, please see www. Financial aid comes in three forms: Decision II applicants), and nyu.edu/health/rates. scholarships and grants (funds that do February 15th (Regular Decision not have to be paid back), loans (funds Dental service through NYU’s College applicants). that do have to be paid back with of Dentistry: interest), and work-study grants (funds 2. The Free Application for Federal Primary member: $240 that allow students to work for NYU in Student Aid (FAFSA) exchange for pay). Partner: $240 • The FAFSA is also required of all There are no separate applications financial aid applicants who are Dependent (under age 16): $83 for merit scholarships at NYU. The U.S. Citizens and/or Permanent Renewal membership: $193 admission application is used to Residents. determine if students qualify for any • Do not complete the FAFSA until scholarship where merit is considered. Special Fees For All Students: January 1st if applying for Fall 2014–2015 The following are the only forms admission. For additional and updated information students need to complete online • NYU’s FAFSA deadlines are: beyond 2014–2015, students may for whatever possible financial aid is February 15th (all freshman consult the Web sites of or contact awarded at NYU, including all need- applicants) and April 1st (GLS the Offices of the Registrar, Bursar, based and merit-based scholarships: external transfer applicants, fall Residence Life, and Admissions. 1. The College Scholarship Service/ only). Late payment of tuition fee: $25 Financial Aid Profile (CSS Profile) Eligibility for Financial Aid Late registration fee commencing with • The CSS PROFILE is required the second week of classes: $50 of all applicants, regardless of To be considered for financial aid, citizenship, who would like to be students must be officially admitted Late registration fee commencing with considered for any NYU financial to NYU or matriculated in a degree the fifth week of classes: $100 aid, including any and all NYU program and making satisfactory Deposit upon acceptance (non- scholarships and grants. academic progress toward degree refundable): $500 requirements. Financial aid awards • Scholarships/grants for are not automatically renewed each Housing deposit (if applicable) upon international students applying year. Continuing students must apply acceptance (non-refundable): $1,000 to the New York campus will be for financial aid each year, continue limited. to demonstrate financial need, make • The CSS profile should only be satisfactory progress toward degree filed by freshman applicants to requirements, and be in good academic NYU. Transfer applicants are not standing.

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 58 Please consult www.nyu.edu/ Some students from outside New York in their award package. Work study admissions/financial-aid-and- State may qualify for funds from their wages are paid directly to the student on scholarships.html for current details. own state scholarship programs that can a biweekly basis and are normally used be used at New York University. Contact for books, transportation, and personal the state financial aid agency (call 800- expenses. SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS 433-3243 to obtain contact information) Eligibility for merit-based and/or need- to ask about program requirements and Resident Assistantships based scholarships at NYU is determined application procedures. Upon receiving Resident assistants reside in the residence upon entrance to the University based an eligibility notice from your state halls and are responsible for organizing, on prior academic strengths and, if program, students should submit it implementing, and evaluating social and applying for financial aid, a student’s immediately to the NYU Office of educational activities. Compensation is demonstrated financial need. Financial Aid. room and/or board, and/or a stipend. Applications and further information Scholarships and Grants from University-Sponsored and may be obtained from www.nyu.edu/ University-Administered Other Organizations life/living-at-nyu.html. Programs Students may be eligible for a private Through the generosity of its alumni scholarship or grant from an outside Tuition Remission and other concerned citizens, as well agency. Some sources to explore Members of the NYU staff, teaching as from funds supplied by the federal are employers, unions, professional staff, and officers or administrators government, the University is able organizations, and community and and their dependents who are eligible to provide an extensive financial aid special interest groups. A number of for NYU tuition remission are not program for its students. Awards extensive scholarship search resources eligible for other forms of financial are competitive and are based on a are available free online, and several aid administered by the University combination of academic achievement, are featured at www.nyu.edu/financial. (including merit awards). Eligibility applicable test scores, and, in most aid. Students must notify the Office of can be reviewed for other types of aid cases, financial need. No separate Financial Aid if they receive funds from including: Federal Stafford Loans, application is necessary. Details can be any of these sources. Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loans, obtained at www.nyu.edu/admissions/ Federal Parent Loans for Undergraduate undergraduate-admissions/financial- Students (PLUS), TAP Grants, Federal aid/scholarships.html. OTHER SOURCES OF AID Pell Grants, and some private (non- Federal and Private Loans federal) alternative loan programs if the Federal Scholarships and Grants Free Application for Federal Student For information about federal loans Eligibility is based on submission of the Aid is completed. Details about tuition and private (non-federal) alternative FAFSA, and no separate application is remission eligibility information can be loans please consult www.nyu. necessary. obtained at www.nyu.edu/employees/ edu/admissions/financial-aid-and- benefit.html. scholarships/types-of-financial-aid. State Grants html. New York State offers a wide variety STUDENT FINANCIAL AID of grants and scholarships to residents, Student Employment RESPONSIBILITIES subject to the annual availability of Most financial aid award packages • Students must apply for financial funds. Application is made directly to include work study. This means that aid each year to receive any and the state, and grants are awarded by students are eligible to participate in the all types of financial aid awarded the state. New York State programs are federal work study program and may at NYU, including all need-based listed at www.hesc.com. earn up to the amount recommended and merit-based scholarships.

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 59 • Consult www.nyu.edu/financial. Aid if there is a change in housing aid for all financial aid application status. A change in enrollment deadlines. Failure to meet the or housing status may affect the NYU deadline may result in financial aid received. a reduction of a student’s aid • Notify the Office of the University eligibility. Registrar of change of address • Use NYU Albert to accept by updating contact information financial aid awards. via NYU Albert. NYU uses the records of the Office of the • If submitting documents to the University Registrar to administer Office of Financial Aid, put the financial aid. University I.D. number on each page and keep a copy for yourself. For more information about scholarships Do not submit originals. and financial aid, please contact NYU’s Office of Financial Aid: www.nyu.edu/ • Be certain to understand the admissions/undergraduate-admissions/ conditions of the awards accepted. financial-aid.html or 212-998-4444. Contact the Office of Financial Aid with any questions.

• Adhere to satisfactory academic progress standards to remain eligible for financial aid. The Office of Financial Aid will send reminders, but it is the student’s responsibility to know and heed the requirements.

• Notify the Office of Financial Aid immediately if an award or financial aid is received from any additional source. A change in resources may affect eligibility for student aid.

• Respond immediately to all requests from the Office of Financial Aid. Failure to comply may result in the cancellation of aid.

• Consult with the Office of Financial Aid immediately if the academic program is reduced to fewer credits, or if the student is enrolled full-time (at least 12 credits) but intends to begin part- time (less than 12 credits). Also contact the Office of Financial

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 60 Global Academic Centers

NYU offers study away outside New an understanding of Middle Eastern in a fast-developing city. Numerous York for a semester or a year at its global history and culture. Language courses cocurricular travel opportunities academic centers: in Arabic and Chinese are offered. introduce students to the diversity and complexity of West African culture. • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The NYU Abu Dhabi campus is located Whether learning Twi, the city’s local on Saadiyat Island. Five hundred meters • Accra, Ghana dialect, or embracing local West off the mainland, the island is being African culture, students at NYU Accra • Berlin, Germany planned for a population of 150,000, are rewarded with an unparalleled with a cultural district featuring several • Buenos Aires, Argentina intellectual and cultural experience. museums, including the Guggenheim • Florence, Italy Abu Dhabi and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. All students are required to reside in The NYU campus has facilities dedicated NYU-arranged housing facilities as • London, United Kingdom to academics and research, residential a condition of enrollment at NYU • Madrid, Spain life, library, dining, performance and Accra. The housing facilities are located the arts, and athletics. In addition to in residential neighborhoods within • Paris, France the main campus, the NYUAD Center walking distance of the NYU academic • Prague, the Czech Republic for Science and Engineering (CSE) center and provide shared bedrooms, provides extensive teaching and research kitchens, and common space. • Shanghai, China space. • Sydney, Australia NYU BERLIN • Tel Aviv, Israel NYU ACCRA At NYU Berlin, located in the trendy • Washington, D.C., USA NYU’s global academic center in Accra, Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood in the capital of Ghana, offers courses in central Berlin, students experience a the arts, literature, communication, cosmopolitan city that holds a complex NYU ABU DHABI journalism, media, anthropology, and crucial place in modern European NYU Abu Dhabi, the University’s history, politics, global public health, history. Youthful, artistic, and hip, first degree-granting campus outside and sociology taught by local professors Berlin has traveled a path that led from the U.S., is a study away option for and visiting faculty from New York. the defining cultural avant-garde of the students earning their degree in New Students at NYU Accra have the unique Weimar Republic to the devastation York. Located in the global crossroads opportunity to enhance coursework of World War II, from a divided city of the Persian Gulf, NYU Abu relevant to their majors with enrollment symbolizing the Cold War to today’s Dhabi offers study away students the at the University of Ghana-Legon, reunified and renewed capital. where they may take up to two courses opportunity to continue their education The program at NYU Berlin is designed while studying alongside West Africa’s at a comprehensive research university for students in the social sciences top students. among students who come from all and humanities who want to earn over the world. Small class sizes allow Many NYU Accra students intern credit in their majors—including students to develop close relationships and take part in community service sociology, history, politics, studio art, with professors. Students can choose with NGOs, local businesses, and environmental studies and European from a wide array of courses in liberal arts philanthropic groups, helping them studies—while having a transformative and sciences, many of which respond to to understand social entrepreneurship experience abroad. Courses are taught in the location of Abu Dhabi and promote

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 61 English, and German language courses the handsome Recoleta district, near language acquisition and engage with are offered at all levels. Day trips and vibrant Avenida Santa Fe. Staff members Florentine culture at the same time. guided excursions in and around Berlin organize and offer a myriad of activities Students with advanced proficiency are included in the program. for students to take part in, ranging in Italian may take courses taught in from regional travel to destinations Italian at the NYU global academic All NYU Berlin students live in the such as Iguazu Falls, Rosario, and Tigre center or may directly enroll in courses lively district of Kreuzberg in an NYU- to taking tango lessons throughout the at the University of Florence for up to managed residence hall. Students share semester. Volunteer opportunities at half of their coursework. double rooms and enjoy spacious local NGOs and media offices open common areas and a film screening The academic center is located doors for students to engage in the studio. Outdoors, there is a well- just north of the city center on a community and practice Spanish. manicured green space, which invites magnificent 57-acre estate bequeathed Museums, class field trips, and concerts students to study and relax. Student to the University by Sir Harold Acton, offer opportunities to go beyond housing is located just a short walk a distinguished patron of the arts. The day-to-day cultural experiences and from two major subway lines, making estate is comprised of five villas, most better understand the dynamic past the commute to classes at the global notably La Pietra, which houses an early and present of the Argentine capital. academic center about 35–40 minutes Renaissance art and furniture collection, Students live in homestays which brings by public transport. and its grounds feature one of the most the everyday Argentine way of living to authentically restored Renaissance life as students share meals, ideas and gardens in all of Tuscany. NYU BUENOS AIRES activities with their host parents. Some students reside on the estate in one NYU Buenos Aires offers students the of two villas that have been dedicated to exceptional opportunity to learn about NYU FLORENCE student housing; other students live in the people, history, culture, politics, NYU Florence offers a strong and downtown Florence in shared residences and economy of Argentina and the coherent humanities curriculum of art or in a homestay in an Italian household. region while living in one of South history, history, cinema, and literature, America’s most vibrant cities. Courses alongside a focused concentration in are taught in Spanish and English by social research, public policy, and law. NYU LONDON some of Argentina’s most talented Each of these two separate but not Centrally located in , the scholars, journalists, and public health unrelated parts takes advantage not only heart of London’s university district, professionals, as well as renowned of the extraordinary cultural resources students at NYU London take advantage writers and musicians. The curriculum provided by the city of Florence and Italy of a wide range of academic programs provides a cultural framework for in general, but also of a unique array complemented by the rich cultural coursework in subjects ranging from of cocurricular lectures and activities experience of living in one of Europe’s art history, cinema studies, and creative through the La Pietra Dialogues series most storied cities. Specialized programs writing to politics, sociology, and that make the Florence campus a are available in Africana studies, art and economics. All students at NYU Buenos dynamic center for scholarly activity architecture, business, mathematics, Aires take a Spanish language course at and global policy discussions. Cultural British literature and writing, prehealth, their appropriate level upon arrival or, if activities and field trips in and around and psychology. Additionally, NYU is they possess advanced skills, an elective Florence and Tuscany are an integral one of the only institutions in London in the language. part of the cocurricular program. to offer science courses approved by the A place of renewed growth and American Medical College Application Courses are taught in English. Italian prosperity, Buenos Aires is one of the Service (AMCAS) for medical school language courses are available at all most important financial and cultural admittance. Fieldwork and site visits levels, and an intensive Italian Language centers in Latin America. The NYU are a regular part of many classes Program is available for beginning global academic center is located in and students may enroll in for-credit students who want to accelerate their

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 62 internships with key institutions in Spanish designed especially for their appropriate to their level. Coursework fields including marketing, finance, skill level. During the spring semester is enhanced by faculty-led trips in media, law, politics, health, and theatre. qualified students who are fluent in and around Paris, to world-renowned Spanish may take up to two courses at museums such as the Louvre and the The global academic center, a converted NYU’s affiliated university, Universidad Musée Picasso or to smaller galleries and 18th-century town house, is located Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). exhibits, as well as to the opera, ballet, on historic near many and theatre. Students also have the museums and public parks and gardens. Madrid is the political and cultural opportunity to a take a course or two The center offers classrooms, a computer center of Spain and one of the liveliest through an arrangement at one of the lab, and a student resource room. and friendliest capital cities in Europe, local French universities. Students live nearby in NYU-arranged replete with magnificent architecture, residences close to public transportation, world-class museums, and delicious The NYU Paris global academic center the shops of the Brunswick Center, and cuisine. Students at NYU Madrid enjoy is located in the Latin Quarter, the the West End (London’s theatre district). a semester of rich cultural experiences thriving historic and intellectual heart that complement their studies, whether of Paris. Students have the opportunity Students can take advantage of guided they’re on a class trip to the Museo del to benefit from the numerous cultural, tours to places such as the British Prado to learn firsthand about Goya’s artistic, and academic institutions of Museum, Shakespeare’s Globe, the masterpieces or at an out-of-the way this wonderful neighborhood. The Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, and tapas bar on Cava Baja. cocurricular program offers day trips the Tower of London. There are also to places outside of the city such as several walking tours focusing on the Many students live in homestays Chantilly, Giverny, and Versailles, architecture of districts such as Soho, with Spanish host families, which and weekend excursions and study- Bloomsbury, and Westminster, as well encourages them to build a deeper trips to locations such as Avignon, the as excursions to sites outside of London. connection with Spanish culture and Loire Valley, and La Rochelle, that provides an opportunity to practice allow students to further embrace the speaking in a more casual environment. richness, depth, and diversity of French NYU MADRID Other students live in privately-owned history and civilization. At NYU Madrid students advance their apartments. An Intercambio Program command of Spanish while engaging brings NYU Madrid students together Student housing is arranged in with European traditions and culture in with local students to practice their homestays, apartments, and residences their coursework. Established in 1958 Spanish and make friends. around the city—all commutable as NYU’s first global academic center, to the academic center via public NYU Madrid offers Spanish language transportation. instruction at all levels, as well as courses NYU PARIS in economics, politics, Spanish culture, The curriculum at NYU Paris focuses on Spanish American literature, history, the language, arts, history, literature, and NYU PRAGUE civilization, anthropology, the social and politics of France and its relationships NYU Prague, located in two 15th political sciences, fine arts, and cinema. with the wider world. A world-class century buildings only steps away from faculty provides context and support the Old Town Square and the historic For students with no previous knowledge for students’ academic work. Students clock tower, offers students a broad of Spanish, elementary language courses with a limited background in French curriculum in art, architecture, film, are offered along with a curriculum enroll in Program I, where all courses media, music, photography, politics, taught in English. Beginning students except for language courses are taught in business, the humanities, and social may choose to enroll in the Fast Track English. Students proficient in French science. Courses are taught by a diverse Spanish for Beginners Program to raise participate in Program II, which features faculty, including noted writers, foreign their proficiency levels rapidly in just one a variety of courses taught in French. All ambassadors, and leading dissidents of semester. Students at the intermediate students take a French language course the Velvet Revolution, the nonviolent level can take courses conducted in

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 63 political movement that ended the estimated to be between 16 and 24 history of immigrant communities Communist regime in Prague in 1989. million, the NYU Shanghai campus that formed this continent-sized A specialized program in music and has facilities for academics and research, nation with unique and compelling the performing arts pairs students in library, computer labs, and student characteristics. The curriculum offers private lessons with the most talented activities. Students are guaranteed classes in anthropology, business, musicians in the nation, while music housing in NYU-arranged residences a English, environmental studies, and photography students have access short transit ride from campus. journalism, prehealth, psychology, and to on-site practice space and darkrooms. communications. A metropolis with strikingly modern All courses are taught in English except architecture, Shanghai is the perfect The NYU Sydney global academic center for language courses in Czech, German, locale from which to observe the is located in a recently renovated historic Polish, and Russian. interplay of various forces that have building in the Rocks area of central Prague has emerged as a crown jewel turned China’s economy into one of Sydney near the renowned harbor. of central Europe—a vibrant center of the world’s largest in a very short time. The facility houses the administrative culture and thought that attracts students At NYU Shanghai students will find offices, classrooms, computer lab, and from around the world. NYU Prague courses taught in English by prestigious reading room. A common area doubles students engage in this environment via faculty in a variety of disciplines in as a study lounge and space for social cocurricular programming that includes liberal arts, science, and engineering. gatherings. Students are assigned attendance at global conferences in Students are drawn to NYU Shanghai housing in an NYU-arranged residence the city and a dynamic lecture series from China, the United States, and a short commute on public transit from hosted at the NYU Prague Institute for from around the world, all seeking an the academic center. Democracy, Economy, and Culture. academic environment that encourages Leading professors drawn from Sydney Internships are widely available, and in cross-cultural learning, exploration, and the local region along with NYU past semesters students have written for and development. NYU Shanghai staff support students as they engage Czech magazines and worked with the provides students with access to on-site with the city and local culture. NYU- public relations and fundraising arms academic administrators who will advise organized study trips taking students of the Archa and Ponec theatres and the them during their stay, as well as to a beyond the areas visited by casual Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. full-time student affairs staff. Studying tourists are an essential part of the at NYU Shanghai affords students the NYU-arranged housing is provided in cocurricular program. exceptional opportunity to learn about residential buildings a short commute the history and culture of this ever- from the global academic center on developing country while participating public transit. NYU Prague staff plan a NYU TEL AVIV in the vibrant activities of day-to-day series of activities to introduce students Tel Aviv, a vibrant Mediterranean life in Shanghai. to the exciting cultural history and metropolis, is the financial and characteristics that make Prague unique. technological center of Israel. Here, NYU SYDNEY students have the opportunity to acquire a sophisticated understanding Located in Australia’s largest and NYU SHANGHAI of Israel and the Middle East, and of most cosmopolitan city, NYU Sydney NYU Shanghai, the University’s second the interrelationships between cultures, provides students with the unparalleled degree granting campus outside the political movements, and religious opportunity to live and study in a hub of U.S., offers a study away option for traditions. commerce, culture, and communication students interested in a semester or in the Asia-Pacific region. NYU Sydney The curriculum at NYU Tel Aviv is year studying in this exciting business students will be able to explore Aboriginal particularly well suited for students and cultural center. Located in the art and culture, products of the longest studying history, politics, biology, and Pudong district in the heart of China’s continuous civilization on the planet. the social sciences. While students study most dynamic city, with a population Courses will introduce Australia’s rich with great teachers in a variety of fields,

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 64 they also develop competency in Hebrew and engage in carefully selected and or Arabic and, through a credit-bearing academically supervised internships internship course, may engage with local with elected officials, government cultural and community organizations, agencies, international organizations, businesses, and nongovernmental NGOs, museums, media, and other organizations (NGOs). NYU Tel Aviv institutions. has a dedicated faculty that includes Students live and attend class just blocks established scholars, artists, journalists, from the White House, the World and public intellectuals whose Bank, and the Smithsonian museums internationally valued work transcends at NYU’s Constance Milstein and traditional disciplinary boundaries. Family Global Academic Center, which All students live in NYU-arranged features seminar rooms, an auditorium, housing located in a residential computer lab, reading room, and neighborhood near Yarkon Park, often student lounges on each floor. The compared to New York’s Central Park center also serves as a venue for dynamic for its sports facilities, botanical gardens, public programming featuring leaders aviary, water park, concert venues, and in government, business, and culture lakes. Outside class, students can enjoy as well as notable public figures as part Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus-inspired modern of the Weissberg Forum for Discourse architecture, world-class museums, in the Public Square. These events modern art galleries, dance and theatre encourage students to discuss topical performances, opera, jazz, classical issues with distinguished speakers and music, and an emerging alternative contribute to an academic environment music scene. that deepens their understanding of public policy, civic activism, cultural studies, international concerns, green NYU WASHINGTON, D.C. initiatives, media matters, political No global network would be complete debates, legal issues, and business affairs. without a location in the U.S. capital, In addition to the connections students the seat of the federal government, make at their internship placements, home to 174 embassies, headquarters students also have opportunities of numerous international policy- to become involved with the local making bodies and think tanks, and the community through programming and site of many museums, monuments, activities that include visits to places of and cultural institutions. At NYU historic significance, tours of museums, Washington, D.C. students will find galleries and monuments, and volunteer study and research opportunities opportunities in the community. A in an array of subjects, including large NYU alumni network provides American studies, art history, business, additional opportunities for students, environmental studies, history, including support for our mentoring journalism, metropolitan studies, program. politics, prelaw, and public policy, all enhanced by access to Washington’s distinctive intellectual, political, and cultural life. Students learn under the guidance of a world-class faculty,

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015

Fall 2014

Monday September 1 Monday October 6 Wednesday December 10 Labor Day: holiday Last day for filing or revoking Pass/Fail Legislative day option Tuesday September 2 Friday December 12 Fall term begins Monday – Tuesday October 13-14 Last day of fall classes (classes meet on No classes scheduled Monday schedule) Monday September 15 Last day to add a course Monday November 3 Monday – Friday December 15 – 19 Last day for withdrawing from a course Fall term final examinations Monday September 22 (with a “W”) Last day to drop a course without a Saturday – Sunday December 20 – “W” Thursday – Sunday November 27 – 30 January 4 Thanksgiving recess Winter Recess

Spring 2015

Monday January 5 Tuesday February 17 Tuesday May 12 January term begins Last day to drop a course without a Reading day “W” Monday January 19 Wednesday – Tuesday May 13 – 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: holiday Friday February 27 Spring term final examinations Last day for filing or revoking Pass/Fail Friday January 23 option Wednesday May 20 Last day of January term classes Commencement: conferring of degrees Monday – Sunday March 16 – 22 Monday January 26 Spring recess Monday May 25 Spring term begins Memorial Day: holiday Friday April 3 Monday February 9 Last day for withdrawing from a course Tuesday – Thursday May 26 – July 2 Last day to add a course (with a “W”) Summer Session I

Monday February 16 Monday May 11 Friday July 3 Presidents’ Day: holiday Last day of spring classes Independence Day: holiday

Monday – Saturday July 6 – August 15 Summer Session II

Additional Important Dates:

For 2015-2016 calendar, visit www.nyu.edu/registrar/calendars.

For tuition and fee refund schedules, see www.nyu.edu/bursar.

For registration and drop/add schedules, consult www.nyu.edu/registrar and also the LS Advising Center, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor.

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