New York University Bulletin 2016-2018 New York University Bulletin 2016-2018 Liberal Studies

THE CORE PROGRAM Announcement for the 45th and 46th Sessions

GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES Announcement for the 8th and 9th Sessions

New York University Washington Square New York, New York 10003

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Cover photo courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau/Bob Handelman Page 4 photo courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau/Catalina Kulczar Contents

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

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

New York University & New York City ...... 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 ...... 24

Liberal Studies Course Descriptions ...... 30

Liberal Studies Faculty ...... 37

Liberal Studies Student Awards & Honors ...... 40

Academic Policies & Procedures ...... 43

Student Life Resources ...... 56

Admission to Liberal Studies ...... 59

Tuition, Fees, & Financial Aid ...... 63

Global Academic Centers ...... 68

Academic Calendar ...... 74

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

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; Paris, 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 140 foreign countries. over 11,000 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 Albert Gallatin, 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 1934 Courant Institute of www.cas.nyu.edu Mathematical Sciences www.cims.nyu.edu 1835 School of Law www.law.nyu.edu 1938 Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service 1841 School of Medicine www.wagner.nyu.edu www.school.med.nyu.edu 1960 Silver School of Social Work 1854 Tandon School of www.nyu.edu/socialwork Engineering (January 2014) www.engineering.nyu.edu/ 1965 Tisch School of the Arts tandon www.tisch.nyu.edu

1865 College of Dentistry 1972 Gallatin School of www.nyu.edu/dental Individualized Study (including the www.nyu.edu/gallatin College of Nursing [1947], renamed the Rory Meyers 1972 Liberal Studies College of Nursing www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu (April 2016) 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 2015 College of Global Public www.stern.nyu.edu Health www.publichealth.nyu.edu 1922 Institute of Fine Arts www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart

1934 School of Professional Studies www.sps.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 a 10-library food writing, pamphlets, paper, and The Bern Dibner Library serves the system that provides access to the archives, dating from the 1790s; and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. world’s scholarship. The Division of Downtown Collection, an extraordinary The libraries of NYU Abu Dhabi and Libraries holds 4 million book volumes. multimedia archive documenting the NYU Shanghai provide access to all the Its online catalog, BobCat, contains 3.6 avant-garde New York art world since resources in BobCat and are building million records, including 1.1 million 1975. Bobst Library also houses the their own collection of books and other e-books, 110,000 e-journals, 261,893 Tamiment Library, the country’s leading print materials in support of the schools’ serial titles, and 163,000 audio and repository of research materials in the developing curricula. Complementing video recordings. The special collections history of left politics and labor. Two the collections of the Division of are uniquely strong in the performing fellowship programs bring scholars Libraries are those of the libraries of the arts, radical and labor history, and the from around the world to Tamiment Health Sciences Library and School of history of New York and its avant-garde to explore the history of the Cold Law. War and its wide-ranging impact on culture. The NYU Division of Libraries American institutions and to research continually enhances its student Bobst Library serves as a center for the academic freedom and promote public and faculty services and expands its NYU community’s intellectual life. It discussion of its history and role in our research collections, responding to the offers approximately 2,500 seats for society. Tamiment’s Robert F. Wagner extraordinary growth of the University’s student study. The Avery Fisher Center Labor Archives contain, among other academic programs in recent years and for Music and Media is one of the world’s resources, the archives of the Jewish to the rapid expansion of electronic largest academic media centers and will Labor Committee and of more than 200 information resources. Bobst Library’s move in summer 2016 to new quarters New York City labor organizations. in the library with advanced technology professional staff includes more than 38 to support the newest modes of music Beyond Bobst, the library of the subject specialists who select materials listening. 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, geospatial research, and arts events. The Data Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) information, digital information, Service Studio provides expert staff and houses the rich collections that support scholarly communication, intellectual access to software, statistical computing, the research and curricular needs of property, and more. geographical information systems the institute’s graduate programs in analysis, data collection resources, and art history and archaeology. The Jack THE LARGER CAMPUS data management services in support of Brause Library at SPS Midtown, the quantitative research at NYU. most comprehensive facility of its kind, New York University is an integral serves the information needs of every part of the metropolitan community The Fales Library, a special collection sector of the real estate community. The of New York City—the business, within Bobst Library, is home to the Library of the Institute for the Study of cultural, artistic, and financial center

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

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

SENIOR UNIVERSITY John Beckman, BA, Vice President for DEANS AND DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATION Public Affairs Charles N. Bertolami, D.D.S., Andrew D. Hamilton, B.Sc., M.Sc., Linda Chiarelli, B.E., J.D., Vice D.Med.Sc., Herman Robert Fox Dean, Ph.D., President President, Captial Projects and Facilities College of Dentistry

Sabrina Ellis, B.A., M.S., Vice Alfred H. Bloom, B.A., Ph.D.; hon.: LL.D., Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu Uli Baer, President of Human Resources B.A., M.Phi., Ph.D., Vice Dhabi Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities & Paul M. Horn, B.S., Ph.D., Senior Diversity Vice Provost for Research; Senior Vice Dominic Brewer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, Steinhardt Richard S. Baum Dean for Strategic Initiatives and , B.A., Chief of Staff School of Culture, Education, and to the President Entrepreneurship, Tandon School of Engineering Human Development Robert Berne, B.S., M.B.A., Ph.D., Anthony Jiga, Vice Thomas J. Carew, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.; Executive Vice President for Health B.A., M.P.P., President for Budget and Planning hon.: MA, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Lynne P. Brown, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science MJ Knoll-Finn, Senior Vice President for University B.A., M.B.A., Vice President for Enrollment Management Richard Cole, B.A., Ph.D., Interim Relations and Public Affairs Director, Courant Institute of Marlon Lynch, Vice Martin S. Dorph, B.S., M.B.A., J.D., B.A., M.A., Mathematics President for Global Campus Safety Executive Vice President, Finance and Georgina Dopico, MA, PhD, Dean for Information Technology Len Peters, B.S., M.S., Vice President Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science Katherine Fleming and Chief Information Officer , B.A., M.A., Dennis Di Lorenzo, B.A., Harvey J. Ph.D., Provost Cybele Raver, B.A., M.S., M.Phil., Stedman Dean, School of Professional Vice Provost for Academic and Debra A. LaMorte, B.A., J.D., Senior Ph.D., Studies Research Affairs Vice President for Development and Sherry L. Glied, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Alumni Relations Matthew S. Santirocco, B.A., B.A. Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School Linda G. Mills, B.A., J.D., M.S.W., [Cantab.]; M.Phil., M.A. [Cantab.], of Public Service Senior Vice Provost Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Global Ph.D.; hon.: M.A., for Academic Affairs Allyson Green, B.F.A., M.F.A., Dean, Programs and University Life, NYU; Tisch School of the Arts Associate Vice Chancellor for Admissions Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, B.E., M.E., and Financial Support, NYU Abu M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: D.Sc., Executive Robert I. Grossman, B.S., M.D., Dhabi; Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor Vice Provost for Engineering and Applied Saul J. Farber Dean, NYU School of Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, NYU Carol Morrow, Sciences; Dean, Tandon School of B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Hospitals Center Vice Provost Engineering Marc L. Wais Anna Harvey, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Terrance Nolan, B.A., J.D., LL.M., , B.S., M.B.A., Ed.M., Ed.D., Senior Vice President for Student Interim Dean, Graduate School of Arts General Counsel and Secretary of the and Science University Affairs Cheryl G. Healton, B.A., M.P.A., Ellen Schall , B.A., J.D., Senior Dr.P.H., Director, Global Institute of Presidential Fellow Public Health; Dean of Global Public Health

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 8 Peter Blair Henry, B.A., B.A., Ph.D., G. Gabrielle Starr, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Gale Drukier, B.S., M.S., Ed.D. Dean, Leonard N. Stern School of Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Joel S. Ehrenkranz, B.S., M.B.A., Business Science LL.B., LL.M. James Jaccard, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Eileen Sullivan-Marx, B.S.N., M.S., Laurence D. Fink, B.A., M.B.A. Interim Dean, Silver School of Social Ph.D., C.R.N.P., R.N., F.A.A.N., Work Dean, Rory Meyers College of Nursing Luiz Fraga, B.A., M.B.A.

Alexander Jones, B.A., Ph.D., Interim Joanna Waley-Cohen, BA, MA, PhD, Mark Fung, B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D. Director, Institute for the Study of the Provost, NYU Shanghai Ancient World Jeffrey S. Gould,B.A., J.D. Susanne L. Wofford, B.A.; B.Phil. Steven E. Koonin, B.S., Ph.D., [Oxon.], Ph.D., Dean, Gallatin School Lisa Yoo Hahn, B.A., J.D. Director, Center for Urban Science and of Individualized Study Andrew D. Hamilton, B.Sc., M.Sc., Progress Yu Lizhong, B.Sc., Ph.D., Chancellor, Ph.D. Michael Laver, B.A. (hons.), M.A., NYU Shanghai Natalie Holder, B.S., J.D., M.B.A. Ph.D., Dean for Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science Beverly Hyman, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jeffrey S. Lehman, B.A., J.D., M.P.P., Mitchell Jacobson, B.A., J.D. Vice Chancellor, NYU Shanghai William R. Berkley, B.S., M.B.A., Chair Boris Jordan, B.A. Carol A. Mandel, B.A., M.A., M.S.L.S., Dean of Libraries Jonathan C. Kim, B.S.

Geeta Menon, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Ronald D. Abramson, B.A., J.D.; Charles Klein, B.A., J.D. hon.: D.F.A. Dean, Undergraduate College, Leonard Andre J. L. Koo, B.A., M.B.A. N. Stern School of Business Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, B.S. Joseph Landy, BS, MBA Trevor W. Morrison , B.A. (hons.) Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, B.S. [British Columbia]; J.D., Dean, School Mark Leslie, B.A. of Law Ralph Alexander, B.S., M.S., M.S. Brian A. Levine, B.S., M.S., M.D. Fabio Piano, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Taffi Ayodele, B.A., M.B.A Amanda Lipitz, B.F.A. Provost, NYU Abu Dhabi Phyllis Putter Barasch, B.S., M.A., Martin Lipton, B.S., LL.B. Michael D. Purugganan, B.S., M.A., M.B.A. Ph.D., Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts Maria Bartiromo, B.A. Kelly Kennedy Mack, B.A., M.B.A. and Science Marc H. Bell, B.S., M.S. Mimi M. D. Marziani, B.A., J.D. Paul Romer, B.S., Ph.D., Director, Marron Institute of Urban Management Casey Box, A.A., B.A., M.P.A. Howard Meyers, B.S.

Patricia Rubin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bill Brewer, B.A., J.D., LL.M. Steven S. Miller, B.A., J.D. Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Sharon Chang, B.A., M.A. Constance J. Milstein, B.A., J.D. Institute of Fine Arts Evan R. Chesler, B.A., M.A., J.D. David C. Oxman, B.A., LL.B. Fred Schwarzbach, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Dean of Liberal Studies, Faculty of Arts Steven M. Cohen, B.A., J.D. John Paulson, B.S., M.B.A. and Science Stuyvie Comfort, B.S.E., J.D., L.L.M. Catherine B. Reynolds, B.A. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , B.E., M.E., Brett B. Rochkind, B.S., M.B.A. M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: D.Sc., Dean, Florence A. Davis, B.A., J.D. Tandon School of Engineering; Executive Michael Denkensohn, B.S. William C. Rudin, B.S. Vice Provost for Engineering and Applied Constance Silver, B.S., M.S.W., Ph.D. Sciences Fiona Druckenmiller, B.A., M.B.A.

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 9 Larry Silverstein, B.A., LL.B. Herbert M. Paul, B.B.A., M.B.A., J.D., LL.M. Lisa Silverstein, B.A. E. John Rosenwald, Jr., B.A., M.B.A. Jay Stein Marie Schwartz Joseph S. Steinberg, B.A., M.B.A. Joel E. Smilow, B.A., M.B.A. Judy Steinhardt, B.A., Ed.M. Sheldon H. Solow Jessica Swartz, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Michael H. Steinhardt, B.S. Adam Taki, B.A., M.A. Robert F. Wright, B.A., M.B.A. Chandrika Tandon, B.A., M.B.A. William D. Zabel, B.A., LL.B. Daniel R. Tisch, B.A. Wenliang Wang Trustee Associates Nina Weissberg, B.A., M.A. Bruce Berger, B.S.

Anthony Welters, B.A., J.D. Leonard Boxer, B.S., LL.B.

Shelby White, B.A., M.A. Jane Eisner Bram, B.A., M.S.W., Ph.D. Leonard A. Wilf, B.A., J.D., LL.M. Betty Weinberg Ellerin, B.A., J.D. Fred Wilson, B.S., M.B.A. Norman Goodman, B.A., J.D. Tamara Winn, B.A., J.D., M.B.A. Marvin Leffler, B.S., M.B.A. Sascia Yuan, B.A. Jeffrey H. Lynford, BA, MPA, JD Charles M. Zegar, B.S., M.S., M.S.

Life Trustees Diane Belfer

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.

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: students work closely together to develop perspective, and sophomore seminars the Core Program, a two-year core a community dedicated to learning. The both reinforce this and prepare students curriculum program (HEGIS Code Core Program functions like a small to spend their junior year abroad at one 5699*) from which students transition liberal arts college within the framework of NYU’s many international campuses to other NYU schools to complete of a major research university. in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and their bachelor’s degree, and the Global Latin America. The senior year in New The Core Program was founded in Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts four- York combines advanced course work 1972. Its faculty are actively engaged in year degree program (HEGIS Code with a guided research project that their scholarly, creative, and professional 4901*). integrates the four years of study. fields, and they bring enormous The Core Program is a full-time, two- enthusiasm and dedication to their Graduates of GLS will be world year liberal arts program. It offers a teaching. The program fosters close leaders, proficient in a foreign language, comprehensive liberal arts background contact between faculty and students engaged in international cultures, and that serves as a strong foundation for in and out of the classroom, and all well-prepared for their careers and for further study. At the end of their studies, students are assigned a faculty mentor admission to professional and graduate students who successfully complete the from the beginning of their studies. The schools. program requirements with a minimum hallmarks of the Core Program—small *HEGIS: Higher Education General GPA of 2.0 will enroll as juniors in one classes, an outstanding teaching faculty, Information Survey. of NYU’s liberal arts bachelor’s degree individual advisement, and an integrated programs in the College of Arts and program of study—create an ideal Degree and Certificate Programs Science (CAS); the Gallatin School learning environment. Over 17,000 as registered by the New York State of Individualized Study; the Jonathan students have successfully completed Department of Education M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and the program and graduated from one of Office of Higher Education Tourism; Liberal Studies; the Rory NYU’s baccalaureate programs. State Education Building Meyers College of Nursing; the Schack 89 Washington Avenue The Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Institute of Real Estate; the Silver School 2nd Floor, West Mezzanine Arts (GLS) is an innovative program that of Social Work; and the Tisch Institute Albany, NY 12234 features core course work in the liberal for Sports Management, Media, and arts with a focus on great works in a Business; as well as select majors in Telephone: 518-474-5851 global context, bringing the traditional www.highered.nysed.gov the Steinhardt School of Culture, liberal arts into the twenty-first century. Education, and Human Development, and the Tandon School of Engineering. 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

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 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 www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/housing

Robert Squillace, Ph.D. Off-Campus Housing Services LIBERAL STUDIES Columbia University Kimmel Center for University Life ADMINISTRATION Associate Dean, Academic Affairs 60 Washington Square South, Fred Schwarzbach, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Suite 210 University of London Telephone: 212-992-8735 Telephone: 212-998-4411 Dean, Liberal Studies E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/offcampus- Clinical Assistant Professor living Telephone: 212-998-7128 Jonathon White, M.B.A. E-mail: [email protected] New York University Department of Public Safety Associate Dean, Students 7 Washington Place Telephone: 212-998-7038 Telephone: 212-998-2222 (To report Peter Diamond, Ph.D. E-mail: [email protected] an emergency) Johns Hopkins University Website: www.nyu.edu/public-safety Assistant Dean, Faculty Development NEW YORK UNIVERSITY & Program Advancement Office of Equal Opportunity SERVICES Clinical Assistant Professor 726 Broadway, Suite 719-721 Telephone: 212-998-8890 Office of Undergraduate Admissions Telephone: 212-998-2277 E-mail: [email protected] 383 Lafayette Street E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-4500 Website: www.nyu.edu/about/ Leah Guarino-Ramirez, M.A. Website: www.nyu.edu/admissions policies-guidelines-compliance/equal- New York University opportunity Assistant Director, Students Office of the University Registrar Telephone: 212-998-7938 Student Services Center Center for Student Activities, E-mail: [email protected] 25 West Fourth Street Leadership & Service Telephone: 212-998-4800 Kimmel Center for University Life Irene Hahn, J.D. Website: www.nyu.edu/registrar 60 Washington Square South, Stanford University Suite 704 Assistant Director, Office of the Bursar Telephone: 212-998-4700 Website: www.nyu.edu/studentactivities Academic Administration Student Services Center Telephone: 212-998-7168 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Student Resource Center E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-2806 Website: www.nyu.edu/bursar Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, Beth Haymaker, M.F.A. Office of Financial Aid Suite 210 Indiana University (Bloomington) Student Services Center Telephone: 212-998-4411 Director, Global Programs 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Website: www.nyu.edu/src Telephone: 212-998-7146 Telephone: 212-998-4444 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/admissions/ financial-aid-and-scholarships

DIRECTORY FOR LIBERAL STUDIES ADMINISTRATION AND NYU SERVICES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 12 Academic Resource Center Center for Multicultural Education 18 Washington Place and Programs Telephone: 212-998-2272 Kimmel Center for University Life Website: www.nyu.edu/arc 60 Washington Square South, Suite 806 The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Telephone: 212-998-4343 70 Washington Square South Website: www.nyu.edu/cmep Telephone: 212-998-2500 Website: www.library.nyu.edu Wasserman Center for Career Development Main Bookstore & Computer Store 133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor 726 Broadway Telephone: 212-998-4730 Telephone: 212-998-4667 Website: www.nyu.edu/ Website: www.bookstores.nyu.edu careerdevelopment

Student Health Center NYU Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors Center Telephone: 212-443-1000 50 West 4th Street Website: www.nyu.edu/health Telephone: 212-998-4550 Website: www.nyu.edu/admissions/ Counseling and Wellness Services undergraduate-admissions/visit-nyu 726 Broadway, Suite 471 Telephone: 212-998-4780 Website: www.nyu.edu/counseling

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

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

NYU Office of Global Programs 383 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor Telephone: 212-998-4433 Website: www.nyu.edu/globalprograms

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

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

THE CORE PROGRAM Tourism, and Sports Management; that students need for successful study The Core Program is a liberal education Liberal Studies; the Schack Institute of in all academic disciplines. Depending curriculum that is based on the reading Real Estate; the Silver School of Social on the requirements of their intended of great works and includes courses Work; and the Rory Meyers College baccalaureate program, students may drawn from NYU’s other undergraduate of Nursing; as well as select majors also take a course in the natural sciences schools and colleges, allowing students in the Steinhardt School of Culture, and mathematics. Education, and Human Development; to begin their major during their first Sophomore Curriculum and the Tandon School of Engineering. two years. All courses in the program Requirements take an interdisciplinary and global In order to transition, students must During the sophomore year, students approach to the study of primary works meet specific program requirements and are required to complete Cultural from around the world. Students may be in good academic standing at the end Foundations III and Social Foundations begin their studies in New York, or at of their sophomore year at NYU. Good III, which bring the sequences begun in NYU in Florence, London, Paris, or academic standing is defined as a 2.0 the first year up to the present day. In the Washington, DC. All classes emphasize semester and cumulative grade point sophomore year, students also complete discussion in small groups. Writing average and making good academic a second science (if required by the classes are capped at fifteen students; progress. See “Transition Requirements” school to which they will transition), all other classes are capped at twenty- on page 20 for more information. explore possible majors, and begin the five. At each site, the cultural resources *The Core Program is a four-semester coursework toward those majors in the and contemporary life of the city are program. appropriate academic departments. an important part of coursework. Freshman Curriculum Requirements Core Program students are expected to Students extend their education outside schedule meetings with their advisor the classroom by exploring different All freshmen are required to complete a during which they receive advice about ethnographic spaces, attending musical two-semester freshman writing sequence choosing additional courses from and theatrical presentations, visiting focusing on writing effectively in a variety NYU’s extensive offerings. By the end of museums, and sites of historical and on non-fiction genres, the presentation the sophomore year, a student should be contemporary social interest. of argument, and the elements of able to declare a major. research. The freshman core courses Curriculum Overview and Cultural Foundations I and II and Other Requirements Requirements Social Foundations I and II are based on Writing Proficiency Requirement The Core Program offers a the study of great works from antiquity comprehensive liberal arts background to the beginning of the modern era. Writing proficiency is required for the that serves as a strong foundation In the Cultural Foundations sequence, NYU bachelor’s degree. The writing for further study. At the end of two students study literature, the visual proficiency requirement is fulfilled by years* students in the Core Program and performing arts, and music. In the completing the Writing II course with a who successfully complete program Social Foundations sequence, students minimum grade of C. focus on philosophy, religion, political requirements will enroll as juniors in Quantitative Reasoning (Mathematics) and social theory, and history. Taken one of NYU’s liberal arts bachelor’s Requirement degree programs in the College of Arts together, the two sequences can be seen Students in the Core Program must and Science (CAS); the Gallatin School as a global cultural history. The sequences fulfill the mathematics and/or science of Individualized Study; the Jonathan also provide an introduction to skills in requirements for the bachelor’s degree M. Tisch Center for Hospitality, critical analysis and synthetic thinking

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 14 to be conferred by an undergraduate school or college of NYU. The Core Program requires only one mathematics Required Courses* or one science course prior to transition; Courses and Course Numbers however, it is recommended that students transitioning to CAS take Freshman Core Courses LS Course Number Credits both science courses required by CAS Writing I WRI-UF 0101 4 while in Liberal Studies (LS). The Writing II WRII-UF 0102 4 choice of major often determines which Cultural Foundations I CFI-UF 0101 4 mathematics class is required. LS does Cultural Foundations II CFII-UF 0102 4 not offer mathematics courses; students Social Foundations I SFI-UF 0101 4 take the appropriate courses offered at CAS. Students should consult the Social Foundations II SFII-UF 0102 4 LS Advising Center staff and refer to Sophomore Core Courses the specific departmental websites and Cultural Foundations III CFIII-UF 0103 4 bulletins for information about the Social Foundations III SFIII-UF 0103 4 mathematics requirements for their Science† 4-8 bachelor’s degree program. (Science courses offered by Liberal Studies are: ENSTU-UF 0101 Core Program Electives Environmental Studies, Life Science, History LISCI-UF 0101 of the Universe, Science of Technology) HOU-UF 0101 While enrolled in the Core Program, SCTEC-UF 0101 students take courses at the NYU school or college where they will earn LS Elective Courses 24-28 their bachelor’s degree. While these (Includes Mathematics** courses, courses AFGC-UF 0101 courses are considered electives in the taken in other NYU schools, or elective CAGC-UF 0101 courses offered by Liberal Studies. Electives EAGC-UF 0101 Core Program, they should be selected offered by Liberal Studies are: African INTGS-UF 0101 so that they fulfill either school, major, Cultures, Caribbean Cultures, East Asian LAGC-UF 0101 or minor requirements in the school to Cultures, Introduction to Global Studies, MEGC-UF 0101 which students intend to transfer. Core Latin American Cultures, Middle Eastern SAGC-UF 0101 Program students may also take electives Cultures, South Asian Cultures,Topics ELEC-UF 0101 offered in LS: among these are Creative in the Humanities, Creative Writing: CWP-UF 0101 Places, Creative Writing: Global Voices, CWGV-UF 0101 Writing, Economics, and multiple Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of ECI-UF 0101 Global Cultures courses. Students in Microeconomics, Internship) ECII-UF 0102 the Core Program may also take any INT-UF 0201 of the electives open to Global Liberal Total Credits 64 Studies students, as well as Advanced (See page 30 for detailed course descriptions.) Writing Studio, Global Topics, and Approaches courses—space permitting. *LS students studying in Florence, London, Paris, and Washington, DC take equivalent Core Program students may not register LS and NYU courses and credit hours. For more information, go to: for the Junior Independent Research www.nyu.edu/global/global-academic-centers/freshmen-abroad-programs.html. Seminar, Experiential Learning I and II, †Students pursuing a prehealth track do not take LS science courses but will be advised to or the Senior Colloquium/Thesis. They take appropriate required courses at the College of Arts and Science. The LS curriculum may petition to take a Senior Seminar. guidelines for students transitioning to the College of Arts and Science for prehealth are posted at www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu.

†**Some students take these courses during the sophomore year.

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 15 GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES B.A. at NYU. All GLS students are required responsibility for directing their own The Global Liberal Studies (GLS) to spend the sophomore and senior independent projects, culminating in Bachelor of Arts is an interdisciplinary years at the Washington Square Campus the senior thesis. in New York City. program that examines the causes, In addition to their concentration- consequences, and nature of The Core Curriculum specific classes, students take a variety globalization from its beginnings in of required seminars and electives on The basis of the GLS curriculum is an the ancient world to the present. GLS global topics, from economic and eight-course core that equips students to is distinguished among Global Studies political issues to arts and media, from write in numerous genres and contexts, programs by its humanistic emphasis; it the growth of immense global networks acquaints them with foundational great focuses on understanding the political, to the nature of ethnicity in everyday works from around the world that social, and cultural ramifications of living local life. These seminars require the remain influential today, introduces in a world of intersecting local, national, completion of a significant research fundamental scientific concepts and and global forces. GLS students are project. Sophomores also normally methods, and involves them in close trained in strategic thinking by engaging complete an intensive language course study of at least one non-Western in interdisciplinary study of the entire in preparation for the junior year of region. Students read the foundational world as an interconnected system, international study. and they get practical experience living works of many world cultures in their and working across cultures through a material and intellectual contexts The Junior Year Curriculum and independently make critical and required junior year at an NYU global GLS juniors spend a full year studying imaginative connections across time and site. GLS students focus their work in at an NYU global academic center. space. a particular area of expertise during the The sites available in a given year are junior and senior year, preparing them Students may begin GLS in New York carefully selected to ensure that all for more advanced studies or work in or at NYU Florence, London, Paris, or required courses are available and to such fields as international finance, Washington, DC. The GLS programs optimize access to experiential learning global media, and human rights. in Florence, London, Paris, and options. Locations for junior year study Washington, DC, fit in seamlessly with include NYU global sites in Africa, Asia, Curriculum Overview and the academic program at Washington Europe, Latin America, and the Middle Requirements Square so that course requirements are East. (See page 68 for descriptions of GLS is an integrated, four-year met on time for graduation in four every NYU global site.) Students do not curriculum. All students must complete years. just study at an international site—the site itself becomes an important subject a core curriculum, a concentration The Upper Division Curriculum selected from among departmental of study. Experiential learning, special offerings, at least one year at an The GLS upper division curriculum topics, and language courses immerse NYU global site, a senior thesis, and centers on a student’s concentration, students in the history and contemporary additional requirements outlined below. which they declare in the fall of culture of the site and sets it in a global All GLS classes are small, discussion- sophomore year. Students may begin context, while students prepare for their based, and writing-intensive. Students taking upper division courses as early senior theses by developing a substantial and their instructors chart their progress as the spring of freshman year and research essay in an online course that through use of an ePortfolio, building must take a minimum of four courses connects them with classmates in their their portfolios and making new in their concentration: Approaches, concentration at other sites to create a connections with other students and Junior Independent Research Seminar, global perspective on issues. and the year-long Senior Colloquium/ faculty members throughout all four The Experiential Learning component Thesis class; a sequence that provides years, and gathering resources to draw comprises two courses that involve instruction in the theories and methods upon in composing their senior theses. students in a cycle of experience, of a particular area of the Global Studies Students have sufficient elective credits reflection, and the formulation to complete a minor or a second major field. Students take progressively greater

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

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 17 study at a higher level (for example, in an advanced grammar class and one conversation class) or take one higher Degree Requirements level language instruction class and one Core Curriculum Required Courses class taught in the language of the host Freshman Year LS Course Number Credits country. Students who already have advanced or near-native proficiency will Global Writing Seminar GWS-UF 0101 4 take two classes taught in the language Cultural Foundations I CFI-UF 0101 4 of the host country during the junior Cultural Foundations II CFII-UF 0102 4 year. Fluency is established by testing Social Foundations I SFI-UF 0101 4 out of the intermediate level (normally, Social Foundations II SFII-UF 0102 4 level IV) in the language department’s Courses that may be taken any year placement test. Global Cultures AFGC-UF 0101 4 (Any one of: African Cultures, Caribbean CAGC-UF 0101 GLS Electives Cultures, East Asian Cultures, Latin EAGC-UF 0101 Students complement their GLS American Cultures, Middle Eastern LAGC-UF 0101 Cultures, South Asian Cultures) MEGC-UF 0101 course work with a wide array of SAGC-UF 0101 electives in GLS and in other NYU Science I (Physical Science; choose between: HOU-UF 0101 4 schools chosen in careful consultation History of the Universe, Science of SCTEC-UF 0101 with their advisor. These may include Technology) Theories of Globalization and Global Science II (Life/Environmental Science; ENSTU-UF 0101 4 Studies, Principles of Macroeconomics, choose between: Environmental Studies, LISCI-UF 0101 Principles of Microeconomics, Creative Life Science) Writing: Global Voices, Creative Upper Division Required Courses Writing: Places, Internship Seminar, various Topics In Humanities electives, Sophomore Seminar: Approaches APR-UF 0201 4 and advanced language instruction in Sophomore Seminar: Global Topics GT-UF 0201 4 CAS. Students also may pursue a cross- Upper Division GLS Elective GT-UF 0201 4 school minor, of which more than 100 (Any one of: A second Global Topics AWS-UF 0201 are available, including several languages course, Advanced Writing Studio, Cultural CFIII-UF 0103 and economics in CAS, business studies Foundations III, Social Foundations III) SFIII-UF 0103 in CAS and NYU Stern School of Advanced Global Topics AGT-UF 9301 4 Business, and communication studies in Experiential Learning I EXLI-UF 9301 4 the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Experiential Learning II EXLII-UF 9302 2 Education, and Human Development. Junior Independent Research Seminar JIRS-UF 0301 2 Students may also take a second major; Senior Colloquium SCOI-UF 0401 4 GLS has agreements with a number of Senior Thesis SRTH-UF 0402 6 departments to facilitate second majors 2 Senior Seminars SCAI-UF 0401 8 by allowing up to two courses to count Electives (includes language courses, courses 54 toward degree requirements in both the taken in other NYU schools, or elective second major and GLS. courses offered by Liberal Studies) Total Credits for B.A. Degree 128 (See page 30 for detailed course descriptions.)

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAMS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 18 Liberal Studies Academic Advising

Academic advising is designed to help withdrawals, advanced standing about grades, and understanding students navigate a complex university, credit, incomplete and pass/fail grade study abroad and experiential learning identify academic and professional options, transition and internal options. GLS students can register goals, and to provide advice and transfer procedures, and co-curricular for classes via Albert only after having information about how best to achieve opportunities such as study away and their prospective courses reviewed and those goals. Liberal Studies (LS) is internships, among other matters. Email approved by an advisor, and students student-oriented: class size is kept small announcements are sent to remind must obtain clearance each semester to ensure substantial faculty-student students about important deadlines and from their advisor. interaction, faculty know their students to announce the schedule of registration by name, and advisors provide academic information sessions each semester. support and resources. Together, Core Program students can register for FACULTY MENTORS students with their advisors and mentors classes via Albert (NYU’s online student In addition to the services offered establish working relationships that information system) only after having by the LS Advising Center, all LS foster academic excellence and personal their prospective courses reviewed and students have the opportunity to growth. Visit the Liberal Studies website approved by an advisor; students must work with an LS faculty member as a for additional advising resources: www. obtain clearance from their advisor each mentor. Faculty mentors engage in liberalstudies.nyu.edu. semester. All Core Program students discussions about student interests, are required to attend a registration aspirations, and new perspectives on clearance session and/or schedule an life. A mentor likewise helps synthesize PROFESSIONAL STAFF ADVISORS individual registration meeting with the student’s intellectual and academic The LS Advising Center, located at their advisor (depending on their progress, taking particular charge to 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, intended transition program). During explain the function and purpose of an NY 10003, is open Mondays through these group and individual sessions, interdisciplinary liberal arts education. Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. LS advisors clarify the degree and transition As needed, faculty mentors may also academic advising staff is available for requirements yet to be satisfied, offer refer students to a professional advisor individual in-person meetings with advice about choosing electives, and for assistance with resolving certain students or via email and Skype for answer students’ questions about academic or registration issues; to students studying away. major and minor options, academic the NYU Student Health Center for requirements, and relevant deadlines. medical treatment or psychological Core Program counseling; to the Wasserman Center Global Liberal Studies for Career Development for expert All Core Program students are assigned advice about finding an internship, a professional academic advisor who will All Global Liberal Studies (GLS) developing a résumé, or beginning work with them throughout the two students are assigned a professional a job search; or to specific NYU years that they spend in the program. staff advisor who will work with them departments, resources, or websites to The academic advising staff is a resource throughout their undergraduate career. obtain additional information. Students for students regarding transition The academic advisor is a resource have a responsibility to be proactive in requirements to their baccalaureate to assist students with matters such arranging and keeping appointments program. The LS Advising Center as registering and schedule changes, with their faculty mentor. also provides information to students understanding degree requirements, about course selection and registration selecting electives, choosing minors procedures, schedule changes and and second majors, clarifying questions

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 19 Core Program or colleges at NYU. Core Program offer direct transition opportunities. students identify their intended degree- Application and/or additional materials All Core Program students have the granting school in their sophomore (e.g. audition, portfolio) will be reviewed opportunity to be assigned a faculty year, prior to registering for their spring for admission to Steinhardt School mentor, with whom they regularly meet semester classes. Students must confirm of Culture, Education, and Human during the two years that they spend their school of transition with the Development (Music and Performing in the Core Program. Faculty mentors admissions office by March 1; and this Arts; Art and Art Professions); the in the Core Program engage students deadline is strictly enforced. However, Stern School of Business; the Tandon in conversations about the curriculum, discussions regarding the various NYU School of Engineering (non-liberal arts its relation to their undergraduate schools and potential majors should programs); and the Tisch School of the experience, and its intended impact on be an ongoing element of all advising Arts. lifelong intellectual and professional conversations between Core Program pursuits. They focus their mentorship Some programs and schools require students and their assigned academic on guiding students toward realistic students to complete specific courses to advisor and faculty mentor. academic goals, encouraging self- be eligible for transition to their degree- reliance, and making informed In order to be eligible for transition, granting programs; the most current decisions. students must be in good academic transition information is available in standing with the University (typically the LS Advising Center. Core Program Global Liberal Studies defined as 2.0 semester and cumulative students transitioning to Steinhardt’s grade point average and making good Media, Culture and Communication A designated faculty mentor works academic progress) and have successfully (MCC) program are expected to have with each entering first-year class of completed Core Program requirements, one MCC core course on their transcript GLS students. In the sophomore year, which include completing an expected before transition and are advised to GLS students declare an academic 64 credits (or a minimum of 56 credits). complete this before their final semester concentration within the major and Core Program students have the option in Liberal Studies. Core Program are assigned a concentration-specific to build on their global, interdisciplinary students transitioning to Gallatin faculty mentor, who works with his or foundation by pursuing the Global require approval of an academic plan her mentees until graduation. Students Liberal Studies B.A. degree offered for their individualized concentration work closely with their faculty mentor within Liberal Studies, or they may during sophomore year, likewise throughout each semester and discuss choose to enroll as juniors in one of completed before their final semester the GLS curriculum, its relationship to NYU’s other degree-granting schools: in Liberal Studies. Other academic the total undergraduate experience, and the College of Arts and Science (CAS); programs have specific science and/or its impact on lifelong intellectual and the Gallatin School of Individualized math courses that should be satisfied professional pursuits. Students maintain Study; the Jonathan M. Tisch Center prior to transition in order to remain contact with their faculty mentor during for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports on track with the major, specifically their junior year abroad; and in their Management; the Schack Institute of Real Estate and Nursing. Core Program senior year, students also work closely Real Estate; the Silver School of Social students intending a transition to CAS with their thesis supervisor. Work; and the Rory Meyers College are encouraged, but not required, of Nursing; as well as select majors to sample at least one course in the TRANSITION REQUIREMENTS in the Steinhardt School of Culture, department of their prospective major. FOR STUDENTS IN THE CORE Education, and Human Development; Prehealth students have particular PROGRAM and the Tandon School of Engineering. course requirements that must be taken in sequence and finished within Core Program students who meet the Core Program students who complete a certain time period, regardless of above requirements may also apply for the two-year curriculum will have major. Core Program prehealth students internal transfer to the colleges and satisfied most or all of the liberal should visit www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu degree programs at NYU that do not education requirements of other schools for curriculum guidelines, as well as

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 meet with a prehealth advisor. For any 100 cross-school minors altogether in declare a major, students often need questions about transition guidelines a range of disciplines. For additional to visit the department or program or curricular sequences, students are information about declaring a minor office to have the declaration formally encouraged to schedule an appointment and enrolling in classes, students should recorded in Albert. with their academic advisor in LS. consult with their academic advisor and the website provided, which also Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s lists contact information for the school Degrees ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC and departmental representatives Students may pursue a combined OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS for each minor: www.nyu.edu/ bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in a IN GLS cross-school-minors. compressed period of time and at less cost Liberal Studies students may be eligible Core Program students who declare a than if pursued in traditional succession. to take advantage of the academic cross-school minor while enrolled at Opportunities and requirements vary programs listed below. Each program Liberal Studies should note it will not by NYU school. Core Program students offers students the opportunity to add carry over to their transition school. transitioning out of Liberal Studies an area of expertise or academic study After consulting with an advisor in the should consult with the academic to their educational experience by bachelor’s degree program, students will advisor in their bachelor’s degree school pursuing a minor or second major in re-declare the minor if eligible to do so. about accelerated bachelor’s and master’s another field, or a combined bachelor’s/ degree opportunities. master’s degree. Double Major Dual Degree B.A./M.A. Program for Students are advised to confer with Students may pursue a double (second) GLS an academic advisor in the Liberal major if approved by their bachelor’s Studies Advising Center, who can help Liberal Studies and the Graduate School degree school. Rules for double majors students consider available options for of Arts and Science (GSAS) offer GLS vary by NYU school. Core Program taking courses in other NYU schools students the opportunity to earn both students transitioning out of Liberal and choose those that best fit their the Bachelor of Arts degree in GLS and a Studies should consult with their academic goals. The opportunity to master’s degree in numerous departments academic advisor in their bachelor’s pursue and complete any of these at an accelerated pace and reduced cost. degree school about requirements for academic programs depends on a variety declaring a double major. Qualifying students are typically of factors including academic record, accepted into a program toward the academic objectives, course scheduling GLS students may pursue a double end of the sophomore year or during and sequencing, program requirements, (second) major in the College of Arts the junior year. In their remaining and advance planning. Please note these and Science. The same requirements, undergraduate semesters, they can optional programs supplement the including maintenance of a minimum then accelerate by taking graduate bachelor’s degree and do not replace grade point average of 2.0, apply to the courses during regular academic terms degree requirements. second major as to the first. In some and/or during the summer. Once cases, courses may be applicable to both fully matriculated in the graduate Cross-School Minors majors, and formal arrangements have program, students can qualify for a been established with several departments Cross-school minors allow students scholarship covering up to 50 percent in CAS (including but not limited to to complete the course requirements of the tuition for the master’s degree. English, European Studies, French, for certain minors in an NYU school The scholarship is only for one year. and Spanish). Students must obtain in which they are not enrolled. The written approval for the shared course(s) The program is intended for specific minor designation will appear from the directors of undergraduate students whose career goals will be on the student’s NYU transcript. A studies of both departments, unless a furthered by graduate-level training number of academic departments in standing arrangement has already been but do not plan—at least not several NYU schools offer more than established by the departments. To immediately—to go on for doctoral

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 21 work in the field of their M.A. degree. additional credits remaining to complete or its Health Policy and Management the master’s portion of the program. Program (HPAM) in less time than it Curriculum The scholarship is only provided upon would take to complete the programs Students in the program must satisfy completion of the bachelor’s degree. separately. This dual degree is designed all of the requirements of both the It is calculated on the basis of (a) the for students with a strong commitment bachelor’s degree and the master’s remaining credits needed for the master’s to public leadership and will allow such degree; there is no double-counting of degree and (b) additional payments the students to enhance and focus their courses. student may have made in order to opportunities for learning while helping accelerate study while matriculated for them to build a career in public service. In order to complete the program in five the bachelor’s degree (eg. excess tuition years, students are advised to complete Taken separately, a student would need incurred for more than 18 credits at least a quarter of the graduate courses to complete 188 credits to earn both during an undergraduate semester required for the master’s degree before degrees, including four years of study at due to graduate course enrollment, or earning the bachelor’s degree. This Liberal Studies and two years of study for enrollment in summer graduate would mean two graduate courses for at Wagner. The B.A./M.P.A. dual degree courses). The tuition scholarship will a master’s program consisting of eight will allow a GLS student to complete remain available for twelve months courses, or three graduate courses for both degrees in as few as 160 credits. from the start of the student’s first a program consisting of nine or more The dual degree permits GLS students term in GSAS. Beyond the 50 percent courses. If more credits, a significant to accelerate their progress toward the tuition scholarship offered through the thesis, or a capstone project is required M.P.A. by earning a maximum of 28 B.A./M.A. program., students may be for the master’s, students can accelerate credits toward the M.P.A. as part of their eligible for additional forms of financial more rapidly by taking additional GLS degree. aid once they matriculate into GSAS. graduate courses while still completing GLS students may complete a maximum the bachelor’s degree. Application Procedures of 28 of the 60 credits required for the Admission and Eligibility Criteria Students interested in the accelerated M.P.A. while still working on the B.A. B.A./M.A. program should consult their (Note that 28 credits is a maximum. Applicants must have completed a academic advisor for the application Fewer credits may be taken, but this will minimum of three semesters toward procedures. As early as possible, students likely result in a less accelerated timeline the bachelor’s degree (at least one should discuss with their professional toward completion of the dual degree). semester in residence with GLS is also advisor how the program might fit These 28 credits typically comprise required for transfer students), though into both their curricular planning five core courses for the M.P.A. and they must apply prior to their final two and long-term objectives. Students are two courses chosen from the student’s undergraduate semesters. To be eligible, also encouraged to discuss their plans anticipated area of specialization. Only students must have a minimum of with their faculty mentor. See www. courses in which students earn a B or two full semesters remaining in GLS liberalstudies.nyu.edu/page/dual.degree better will count toward the M.P.A. during which they are still working for more information. degree. towards completion of undergraduate requirements. Participating GSAS Dual Degree B.A./M.P.A. Program Note: GLS students participating departments set minimum GPA in the B.A./M.P.A. dual degree are Liberal Studies and the Robert F. Wagner requirements for admission to and granted the opportunity to enroll in Graduate School of Public Service have continuation in the program. graduate course work before completing created a dual-degree program to enable theundergraduate degree, but this does Scholarships and Financial Aid students to earn both a Bachelor of Arts not guarantee outright acceptance into degree in GLS and a Master of Public Students admitted into the B.A./M.A. the Wagner M.P.A. program. Students Administration (M.P.A.) degree in program are eligible for a tuition wishing to pursue the M.P.A. degree must either Wagner’s Public and Nonprofit scholarship covering 50 percent of the also complete a regular Wagner M.P.A. Management and Policy Program (PNP)

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 22 Application for Admission during their senior year in GLS. Applicants will be expected to meet the same admissions standards as other Wagner applicants, which include strong academic qualifications and the equivalent of at least one year of relevant professional experience (i.e., internships, volunteer work, part-time employment). As such, before matriculating in the Wagner School and after completing the B.A. degree in GLS, students admitted to Wagner’s M.P.A. program are required to complete at least one additional year of full-time professional experience relevant to their anticipated field of study for the M.P.A. degree. In short, GLS B.A./M.P.A. students must defer starting their M.P.A. by at least one year after graduating from GLS.

Advisement And Questions

Students who are interested in the accelerated B.A./M.P.A. program should consult with an academic advisor in GLS as early as possible about how the program might fit into both their curricular planning and their long-term objectives. Students are also encouraged to discuss their plans with their faculty mentor.

Questions about eligibility for, or application to, the B.A./M.A. program or the B.A./M.P.A. program should be directed to the LS Advising Center. See www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu/page/dual. degree for more information

LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISING • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 23 Liberal Studies Global Study

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

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 24 courses in the humanities, arts, and study away in the fall semester of their also have the opportunity to earn credit sciences. sophomore year at one of two NYU through an internship with one of many global academic centers: NYU Florence government, NGO, corporate, and arts Freshman Year in Paris and NYU Washington, DC. Unique organizations in the city. Core Program students who spend to Liberal Studies, this “Fall Away” Additional Sophomore Study Abroad their freshman year at NYU Paris academic program allows students to take Opportunities engage in an immersive academic their required courses at one of NYU’s and cultural program. Students take global academic centers, to maximize Core Program students are permitted required Core Program courses in the their study away opportunities, and to to study away at any of NYU’s global humanities, arts, and social sciences, as explore new fields through electives in academic centers for one semester of well as French language. The academic small and supportive class settings. their sophomore year as long as they and extracurricular programs include meet certain conditions as well as make Fall in Florence activities that expose students to the rich the appropriate academic plans as history and cultural offerings of Paris. Core Program sophomores who spend outlined below. their fall semester at NYU Florence Freshman Year in Washington, DC As with other NYU students, Core participate in an intellectual and students will need to participate in the Core Program students who spend their cultural community that explores the regular application process through freshman year at NYU Washington, intersection of history and current the Office of Global Programs by the DC take advantage of their location affairs. Students take required Core appropriate deadlines. For details visit in a city that is cosmopolitan and Program courses, Cultural Foundations www.nyu.edu/studyaway. is also the seat of the United States III and Social Foundations III, in a government. Students begin their Core unique, paired format that completes In addition, requirements for transition Program curriculum with direct access the sequence in one semester. Students during the junior year should be to national museums and libraries, as may also take appropriate introductory carefully mapped out with an advisor, well as opportunities to connect with courses in Economics, Politics, and because NYU’s global academic centers political and cultural leaders. Psychology, or electives in other majors do not offer Cultural Foundations III such as Art History and History. All or Social Foundations III, with the For more information about LS’s global Core Program sophomores at NYU exception of NYU Washington, DC programs for freshmen, visit www.nyu. Florence participate in field trips and NYU Florence in the fall. See edu/global/global-academic-centers/ throughout Italy and in the high-level “Academic Planning for Sophomore freshmen-abroad-programs/liberal- political, social, and cultural programs Study Abroad.” studies-freshmen-programs.html. held on campus. In March of their freshman year, For details about all the NYU global Fall in Washington, DC Core Program students interested in sites, visit www.nyu.edu/studyabroad or sophomore study abroad must submit a see page 68. Core Program sophomores who petition for permission to: spend their fall semester at NYU Sophomore Global Study Washington, DC experience America’s 1. Study away for a semester in the political and cultural hub. Students sophomore year Students interested in sophomore study take required Core Program courses, away opportunities should consult with 2. Take Cultural Foundations III and Cultural Foundations III and Social an advisor no later than the spring Social Foundations III in the same Foundations III, in a unique, paired semester of freshman year to ensure semester while in New York format that completes the sequence in that they plan their academic program one semester. Students may also take Academic Planning for Sophomore accordingly. appropriate introductory courses in Study Abroad Fall Away Programs Economics, Environmental Studies, In addition to the freshman core Journalism, and Politics. Core Program Core Program students may choose to curriculum (Writing I and II; Social sophomores at NYU Washington, DC

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 25 Foundations I and II; Cultural GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES *Eligibility Requirements for Foundations I and II), Core Program GLOBAL STUDY Freshman Year Study in Europe students are expected to complete Global Liberal Studies (GLS) students Passports valid six months beyond the Cultural Foundations III, Social have multiple opportunities to study end date of the academic year will be Foundations III, and at least one of their outside of the New York City. During required for LS students who wish to math and science requirements prior the freshman year, students can choose study at a freshman year site in Europe. to transition to their bachelor’s degree to study in Florence, London, Paris, or school. However, with the exception of Washington, DC.* In addition, all GLS In addition, the majority of students NYU Florence and NYU Washington, students spend the junior year outside attending a freshman year program DC, NYU global academic centers of the United States, regardless of prior in Europe will be required to secure a do not offer these courses. In order to global study. The GLS programs abroad student visa valid for the dates of the study abroad at a site not offering those fit in seamlessly with the academic program. Tourist visas are not acceptable required courses, students must submit program at Washington Square so that for the purposes of study. a petition to the LS Office of Global course requirements are met in time for Finally, all students attending a Programs and receive approval to take graduation in four years. freshman year program in Europe must Cultural Foundations III and Social be eighteen years of age on or before Foundations III simultaneously during GLS Residency Requirement the date of travel to their freshman year the semester when they are planning to GLS students are required to spend the global site for the purposes of study. be in New York. fall and spring semesters of both the Freshman Year in Florence Prior to submitting the petition, sophomore year and the senior year students should speak with their in residence on Washington Square in GLS students who spend their freshman academic advisor to discuss their study New York. year at NYU Florence participate in an abroad plans, selecting the optimal time intellectual and cultural community for overseas study given major, minor, or Freshman Global Study that explores the intersection of history school requirements, and which site is GLS students may choose to begin and current affairs. Students will take most appropriate given their academic, their program in New York or at required core curriculum courses in the professional, and personal goals. NYU in Florence, London, Paris, or humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as Italian language. The academic Completed petition forms should be Washington, DC. During the freshman program in Florence includes visits to submitted to the LS Office of Global year, all GLS students examine the many important museums and historic Programs at 726 Broadway, 6th floor, world’s major cultural traditions and sites in the region. New York, NY 10003 or by email at the ways in which they are connected [email protected]. Forms are available through six core curriculum courses Freshman Year in London on the LS Website. (Writing I and II; Cultural Foundations I and II; Social Foundations I and II) GLS students who spend their freshman year at NYU London pursue Other Opportunities for Global that are offered at all the freshman an academic program that integrates Study global academic sites. Two additional courses will fit into the freshman year liberal arts education with the city’s After transitioning from the Core program of study and vary depending centuries-old historic landmarks and Program to their bachelor’s degree on site: for example, language classes its contemporary cultural resources. school, juniors and seniors may choose or courses taught in the local language Students take required core curriculum to study at one of many NYU global in Paris and Florence; content courses courses in the humanities, arts, and academic centers. A full list of available focusing on British history, politics, sciences. global academic centers and details literature, culture, or economics in Freshman Year in Paris about each can be found at www.nyu. London; courses concerning American edu/studyabroad or on page 68. economics, politics, or environmental GLS students who spend their policy in Washington, DC. freshman year at NYU Paris engage in

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 26 an immersive academic and cultural between world cultures. In their fourth In addition to ranking their site program. Students take required core semester, students begin to explore the preferences, students must also curriculum courses in the humanities, cultural context and language of the site submit a brief proposal that outlines arts, and social sciences, as well as at which they will study as juniors. The how their preferred site suits their French language. The academic and sites available in a given year are carefully academic, professional, and personal extracurricular programs include selected to coordinate with every aspect goals. Students may find the NYU activities that expose students to the rich of a student’s four-year course of study. Study Abroad Website (www.nyu.edu/ history and cultural offerings of Paris. Current junior year global academic studyabroad) -- especially the Academic sites are listed below; see www.nyu. Courses tab on each site’s page -- useful Freshman Year in Washington, DC edu/studyabroad or see page 68 for in indicating their preferences. Students GLS students who spend their freshman descriptions of each site. will also have access to members of the year at NYU Washington, DC take GLS advising staff for discussion about • NYU Accra (for students entering advantage of their location in a city that the site placement, in addition to regular Fall 2016 or later) is cosmopolitan and is also the seat of information sessions, to help students the United States government. Students • NYU Berlin make the most informed choice for begin their Core Program curriculum global study. • NYU Buenos Aires with direct access to national museums Site placements are communicated to and libraries, as well as opportunities • NYU Florence students by mid-March of the freshman to connect with political and cultural • NYU Madrid year, in time for registration of classes leaders. for the fall semester. Students will be • NYU Paris For more information about LS’s global matched with the site that will best help programs for freshmen, visit www.nyu. • NYU Shanghai them to achieve their educational goals edu/global/global-academic-centers/ and should note that their top choice(s) • NYU Tel Aviv freshmen-abroad-programs/liberal- of site are not guaranteed (and, in fact, studies-freshmen-programs.html. The junior year abroad requires a full may not be the most appropriate site, immersion year at the specific site. given their goals). For details about all the NYU global Students are expected to spend both sites, visit www.nyu.edu/studyabroad or Note: Transfer students admitted to semesters of their junior year at one see page 68. GLS after the Preference Form deadline site, given that the sophomore year are asked to submit the form as soon as courses and senior year course work Sophomore Global Study possible. Students will be matched with are connected to the junior year site the most appropriate junior year site on GLS students may study away during selected. a space available basis. the sophomore year under exceptional Junior Year Global Site Selection circumstances by permission. Students Petitions for Change of Site, Study at a interested in this opportunity should The Junior Year Global Site Preference non-GLS Site, or Study in New York consult with the LS Office of Global form is intended to match GLS students Students must submit the Junior Year Programs as early as possible. Please see with the most rewarding and appropriate Site Preference Form to the LS Office “GLS Residency Requirement” above. global site in the junior year based on of Global Programs by the posted multiple factors, from academic goals, deadline at the beginning of the spring Junior Year Global Study experiential learning interests, language semester in the freshman year to be proficiency, senior thesis intentions, The junior year of required international matched with one of the available GLS and more. This Junior Year Global Site study is a unique feature of the GLS global academic centers. The matching Preference form is due to the LS Office B.A. In their first three semesters of of student to junior year site should of Global Programs at the beginning study, GLS students acquire a broad be considered final once conveyed to of the spring semester of the student’s understanding of the interconnections the student in mid-March. However, freshman year.

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 27 students with outstanding academic, earned 64 credits with a minimum 3.0 linked, online, NYC-led Junior medical, or other issues may choose to cumulative GPA prior to departure for Independent Research Seminar) submit a petition to study at a non-GLS junior year study abroad. • Courses in the language of the site, to switch from one GLS Academic Students must also have successfully site (either content or language Center to another, or to spend the completed the following courses to be instruction) junior year in New York. These will be permitted to study overseas: considered on a case-by-case basis. • Advanced Global Topics • Cultural Foundations I and II Students are eligible to petition to stay During junior year, students must in New York for health or wellness • Social Foundations I and II continue to maintain satisfactory reasons at any time. However, switches progress toward the degree in order to • Global Writing Seminar (or after the initial matching are not spend the full year abroad. equivalent) guaranteed. In addition, students are Immigration and Travel Requirements only permitted to petition to switch • Sophomore Seminar: Approaches from one site to another once. A sound To be permitted to study at one of • Sophomore Seminar: Global academic rationale for the switch must NYU’s global academic centers, students Topics be prepared and must include intended must also comply with local laws to be (or completed) coursework relating to • Advanced GLS elective legally permitted to study at the site. the proposed site, language proficiency, [Advanced Writing Studio, Depending on students’ immigration completed global study (for those Social Foundations III, Cultural status, citizenship, and junior year site students who have already spent the Foundations III, or an additional of study, this generally entails securing freshman year abroad), the proposed Sophomore Seminar: Global a visa prior to departure. Students research and thesis, and any other Topics] should refer to the Office of Global information useful for the review of the Programs for more information about Students are not permitted to depart petition. requirements. for the junior year abroad with an GLS Requirements for Eligibility to “Incomplete” on their transcript. In addition to their responsibility Participate in the Junior Year Abroad Any student who plans on taking an for the visa (or equivalent acceptable immigration status for study at A junior year abroad at one of NYU’s incomplete in the semester prior to the site), students must also follow global academic centers is both a study away should sign an Incomplete Global Programs guidelines on other hallmark of the GLS degree and a Contract with their faculty member. requirements necessary for overseas requirement for graduation. As a Remaining work required to post a study. condition for overseas study, students grade for the course should be received no later than August 15. In addition, enrolled in GLS must meet certain Students will be responsible for their students are strongly advised to have minimum program requirements—as own travel to and from the site at the completed Global Cultures and at least outlined below—and must maintain beginning and end of each semester. one science course (or the equivalent) those requirements to be permitted to Most of NYU’s global academic centers prior to departure for the junior year. spend the full year at one of these global do not provide lodging between the fall academic centers and graduate with Students must maintain the minimum and spring semester for students. Those the degree. Questions about program 3.0 cumulative GPA to continue students not planning on traveling requirements for global study can be for the full year at their global study between mandatory check-out and addressed to [email protected]. site. Students must be registered as a check-in dates will be responsible for Academic Requirements full-time student, as well as take the their own lodging. following courses while abroad: In addition to completing the elementary Disciplinary Requirements • Experiential Learning I level of language (or its equivalent) of Given its unique nature, the success of their junior year site, students must have • Experiential Learning II (plus the a global campus community requires

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 28 that its members cultivate a significant through NYU. degree of mutual respect, consideration, and concern for the well-being of others, as well as uphold a high level of personal integrity and maturity. Students whose behavior has been determined through the University student conduct process to have been disruptive to the University community and/or antithetical to these qualities may be precluded from participation in the study away experience.

Accordingly, information concerning a student’s conduct is made available to LS and the LS Office of Global Programs. Students who have been placed on University disciplinary probation or on deferred suspension from University housing are ineligible to participate in the study away program during the period of their probation and/or deferred status. Students who have been suspended, withdrawn, or dismissed from the University and those who have been dismissed or suspended from University housing are permanently ineligible to participate in the study away programs at NYU, including the required GLS junior year abroad.

In cases where a student’s disciplinary status changes due to conduct during the course of the junior year away, the student may face ineligibility to continue study at their respective global site. See “Academic Policies and Procedures” on page 43 for more information.

University Leave Policy and Global Study

Students who have been on leave from the University must return to the New York City campus and successfully complete the spring academic semester of full-time course work prior to study away for the GLS junior year abroad

LIBERAL STUDIES GLOBAL STUDY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 29 Liberal Studies Course Descriptions

Courses listed are expected to be available and argumentation. The course subject, co-authoring, etc.), and will also during academic year 2016-2017 but includes a variety of forms of writing include some treatment of how writing are subject to change. Refer to page to help students recognize the habits, in the mode under consideration and its 15 for Core Program course numbers practices, and intellectual assumptions analysis is transferable to other kinds of and requirements and page 18 for GLS that may limit their writing and writing practices. course numbers and requirements. scholarship. Emphasis on independent Creative Writing: Global Voices work of increasing sophistication in CWGV-UF 0101 4 credits research methodologies yields a fuller The conversations and work in Creative WRITING understanding of the role of the essay in Writing: Global Voices and Forms are contemporary writing. Course materials guided by a reading list that has been Writing I and II and activities engage global issues and constructed with an emphasis on the WRI-UF 0101 and WRII-UF 0102 perspectives, with an emphasis on the global writing community. Readings are 4 credits each potential junior year global site as one drawn from the diverse international The Writing sequence advances the of the objects of investigation. tradition of modern and contemporary global emphasis of Liberal Studies by Advanced Writing Studio writing in order to facilitate a discussion engaging students in reading, analyzing, AWS-UF 0201 4 credits of the role national or geographic and interpreting works throughout Involves advanced study and practice of identity plays in the construction of the English-speaking world and, in writing and is intended for those who creative works. The course considers, translation, beyond it; in the classroom, wish to develop their writing and who when appropriate, the national or instructors deal with the attendant seek to explore and utilize writing as an geographic origin of particular forms— issues of geography, political and social important aspect of inquiry. Typically, in fiction, for example, magical realism difference, and translation. Students also the course will involve the study and and its ties to Latin America, and the produce original work based on research practice of one mode or genre of writing nouveau roman and its ties to France— and the incorporation of dialogue (e.g., the screenplay, the poem, the and the ways those forms have migrated with other writers and thinkers. The personal essay, literary journalism, the and influenced creative works around Writing sequence forms the foundation scholarly essay, short fiction, the book or the globe. Students complete creative of a student’s writing career and shares movie review, etc.-- the number of genres writing exercises inspired by and related important writing-intensive values with or modes that students may practice in to the readings and discussions of form, all other areas of the program. a single course will be at the instructor’s some of which might turn into longer Global Writing Seminar discretion), and the study and practice works. GWS-UF 0101 4 credits of interpretive or reflexive prose that Creative Writing: Places Introduces students to the kinds analyzes, synthesizes and reflectively CWP-UF 0101 4 credits of observational, reading, research, engages with the mode or genre under This course considers place, setting, analytic, and writing practices upon consideration. The class will incorporate or location as central concerns of which they will depend throughout the study of global traditions (that is, the creative writing craft. Students their undergraduate careers and beyond. across several large geographic regions) examine contemporary theories and Students work in modes from self- in which the particular mode or genre poetics around issues of place, as well examination to cultural analysis that lead is practiced and studied. All classes as consider how writers use place, into the research process, helping them will involve the student in some form geography, landscape, and nationality recognize the role of writing as a tool of collaboration (group presentations, to shape their creative work. Students for exposition, exploration, synthesis, team-teaching a text, interviewing same consider how one makes places with

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 30 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 influences and assimilations, both local in China. This course takes a global conceptions of human nature emerge and external. Diverse cultural traditions perspective and uses an interdisciplinary and collide. Oppression gives rise to

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 31 new movements for greater equality and to question and undermine the inequalities of race and gender - and in individual rights, and bitter struggles for institutions and practices that structure its economic relations with the West. power lead to the creation of large new contemporary societies. Students Questions addressed include: How colonial empires, whose effects linger consider criticisms of Western practices have the residual legacies of slavery and to the present day. In addition, the that form both within the West and colonization facilitated consumption world’s different civilizations come into from other regions of the world, giving in and of the Caribbean? And what increasing contact through exploration special attention to the reception of cultural resources and strengths are and trade. Students consider these ideas Western texts by other traditions and, deployed or lost to migration? and developments critically, with an eye conversely, the influence of these other East Asian Cultures to their philosophical, political, and traditions on the West. EAGC-UF 0101 4 credits historical significance; and they explore Offers a broad interdisciplinary the ways in which texts that have introduction to China, Japan, and often been read in exclusively Western GLOBAL CULTURES Korea, generally concentrating on one of contexts yield new meaning when these regions. Students study aspects of placed in non-Western settings. African Cultures the traditional and/or modern cultures AFGC-UF 0101 4 credits Social Foundations III of one or more of these countries, Offers a broad interdisciplinary SFIII-UF 0103 4 credits such as the foundational texts of major introduction to the great diversity of Examines major intellectual and schools of thought, as well as literary, peoples, places, and cultures on the historical events from the Enlightenment political, philosophical, religious, and African continent. Students use a and the Qing Dynasty (around 1700) artistic works. Topics may include the variety of historical sources, literature, to the contemporary world, a period roots and growth of East Asian culture, and film to explore the paradigms that features some of the most rapid national or cultural identity in relation of traditional cultures of precolonial and significant changes in human to imperialism and colonialism, East- societies and the disruptions of those society and scientific understanding. At West tensions, modernism’s clash structures by the incursions of Islam the same time, many of the enduring with tradition, the persistence of the and European colonialism. The course questions of humanity have become traditional within the modern, the East also explores the decolonialization of even more critical as disparate cultures Asian diaspora, and questions of East the continent, the attendant struggles interact in a new global arena. This Asian “modernities.” for independence, and post-liberation course is a capstone to the Foundations problems. The impact of modernity on Latin American Cultures sequence; accordingly, authors and cultural roles and the transformation LAGC-UF 0101 4 credits themes come from a range of texts both of African cultures in the diaspora also Offers a broad, interdisciplinary interdisciplinary and international. receive attention. introduction to the diversity in the Among the themes the course explores Caribbean and the Americas beyond the are the philosophical and political Caribbean Cultures United States and Canada. Given the debates that followed the creation of CAGC-UF 0101 4 credits European, American, African, Asian, global colonial empires, as societies Offers a broad interdisciplinary and indigenous Indian influences on the from around the world confronted introduction to the multi-lingual region’s varied cultures and societies, the imperial polices and institutions. cultures of the Caribbean, based on course focuses on one or more of such The course also considers the rise of readings from literature, history, and topics as the social, political, artistic, vast, new international markets; the cultural studies. This course takes an economic, and ethnological issues of the spread of revolutionary and national interdisciplinary, transnational approach pre-Columbian, colonial, independence, liberation movements in the 19th to unpacking connections between and contemporary periods. It traces both and 20th centuries; new challenges to the histories of slavery, indentureship cultural communities and differences established property; and the social and European colonialism and within Latin America. The course also effects of industrialization. In addition, the Caribbean’s current realities of explores Latin American ideas about instructors discuss postmodern attempts inequality, internally – in particular the place that the region occupies in the

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 32 Americas and the world. of scientists over the years. They learn human population and feeding the about the nature of matter and energy world’s people, including developments Middle Eastern Cultures MEGC-UF 0101 4 credits and how the universe has evolved. Topics in agriculture and genetic modifications include the origin and development of of organisms; and the nature of Earth’s Offers a broad interdisciplinary the stars, galaxies, planetary systems, energy resources and their use by introduction to the societies, cultures, and the universe itself, as well as study humankind. politics, and history of the contemporary of the Earth and the development of Near East and Islamic North Africa. Life Science life on Earth and its potential to exist Sociological, historical, and political LISCI-UF 0101 4 credits elsewhere in the universe. The course texts, as well as achievements in the Examines fundamental principles and begins with the development of scientific fine and performing arts, films, and processes of biological science. The thought at multiple locations around literary works, are employed to examine theme of evolution is woven throughout the pre-modern world by reference to the region’s rich historical legacy and the course. Topics include genetics, Babylonian and Chinese astronomy, current complexity. Topics include the cancer, cell biology, biochemistry, Indian numerical systems, and the work historical-cultural relations between the biotechnology, and bioethics, with of such scientists as Aristotle, Ptolemy, Middle East and the West; the impact special emphasis on the human species. Al-Sufi, Copernicus, Kepler, and of historical, economic, and political Many of the topics are discussed Galileo. It continues with discoveries change in the region’s cultures and within a social and historical context, by the likes of Newton, Darwin, Curie, societies; and the contemporary state of demonstrating the global nature of Einstein, and Hubble during the period the region. scientific problems and scientific of Western scientific hegemony and process. Selected readings from science 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 Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Students study Environmental Studies ENSTU-UF 0101 4 credits issues in the discipline. The course also aspects of the traditional and/or Students learn about modern acquaints students with the historical modern cultures of one or more of these environmental science in the context of development of life science by reference countries, such as the foundational contemporary global issues, exploring to key figures from Galen to Averroës to texts of major schools of thought, as the impact that the decisions of nations Mendel and Darwin. well as literary, political, philosophical, and individuals have on local and world religious, and artistic works. The course Science of Technology ecologies. The course emphasizes the explores the interactions of historical SCTEC-UF 0101 4 credits science involved in environmental tradition and change and illuminates Follows the intertwined histories decisions while also examining the such issues as colonialism, sectarianism, of science, technology, and society, role of ethics, politics, and economics and modernization. focusing mainly on the technology of in environmental decisions at both communication from the earliest means personal and governmental levels. of communicating across space and time Students examine such topics as ecology SCIENCE to present forms of communication. and biodiversity, including the nature Students investigate the science behind and effects of succession, evolution, History of the Universe the technology by engaging in inquiry- and invasion species; the atmosphere, HOU-UF 0101 4 credits based group activities and group projects including air pollution, ozone Students examine the nature of science as that illustrate the scientific method depletion, and climate change; sources, a way of looking at the world and study and the role of experimentation in use, and misuse of water resources; that world as revealed through the work producing scientific results. The course

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 33 also looks at the impact technology as in the classroom. The concentration which the student actively participates has had on societies, and the way the designation provided for Global Topics in securing with guidance from the structure and values of different societies courses is informational; students may relevant site or professional personnel, have conditioned how technologies are freely choose Global Topics courses falls within the area defined by the actually used. Student research projects outside the concentration they plan to student’s concentration and, as much as investigate the basic science, history, pursue. possible, relates to his or her individual and impact of technologies in other academic interests. Experiential Learning I fields such as energy, medicine, or EXLI-UF 9301 4 credits Junior Independent Research transportation. Comprises both classroom instruction Seminar and community experience to immerse JIRS-UF 0301 2 credits students in the current and historical A mandatory, concentration-specific GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES character of their junior year study class taken online during spring of UPPER DIVISION COURSES abroad site. Whenever possible, junior year. Students begin to prepare students practice foreign language skills for the rigorous independent research Sophomore Seminar: Approaches as part of this immersion. Classroom they will conduct and present as APR-UF 0201 4 credits instruction provides an interdisciplinary seniors. Students use library research Approaches seminars are concentration- perspective on the local, regional, (including online resources) and, when specific courses that acquaint students national, and global forces that have relevant, their own experiences at the with the most influential theories shaped the character of life in the sites to shape their topics and inform and methods that inform the study site city. The community experience their work. In consultation with the 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 Sophomore Seminar: Global Topics with a preamble devoted explicitly to in the disciplinary areas of the student’s GT-UF 0201 4 credits the geographical situation and historical concentration; the precise readings Global Topics seminars put topics of development of the city. that will inform the student’s research contemporary or historical interest into will be determined by each student in Experiential Learning II a global framework. They normally consultation with the instructor. Under EXLII-UF 9302 2 credits draw examples from the regions in the direction of the instructor, students A two-credit, Pass/Fail course focused which the global academic centers are provide online feedback to each other at primarily on a community placement located, but their primary purpose least once a week. each student undertakes in close is to study the global networks of conjunction with the course’s classroom Advanced Global Topics influence and exchange that allow one component. With the guidance of the AGT-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

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 34 the chance to study alongside their a global perspective. Students take a debated in Global Studies is less the colleagues from other NYU schools. concentration-specific course associated empirical reality of globalization than It includes components that take full with the senior thesis in each semester: its drivers, outcomes, and historical advantage of the specific site—e.g., Senior Colloquium in the fall and Senior origins. Is globalization essentially an museum trips and architectural tours, Thesis in the spring, when the final draft economic process or set of processes that explorations of neighborhoods, lectures of the thesis is submitted and reviewed has political and cultural implications, by or conversations with members of by its first reader (the instructor of or a multi-dimensional set of processes the community, and the like. The course the Colloquium/Thesis course) and a for which no single social domain holds illuminates aspects of the culture and second reader who provides additional causal priority? Is “globalization” simply history of the host country in relation to expertise in the thesis topic. Each another word for “Westernization,” regional and local issues. section of the course unites students in “Americanization,” or capitalism and its the same concentration who have spent attendant ideologies? Did globalization Senior Seminars* SCAI-UF 0401 4 credits each their junior year at various locations; begin in the last quarter century or thus, students gain a global perspective several centuries ago or even several Address a focused global topic from on their topics by drawing on the millennia? This course will examine a broad interdisciplinary standpoint. experience of their peers. The course answers made to these questions by Students independently analyze issues offers grounding in the theoretical such thinkers as Immanuel Wallerstein, of global significance. The courses are texts relevant to advanced work in the Anthony Giddens, Arjun Appaduria, interdisciplinary both in the range of concentration, close guidance in the Roland Roberston, Joseph Stiglitz, John primary material they address and in actual composition of the thesis, and Tomlinson, and Jan Nederveen Pieterse, synthesizing and applying secondary practice in the oral presentation of and introduce such key concepts as or theoretical sources from multiple complex ideas. World-Systems Analysis, Neoliberalism, disciplines. The work students produce Cosmopolitanism, Postnationalism, for the course is similarly global in scope The thesis normally runs approximately Deterriorialization, Glocalization, and and interdisciplinary in approach and 40-50 pages (or the equivalent in a Hybridity. methods. Students develop advanced different medium) and concerns a understanding of a narrowly-defined topic related to the student’s junior year Topics in the Humanities aspect of global contact, encounter, international study experience and a ELEC-UF 0101 4 credits or connection. The courses are taught global issue of contemporary importance Elective courses that concern any one of seminar-style, and as such, students in the student’s concentration. a broad range of topics, with a special have primary responsibility for setting emphasis on connecting coursework the agenda of class discussion. with experiences in the city. Recent GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES topics have included Studies in Peace *An upper-level College of Arts and ELECTIVE COURSES and Conflict, and Self-Fashioning Science (CAS) course, including those cross-listed with the Graduate School of in Print and Visual Cultures. Some Arts and Science, may (with permission) Your Place in the Network: Theories electives may provide training in uses of be substituted for one semester of the of Globalization and Global Studies multimedia tools and take the form of senior capstone seminar, providing the INTGS-UF 0101 4 credits a studio course. Electives, by definition, course is required for the student to Introduces some of the most influential do not meet any degree requirement complete a second major or minor, or thinkers and key concepts of Global in LS, but do count as credits toward meets a B.A./M.A. requirement. Studies, the multi-disciplinary academic graduation. study of globalization. In its least Senior Colloquium and Thesis SCOI-UF 0401 4 credits (Fall) and contentious sense, “globalization” refers SRTH-UF 0402 6 credits (Spring) to the rapidly developing and ever- Constitute a full-year course that acts deepening network of interconnections as the final realization of the degree’s and interdependencies that characterize emphasis on independent inquiry from contemporary life. What is hotly

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 35 ECONOMICS in an approved internship outside the decision-making and production classroom. Students read texts devoted • Give opportunities for synthesizing to the intellectual analysis of the Principles of Macroeconomics knowledge and information ECI-UF 0101 4 credits working world, share their internship Introduces basic concepts of experiences with their peers, and write As part of the intensive LS liberal macroeconomic theory. Topics include regular reports on their experience. arts curriculum, it is important that unemployment, inflation, aggregate They complete a substantial final project internships situate the student in an demand, income determination whose precise nature is to be determined interdisciplinary, challenging, and and stabilization policies, fiscal and in consultation with the faculty director flexible environment. During the monetary policies, and the Keynesian and submitted by the end of the term. course of the internships, students monetarist debate over stabilization The faculty director provides written should develop their communication policy. Not a prerequisite of Principles comment on the work; students must abilities, knowledge of the field, of Microeconomics. Equivalent to pass all elements of the course in order and analytical and critical thinking. Introduction to Macroeconomics to receive a passing grade. Ideally, internships will train students (ECON-UA 1) in CAS. in a variety of methodologies and Students must submit internship promote self-confidence as the student Principles of Microeconomics application forms through LS Advising; moves forward. Internships should ECII-UF 0102 4 credits the internship must be approved by also familiarize students with ethical Introduces basic concepts of the course instructor for a student to procedures and restrictions within the microeconomic theory by examining be given permission to register for the organization. price theory and its applications. seminar. Acceptable internships: Topics include consumer demand and Internships characterized by the • Must be located in New York City choice, indifference curve analysis, following are not acceptable within LS big business and public policy, and • May include governmental, criteria: factor markets and the distribution of corporate, or nonprofit • Take place at a location outside income. Not a prerequisite of Principles organizations New York City of Macroeconomics. Equivalent to • Will be structured as an Introduction to Microeconomics • Involve an excessive amount of apprenticeship (that is, skills and (ECON-UA 2) in CAS. clerical or non-field-related work responsibilities graduate over the course of the internship) • Do not provide for frequent contact between intern and INTERNSHIPS • May incorporate a research supervisors/colleagues Students do not need permission from component LS to take paid internships. Following • Limit intern’s work to a narrow • Provide opportunities to use are guidelines for internships for credit. and repetitive activity academic skills (e.g., writing, Only LS students who have completed analysis, computer literacy, public • Restrict the exercise of the freshman year may receive academic speaking) independent judgment credit for internships by taking the Internship Seminar. • Require a variety of work • Do not articulate clear objectives assignments and methods for internship Internship Seminar training INT-UF 0201 1-4 credits • Include progressively challenging The goal of the Pass/Fail Internship tasks/assignments • Have unrealistic expectations for Seminar, which meets weekly for the student’s performance and • Engage the intern in a culture of variable credit, is to guide students in outcomes teamwork and collaboration developing an academic project that relates to the experience they are having • Encourage autonomous

LIBERAL STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 36 Liberal Studies Faculty

Rochelle Almeida, Ph.D. Lindsay Davies, Ph.D. Mitchell S. Jackson, M.F.A. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor St. John’s University Temple University New York University

Joyce Apsel, Ph.D. Peter Diamond, Ph.D. Johann Jaeckel, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor University of Rochester Johns Hopkins University New School for Social Research

George Baroud, Ph.D. Sean Eve, M.F.A. Gerceida Jones, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor New York University New York University New York University

Emily Bauman, Ph.D. Robert Fitterman, M.A. Roxanna Julia, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh Temple University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhoda Berenson, Ph.D. Ifeona Fulani, Ph.D. Philip Kain, M.P.S. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor New York University New York University New York University

Jacqueline Bishop, M.F.A. Robin Goldfin, M.F.A. Karen Karbiener, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor New York University New York University Columbia University

Kevin Bonney, Ph.D. Stephanie Goyette, Ph.D. Stephanie Kiceluk, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow Master Teacher Northwestern University Harvard University Columbia University

Lisa Cesarani, Ph.D., Regina Gramer, Ph.D. Catherine King, M.S. Affiliated Faculty Clinical Assistant Professor Master Teacher New York University Rutgers University University of Montana

Jeannine Chandler Robert Gurland , Ph.D. , Ph.D., William Klein, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Clinical Assistant Professor SUNY Albany Professor Emeritus Johns Hopkins University Davida Chang Jessamyn Hatcher, , M.Phil. Ph.D. David Larsen, Ph.D. Master Teacher Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Columbia University Duke University University of California, Berkeley Brian Culver, Brendan Hogan Ph.D. , Ph.D. Matt Longabucco, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor New York University New School for Social Research New York University Nina d’Alessandro Susanna Horng, , M.A. M.F.A. Eugenia Naro Maciel, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Sarah Lawrence College Columbia University

LIBERAL STUDIES FACULTY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 37 Farzad Mahootian, Ph.D. Adedamola Osinulu, Ph.D. J. Ward Regan, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Fordham University University of California, Los Angeles State University of New York at Stony Brook Molly M. Martin, Ph.D. Eugene Ostashevsky, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Martin Reichert, Ph.D. Columbia University Stanford University Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Heather Masri, Ph.D. Christopher Packard, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Tamuira Reid, M.F.A. New York University New York University Clinical Assistant Professor Sarah Lawrence College James McBride, J.D./Ph.D. Christian Parenti, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor T. Anthony Reynolds, Ph.D. Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New London School of Economics Clinical Assistant Professor York New York University Louis Pataki, Ph.D. Afrodesia McCannon, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Laura Samponaro, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Yale University Clinical Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley Columbia University Albert Piacente, Ph.D. Ascension Mejorado, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Fred Schwarzbach, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor University of Virginia Clinical Assistant Professor Complutense University of Madrid University of London James Polchin, Ph.D. Suzanne Menghraj, M.F.A. Clinical Assistant Professor Theresa Senft, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Clinical Assistant Professor Columbia University New York University Stephen Policoff,B.A. Lina Meruane, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Michael Shenefelt, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Wesleyan University Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Columbia University Joseph Portanova, Ph.D. Carley Moore, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Kaia Shivers, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Columbia University Clinical Assistant Professor New York University Rutgers University Luis Ramos, Ph.D. Robin Nagle, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Robert Squillace, Ph.D. Clinical Professor University of California, Berkeley Clinical Assistant Professor Columbia University Columbia University Mitra Rastegar, Ph.D. Patricio Navia, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Lenny Tevlin, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor The Graduate Center, City University Clinical Assistant Professor New York University of New York The Graduate Center, City University of New York Roberta Newman, Ph.D. Nancy Reale, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Marion Thain,Ph.D. New York University New York University Clinical Assistant Professor University of Birmingham (UK) Lori Nicholas, M.S. Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. Master Teacher Clinical Assistant Professor Tilottama Tharoor,Ph.D. New York University Carnegie Mellon University Clinical Assistant Professor New York University

LIBERAL STUDIES FACULTY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 38 Elayne Tobin, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh

Timothy Tomlinson, M.F.A. Clinical Assistant Professor Columbia University

Peter C. Valenti, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New York University

Shouleh Vatanabadi, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor State University of New York at Binghamton

Kyle Wanberg, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor University of California, Irvine

Philip Washburn, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Columbia University

Heidi White, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New School for Social Research

Amy Wilkinson, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor University of Missouri-Columbia

Deborah Williams, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor New York University

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor State University of New York at Binghamton

Jennifer Zoble, M.F.A. Clinical Assistant Professor University of Iowa

LIBERAL STUDIES FACULTY • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 39 Liberal Studies Student Awards & Honors

Liberal Studies students with superior Dean’s List approaches have grown as a result of academic or personal records may be their experiences and instruction. The At the end of each academic year, a honored in various ways, such as by deadline for uploading the reflective Dean’s Honors List is compiled. This is placement on the Dean’s Honors List, statement will be announced each year. an honor roll of matriculated students recognition with achievement awards, who have achieved an average of or receipt of funding for research. Latin Honors 3.65 or higher for that academic year Additional information about any of (September-May) in at least 28 graded (Global Liberal Studies only) the honors and awards below may credits. In order to be listed, a student To graduate with Latin honors, a be obtained from the Liberal Studies must not have any grades of Incomplete student must have completed at least Advising Center, 726 Broadway, 6th or N at the time the list is compiled. 64 credits in the GLS B.A. in courses Floor; [email protected]. Grade point averages are not rounded in which the letter grades A through off. D were received. All graded courses taken while enrolled in GLS, including ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS AND Elaine Kuntz Memorial Writing courses taken from other divisions of the HONORS Prize University, will be used in computing Dean’s Circle The Elaine Kuntz Memorial Writing the honors average. Pass grades are not Prize was established in 1988 in memory counted, and grades received in courses Students who complete the freshman of Dr. Kuntz, who was the program’s first taken at other institutions are not year having earned at least 30 credit associate director and a member of the counted. The student must also have hours are eligible to apply for the Dean’s faculty. The prize is awarded to one LS a satisfactory record of conduct. Latin Circle University Scholars program, the freshman each year for an outstanding honors will be determined on the basis honor society of Liberal Studies (LS). essay produced in a writing course. The of cumulative GPA so that summa cum Additional academic requirements writing faculty nominates students for laude is limited to the top 5 percent of apply. Dean’s Circle scholars receive an this prize. the graduating class, magna cum laude award from the University to participate to the next 10 percent of the graduating in a range of activities with faculty, ePortfolio Prize class, and cum laude to the next 15 including visits to cultural events and an percent of the graduating class. academic travel experience. Members are (Global Liberal Studies only) also expected to engage in community This prize is awarded to a graduating Senior Thesis Prize service and to work over the course of senior whose ePortfolio best reflects the year on a major research project on (Global Liberal Studies only) their intellectual development, the a topic related to Dean’s Circle travel. connection of their experiences to their Outstanding thesis work is recognized Dean’s Circle members who are Core senior thesis, and the values of the annually with departmental Thesis Program students also receive favorable program. To be considered, students Awards. Each student may nominate consideration for the University must include in their ePortfolio a his or her thesis for the prize. One thesis Scholars program in the school in which reflective statement (of no more than is recognized in each concentration, as they enroll as juniors. 500 words) that describes how their selected by the concentration chair and thinking has developed over the past guided by instructor recommendation. four years, emphasizing the ways their One overall winner is selected by a understanding of global issues and committee of concentration chairs. To

LIBERAL STUDIES STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 40 be eligible for any thesis prize, a thesis are based solely on merit and are award by LS faculty, staff, or students. must be submitted on time; late theses open to LS students at the end of the are not eligible freshman year. Students do not need to Global Service Award be eligible for financial aid to receive This award is presented annually Valedictorian and Banner Bearer the award. Scholarships will be applied to an undergraduate student in to tuition charges for the sophomore (Global Liberal Studies only) recognition of exceptional engagement year. The awards are for one year only and leadership in creating a global Each year the graduating senior with and are not renewable. To be eligible to network. The honoree will have served the highest cumulative GPA is named apply, students must have a cumulative as a LS ambassador abroad through Valedictorian of the graduating class, NYU GPA of 3.85 or better with no participation in student activities and and at All-University Commencement outstanding incomplete grades, must academics that connect LS students he/she processes and serves as class have earned at least 32 credit hours in and faculty across the globe; both the representative for receiving the LS, must not have been subject to any extent and the quality of services created bachelor’s degree. The graduating senior disciplinary sanctions, and must enroll will be considered. Students may be with the second highest cumulative full time for the fall semester. Eligible nominated for the award by LS faculty, GPA is named Banner Bearer of the students must submit an application staff, or students. graduating class and processes at All- that includes an essay and a letter of University Commencement. support from an LS faculty member. Social Impact Grants

This grant program supports applied SCHOLARSHIPS LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE learning experiences for students AWARDS who are motivated by important Guen Scholarship questions studied in the Liberal Studies Community Leadership Award (Global Liberal Studies only) curriculum and who connect these with (Global Liberal Studies only) ongoing efforts to solve community GLS sophomores are eligible to apply for issues. A significant element of this a limited number of Guen Scholarships, This award is presented annually to initiative is the opportunity students which provide additional financial aid a graduating senior on the basis of have to both reflect on social issues and to GLS students spending their junior outstanding contributions to the Global their own agency, and apply what has year abroad. The scholarships have been Liberal Studies community. Students been learned to practical, real settings. funded through the generosity of the may be nominated for the award by LS Project proposals must be submitted to Guen family in the interest of assisting faculty, staff, or students. apply for this award, which ranges from students in international study. Ten $500 to $2,000. Interested students scholarships of $5,000 for the year will Global Impact Award should refer to the Social Impact Grants be awarded based on a combination of (Global Liberal Studies only) webpage: www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu/ merit and financial need. GLS students object/impact.grants. may apply at the end of the sophomore This award is presented annually year. Scholarships will be applied to to a graduating senior based on Torch Award tuition charges for the junior year. The accomplishments that have potential for award is for one year only and is not meaningful global impact, responding This award honors outstanding service renewable. to global challenges through scholarship, and leadership in student activities, engagement, innovation and/or creative including student organizations and Michael L. Probst Scholarships practice. The honoree will have an School and University governance. outstanding academic record and a The Torch Award is presented to an The Michael L. Probst Scholarships demonstrated commitment to making undergraduate student in recognition were endowed by a distinguished positive impact for global communities. of the unique and beneficial quality of former NYU administrator. The awards Students may be nominated for the their record of service to classmates,

LIBERAL STUDIES STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 41 the faculty, and the administration of liberalstudies.nyu.edu/object/gls.grants. LS. Students may be nominated for the award by LS faculty, staff, or students. University-Wide Awards

Students also have opportunities RESEARCH, PRESENTATION & to receive other university-wide PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES distinctions, including but not limited to the President’s Service Awards, Students also have opportunities University Leadership Honors Course, to apply for other distinctions and Wasserman Center Internship in other departments of NYU, Grants. Faculty, staff, and, in some including but not limited to the cases, fellow students can nominate Ranieri International Scholars Fund undergraduates for these distinctions (Ancient Studies), Hull Fellowships and serve on the committees that (History), Summer Undergraduate evaluate candidates. Research Programs (Prehealth), Reynolds Changemaker Challenge Global Awards & Fellowships & Social Venture Competitions (Social Entrepreneurship), Policy Case Global awards are competitive Competition (Public Policy), the Global fellowships scholarships intended to Engagement Symposium (Global support outstanding students in their Programs), and many other research academic and professional endeavors. funds and fellowships sponsored The Office of Global Awards supports throughout NYU. Interested students undergraduate students applying for 25 should consult with the advisor for merit-based fellowships, scholarships, academic excellence programs in the and educational opportunities. Liberal Studies Advising Center. Interested students should refer to the fellowship options coordinated through Students may also apply to present NYU or consult with the advisor research or chair a panel at the LS Global for academic excellence programs in Research Colloquium, held annually in the Liberal Studies Advising Center. the spring. Requests for proposals are Interested students should refer to the announced every year. Global Awards webpage: www.nyu. edu/academics/awards-and-highlights/ Dean’s Global Research Grant global-awards. (Global Liberal Studies only)

GLS students can apply for grants to help offset travel or other extraordinary expenses associated with major research projects. Applications must be submitted for either a Thesis Research Grant or an Open Research Grant, which supports research projects not related to the senior thesis. The award ranges from $500 to $2,000. Interested students should refer to the Dean’s Global Research Grant webpage: www.

LIBERAL STUDIES AWARDS AND HONORS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 42 Academic Policies & Procedures

The following policies apply to Liberal Online Course Registration LS students are strongly cautioned that Studies students enrolled in either the (Albert) they should not add courses or change Core Program or Global Liberal Studies sections of courses after the second week Albert is the NYU student information (GLS), unless otherwise indicated. All of the semester. Students who wish to services website. Students can use Albert references to deans refer to the position add a course in the third week must to register for courses, change addresses, within Liberal Studies, unless otherwise secure permission from the instructor and review transcripts and financial aid noted. and department in advance. Students information. Albert can be accessed via who add a course or change a section www.albert.nyu.edu. at any time are fully responsible for all COURSE REGISTRATION work previously assigned. Change of Schedule After the ninth week of classes, students Enrollment Status Students may access Albert online to can withdraw from a course only in case The programs and courses in Liberal adjust their schedule by dropping and of severe emergency. Late withdrawals Studies are designed for students adding courses until the end of the must be approved by the Associate Dean who attend classes offered during the second week of classes (the designated of Students. Undergraduates are not day on a full-time basis. A full-time add/drop period for NYU). All schedule allowed to completely withdraw from schedule is therefore expected, which changes made after the second week all courses through Albert. For complete normally consists of 16 credits per term of the semester must be approved by withdrawal, students must first consult (or 32 credits per year), and enables a an academic advisor. Ultimately, the with an academic advisor and complete student to complete the entire degree courses that students sign up for are their a term withdrawal request. program of 128 credits within four responsibility. When uncertain about years. Minimal enrollment for full- changes they want to make, students Refunds For Withdrawals time status entails completing at least should check with the LS Advising Each semester, the Office of the Bursar 12 credits per term, or 24 credits per Center. Students may withdraw from establishes a refund schedule that applies year. Students who wish to attend part a course up until the ninth week of to withdrawals. The first calendar week time should request permission from the semester; courses dropped during consists of the first seven calendar days the LS Academic Advising Center. the first two weeks of the semester will beginning with the official opening An advisor can discuss the potential not appear on the transcript. After date of the term. Students who receive implications of part-time enrollment, the second week of classes, students financial aid should consult the Office including degree progress, financial can no longer add a course, and a W of Financial Aid immediately if they aid, housing eligibility, visa status, and (“Withdrawal”) will be recorded on register for, or drop to, fewer credits other concerns. Permission will be their transcript if they withdraw from a than reported on their application for granted only where there are sufficient course. The W grade will not be included financial aid. A change in enrollment and valid reasons for part-time study; in the calculation of their grade point status may affect the financial aid though due to visa requirements, part- average. Note that add/drop periods students receive. It may also affect their time enrollment cannot be approved for differ for summer and winter session financial obligation to the University by any student studying abroad. Failure to classes, though the periods are based making them immediately responsible complete a minimum of 24 credits per on a proportional percentage of time for any charges incurred up to the point year can likewise jeopardize a student’s completed in the course. of withdrawal. The refund schedule full-time status and academic progress.

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 43 is not applicable to students whose NYU schools and colleges have specific schedule and receives grades of A, A-, registration remains in the flat-fee range residency requirements. Students should B, and C+, respectively, in four 4-credit (12-18 credits). The refund schedule is consult the websites and bulletins of courses and a B+ in a 2-credit course, based on the total applicable tuition, those schools and colleges for up-to-date the student’s semester GPA would be excluding nonrefundable fees and information about these requirements. computed as follows: deposits. Students who are due a refund GLS students are required to spend the 4.0 (A) x 4 credits = 16.0 can expedite the process by enrolling in fall and spring semesters of both the 3.7 (A-) x 4 credits = 14.8 direct deposit through Albert. 3.0 (B) x 4 credits = 12.0 sophomore year and the senior year 2.3 (C+) x 4 credits = 9.2 For more information about NYU in residence on Washington Square in 3.3 (B+) x 2 credits = 6.6 tuition policies, contact the Office of New York. Total grade credits 58.6 the Bursar: www.nyu.edu/bursar. GPA = 58.6 divided by 18 = 3.255

Auditing a Course GRADES The total grade points (58.6) is divided To receive a final grade for a course, a by the number of credits completed (18) Students may audit a designated course student must be in regular attendance to obtain the GPA (3.255). Note: There with the consent of the Associate Dean and satisfactorily complete all are no A+, D-, or F+ grades. See “Pass/ of Students and the permission of the examinations and other assignments Fail Option” below for information instructor. Auditors may not preempt prescribed by the instructor. A student about pass/fail policies, including those space required for registered students. will not receive a grade for any course that apply specifically to LS students. Audited courses will not appear on for which she or he is not officially students’ official transcripts, nor will registered. I Grade credit or a grade be awarded. Students should not audit courses required by The following grades are awarded and The grade of I (“Incomplete”) is a their curriculum. Audited courses will are computed in the grade point average: temporary grade that indicates that not be considered to satisfy prerequisite A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, and the student has, for good reason, not requirements for advanced courses. F. In general, A indicates excellent work; completed all of the course work but Auditors are allowed to attend classes B indicates good work; C indicates that there is the possibility that the but not to participate in other ways. satisfactory work; D indicates passable student will eventually pass the course Auditors may not submit papers or work and is the lowest passing grade; when all of the requirements have been take exams. Students who wish to audit and F indicates failure. The weights completed. The incomplete grade may should contact the Associate Dean of assigned to the grades in computing the be granted only in the 10th week of a Students about approval no later than grade point average are as follows: semester or after. A student must ask the first day on which the class meets. the instructor for a grade of I, present A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, documented evidence of illness or the B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, Residency Requirement C = 2.0, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, equivalent, and clarify the remaining D = 1.0, and F = 0.0. course requirements with the instructor. The Core Program is a four-semester program. Students planning to transition The incomplete grade is not awarded to one of the baccalaureate programs Computing the Grade Point automatically. It is not used when there at NYU normally must complete four Average is no possibility that the student will eventually pass the course. Students semesters of full-time enrollment in the The grade point average (GPA) can be have no more than one semester to Core Program. Full-time enrollment obtained by determining the total of finish the work for a course in which an is defined as the completion of a quality points earned and dividing that incomplete grade was received, though minimum of 12 credit hours in each figure by the total number of credit the instructor may stipulate an earlier of the four semesters. Summer session hours earned. For example, if an LS deadline. For sophomores in the Core enrollment will not be counted toward student has completed an 18-credit the residency requirement. Note: Other Program scheduled to transition out

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 44 of LS in the following fall semester, GLS students will not be granted understand that in other schools of any incomplete grade granted by an approval to take the following NYU, the pass/fail option generally instructor in a core requirement must be requirements pass/fail: is not permitted for any College Core resolved by August 1st [students must Curriculum courses, for any degree 1. Courses in the GLS First-Year pass all LS requirements before they can requirements, for courses in the Curriculum (Global Writing transition to another NYU school]. If major and the minor, or for required Seminar, Cultural Foundations I & the course work is not completed after preprofessional courses. Students who II, Social Foundations I & II) the designated time for making up change majors may not be able to use incompletes has elapsed, the temporary 2. Sophomore Seminars (Approaches; courses previously taken under the pass/ grade of I shall become an F and will be Global Topics) fail option to satisfy requirements of the computed in the student’s grade point new major. Students contemplating the 3. Advanced GLS Elective average. pass/fail option should consult with a 4. Global Cultures LS professional staff advisor about the W Grade likely effect of such grades on their 5. Advanced Global Topics academic and career plans. The grade of W (“Withdrawal”) 6. Experiential Learning I indicates an official withdrawal from a Course Repeat Policy course. 7. Junior Independent Research For students who matriculate in Liberal Seminar Studies as of fall 2016 or later: A student Pass/Fail Option who has taken a course for credit or who 8. Senior Seminars has obtained a W (Withdrawal) in a Applies to both the Core Program and 9. Senior Colloquium and Thesis course is permitted to repeat that course. GLS students: Students may elect no Students may not repeat courses in a more than one pass/fail option each The choice to elect pass/fail grading in designated sequence after taking more term, including summer sessions, for any course must be made before the advanced courses, and students with a cumulative total of no more than 16 completion of the ninth week of the questions regarding course sequences credits while they are degree candidates term (or the third week of a six-week should consult with the particular in LS. The pass/fail option is not summer session); after that time, the department offering the course. When available for courses completed at other grading option cannot be changed. a student repeats a course, no additional institutions. The pass/fail option is not Once elected, the choice of pass/fail credit will be awarded. However, both permitted for any required course. grading cannot be changed back to the the original and subsequent grades letter grade option. No grade other than will be recorded on the transcript and P or F will be recorded for students computed in the grade point average. Core Program students will not be choosing the pass/fail option. P includes granted approval to take the following all passing grades (equivalent to D or Grade Appeals requirements pass/fail: higher), but is not counted in the grade Students who have complaints about point average. F is counted in the grade 1. Courses in the LS Core Program grades or other academic matters should point average. Curriculum (Writing I & II, attempt in the first instance to resolve Cultural Foundations I, II & II, To request the pass/fail grading option them by contacting the instructor of Social Foundations I, II & III). for an elective course not applied toward the course and speaking to the Associate a major, minor, or other curriculum Dean of Students before the end of the 2. Required coursework towards a requirement, students should contact term, who may attempt to bring about major and/or minor. their academic advisor and complete an informal resolution. If the matter 3. Courses under the College Core the online form, available on www. cannot be resolved in this way, students Curriculum for CAS-bound liberalstudies.nyu.edu. may file a petition in writing setting students or core requirements for forth the basis for the appeal with the Note: Core Program students should other NYU schools. Academic Affairs Office and using a

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 45 form provided by the Student Affairs workshops, group review sessions, French Baccalaureate, Advanced Level Office; such a petition must be filed no and peer tutoring. The ULC (“A-Level”), Abitur, and some other later than 30 days after the final grade has multiple locations. Students foreign maturity examination credits for the course has been posted. Petitions should visit www.nyu.edu/ulc. may also result in advanced standing should be filed at: Liberal Studies, 726 credit. Some courses taken at other • The Writing Center, part of the Broadway, Room 676, New York, NY colleges may not be honored by NYU. Expository Writing Program at the 10003. Petitions will be heard by the College of Arts and Science (CAS), LS accepts a maximum of 32 credits of Committee on Academic Standards; the offers tutorial help in writing for advanced standing.* While GLS accepts committee will deliberate and render a the University community. The up to 32 advanced standing credits, decision within 30 days of the petition’s center is located at 411 Lafayette the structure of the program does not submission. Any appeal of the decision Street, 4th Floor. Students should typically allow for early graduation. The must be made by the student directly visit www.nyu.edu/cas/ewp/html/ work reflected by advanced standing to the Office of the Dean. The deadline writing_center.html. credits will not substitute for any of the for appeals is 14 days from the date of required courses in the Core Program the committee’s decision. Students, • Math tutoring is available through or in GLS. The only requirements that responsible faculty, and administrators the University Learning Center advanced standing credits may satisfy shall preserve the confidentiality of any and also at the College of Arts in Liberal Studies are mathematics student’s grade appeal. and Science Department of and science. Please see “Advanced Mathematics, in the Courant Study Away Students Placement Credit and Global Liberal Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Studies Requirements” below for more Students must follow the Grade Appeals Students should visit www.math. information. policy prescribed by the University’s nyu.edu. Study Away Policies and Procedures Students should also note that the various • Tutoring support for other subjects while studying away at an NYU global undergraduate schools and colleges of is available through the academic academic center. Visit www.nyu.edu/ NYU have different policies on whether department, including Computer studyaway. AP or other advanced standing credit Science, Physics, and many will be accepted in fulfillment of major foreign languages. Students should and other requirements. Students visit the appropriate academic ACADEMIC SUPPORT SERVICES should consult with the LS Advising department or consult their Students who seek academic support Center about advanced standing credits academic advisor. services are encouraged to utilize any of and how they will be counted. the following resources: In general, advanced standing for transfer • The Academic Resource Center CREDIT credit may be awarded for satisfactory (ARC), a resource for academic work completed at another accredited Advanced Standing Credits support, is located at 18 college or university upon receipt of an Washington Place. The ARC Advanced standing credits are college official transcript that demonstrates a includes cross-school advising credits earned before entering NYU. qualifying grade. In granting credit, the services to help students navigate Examples of advanced standing following are considered: the content, beyond the offerings of their own credits include those earned at other complexity, and grading standards of schools when exploring courses, accredited colleges and universities courses taken elsewhere; individual areas of study, minors, graduate before admission to NYU completed grades and grade averages attained by degrees, and more. Students with a grade of B or better, and those the applicant; the suitability of courses should visit www.nyu.edu/arc. earned through qualifying scores of taken elsewhere for the program of 4 or 5 obtained on the Advanced study chosen for NYU; and the degree • The University Learning Center Placement (AP) examinations. of preparation that completed courses (ULC) offers academic support International Baccalaureate (IB), provide for more advanced study at

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 46 NYU. Advanced standing credit toward credit. Internships the degree is given only for a grade of Science is the only GLS degree A student internship can be defined B or better, provided the credit fits requirement that AP credit may satisfy. as “a form of experiential learning into the selected program of study and AP credit in Biology, Chemistry, or that integrates knowledge and theory courses were completed within the past Physics B may be used to substitute for learned in the classroom with practical 10 years. In addition, quarter hours Natural Science I and II. AP credit in application and skills development will be converted to semester hours Environmental Science may be used in a professional setting” (National to determine the number of credits to substitute for Natural Science II (as Association of Colleges and Employers). transferable to NYU; and credits based opposed to Natural Science I for Core Credit towards the NYU degree, on semester hours will be transferred at Program students). however, is awarded for courses, not face value to NYU. for internship placements. Although Note that the AP equivalencies listed For detailed information on AP, IB, and an internship placement (either paid below are for students in GLS only. A-Level equivalences, please refer to the or unpaid) may be a co-requisite for Students who declare certain cross- AP/IB/Advanced Levels equivalencies a course, students receive credit only school minors should consult the charts in the CAS bulletin: www.cas. for academic work that is assessed by LS Advising Center about advanced nyu.edu. an instructor as part of a course -- not standing credits that may or may for the professional development that Advanced standing credits must be not apply to particular minors or they receive through their placement or submitted to the NYU Undergraduate that may satisfy certain departmental the hours spent at the placement site. Admissions Processing Center and are prerequisites. The Core Requirement In such cases, students are expected only then evaluated by the LS Advising will be satisfied with a score of 4 or 5 on to select appropriate placements in Center. Students should request that the AP examination listed. collaboration with the course instructor. official AP scores, college transcripts, AP Core For advice on this matter, students and and other documentation be sent to Examination Requirement faculty should review the Wasserman the NYU Office of Undergraduate Satisfied Center’s “Important Considerations Admissions, New York University, Biology Natural Science I Before Accepting a Job or Internship.” 665 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, and II If interested in requesting credit for NY 10012-2339. AP scores may also Chemistry Natural Science I an internship experience, students can be sent electronically through www. and II contact the internship program advisor collegeboard.com/student. Environmental Natural Science II in the Liberal Studies Advising Center *Students should consult the websites and Science for more information about the proposal bulletins of other NYU schools and colleges Physics B Natural Science I and approval procedures. for specific residency requirements. and II Physics Natural Science I Advanced Placement Credit and Independent Study C—Mech. and II Global Liberal Studies Requirements and Physics In special circumstances (such as when C—E&M GLS participates in the Advanced a student is working on a pre-approved Placement (AP) Program of the College Physics C— Natural Science I research paper with a faculty member), a Mech. Entrance Examination Board. GLS student may be allowed to register for an students who present AP test results Physics Natural Science I independent study course. Independent C—E&M with the appropriate score (usually 4 study proposals must be sponsored Physics 1 or 2 Natural Science I or 5) may receive college credit toward by a full-time LS faculty member and the bachelor’s degree. Students who Physics 1 or 2 Natural Science I approved by the Associate Dean for and II receive AP credit may not take the Academic Affairs. corresponding NYU course for credit. If they do so, they will forfeit the AP

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 47 Summer Session/Winter Session Advising Center, New York University, years. In addition, note quarter hours 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, will be converted to semester hours NYU offers students the opportunity NY, 10003, and to the Undergraduate to determine the number of credits to earn academic credit to supplement Admissions Processing Center, New transferable to NYU; and credits based course work during the regular fall and York University, 665 Broadway, 11th on semester hours will be transferred at spring semesters. Summer Sessions are Floor, New York, NY 10012. face value to NYU. intensive courses offered at the New York City campus and global sites during Non-NYU Study Online Courses summer recess. Students interested in Liberal Studies students are not LS will only consider transfer credits Summer Sessions should visit www.nyu. permitted to pursue course work at for online courses if they are earned edu/summer and consult their academic other universities during the regular by a student matriculating at the not- advisor for registration guidance. academic year while enrolled in the for-profit institution of higher learning January Term sessions are intensive Core Program or Global Liberal where they were earned; courses that courses offered at the New York City Studies. Students interested in studying meet those conditions will be considered campus and global sites during winter at other universities during the summer on a case-by-case basis. recess. Students interested in January or intersession should consult with Term session should visit www.nyu. Global Study their academic advisor in New York edu/winter and consult their academic for permission and approval, as well GLS students are expected to study advisor for registration guidance. as guidance on how these courses may away for the entire junior year at an NYU does not normally accept summer or may not count toward graduation NYU global study site in Accra*, Berlin, school transfer credits taken at another or other requirements. In addition, Buenos Aires, Florence, London**, university. In rare circumstances, and students should consult their transition Madrid, Paris, Shanghai, or Tel Aviv. only with prior approval, students may school if they would like to study Students are not permitted to satisfy take such courses. Students who wish to outside of NYU in the junior or senior the global study requirement at any apply for approval must do so by filing year, as policies vary by program and other NYU Global Academic Center. a petition (forms are available through department. In addition, students cannot satisfy any academic advisor or the Liberal the global study requirement at any of In general, credit may be awarded for Studies website) no later than the first NYU’s international exchange partners satisfactory work completed at another of May preceding the summer in which or a non-NYU study away program. accredited college or university prior to work is to be taken. No late applications Instead, students participate in GLS matriculating at NYU, upon receipt of are considered. Students are also advised specific coursework at each of the an official transcript that demonstrates a that courses taken during the summer aforementioned sites that prepare them qualifying grade. In granting credit, the at other universities may not fulfill for the senior year, senior thesis, and following are considered: the content, requirements toward degrees and majors graduation. complexity, and grading standards of in the other undergraduate schools and courses taken elsewhere; individual *Students beginning Fall 2016 or later. colleges of NYU. LS students who grades and grade averages attained by wish to have summer work at another ** By special permission and petition. the applicant; the suitability of courses university substitute for courses or taken elsewhere for the program of requirements at NYU will require study chosen for NYU; and the degree approval from the appropriate NYU ATTENDANCE of preparation that completed courses school or college, as well as from the LS Although the LS administration does provide for more advanced study at Advising Center. To receive NYU credit not supervise attendance of classes, NYU. Transfer credit toward the once permission is granted, a student it supports the standards imposed by degree is given only for a grade of C or must earn a grade of B or better and instructors. All students are expected better, provided the credit fits into the then arrange for all official transcripts to review attendance policies published selected program of study and courses and scores to be forwarded to the LS in the syllabus for each course. were completed within the past 10

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 48 Students who, in the judgment of absent because of any religious require an application for readmission. the instructor, have not substantially observance should, whenever Leave of absence applications and met the requirements of the course possible, notify faculty in advance guidelines may be obtained from, and or who have been excessively absent of such anticipated absence. should be submitted to, the Academic may be considered to have withdrawn Advising Office, 726 Broadway, 6th 2. Whenever feasible, examinations unofficially and may be given a final Floor, New York, NY 10003. Students and assignment deadlines should grade of F. See “Grades” above. may apply for a medical leave of absence not be scheduled on religious at any time. This will be granted upon holidays. Any student absent from Final Examinations the recommendation of a physician or class because of religious beliefs therapist, as well as the NYU Student Students are required to be present for shall not be penalized for any Health Center or the NYU Counseling all scheduled examinations. Makeup class, examination, or assignment and Wellness Services. Program changes examinations are at the discretion of deadline missed on that day or may also be requested based on medical an instructor. The semester calendar days. conditions. indicates a week at the end of each 3. If examinations or assignment semester during which examinations In order to return, students who leave deadlines are scheduled, any are to be given. The syllabus for each for medical or psychological reasons student who is unable to attend course should indicate the date of will be required to show medical class because of religious beliefs the final examination; if a syllabus documentation stating that the student shall be given the opportunity to does not indicate the date of the final is able physically and/or emotionally make up that day or days. examination, this should be brought to to resume their studies. In addition, the attention of the Academic Affairs 4. No adverse or prejudicial effects students who take a leave of absence for Office. Students should make their shall result to any student who psychological reasons must be evaluated holiday and/or summer travel plans avails him/herself of the above by NYU’s Counseling and Behavioral with scheduled examination dates in provisions. Health Services office before returning mind. Early departure from New York to school. at the end of a semester is no excuse Leave of Absence for missing an examination, nor should Students who wish to take a semester students expect that instructors will ACADEMIC STANDARDS off must obtain an official leave of change the date of the examination to absence from the Assistant Director of accommodate their travel plans. Academic Integrity Students before the beginning of the In the process of learning, students semester. Those who do not obtain an Religious Observance Absences acquire ideas from many sources and official leave of absence may be required exchange ideas and opinions with New York University, as a nonsectarian to apply for readmission, depending classmates, professors, and others. institution, adheres to the general policy on the circumstances and number of This occurs in reading, writing, and of including in its official calendar only semesters absent. A “leave of absence” discussion. Students are expected— certain legal holidays. However, it has is designated as either health-related often required—to build their own also long been University policy that or personal, and the designation work on that of other people, just as members of any religious group may, has implications for housing status, professional researchers and writers do. without penalty, absent themselves financial aid appeals, and the procedures Giving credit to someone whose work from classes when compliance with for returning; students should contact has helped one is courteous and honest. their religious obligations requires it. the LS Advising Center to learn more Plagiarism, on the other hand, is a form In 1988, the University Senate affirmed or ask questions. A leave may be of fraud. Proper acknowledgment marks this policy and passed a resolution that requested for one semester or for the the difference. elaborated on it as follows: entire academic year; and official leaves extending beyond a third semester will A hallmark of the educated student is 1. Students who anticipate being

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 49 the ability to acknowledge information instructor and may not be reproduced progress. Its decisions may be appealed derived from others. The LS community or shared in any fashion without the to the Associate Dean of Students. expects that a student will be scrupulous instructor’s explicit written permission; Students are expected to progress in crediting those sources that have to do so without written permission toward the degree and to remain in good contributed to the development of constitutes a punishable breach of standing. Good standing is defined as his or her ideas. In particular, it is the academic integrity. maintaining a semester and cumulative responsibility of the student to learn the When an instructor finds that a student GPA of 2.0 or above. proper forms of citation. Refer to the has violated the policy on academic LS “Academic Integrity Guide” posted Students whose GPA falls below 2.0 in integrity, the instructor will impose an on the Liberal Studies website at www. any semester will be placed on academic appropriate sanction and also notify liberalstudies.nyu.edu. probation. Normally, these students will the Academic Affairs Office. Sanctions be expected to raise their GPA above 2.0 Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s may range from a failing grade for the in the following semester or they will work as though it were one’s own. More assignment to a failing grade for the either be placed on terminal probation specifically, plagiarism is to present as course. The record of the finding will be or be dismissed from NYU. Students on one’s own a sequence of words quoted kept on file. terminal probation who do not make without quotation marks from another In the event of a second violation of the academic progress as stipulated in their writer, a paraphrased passage from policy, the matter will be referred to the notice of probation will be dismissed. another writer’s work, or facts or ideas Committee on Academic Standards. gathered, organized, and reported by Students who receive a notice of The committee treats all such violations someone else, orally and/or in writing. academic dismissal after they have seriously, and its review may result in the Since plagiarism is a matter of fact, not registered for the next semester are imposition of additional sanctions such of the student’s intention, it is crucial required to discontinue attendance and as academic probation, suspension, or that acknowledgment of the sources will have any registered courses dropped expulsion. Decisions of the committee be accurate and complete. Even where with a full refund of tuition for the may be appealed to the Office of the there is no conscious intention to upcoming semester. Dean. The deadline for appeals is 14 deceive, the failure to make appropriate days from the date of the committee’s Students who wish to contest their acknowledgment constitutes plagiarism. decision. academic dismissal must appeal, Penalties for plagiarism range from a in writing, to the Associate Dean failing grade for a paper or a course to Study Away Students of Students within 20 days of the dismissal from the University. Students must adhere to NYU’s notification of academic dismissal. After Plagiarism is not, however, the only academic integrity policy while studying a review of the appeal, a decision will be form of academic dishonesty. Any away at an NYU global academic rendered in writing. violation of or attempt to circumvent center. Students who are alleged to have Note: Students receiving federal or a course, program, or University violated the policy while studying away state financial aid or other forms of academic policy is considered a breach will be subject to review through the external financial aid are required of academic integrity. Examples process prescribed by the University’s to make “satisfactory progress.” It is of behaviors that compromise our Study Away Policies and Procedures. the responsibility of the student to intellectual and academic community Visit www.nyu.edu/study-away. determine what effect any academic include, but are not limited to, cheating action taken against him or her may have on an examination; forging academic Academic Progress on the student’s financial aid eligibility. documents; attempting to gain an unfair The Committee on Academic Progress Students receiving financial aid should advantage over other students on graded monitors the academic performance of note that the University’s Office of work; or facilitating any of these acts students and places students on academic Financial Aid defines “satisfactory on the part of other students. Course warning and academic probation. It also progress” for full-time students as materials such as syllabi, assignments, makes recommendations on terminating maintaining a grade point average of and test questions belong to the students who have not made sufficient 2.0 or better and completing at least

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 50 three-quarters of all attempted credits.. by LS (in intra-school cases) or by the members of the LS administration) will NYU Office of Student Conduct and review and investigate the complaint. Such progress is essential for students Community Standards and Compliance The Committee will also notify the to remain eligible for student aid. (in inter-school cases). If a complaint student(s) named in the complaint Therefore, while I and W grades are not involves a claim of sexual harassment, of the filing of the complaint and computed in a student’s grade point sexual violence or sexual assault, Liberal request to meet with those individuals. average, they will affect the student’s Studies will follow the University’s During the respective discussions, the eligibility for financial aid. Students standard procedures for responding to students (Complainant and Accused) who have any questions about this can such incidents as outlined in NYU’s shall be informed of their rights and call the Office of Financial Aid at 212- Sexual Misconduct, Relationship responsibilities within the student 998-4444 to determine if their financial Violence, and Stalking Policy: www. conduct process, be apprised of the aid is in jeopardy. nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines- University’s related procedures, and compliance/policies-and-guidelines/ asked to discuss the incident giving rise Student Conduct and Discipline sexual-misconduct--relationship- to the report/complaint. Written notice Students are expected to familiarize violence--and-stalking-policy.html. of a filing of a formal complaint shall be themselves and to comply with the rules given to the accused student. Students who violate Code of Conduct of conduct, academic regulations, and policies may be subject to disciplinary The committee may impose the established practices of the University charges by the University Office of following sanctions: and LS. NYU Student Community Student Conduct and Community Standards can be found at www. 1. Warning: Notice to the student, Standards. nyu.edu/life/student-life/student- in writing, that continuation or communitystandards.html. A member of the faculty, administration, repetition of the conduct found staff, or any student may file a complaint wrongful, or participation in The following are examples of offenses against any student for a conduct offense similar conduct, within a period of for which students may be subject with the Dean of the school in which the time stated in the warning, shall be to disciplinary action (please note, (accused) student is enrolled. Although cause for disciplinary action. this list is not exhaustive): forgery of a complaint may be filed at any time, it identification; deliberate destruction, 2. Censure: Written reprimand for is strongly preferred that the complaint theft, or unauthorized use of laboratory violation of specified regulation, be submitted as soon as possible after data, research materials, computer including the possibility of more the reporter/complainant became aware resources, or University property; severe disciplinary sanction in of the matter. A complaint should disruption of an academic event, the event of conviction for the include a description of the incident program, or class; actual or threatened violation of a school regulation giving rise to the complaint, the identity violence or harassment; use, possession, within a period of time stated in of the accused student(s), and the names or storage of any weapon, dangerous the letter of reprimand. of others who may have been present, chemicals, fireworks, or explosives; observed the incident, or who otherwise 3. Disciplinary Probation: Exclusion hazing; and violations of any local, state, have information related to the matter. from participation in privileges and federal laws. (Please see “Academic In Liberal Studies, complaints should be or extracurricular school activities Integrity” for the sanctions process for filed in writing to the Associate Dean of as set forth in the notice of violations of academic integrity, such Students, serving as the designee for the disciplinary probation for a as cheating, plagiarism, the forgery Dean (726 Broadway, 6th Floor, New specified period of time. of academic documents, and other York, NY, 10003). academic infractions.) 4. Restitution: Reimbursement for In instances in which both the damage to or misappropriation of Complaints alleging a violation of the complainant and the accused are within property. Reimbursement may take conduct policy and other University Liberal Studies, the LS Committee the form of appropriate service to policies will be reviewed and adjudicated on Student Discipline (composed of repair or otherwise compensate for

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 51 damages. University has a duty to address behavior can be accessed via NYUHome at that jeopardizes the health, safety, or www.home.nyu.edu. For more detailed 5. Suspension: Exclusion from welfare of its members; compromises instructions about transcript requests, classes and other privileges or the academic or intellectual process; refer to the Office of the Registrar: www. extracurricular activities as set disrupts the administrative and nyu.edu/registrar. forth in the notice of suspension supporting services of the University; for a definite period of time. Students are able also to access their and/or shows a disrespect for the Students may not make academic grades at the end of each semester via country and local community in which progress at another institution Albert. the center is located. Students who are and then transfer those credits alleged to have engaged in behavior back to NYU during the term of Former Students Unable To that violates the Study Away Standard, suspension. A student who has Access NYUHome/Albert New York University policies, and/or been suspended and who is not specific site policies will be subject to Former students who no longer have found to be responsible for the review through the student conduct a valid NetID and are thus unable violation of school policy shall be process at the Academic Center to access NYUHome/Albert, or who allowed full opportunity to make and/or University level as deemed attended New York University prior up whatever work was missed due appropriate. For more information, to 1990, must complete the Online to the suspension. refer to the Global Academic Centers Transcript Request Form on www.nyu. 6. Monetary Fine: For any offenses. Conduct Process and Procedures: www. edu/registrar and mail, fax, or email nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines- the signature page to the Office of the 7. Dismissal: Termination of student compliance/policies-and-guidelines/ Registrar. Email confirmation will be status for an indefinite period. The global-academic-centers--conduct- sent when the Office of the Registrar has conditions for readmission, if any process-and-procedures. received the signed request form. are permitted, shall be stated by the panel in order of dismissal. Alternatively, former students unable to access NYUHome/Albert may fax Both the Complainant and the Accused TRANSCRIPT REQUESTS or mail a written letter requesting the will be notified in writing of the Official copies of a student’s University transcript. A signed consent form is outcome of the complaint. Decisions transcript can be requested when a required. The fax number is 212-995- of the Committee may be appealed to stamped and sealed copy of the academic 4154; the mailing address is New York the Dean. No record of the disciplinary record is required. There is currently no University, Office of the Registrar, proceeding will be entered in the charge for paper transcripts, though Academic Records, P.O. Box 910, New student’s file unless a final disciplinary please note that requests for electronic York, NY 10276-0910. sanction is found to be warranted. transcripts (“eTranscripts”) incur fees. There is no limit to the number of A request letter must include all of the Study Away Students official transcripts that can be issued to a following information: By enrolling in an NYU global academic student. Transcripts cannot be produced • University ID number center away from Washington Square, for anyone whose record has been put a student assumes not only the rights on hold for an outstanding University • Current name and any other name and privileges of membership in a obligation. under which NYU was attended unique community but also the duties Students who attended NYU after 2001 • Current address of citizenry associated with maintaining and are able to access Albert, NYU’s the values of the University community • Date of birth web-based registration and information as well as those of the country in which system, have the option of requesting • School of the University attended the campus is located. On behalf of, and an official paper or electronic transcript in conjunction with, its members, the • Dates of attendance from the Albert Student Center. Albert

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 52 • Date of graduation Student Clearinghouse student portal. Third-Party Request Procedure This feature can be accessed from the • Full name and address of the To verify enrollment or degree “Enrollment Certification” link on the person or institution to which the verification of a New York Albert homepage. transcript is to be sent University student/alumnus, use the Eligible students are also able to view/ EnrollmentVerify service available from Requests may indicate that transcripts print a Good Student Discount the National Student Clearinghouse. should be forwarded to the requester’s Certificate, which can be mailed to Please note that there is a fee for home address, but the name and address an auto insurer or any other company all services that are provided by the of each institution is still required. that requests proof of status as a good National Student Clearinghouse. The Office of the Registrar should be student (based on the cumulative GPA). notified immediately of any change of This feature is available for students in Arrears Policy address and may be contacted with any all schools except the School of Law. questions or concerns at 212-998-4280. The University reserves the right to For students unable to access deny registration and withhold all NYUHome/Albert, requests for information regarding the record of any ENROLLMENT VERIFICATION verification of enrollment or graduation student who is in arrears in the payment Enrollment Verification provides details may be made by submitting a signed of tuition, fees, loans, or other charges on whether a student is/was enrolled full- letter with the following information: (including charges for housing, dining, time, half-time or less than half-time for or other activities or services) for as long • University ID number any semester the student is/was enrolled as any arrears remain. at NYU. Enrollment certifications are • Current name and any name under Diploma Arrears Policy frequently needed to verify eligibility which you attended NYU for health insurance coverage, certain Diplomas of students in arrears will be • Current address types of financial aid, and for other held until their financial obligations to services available to individuals enrolled • Date of birth the University are fulfilled and they have in colleges and universities. been cleared by the Bursar. Graduates • School of the University attended with a diploma hold may contact the New York University has multiple • Dates of attendance Office of the Bursar at 212-998-2806 to procedures for obtaining enrollment clear arrears or to discuss their financial verification documents. NYU students • Date of graduation status at the University. can obtain verification directly from • Full name & address of the the Office of the University Registrar, person or institution to which the while third party verifications should be enrollment verification is to be sent FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS requested through the National Student AND PRIVACY ACT Clearinghouse. For more information, Requests must be addressed to: The Family Educational Rights and refer to the Office of the Registrar: www. Office of the University Registrar Privacy Act (FERPA) establishes nyu.edu/registrar. Enrollment Verification and requirements for the protection of the Graduation Please note, an individual who is not an privacy of students. FERPA and its P.O. Box 910 NYU student or alumnus must follow New York, NY 10276-0910 attendant regulations govern the release the instructions outlined in the third- Or, signed requests may be faxed to of information from student educational party request procedure. 212-995-4154. Allow seven business records, provide for student access to days from the time the Office of the their records, and establish a means for Student Request Procedure Registrar is in receipt of the request. students to request the amendment of records that they believe are inaccurate, Students can view/print their own To confirm receipt of a request, please misleading, or otherwise in violation enrollment certification directly from contact the Office of the Registrar at of their rights of privacy. New York Albert using the integrated National 212-998-4280.

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 53 University’s “Guidelines for Compliance detail in the Guide for Senior Thesis enrollment. with the Family Educational Rights and Writers available from the Office of All veterans are expected to reach the Privacy Act” summarizes the rights of Academic Affairs. Students who plan objective (bachelor’s or master’s degree, the University’s students under FERPA on conducting thesis research that may doctorate, or certificate) authorized by and its attendant regulations, as well constitute human subjects research must Veterans Affairs with the minimum as the corresponding obligations of the apply to the university’s Institutional number of credits required. The University, and may be viewed at www. Review Board (IRB) for approval in Department of Veterans Affairs may nyu.edu/apr/ferpa.htm. advance of engaging in the proposed not authorize allowance payments for research. Students may refer questions Disclosure: Generally, personally credits that are in excess of scholastic about what constitutes human subjects identifiable information regarding a requirements, that are taken for audit research to the Office of Academic student cannot be disclosed without his purposes only, or for which nonpunitive Affairs. or her written consent. Information is grades are received. personally identifiable if it would make VETERANS BENEFITS Applications and more information a student’s identity easily traceable. may be obtained from the student’s This includes the student’s address, Various Department of Veterans Affairs regional office of the Department of Social Security number or other such programs provide educational benefits Veterans Affairs. Additional guidance identifying number, photograph, for spouses, sons, and daughters of may be obtained from the Office of the or parent’s name and/or address. deceased or permanently disabled University Registrar. Exceptions to this rule are personal veterans as well as for veterans and information defined as “directory in-service personnel, subject to certain Since interpretation of regulations information,” which may be disclosed restrictions. Under most programs, the governing veterans’ benefits is subject to for any purpose, at the discretion of student pays tuition and fees at the time change, veterans should keep in touch the University. Directory information is of registration but will receive a monthly with the Department of Veterans Affairs defined at www.nyu.edu/apr/ferpa.htm. allowance from Veterans Affairs. or NYU’s Office of the University Registrar. Education Records Covered Under Veterans with service-connected FERPA: The Guidelines describe those disabilities may be qualified for Yellow Ribbon GI Education education records that are covered educational benefits under Chapter Enhancement Program by FERPA and that are available for 31. Applicants for this program are student review. “Education records” required to submit to the Department NYU participates in the Yellow Ribbon refers to any record or document of Veterans Affairs a letter of acceptance GI Education Enhancement Program containing information directly related from the college they wish to attend. (Yellow Ribbon Program), a provision to a student and is not limited to a file On meeting the requirements for the of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational with the student’s name on it. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Assistance Act of 2008. The program applicant will be given an Authorization is designed to help students finance, Student Access: Requests by students for for Education (VA Form 22-1905), through scholarship assistance, up to access to their education records should which must be presented to the Office 100 percent of their out-of-pocket be referred to Assistant Provost for of the University Registrar before tuition and fees associated with Academic Program Review Barnett W. registering for coursework. education programs that may exceed the Hamberger at 212-998-2310 or ferpa@ Post-9/11 GI Bill tuition benefit, which nyu.edu Veterans’ allowance checks are will only pay up to the highest public usually sent directly to veterans by in-state undergraduate tuition. the Department of Veterans Affairs. INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD Veterans and eligible dependents should Beginning in the 2009-2010 academic LS students are subject to federal contact the Office of the University year, NYU will provide funds toward regulations regarding human subjects Registrar each term for which they the tuition of each qualifying veteran research, as described in greater desire Veterans Affairs certification of who has been admitted as a full-time

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 54 undergraduate, with the VA matching Veterans Affairs that the eligible person of whether the bearer or possessor is NYU’s tuition contribution for each is enrolled as a full-time undergraduate licensed to carry that weapon. The student. student in order for the funds to be paid possession of any weapon has the under the Yellow Ribbon Program. potential of creating a dangerous To be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon situation for the bearer and others. benefits, an individual must be entitled to the maximum post-9/11 benefit. An CAMPUS SAFETY The only exceptions to this policy individual may be eligible for the Yellow are duly authorized law enforcement Ribbon Enhancement if: Immunization Requirements personnel who are performing official federal, state, or local business and • He/She served an aggregate period New York State Public Health Law 2165 instances in which the bearer of the of active duty after September 10, and 2167 and/or NYU require that weapon is licensed by an appropriate 2001, of at least 36 months. all students (graduate, undergraduate, licensing authority and is carrying transfers and returning students who, • He/She was honorably discharged valid identification that establishes the to date, have not complied) taking six from active duty for a service person’s law enforcement status. or more credits in an approved degree connected disability and had or registered certificate program in served 30 continuous days after New York University Simulated a degree-granting institution must September 10, 2001. Firearm Policy provide proof of immunity to measles, • He/She is a dependent eligible mumps, and rubella; and acknowledge New York University strictly prohibits for Transfer of Entitlement under receipt of information regarding the simulated firearms in and/or around the Post-9/11 GI Bill based on disease meningitis or provide proof of any and all University facilities— a veteran’s service under the meningitis vaccination. academic, residential, or other. This eligibility criteria, as described on prohibition extends to all buildings— If a student is not in full compliance, the U.S. Department of Veterans whether owned, leased, or controlled New York State requires that the Affairs website: www.va.gov. by the University. The possession of a University exclude him/her from simulated firearm has the potential of The Department of Veterans Affairs is attending classes 30 days after the first creating a dangerous situation for the currently accepting applications for the day of class for New York State residents bearer and others. Post-9/11 GI Bill. To qualify for the and 45 days after the first day of class for Yellow Ribbon Enhancement, students out-of-state and international students. The only exceptions to this policy must apply to the VA. The VA will then For more information, visit the Student are instances in which nine specific determine a student’s eligibility for the Health Center website: www.nyu.edu/ requirements are satisfied, as Post-9/11 GI Bill and issue the student a health. enumerated in the NYU Weapons Certificate of Eligibility. Note: Students and Simulated Weapons Policy: www. can apply using the VA Form 22-1990, New York University Weapons nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines- and the form includes the instructions Policy compliance/policies-and-guidelines/ needed to begin the process. weapons-and-simulated-weapons-policy. New York University strictly prohibits After a student is issued a Certificate the possession of all weapons, as of Eligibility from the Department of described in local, state, and federal Veterans Affairs, indicating that the statutes, that includes, but is not limited student qualifies for the Yellow Ribbon to, firearms, knives, explosives, etc., in Program, please contact Clara Fonteboa and/or around any and all University in the Office of the University Registrar facilities—academic, residential, or at [email protected] or 212-998-4823. others. This prohibition extends to all buildings—whether owned, leased, or The Office of the University Registrar controlled by the University, regardless must certify to the Department of

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 55 Student Life Resources

Liberal Studies students have expansive Student Resource Center Commuter and Off-Campus Student opportunities to participate in student Kimmel Center for University Life Programs life at NYU. Students participate in a 60 Washington Square South, Kimmel Center for University Life Suite 210 wide variety of University activities, 60 Washington Square South, Telephone: 212-998-4411 Suite 210 including hundreds of student clubs, E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-4411 leadership and service programs, and Website: www.nyu.edu/src E-mail: [email protected] intercollegiate sports. LS also sponsors several student organizations, such Center for Student Activities, Office of Global Programs as arts and media collectives, politics Leadership & Service 25 W 4th Street, First Floor and law cooperatives, literary journals, Kimmel Center for University Life Telephone: 212-998-4433 60 Washington Square South, Email: [email protected] student government, and more. These Suite 704 Website: www.nyu.edu/globalprograms clubs are advised by faculty and led by Telephone: 212-998-4700 student officers. E-mail: [email protected] Center for Multicultural Education Website: www.nyu.edu/studentactivities and Programs The LS Office of Student Affairs also Kimmel Center for University Life operates the Student Leader Program, Program Board 60 Washington Square South, which is designed to assist students Kimmel Center for University Life 8th Floor new to the Washington Square campus 60 Washington Square South, Telephone: 212-998-4343 with their social, personal and academic Suite 707 Website: www.nyu.edu/cmep transition by assigning upper-class Telephone: 212-998-4700 E-mail: [email protected] peer mentors to students in each The NYU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Student Advising Group. Student Leaders are an Office of Civic Engagement Center important peer resource for prospective 25 West 4th Street, 5th Floor Kimmel Center for University Life students, whom they advise about the Telephone: 212-998-2329 60 Washington Square South, LS experience. For more information, E-mail: [email protected] Suite 602 email [email protected]. Telephone: 212-998-4424 Leadership Initiative E-mail: [email protected] To learn more about student life Email: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/lgbtq activities and resources, contact Website: www.nyu.edu/about/ the offices listed below, consult the university-initiatives/leadership-studies- Bias Response Line development.html comprehensive list of University Clubs, Office of Equal Opportunity or email [email protected] 726 Broadway, Suite 719-721 Fraternity and Sorority Life Telephone: 212-998-2277 Kimmel Center for University Life E-mail: [email protected] 60 Washington Square South, Website: www.nyu.edu/about/ STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES AND Suite 704 policies-guidelines-compliance/equal- SERVICES Telephone: 212-998-4710 opportunity/bias-response LS Student Council 726 Broadway, 6th Floor Ticket Central Box Office E-mail: [email protected] Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place LS Office of Student Affairs Telephone: 212-998-4941 Website: www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral 726 Broadway, 6th Floor E-mail: [email protected]

STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 56 ALUMNI ACTIVITIES DINING SERVICES FOR STUDENTS WITH University Development and Alumni NYU Campus Dining Services DISABILITIES Relations 33 Third Avenue, Lower Level Henry and Lucy Moses Center for 25 West Fourth Street, 4th Floor Telephone: 212-995-3030 Students with Disabilities Telephone: 212-998-6900 Website: www.nyudining.com 726 Broadway, 2nd Floor E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-4980 (voice and Website: www.alumni.nyu.edu HOUSING TTY) Fax: 212-995-4114 Office of Residential Life and Email: [email protected] ATHLETICS Housing Services Website: www.nyu.edu/csd Department of Athletics, 726 Broadway, 7th Floor Intramurals, and Recreation Telephone: 212-998-4600 404 Fitness Athletic Facility Fax: 212-995-4099 COUNSELING SERVICES 404 Lafayette Street E-mail: [email protected] Counseling and Wellness Services Telephone: 212-998-2021 or 2030 Website: www.nyu.edu/housing 726 Broadway, Suite 471 Website: www.gonyuathletics.com Telephone: 212-998-4780 Off-Campus Housing Services Website: www.nyu.edu/counseling Palladium Athletic Facility Kimmel Center for University Life 140 East 14th Street 60 Washington Square South, The Wellness Exchange Telephone: 212-992-8500 Suite 210 726 Broadway, Suite 402 Website: www.nyu.edu/ Telephone: 212-998-4411 Telephone: 212-443-9999 palladiumathleticfacility Website: www.nyu.edu/offcampus- Email: [email protected] living Website: www.nyu.edu/999 BOOKSTORE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Main Bookstore & Computer Store MEDICAL SERVICES 726 Broadway Office of Global Services Student Health Center Telephone: 212-998-4667 561 LaGuardia Place 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors Website: www.bookstores.nyu.edu Telephone: 212-998-4720 Telephone: 212-443-1000 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/ogs Website: www.nyu.edu/shc CAREER SERVICES RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL Student Health Insurance Services Wasserman Center for Career 726 Broadway, Suite 346 RESOURCES Development Telephone: 212-443-1020 133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor Center for Spiritual Life E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-998-4730 238 Thompson Street, Fourth Floor Website: www.nyu.edu/health/ Fax: 212-995-4197 Telephone: 212-998-4959 insurance E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/ Web site: www.nyu.edu/spiritual-life Immunization Record Services/ careerdevelopment Allergy and Immunology SAFETY ON CAMPUS 726 Broadway, Suite 336 Telephone: 212-443-1199 COMPUTER SERVICES AND Department of Public Safety Telephone for appointments: INTERNET RESOURCES 7 Washington Place 212-443-1188 NYU Information Technology Telephone: 212-998-2222 (To report E-mail: [email protected] 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor (IT Service an emergency); 212-998-2220 (TTY) Website: www.nyu.edu/shc/ Desk) E-mail: [email protected] immunization Telephone Help Line: 212-998-3333 Website: www.nyu.edu/public.safety E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nyu.edu/its

STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 57 Pharmacy Services 726 Broadway, 4th Floor Telephone: 212-443-1050 Website: www.nyu.edu/shc/pharmacy

Women’s Health Services 726 Broadway, Suite 404 Telephone: 212-443-1166

Emergencies and After-Hours Crisis Response

• For a life- or limb-threatening emergency, call 911. • For a non-life-threatening emergency, call Urgent Care Services at the Student Health Center (SHC), 212-443-1111. When the SHC is closed, call the NYU Department of Public Safety, 212-998-2222. • For mental health emergencies, call the Wellness Exchange hotline at 212-443-9999 or the NYU Department of Public Safety at 212-998-2222 to be connected to a crisis response coordinator.

STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 58 Admission

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

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 59 – creating the highest possible composite reserves the right to withdraw an offer of test score requirements, the most score for the evaluation process. Please admission if final results are not within competitive applicants score about 100 note that if you submit scores from the close range of the predicted results. on the TOEFL Internet-based Test old and current versions of the SAT, (iBT) and 7.5 or above on the IELTS. NYU also has English language testing the scores cannot be combined into a Information about the TOEFL may be requirements for non-native English “superscore.” For the ACT, NYU will secured on the TOEFL Website (www. speakers. Non-native English speaking review the highest composite ACT score ets.org/toefl) and information on the applicants to the campus in New York – regardless of test dates. IELTS is available on the IELTS Website are required to submit TOEFL (Test of (www.ielts.org). Note: TOEFL is no Students who submit SAT Subject English as a Foreign Language), IELTS longer accepted by the U.K. as evidence Tests, AP, or IB scores (for students (International English Language Testing of English language proficiency for visa- not submitting an IB Diploma) must System), or PTE Academic (Pearson granting purposes. submit: one literature or humanities Test of English Academic) results, which score; one math or science score; and have been issued within the past two ALI Testing a score from one test of the student’s years. If your application suggests that you choice in any subject. Exemption from English language might benefit from additional English- In addition to SAT, ACT, and IB proficiency testing will be given: language support, you may be required results, the Office of Undergraduate to complete additional testing through • If the student’s native language is Admissions considers a wide range of NYU’s American Language Institute English; or regional and national examinations to (ALI) before you arrive on campus. fulfill an applicant’s standardized testing • If the student has been studying Based on this test, you may be asked requirement. Check www.admissions. in a school or college/university to take additional English-language nyu.edu for the most updated list. where the sole language of courses on campus. These courses are Applicants should not assume that any instruction is English for at typically taken as part of your regular examinations will meet NYU’s testing least three years at the time of semester load, and only very rarely requirements unless they are listed on application AND submits SAT, do they result in additional tuition the Office of Undergraduate Admission’s ACT, AP, or IB testing; or costs and/or extended time for degree Website. Please email admissions. completion. • If the student’s education has been [email protected] with questions regarding completed entirely in schools/ examinations that are not included on Early Decision colleges/universities where the the list online. language of instruction is English. Students for whom NYU is their first- Test scores or examination results choice college are encouraged to apply Even if students are exempt from taking should be submitted directly from the under the Early Decision Plan. Early the TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE exam, testing organization by the appropriate Decision candidates should submit they may still submit their scores to application deadline. SAT, SAT the application and all supporting demonstrate their English proficiency. Subject, ACT, and AP scores must be credentials by November 1 for Early Students should take one of these final at the time of application. For Decision I or by January 1 for Early examinations regardless of any other other examinations, if final results are Decision II. NYU’s obligation under test scores they submit to NYU if they unavailable at the time of application, this arrangement is to provide applicants do not quality for an exemption. The predicted results may only be submitted with an admission decision beginning in TOEFL/IELTS/PTE Academic score by a school official via the Naviance/ mid-December for Early Decision I or will be used in conjunction with, not Common Application Website, mailed in mid-February for Early Decision II. in lieu of, other required standardized on official school letterhead in a sealed/ The applicant’s obligation would be to testing. signed envelope, or emailed from a enroll at NYU if admitted and offered a clearly identifiable school email address Students should be aware that while financial aid package that enabled him to [email protected]. NYU NYU does not have any minimum or her to attend.

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 60 Applicants Without U.S. University, to meet students and faculty, Studies sites in New York City, Florence, Citizenship or Permanent London, Paris, and Washington, DC and to attend classes are available to Residency will be provided to admitted students interested students. For applicants without U.S. citizenship upon receipt of the tuition deposit. or permanent residency, financial Although interviews are not available, documentation is not required when a visit to the campus is strongly Readmission of Former Students recommended. Tours of the campus filing an application. If the student is Any former student who has been and admissions information sessions are accepted, instructions for completing out of attendance for more than three conducted several times daily, Monday the Application for Certificate of consecutive terms and who wishes to through Friday and on select Saturdays. Eligibility (AFCOE) online will be return to Liberal Studies must apply included in the acceptance packet. To make an appointment for a tour, an for readmission. The NYU application Appropriate evidence of financial ability information session, or a class visitation, for readmission is available at www. must be submitted with the AFCOE to visit the Undergraduate Admissions nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate- the Office of Global Services in order Website at www.admissions.nyu.edu or admissions/how-to-apply/ for the appropriate visa document to call 212-998-4500. It is suggested that more-applicant-types-and-programs/ be issued. If the applicant’s studies are arrangements be made several weeks returning-to-nyu. being financed by means of his or her prior to visiting the campus. own savings, parental support, outside Students who have attended another private or government scholarships, or Students admitted to the Liberal Studies college or university since their last any combination of these, he or she sites in Florence, London, Paris, or attendance at New York University must arrange to send official letters or Washington, DC for the freshman year must complete a transfer application similar certification as proof of such of study will be invited to visit these sites for undergraduate admission, submit an support. Additional information may in the spring, prior to the May 1 tuition official transcript, and pay the $70.00 be consulted at www.nyu.edu/global/ deposit deadline for Regular Decision application fee. international-immigration-services. applicants. html. NYU Guest Accommodations at ADVANCED STANDING CREDITS Washington Square Fee Waiver Advanced standing credits are college- NYU’s Office of Undergraduate level credits earned before entering Our application fee should not Admissions has partnered with local NYU. NYU participates in the discourage any student from applying hotels to offer guests special, discounted Advanced Placement Program (AP) to NYU. Students who feel that the rates for their stay while visiting the of the College Entrance Examination application fee would be a financial NYU campus. Reservations should be Board. In accordance with New York hardship for their families can simply completed through the reservation forms University policy, if test results are 5 or 4, request a fee waiver on the Common found on the Office of Undergraduate depending on the subject examination, Application. Your counselor or school Admissions Website (www.nyu.edu/ the student may receive college credit official will be asked to verify your admissions/undergraduate-admissions/ toward the degree. International eligibility, so alert your counselor visit-nyu/hotels-discounts.html) to Baccalaureate, French Baccalaureate, in advance to the fact that you have ensure the NYU Admissions discounted A-levels, and Abitur credits may also requested a waiver. rate is received. result in advanced standing credit. Credits earned at other colleges and Campus Visits Student Visas and Orientation universities before admission to NYU in which the grades earned were B All prospective students and their Information pertaining to student or better may also result in advanced parents are invited to visit the New visas, pre-departure preparation, and standing credit. Some courses taken at York University campus at Washington orientation programs at the Liberal Square. Opportunities to tour the other colleges may not be honored by

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 61 NYU. ENROLLMENT PROCESS “Applicants Without U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency,” above. In order to receive evaluation by the LS To be enrolled, an admitted candidate Advising Center of advanced standing must do the following: Students are advised that registration in credits, students should request that other than state-registered or otherwise • Accept the University’s offer of official AP results, college transcripts, approved programs may jeopardize their admission and pay the required and other documentation be sent to the eligibility for certain student aid. All nonrefundable tuition deposit. Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Liberal Studies programs are registered New York University, 383 Lafayette • To live on-campus in New York, by the New York State Education Street, New York, NY 10012-2339. or at one of NYU’s global sites Department. in London, Paris, Florence, or The Core Program accepts a maximum Washington, DC for freshman of 32 credits of advanced standing. year, submit the required housing ADDITIONAL INFORMATION GLS accepts a maximum of 32 deposit. All students planning to Current data on full-time credits; however, the structure of the begin in London, Paris, Florence, undergraduate retention and program does not normally allow early or Washington, DC are required to graduation rates is maintained by the graduation. Please refer to “Advanced live on campus (and thus pay the NYU Office of Institutional Research: Placement Credit and Global Liberal housing deposit). www.nyu.edu/ir. Studies Requirements” on page 47. • Have their high school and For more information about admission, While LS accepts advanced standing college (if applicable) forward a please contact the NYU Office of credits, the work reflected by these credits final transcript to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions: www. will not substitute for any of the LS core Undergraduate Admissions. nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate- classes. The only LS requirements for admissions or 212-998-4500 which advanced standing credits may • File a medical report. substitute are mathematics and science. • Pay balance of tuition and/or Students should also note that several housing fees by the stipulated undergraduate schools and colleges of deadlines. NYU have different policies on whether AP or other advanced standing credit • LS students should await contact will be accepted in fulfillment of major by their assigned academic advisor and other requirements. Students about the advising and registration should consult with the LS Advising process. Center about advanced standing credits International applicants (non-U.S. and how they will be counted toward citizens and non-U.S. permanent the baccalaureate degree. residents) admitted to LS (the Core For information regarding the Program or Global Liberal Studies) will possibility of advanced standing credit follow the guidelines listed above and, for other maturity certificates, please upon payment of the tuition deposit, contact the Office of Undergraduate will be provided with all the pertinent Admissions at www.admissions.nyu.edu information for securing a student or 212-998-4500. visa to enroll at New York University. Please note that upon acceptance, non- See also “Academic Policies and U.S. citizens and non-U.S. permanent Procedures” on page 43. residents must submit appropriate evidence of financial ability. See

ADMISSION TO LIBERAL STUDIES • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 62 Tuition, Fees, & Financial Aid

New York University awards financial Tuition: Other Students online enrollment process before the aid in an effort to help students meet appropriate deadline; for details, please Tuition, per credit, per term: $1,373 the difference between their own see www.nyu.edu/health/insurance. resources and the cost of education. Nonrefundable registration and services Students who would like to waive All awards are subject to availability of fee, first credit: $470 the NYU health insurance and have funds and the student’s demonstrated documentation of alternate coverage Nonrefundable registration and services need. Renewal of assistance depends on can do so on this site. fee, per credit, for registration after first annual reevaluation of a student’s need, credit: $66 Basic Health Insurance Benefit Plan: the availability of funds, the successful 2016–2017 completion of the previous year, and Books And Supplies satisfactory progress toward completion For additional and updated information of degree requirements. In addition, Estimated, per academic year: $1070 beyond 2016–2017, please see www. students must meet the published filing nyu.edu/health/insurance. deadlines. Room And Board Annual, per calendar year: $2,697 Estimated, per academic year: $17,578* Fall term: $1,043 TUITION AND FEES: 2016-2017 *Actual room and board varies depending Spring term: $1,654 (coverage for the Following is the schedule of fees upon several factors. spring and summer terms) established by the Board of Trustees of New York University for undergraduates Personal Expenses Summer term: $732 (only for students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who did not register in the preceding Estimated, per academic year: $2000 for the year 2016-2017. The Board term) of Trustees reserves the right to alter Maintenance Of Matriculation Comprehensive Health Insurance this schedule without notice. Tuition, Benefit Plan: 2016–2017 fees, and expenses may be expected to Maintaining matriculation fee, per increase in subsequent years. Students term: $479 For additional and updated information should consult www.nyu.edu/bursar for beyond 2016–2017, please see www. Nonrefundable registration and services updated information. nyu.edu/health/insurance. fee, per term: $479 Annual: $4,167 Tuition: Full-Time Students Health Insurance Fall term: $1,609 Tuition, 12 to 18 credits flat rate, per NYU requires that all students registered term: $23,295 Spring term: $2,558 (coverage for the in degree-granting programs maintain spring and summer terms) Nonrefundable registration and services health insurance. Most students are fee for flat rate, per term: $1,236 automatically enrolled in either the Summer term: $1,129 (only for students Basic Plan or the Comprehensive who did not register in the preceding Additional tuition, 19 or more credits Plan as part of the course registration term) per term, per unit: $1,373 process. Students automatically enrolled Stu-Dent Plan: 2016–2017 Additional nonrefundable registration in the basic plan or the comprehensive and services fee, 19 or more credits per plan wishing to change to a different For additional and updated information term, per unit: $66 plan may do so by completing the beyond 2016–2017, please see www. nyu.edu/health/insurance.

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 63 Dental service through NYU’s College interest), and work-study grants (funds returning students for scholarship of Dentistry: that allow students to work for NYU in renewal. See www.nyu.edu/ exchange for pay). financial.aid for filing deadlines. Primary member: $240 There are no separate applications • Beginning October 1, 2016, both Partner: $240 for merit scholarships at NYU. The the CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE Dependent (under age 16): $85 admission application is used to will be based on “Prior Prior Year” determine if students qualify for any tax data, increasing accuracy of Renewal membership: $195 scholarship where merit is considered. awarding and allowing students Most scholarships at NYU are not based and families to utilize taxes that Special Fees For All Students: on merit alone, but on a combination of they have already filed from two 2016–2017 need and merit and require that students years prior. For additional and updated information file their financial aid applications on 2. The CSS Non-Custodial Parent beyond 2016–2017, students may time. PROFILE (or the Non-Custodial consult the websites of or contact The following are the only forms Parent PROFILE waiver request) the Offices of the Registrar, Bursar, students need to complete online Residence Life, and Admissions. • New freshmen applicants with for whatever possible financial aid is divorced, separated, or unmarried Late payment of tuition fee: $25 awarded at NYU, including all need- parents will need to submit based and merit-based scholarships: Late registration fee commencing with the CSS Non-Custodial Parent the second week of classes: $50 1. The College Scholarship Service/ PROFILE (or the waiver request) Financial Aid Profile (CSS Profile) by the deadlines to qualify for Late registration fee commencing with scholarships/grants regardless of the fifth week of classes: $100 • The CSS/Financial Aid citizenship status: November 20th PROFILE is required of all new Enrollment deposit upon acceptance (Early Decision I applicants), freshman applicants, regardless (non-refundable): $500 January 20th (Early Decision II of citizenship, who would like applicants), and February 20th Housing deposit (if applicable) upon to be considered for any NYU (Regular Decision applicants) acceptance (non-refundable): $1,000 financial aid, including any and all NYU scholarships and grants. • The CSS Non-Custodial Parent Transfer applicants are not eligible PROFILE is not required for new STUDY AWAY PROGRAMS to submit the CSS/Financial Aid transfer applicants or returning For tuition and health insurance PROFILE. students. expenses for study in NYU study away • Scholarships/grants for 3. The Free Application for Federal and in NYU international exchange international students applying Student Aid (FAFSA) programs, contact the NYU Office of to the New York campus will be • The FAFSA is also required of Global Programs, 25 West 4th Street, limited. First Floor, New York, NY 10003; all new freshman and transfer 212-998-4433. Also see www.nyu.edu/ • NYU’s CSS/Financial Aid applicants who are U.S. Citizens studyaway. PROFILE deadlines are: or Permanent Residents and who November 1st (Early Decision I would like to apply for NYU applicants), January 15th (Early scholarship The FAFSA must be FINANCIAL AID Decision II applicants), and submitted on time for scholarship Financial aid comes in three forms: February 15th (Regular Decision consideration. While filing scholarships and grants (funds that do applicants). your FAFSA past the February 15th deadline may prevent you not have to be paid back), loans (funds • The CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE from being considered for NYU that do have to be paid back with is required of all international

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 64 scholarships, you will still be • All new freshman applicants who SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS reviewed for federal aid eligibility live in New York State but are Eligibility for merit-based and/or need- upon successful submission of the not docuumented U.S. citizens based scholarships at NYU is determined FAFSA using NYU’s School Code or permanent residents may be upon entrance to the University based (002785). considered for NYU scholarships on prior academic strengths and, if with successful, on-time • Beginning October 1, 2016, the applying for financial aid, a student’s submission of the CSS Financial FAFSA will be based on “Prior demonstrated financial need. Since the Aid/PROFILE, the Non-Custodial Prior Year” tax data, increasing amount of scholarship a student receives Parent PROFILE (if applicable), accuracy of awarding and allowing in their first year is typically the amount and the NYU Undocumented students and families to utilize they will continue to receive each year Student Financial Aid Application, taxes that they have already filed if they remain otherwise eligible, filing which is available on the Office of from two years prior. Use of the late can affect eligibility in future years. Financial Aid Website. FAFSA Data Retrieval Tool is encouraged whenever possible. • NYU’s Undocumented Student University-Sponsored and The Data Retrieval Tool allows the Financial Aid Application University-Administered importing of tax information into deadlines are the same as the CSS/ Programs the FAFSA directly from the IRS. Financial Aid PROFILE deadlines: Through the generosity of its alumni Applicants may begin filing their November 15th (Early Decision and other concerned citizens, as well FAFSA as early as October 1st. I), January 15th (Early Decision as from funds supplied by the federal II), and February 15th (Regular • NYU’s FAFSA deadlines are: government, the University is able Decision). February 15th (all freshman to provide an extensive financial aid applicants) and April 1st (GLS • For more information, visit program for its students. Awards external transfer applicants, fall www.nyu.edu/financial.aid/ are competitive and are based on a only). Early Decision admitted undocumented. combination of academic achievement, students who file and complete the applicable test scores, and, in most FAFSA by the CSS/Financial Aid Eligibility for Financial Aid cases, financial need. Eligibility is based PROFILE deadline will receive a on the submission of the application for To be considered for financial aid, financial aid package that includes admission, and no separate application students must be officially admitted federal financial aid eligibility at is necessary unless noted. For current to NYU or matriculated in a degree the time of admission. Those Early information, please consult www. program and making satisfactory Decision admitted students who nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate- academic progress toward degree file and complete the FAFSA after admissions/financial-aid/ requirements. Financial aid awards the CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE scholarships. are not automatically renewed each deadline will have their federal aid year. Continuing students must apply eligibility awarded upon receipt of Federal Grants for financial aid each year, continue the FAFSA. to demonstrate financial need, make Eligibility is based on submission of the • The FAFSA is required for satisfactory progress toward degree FAFSA, and no separate application is scholarship renewal each year for requirements, and be in good academic necessary. all U.S. citizens and permanent standing. residents. See www.nyu.edu/ State Grants For current information, please consult financial.aid for returning www.nyu.edu/financial.aid. New York State offers a wide variety undergraduate filing deadlines. of grants and scholarships to residents, 4. The Undocumented Student subject to the annual availability of Financial Aid Application funds. Application is made directly to the state, and grants are awarded by

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 65 the state. New York State programs are student from having more need-based aid administered by the University listed at www.hesc.ny.gov. federal aid than their demonstrated (including merit awards). Eligibility financial need. can be reviewed for other types of aid After filing the FAFSA, New York including: Federal Stafford Loans, State residents may also submit an Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loans, application for the Tuition Assistance OTHER SOURCES OF AID Federal Parent Loans for Undergraduate Program (TAP). TAP awards grants Students (PLUS), TAP Grants, Federal to qualified New York State residents Federal and Private Loans Pell Grants, and some private (non- attending New York University. For information about federal loans and federal) alternative loan programs if the For current information, please private (non-federal) alternative loans Free Application for Federal Student consult www.nyu.edu/admissions/ please consult www.nyu.edu/admissions/ Aid is completed. Details about tuition financial-aid-and-scholarships/ financial-aid-and-scholarships/ remission eligibility information can be how-to-apply. types-of-financial-aid. obtained at www.nyu.edu/employees/ Some students from outside New York benefit. State may qualify for funds from their Student Employment own state scholarship programs that can be used at New York University. Contact Most financial aid award packages STUDENT FINANCIAL AID the state financial aid agency (call 800- include federal work study, which is RESPONSIBILITIES 433-3243 to obtain contact information) based on the student's financial need • Students must apply for financial to ask about program requirements and as demonstrated on the FAFSA. This aid each year to receive any and application procedures. Upon receiving means that students are eligible to all types of financial aid awarded an eligibility notice from your state participate in the federal work study at NYU, including all need-based program, students should submit it program and may earn up to the amount and merit-based scholarships. immediately to the NYU Office of recommended in their award package. • Consult www.nyu.edu/financial. Financial Aid. Work study wages are not credited to the student's bill, but are instead paid aid for all financial aid application deadlines. Failure to meet the Scholarships and Grants from directly to the student on a biweekly NYU deadline may result in Other Organizations basis and are normally used for books, transportation, and personal expenses. a reduction of a student’s aid Students may be eligible for a private eligibility. scholarship or grant from an outside Resident Assistantships • Use NYU Albert to accept agency. Some sources to explore financial aid awards. are employers, unions, professional Resident assistants reside in the residence organizations, and community and halls and are responsible for organizing, • If submitting documents to the special interest groups. A number of implementing, and evaluating social and Office of Financial Aid, put the extensive scholarship search resources educational activities. Compensation is University I.D. number on each are available free online, and several room and/or board, and/or a stipend. page and keep a copy for yourself. are featured at www.nyu.edu/financial. Applications and further information Do not submit originals. aid. Students must notify the Office may be obtained from www.nyu.edu/ • Be certain to understand the of Financial Aid if they receive funds life/living-at-nyu. conditions of the awards accepted. from any of these sources. Students are Contact the Office of Financial not permitted to have more financial Tuition Remission Aid with any questions. aid, including outside scholarships and Members of the NYU staff, teaching grants, than their estimated cost of staff, and officers or administrators • Adhere to satisfactory academic attendance and a student’s financial aid and their dependents who are eligible progress standards to remain package may be adjusted accordingly. for NYU tuition remission are not eligible for financial aid. The Similarly, federal regulation prohibits a eligible for other forms of financial Office of Financial Aid will send

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 66 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 Aid if there is a change in housing status. A change in enrollment or housing status may affect the financial aid received.

• Notify the Office of the University Registrar of change of address by updating contact information via NYU Albert. NYU uses the records of the Office of the University Registrar to administer financial aid.

For more information about scholarships and financial aid, please contact NYU’s Office of Financial Aid: www.nyu.edu/ admissions/undergraduate-admissions/ financial-aid.html or 212-998-4444.

TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 67 Global Academic Centers

NYU offers study away outside New students to develop close relationships Many NYU Accra students intern York for a semester or a year at its global with professors. Students can choose and take part in community service academic centers: from a wide array of courses in liberal arts with NGOs, local businesses, and and sciences, many of which respond to philanthropic groups, helping them • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates the location of Abu Dhabi and promote to understand social entrepreneurship • Accra, Ghana an understanding of Middle Eastern in a fast-developing city. Numerous history and culture. Language courses cocurricular travel opportunities • Berlin, Germany in Arabic and Chinese are offered. introduce students to the diversity and • Buenos Aires, Argentina complexity of West African culture. The NYU Abu Dhabi campus is located Whether learning Twi, the city’s local • Florence, Italy on Saadiyat Island. Five hundred meters dialect, or embracing local West off the mainland, the island is being • London, United Kingdom African culture, students at NYU Accra planned for a population of 150,000, are rewarded with an unparalleled • Madrid, Spain with a cultural district featuring several intellectual and cultural experience. museums, including the Guggenheim • Paris, France Abu Dhabi and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. All students are required to reside in • Prague, the Czech Republic The NYU campus has facilities dedicated NYU-arranged housing facilities as to academics and research, residential a condition of enrollment at NYU • Shanghai, China life, library, dining, performance and Accra. The housing facilities are located • Sydney, Australia the arts, and athletics. In addition to in residential neighborhoods within the main campus, the NYUAD Center walking distance of the NYU academic • Tel Aviv, Israel for Science and Engineering (CSE) center and provide shared bedrooms, • Washington, DC, USA provides extensive teaching and research kitchens, and common space. space. Additional information about NYU’s Liberal Studies offers a junior year global academic centers can be found program at NYU Accra for Global on the Global Programs Website (www. NYU ACCRA Liberal Studies students. For more nyu.edu/studyaway). information about the program, please NYU’s global academic center in Accra, see “Global Study” on page 24. the capital of Ghana, offers courses in NYU ABU DHABI the arts, literature, communication, journalism, media, anthropology, NYU BERLIN NYU Abu Dhabi, the University’s history, politics, global public health, At NYU Berlin, located in the trendy first degree-granting campus outside and sociology taught by local professors Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood in the U.S., is a study away option for and visiting faculty from New York. central Berlin, students experience a students earning their degree in New Students at NYU Accra have the unique cosmopolitan city that holds a complex York. Located in the global crossroads opportunity to enhance coursework and crucial place in modern European of the Persian Gulf, NYU Abu relevant to their majors with enrollment history. Youthful, artistic, and hip, Dhabi offers study away students the at the University of Ghana-Legon, Berlin has traveled a path that led from opportunity to continue their education where they may take up to two courses the defining cultural avant-garde of the at a comprehensive research university while studying alongside West Africa’s Weimar Republic to the devastation among students who come from all top students. over the world. Small class sizes allow of World War II, from a divided city

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 68 symbolizing the Cold War to today’s provides a cultural framework for alongside a focused concentration in reunified and renewed capital. coursework in subjects ranging from social research, public policy, and law. art history, cinema studies, and creative Each of these two separate but not The program at NYU Berlin is designed writing to politics, sociology, and unrelated parts takes advantage not only for students in the social sciences economics. All students at NYU Buenos of the extraordinary cultural resources and humanities who want to earn Aires take a Spanish language course at provided by the city of Florence and Italy credit in their majors—including their appropriate level upon arrival or, if in general, but also of a unique array sociology, history, politics, studio art, they possess advanced skills, an elective of cocurricular lectures and activities environmental studies and European in the language. through the La Pietra Dialogues series studies—while having a transformative that make the Florence campus a experience abroad. Courses are taught in A place of renewed growth and dynamic center for scholarly activity English, and German language courses prosperity, Buenos Aires is one of the and global policy discussions. Cultural are offered at all levels. Day trips and most important financial and cultural activities and field trips in and around guided excursions in and around Berlin centers in Latin America. The NYU Florence and Tuscany are an integral are included in the program. global academic center is located in part of the cocurricular program. the handsome Recoleta district, near All NYU Berlin students live in the vibrant Avenida Santa Fe. Staff members Courses are taught in English. Italian lively district of Kreuzberg in an NYU- organize and offer a myriad of activities language courses are available at all managed residence hall. Students share for students to take part in, ranging levels, and an intensive Italian Language double rooms and enjoy spacious from regional travel to destinations Program is available for beginning common areas and a film screening such as Iguazu Falls, Rosario, and Tigre students who want to accelerate their studio. Outdoors, there is a well- to taking tango lessons throughout the language acquisition and engage with manicured green space, which invites semester. Volunteer opportunities at Florentine culture at the same time. students to study and relax. Student local NGOs and media offices open Students with advanced proficiency housing is located just a short walk doors for students to engage in the in Italian may take courses taught in from two major subway lines, making community and practice Spanish. Italian at the NYU global academic the commute to classes at the global Museums, class field trips, and concerts center or may directly enroll in courses academic center about 35–40 minutes offer opportunities to go beyond at the University of Florence for up to by public transport. day-to-day cultural experiences and half of their coursework. Liberal Studies offers a junior year better understand the dynamic past The academic center is located program at NYU Berlin for Global and present of the Argentine capital. just north of the city center on a Liberal Studies students. For more Students live in homestays which brings magnificent 57-acre estate bequeathed information about the program, please the everyday Argentine way of living to to the University by Sir Harold Acton, see “Global Study” on page 24. life as students share meals, ideas and a distinguished patron of the arts. The activities with their host parents. NYU BUENOS AIRES estate is comprised of five villas, most Liberal Studies offers a junior year notably La Pietra, which houses an early NYU Buenos Aires offers students the program at NYU Buenos Aires for Renaissance art and furniture collection, exceptional opportunity to learn about Global Liberal Studies students. For and its grounds feature one of the most the people, history, culture, politics, more information about the program, authentically restored Renaissance and economy of Argentina and the please see “Global Study” on page 24. gardens in all of Tuscany. region while living in one of South America’s most vibrant cities. Courses Some students reside on the estate in one are taught in Spanish and English by NYU FLORENCE of two villas that have been dedicated to some of Argentina’s most talented student housing; other students live in NYU Florence offers a strong and scholars, journalists, and public health downtown Florence in shared residences coherent humanities curriculum of art professionals, as well as renowned or in a homestay in an Italian household. history, history, cinema, and literature, writers and musicians. The curriculum

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 69 Liberal Studies offers a freshman year Students can take advantage of guided Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). program, a sophomore fall semester tours to places such as the British Madrid is the political and cultural program for Core Program students, and Museum, Shakespeare’s Globe, the center of Spain and one of the liveliest a junior year program for Global Liberal Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, and and friendliest capital cities in Europe, Studies students at NYU Florence. the Tower of London. There are also replete with magnificent architecture, Liberal Studies students are required to several walking tours focusing on the world-class museums, and delicious live in University housing to facilitate architecture of districts such as Soho, cuisine. Students at NYU Madrid enjoy access to the University community and Bloomsbury, and Westminster, as well a semester of rich cultural experiences resources. For more information about as excursions to sites outside of London. that complement their studies, whether the program, please see “Global Study” Liberal Studies offers a freshman year they’re on a class trip to the Museo del on page 24. program at NYU London. Liberal Prado to learn firsthand about Goya’s Studies students are required to live in masterpieces or at an out-of-the way NYU LONDON University housing to facilitate access tapas bar on Cava Baja. to the University community and Centrally located in Bloomsbury, the Many students live in homestays resources. For more information about heart of London’s university district, with Spanish host families, which the program, please see “Global Study” students at NYU London take advantage encourages them to build a deeper on page 24. of a wide range of academic programs connection with Spanish culture and complemented by the rich cultural provides an opportunity to practice experience of living in one of Europe’s NYU MADRID speaking in a more casual environment. most storied cities. Specialized programs Other students live in privately-owned At NYU Madrid students advance their are available in Africana studies, art and apartments. An Intercambio Program command of Spanish while engaging architecture, business, mathematics, brings NYU Madrid students together with European traditions and culture in British literature and writing, prehealth, with local students to practice their their coursework. Established in 1958 and psychology. Additionally, NYU is Spanish and make friends. as NYU’s first global academic center, one of the only institutions in London NYU Madrid offers Spanish language Liberal Studies offers a junior year to offer science courses approved by the instruction at all levels, as well as courses program at NYU Madrid for Global American Medical College Application in economics, politics, Spanish culture, Liberal Studies students. For more Service (AMCAS) for medical school Spanish American literature, history, information about the program, please admittance. Fieldwork and site visits civilization, anthropology, the social and see “Global Study” on page 24. are a regular part of many classes political sciences, fine arts, and cinema. and students may enroll in for-credit internships with key institutions in For students with no previous knowledge NYU PARIS fields including marketing, finance, of Spanish, elementary language courses The curriculum at NYU Paris focuses on media, law, politics, health, and theatre. are offered along with a curriculum the language, arts, history, literature, and taught in English. Beginning students The global academic center, a converted politics of France and its relationships may choose to enroll in the Fast Track 18th-century town house, is located with the wider world. A world-class Spanish for Beginners Program to raise on historic Bedford Square near many faculty provides context and support their proficiency levels rapidly in just one museums and public parks and gardens. for students’ academic work. Students semester. Students at the intermediate The center offers classrooms, a computer with a limited background in French level can take courses conducted in lab, and a student resource room. enroll in Program I, where all courses Spanish designed especially for their Students live nearby in NYU-arranged except for language courses are taught in skill level. During the spring semester residences close to public transportation, English. Students proficient in French qualified students who are fluent in the shops of the Brunswick Center, and participate in Program II, which features Spanish may take up to two courses at the West End (London’s theatre district). a variety of courses taught in French. All NYU’s affiliated university, Universidad students take a French language course

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 70 appropriate to their level. Coursework the Old Town Square and the historic NYU SHANGHAI is enhanced by faculty-led trips in clock tower, offers students a broad NYU Shanghai, the University’s second and around Paris, to world-renowned curriculum in art, architecture, film, degree granting campus outside the museums such as the Louvre and the media, music, photography, politics, U.S., offers a study away option for Musée Picasso or to smaller galleries and business, the humanities, and social students interested in a semester or exhibits, as well as to the opera, ballet, science. Courses are taught by a diverse year studying in this exciting business and theatre. Students also have the faculty, including noted writers, foreign and cultural center. Located in the opportunity to a take a course or two ambassadors, and leading dissidents of Pudong district in the heart of China’s through an arrangement at one of the the Velvet Revolution, the nonviolent most dynamic city, with a population local French universities. political movement that ended the estimated to be between 16 and 24 Communist regime in Prague in 1989. The NYU Paris global academic center million, the NYU Shanghai campus A specialized program in music and is located in the Latin Quarter, the has facilities for academics and research, the performing arts pairs students in thriving historic and intellectual heart library, computer labs, and student private lessons with the most talented of Paris. Students have the opportunity activities. Students are guaranteed musicians in the nation, while music to benefit from the numerous cultural, housing in NYU-arranged residences a and photography students have access artistic, and academic institutions of short transit ride from campus. to on-site practice space and darkrooms. this wonderful neighborhood. The All courses are taught in English except A metropolis with strikingly modern cocurricular program offers day trips for language courses in Czech, German, architecture, Shanghai is the perfect to places outside of the city such as Polish, and Russian. locale from which to observe the Chantilly, Giverny, and Versailles, interplay of various forces that have and weekend excursions and study- Prague has emerged as a crown jewel turned China’s economy into one of trips to locations such as Avignon, the of central Europe—a vibrant center of the world’s largest in a very short time. Loire Valley, and La Rochelle, that culture and thought that attracts students At NYU Shanghai students will find allow students to further embrace the from around the world. NYU Prague courses taught in English by prestigious richness, depth, and diversity of French students engage in this environment via faculty in a variety of disciplines in history and civilization. cocurricular programming that includes liberal arts, science, and engineering. attendance at global conferences in Student housing is arranged in Students are drawn to NYU Shanghai the city and a dynamic lecture series homestays, apartments, and residences from China, the United States, and hosted at the NYU Prague Institute for around the city—all commutable from around the world, all seeking an Democracy, Economy, and Culture. to the academic center via public academic environment that encourages Internships are widely available, and in transportation. cross-cultural learning, exploration, past semesters students have written for and development. NYU Shanghai Liberal Studies offers a freshman year Czech magazines and worked with the provides students with access to on-site program, as well as a junior year program public relations and fundraising arms academic administrators who will advise for Global Liberal Studies students, at of the Archa and Ponec theatres and the them during their stay, as well as to a NYU Paris. Liberal Studies students are Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. full-time student affairs staff. Studying required to live in University housing NYU-arranged housing is provided in at NYU Shanghai affords students the to facilitate access to the University residential buildings a short commute exceptional opportunity to learn about community and resources. For more from the global academic center on the history and culture of this ever- information about the program, please public transit. NYU Prague staff plan a developing country while participating see “Global Study” on page 24. series of activities to introduce students in the vibrant activities of day-to-day to the exciting cultural history and life in Shanghai. NYU PRAGUE characteristics that make Prague unique. Liberal Studies offers a junior year NYU Prague, located in two 15th program at NYU Shanghai for Global century buildings only steps away from Liberal Studies students. For more

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS • LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 71 information about the program, please NYU TEL AVIV NYU WASHINGTON, DC see “Global Study” on page 24. Tel Aviv, a vibrant Mediterranean No global network would be complete metropolis, is the financial and without a location in the U.S. capital, technological center of Israel. Here, the seat of the federal government, NYU SYDNEY students have the opportunity to home to 174 embassies, headquarters Located in Australia’s largest and acquire a sophisticated understanding of numerous international policy- most cosmopolitan city, NYU Sydney of Israel and the Middle East, and of making bodies and think tanks, and the provides students with the unparalleled the interrelationships between cultures, site of many museums, monuments, opportunity to live and study in a hub of political movements, and religious and cultural institutions. At NYU commerce, culture, and communication traditions. Washington, D.C. students will find in the Asia-Pacific region. NYU Sydney study and research opportunities The curriculum at NYU Tel Aviv is students will be able to explore Aboriginal in an array of subjects, including particularly well suited for students art and culture, products of the longest American studies, art history, business, studying history, politics, biology, and continuous civilization on the planet. environmental studies, history, the social sciences. While students study Courses will introduce Australia’s rich journalism, metropolitan studies, with great teachers in a variety of fields, history of immigrant communities politics, prelaw, and public policy, all they also develop competency in Hebrew that formed this continent-sized enhanced by access to Washington’s or Arabic and, through a credit-bearing nation with unique and compelling distinctive intellectual, political, and internship course, may engage with local characteristics. The curriculum offers cultural life. Students learn under cultural and community organizations, classes in anthropology, business, the guidance of a world-class faculty, businesses, and nongovernmental English, environmental studies, and engage in carefully selected and organizations (NGOs). NYU Tel Aviv journalism, prehealth, psychology, and academically supervised internships has a dedicated faculty that includes communications. with elected officials, government established scholars, artists, journalists, agencies, international organizations, The NYU Sydney global academic center and public intellectuals whose NGOs, museums, media, and other is located in a recently renovated historic internationally valued work transcends institutions. building in the Rocks area of central traditional disciplinary boundaries. Sydney near the renowned harbor. Students live and attend class just blocks All students live in NYU-arranged The facility houses the administrative from the White House, the World housing located in a residential offices, classrooms, computer lab, and Bank, and the Smithsonian museums neighborhood near Yarkon Park, often reading room. A common area doubles at NYU’s Constance Milstein and compared to New York’s Central Park as a study lounge and space for social Family Global Academic Center, which for its sports facilities, botanical gardens, gatherings. Students are assigned features seminar rooms, an auditorium, aviary, water park, concert venues, and housing in an NYU-arranged residence computer lab, reading room, and lakes. Outside class, students can enjoy a short commute on public transit from student lounges on each floor. The Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus-inspired modern the academic center. center also serves as a venue for dynamic architecture, world-class museums, public programming featuring leaders Leading professors drawn from Sydney modern art galleries, dance and theatre in government, business, and culture and the local region along with NYU performances, opera, jazz, classical as well as notable public figures as part staff support students as they engage music, and an emerging alternative of the Weissberg Forum for Discourse with the city and local culture. NYU- music scene. organized study trips taking students in the Public Square. These events beyond the areas visited by casual Liberal Studies offers a junior year encourage students to discuss topical tourists are an essential part of the program at NYU Tel Aviv for Global issues with distinguished speakers and cocurricular program. Liberal Studies students. For more contribute to an academic environment information about the program, please that deepens their understanding of see “Global Study” on page 24. public policy, civic activism, cultural studies, international concerns, green

GLOBAL ACADEMIC CENTERS• LIBERAL STUDIES • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 72 initiatives, media matters, political debates, legal issues, and business affairs.

In addition to the connections students make at their internship placements, students also have opportunities to become involved with the local community through programming and activities that include visits to places of historic significance, tours of museums, galleries and monuments, and volunteer opportunities in the community. A large NYU alumni network provides additional opportunities for students, including support for our mentoring program.

Liberal Studies offers a freshman year program, as well as a sophomore fall semester program for Core Program students, at NYU Washington, DC. Liberal Studies students are required to live in University housing to facilitate access to the University community and resources. For more information about the program, please see “Global Study” on page 24.

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017

Fall 2016

Monday September 5 Monday October 10 Tuesday December 13 Labor Day: Holiday Fall recess: No classes Legislative day (classes meet on a Monday schedule) Tuesday September 6 Monday November 7 Fall term begins Last day for filing or revoking Pass/Fail Friday December 16 option Last day of fall classes Monday September 19 Last day to add a course Monday November 7 Monday – Friday December 19 – 23 Last day for withdrawing from a course Fall term final examinations Monday September 19 (with a “W”) Last day to drop a course without Saturday – Monday a “W” Wednesday – Sunday December 24 – January 2 November 23 – 27 Winter Recess: No classes Thanksgiving recess: Holiday Spring 2017

Tuesday January 3 Monday February 20 Wednesday – Tuesday May 10 – 16 January term begins Presidents’ Day: Holiday Spring term final examinations

Monday January 16 Monday – Sunday March 13 – 19 Wednesday May 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Holiday Spring recess Commencement: conferring of degrees

Friday January 20 Friday March 31 Monday May 29 Last day of January term classes Last day for filing or revoking Pass/Fail Memorial Day: Holiday option Monday January 23 Monday – Sunday Spring term begins Friday March 31 May 22 – July 2 Last day for withdrawing from a course Summer Session I Sunday February 5 (with a “W”) Last day to add a course Tuesday July 4 Monday May 8 Independence Day: Holiday Sunday February 5 Last day of spring classes Last day to drop a course without a Monday – Sunday July 3 – August 13 “W” Tuesday May 9 Summer Session II Reading Day

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

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

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