NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Arts & Science Liberal Studies Global Liberal Studies - NE W Y OR K U N IVERS ITY BULLETIN 2 0 0 9 – 2 0 1 1 LI BE RA L S TUDIES PROGRAM
Liberal Studies ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE 38TH AND 39TH SESSIONS
Global Liberal Studies ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND SESSIONS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003
Notice: The policies, requirements, course offerings, schedules, activities, tuition, fees, and calendar of the school and its departments and programs set forth in this bulletin are subject to change without notice at any time at the sole discretion of the administration. Such changes may be of any nature, including, but not limited to, the elimination of the school or college, programs, classes, or activities; the relocation of or modification of the content of any of the foregoing; and the cancellation of scheduled classes or other academic activities. Payment of tuition or attendance at any classes shall constitute a student’s acceptance of the administration’s rights as set forth in the above paragraph.
TAB LE OF Contents
An Introduction to New York University ...... 5 An Introduction to Liberal Studies and the Global Liberal Studies B.A...... 12 Directory for Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies Administration and New York University Services ...... 13 Liberal Studies (LS) ...... 15 LS Academic Program ...... 16 LS Curriculum Overview and Requirements ...... 16 LS Required Courses ...... 16 LS Degree Requirements ...... 22 LS International Programs and Study Abroad ...... 23 LS Academic Advisement and Transition Requirements ...... 24 LS Student Awards and Honors ...... 26 Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts (GLS) ...... 27 GLS Academic Program ...... 28 GLS Curriculum Overview and Requirements ...... 28 GLS Required Courses ...... 30 GLS Degree Requirements ...... 35 GLS International Programs and Study Abroad ...... 37 GLS Academic Advisement ...... 39 GLS Additional Academic Opportunities ...... 40 Cross-School Minors ...... 40 Accelerated B.A./M.A. Program ...... 40 Professional Edge Certificates ...... 41 GLS Student Awards and Honors ...... 42 Student Information ...... 43 Academic Policies and Procedures ...... 44 Student Life Resources ...... 52 Counseling and Health Services ...... 54 Admission ...... 55 Liberal Studies ...... 55 Global Liberal Studies ...... 56 Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid ...... 61 Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies Administration and Faculty ...... 67 Calendar ...... 70 Washington Square Campus Map ...... 72 Travel Directions to the Washington Square Campus ...... 74 Frequently Called Numbers ...... 75 Index ...... 76
3 • CO NTENT S
AN INTRODUCTION TO New York University
he founding of New York University in 1831 by a 1832 group of eminent private citizens was a historic College of Arts and Science event in American education. In the early 19th T 1835 century, a major emphasis in higher education was on the School of Law mastery of Greek and Latin, with little attention given to 1841 modern or contemporary subjects. The founders of New School of Medicine York University intended to enlarge the scope of higher 1865 education to meet the needs of persons aspiring to careers in College of Dentistry business, industry, science, and the arts, as well as in law, 1886 medicine, and the ministry. The opening of the University Graduate School of Arts and Science of London in 1828 convinced New Yorkers that New York, 1890 too, should have a university. Steinhardt The first president of New York University’s govern - School of Culture, Education, and Human ing council was Albert Gallatin, former adviser to Development Thomas Jefferson and secretary of the treasury in 1900 Jefferson’s cabinet. Gallatin and his cofounders said that Leonard N. Stern the new university was to be a “national university” that School of Business would provide a “rational and practical education for all.” 1934 School of Continuing The result of the founders’ foresight is today a univer - and Professional Studies sity that is recognized both nationally and international - 1938 ly as a leader in scholarship. Of the more than 3,000 Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of colleges and universities in America, only 60 institutions Public Service are members of the distinguished Association of 1948 American Universities. New York University is one of Post-Graduate the 60. Students come to the University from all 50 Medical School states and over 130 foreign countries. 1960 The University includes 14 schools and colleges at five Silver School of Social Work major centers in Manhattan. In addition, the University 1965 Tisch School of the Arts operates a branch campus program in Rockland County at 1972 St. Thomas Aquinas College. Certain of the University’s Gallatin School of research facilities, notably the Nelson Institute of Individualized Study Environmental Medicine, are located in Sterling Forest, near 1963 Tuxedo, New York. Although overall the University is Mount Sinai School of Medicine large, the divisions are small- to moderate-sized units— (affiliated July 1, 1999) each with its own traditions, programs, and faculty.
5 • AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Enrollment in the undergradu - While some introductory classes in More than 2,500 courses are ate divisions of the University some programs have large numbers offered, leading to more than 25 ranges between 130 and 7,672. of students, many classes are small. different degrees.
The Schools The College of Arts and Science place at the 809-bed Bellevue patient care clinics, laboratories, offers the Bachelor of Arts degree Hospital Center, where the School of and other teaching facilities that and Colleges in a wide range of programs in the Medicine supervises care. Medical comprise the College of Dentistry humanities, science, social sci - students and residents also gain are housed within several buildings, of the University ences, and foreign languages and important clinical experience including the Arnold and Marie literatures and, in some depart - through the NYU Hospitals Center, Schwartz Hall of Dental Sciences ments, the Bachelor of Science which includes the 705-bed Tisch and the K. B. Weissman Clinical degree. Joint programs of study Hospital and the 174-bed Rusk Science Building. The center is currently involve NYU’s Robert F. Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. located on First Avenue, from East Wagner Graduate School of Public The School also maintains affilia - 24th Street to East 25th Street, in Service; Graduate School of Arts tions with select institutions for a the midst of one of the nation’s and Science; Steinhardt School of variety of joint academic and clinical most renowned health sciences Culture, Education, and Human programs. Affiliated hospitals complexes, which extends from Development; Silver School of include the NYU Hospital for Joint East 14th Street to East 34th Social Work; School of Medicine; Diseases Orthopaedic Institute; the Street. Located within the College College of Dentistry; and the Department of Veterans Affairs New of Dentistry is the College of Polytechnic Institute of NYU. York Harbor Healthcare System; Nursing, one of the top programs The School of Law is one of the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center; in the country. Graduates assume oldest law schools in the United North Shore-Long Island Jewish positions in leading health care States. It offers a comprehensive Health System; Manhattan Eye, Ear, institutions and universities and first professional program leading and Throat Hospital; Gouverneur practice in areas including acute to the degree of Juris Doctor and a Hospital; and Lenox Hill Hospital. care, community health care, pedi - graduate curriculum leading to the The School is renowned for the atrics, geriatrics, mental health, and degrees of Master of Laws and excellence of its basic and clinical emergency care. The College offers Doctor of Juridical Science. The science enterprises as well as its clin - B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree pro - law school is a leader in providing ical care through its faculty group grams. A B.S./M.S. dual degree scholarships to promising students, practices. program and an M.S./M.S. joint recruiting top faculty, and improv - The School’s Helen L. and degree program with the Robert F. ing tuition subsidies and loan for - Martin S. Kimmel Center for Wagner Graduate School of Public giveness programs. The School of Biology and Medicine at the Service are also available. Law regularly posts recent gradu - Skirball Institute of Biomolecular The Graduate School of Arts ates to the U.S. Supreme Court for Medicine is one of the world’s lead - and Science offers the degrees of the highly coveted clerkships. The ing medical research centers, with Master of Arts, Master of Science, Root-Tilden-Kern scholarship pro - interdisciplinary research emphasiz - Master of Fine Arts, and Doctor of gram has produced more than 800 ing the biomolecular roots of dis - Philosophy in most areas of the of the finest public service leaders ease. Specific areas of focus include humanities, social sciences, and in the country. Each year, some of developmental genetics, molecular natural sciences. Several certificate the world’s top foreign lawyers pathogenesis, molecular neurobiol - programs are also offered. The visit to teach at the Hauser Global ogy, and structural biology. NYU in Paris and NYU in Madrid Law School, founded in 1995. An The School’s Skirball Institute of M.A. programs are based in centers extraordinarily wide range of Biomolecular Medicine is one of the in Paris and Madrid. Dual degree course offerings, research centers, world’s leading medical research programs of study currently colloquia, and special programs is centers, with interdisciplinary involve the School of Law, the made available to students. Policy research emphasizing the biomolec - School of Medicine, the Leonard N. makers and practitioners regularly ular roots of disease. Specific areas of Stern School of Business, and the converge on Washington Square focus include developmental genet - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School South to explore critical issues in ics, molecular pathogenesis, molec - of Public Service. Courses are the law. ular neurobiology, and structural offered in the late afternoon and The School of Medicine and biology. evening as well as during the day. Post-Graduate Medical School offer The College of Dentistry is the The Steinhardt School of the Doctor of Medicine degree and, third oldest and the largest private Culture, Education, and Human through the Graduate School of Arts dental school in the United States. Development offers a broad range and Science, the Doctor of It offers a predoctoral program of innovative undergraduate pre - Philosophy degree as well as and leading to the Doctor of Dental professional and professional pro - courses for accreditation designed to Surgery degree, as well as advanced grams and advanced graduate meet the needs of physician-scien - education programs in the dental study in applied psychology, art, tists and physicians in practice. specialties and an allied health pro - education, health, media, and Much of the clinical teaching takes gram in dental hygiene. The music. Undergraduate programs
6 • AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY lead to the Bachelor of Science, and professional credentials to meet in clinical social work. The doctoral Bachelor of Music, or Bachelor of the cultural and career needs of program offers a concentration in Fine Arts degree and combine a today’s adult population. SCPS clinical social work. It prepares solid foundation in the liberal arts offers approximately 2,000 non - graduates to assume leadership with specialized course work and credit classes each semester in busi - positions as researchers, advanced fieldwork, clinical practice, or ness and marketing; entertainment, practitioners, and educators. The internships in a wide variety of set - technology, and digital arts; inter - school also offers a Post-Master’s tings throughout New York City. national studies; real estate and Certificate Program in the Graduate students may enroll in construction; hospitality; philan - Treatment of Alcohol- and Drug- master’s, advanced certificate, and thropy; the creative arts; and more. Abusing Clients. doctoral programs in a wide variety SCPS also offers credit-bearing pro - The Tisch School of the Arts, of disciplines. Courses are given grams, including associate’s and founded in 1965, provides under - weekdays, evenings, and summers bachelor’s degrees geared toward graduate and graduate training in to full-time, part-time, and special adults returning to college. For aspects of the performing and visual students. Study abroad is available professionals seeking career arts. Departments and programs for undergraduates during the advancement in specific industries, offering professional training are summer and academic year and for SCPS offers 13 Master of Science acting, arts politics, dance, design, graduate students during the sum - degree programs. Flexible schedul - drama, performance studies, film mer and January intersession. ing, convenient class locations, and and television, cinema studies, Applied research opportunities online offerings through the Virtual photography and imaging, dramatic abound for all students. College™ draw thousands of adult writing, musical theatre writing, The Leonard N. Stern School of students to SCPS every semester. recorded music, and interactive Business is located in a three- The Robert F. Wagner telecommunications. Degrees building complex that comprises Graduate School of Public Service offered are the B.A., B.F.A., Tisch and Shimkin Halls and the offers advanced programs leading to M.F.A., M.P.S., M.A. (moving Henry Kaufman Management the professional degrees of Master image archiving and preservation), Center. The Washington Square of Public Administration, Master of and, through the Graduate School complex is adjacent to the Urban Planning, Executive Master of Arts and Science, the M.A. (per - University’s renowned Elmer of Public Administration, and formance studies or cinema studies) Holmes Bobst Library. The Stern Doctor of Philosophy. Through and Ph.D. School offers B.S., M.B.A., and these rigorous programs, NYU The Gallatin School of Ph.D. degrees. Students may spe - Wagner educates the future leaders Individualized Study offers cialize in accounting, economics, of public, nonprofit, and health Bachelor of Arts and Master of finance, information systems, inter - institutions as well as private Arts degrees in individualized pro - national business, management, organizations serving the public grams of study. Gallatin provides marketing, operations manage - sector. Dual degree programs are an innovative and student-centered ment, statistics, and actuarial sci - also available with the College of liberal arts education in which stu - ence. Joint graduate-level programs Arts and Science, the Graduate dents create and hone their own are offered with the School of Law, School of Arts and Science, the plans of study under the mentor - the Wagner Graduate School of School of Law, the School of ship of faculty advisers. The Public Service, and the Graduate Medicine, the College of Nursing, Gallatin model encourages stu - School of Arts and Science. the Silver School of Social Work, dents to integrate their studies in Enrollment in the graduate pro - and the Leonard N. Stern School of traditional disciplines and profes - gram may be full or part time. Business. NYU Wagner takes a sions by combining Gallatin The Undergraduate College of broad-based, interdisciplinary course work with independent the Stern School of Business approach to public service educa - studies, internships, and courses at administers the undergraduate tion that recognizes the importance other schools within NYU. business program. This program of a cross-sector perspective and Gallatin’s interdisciplinary courses offers an innovative curriculum that values both theory and practice. focus on significant texts from integrates liberal arts studies with Courses for full-time and part-time around the world and engage stu - business studies. Through this students are offered in the late dents with major historical and course of study, students are afternoon and evening and on philosophical traditions. Programs exposed to the international dimen - Saturdays. in the arts, writing, and communi - sions of business, develop strong The Silver School of Social ty learning offer students opportu - interpersonal and team-building Work offers Bachelor of Science, nities to utilize New York City as skills, gain a sense of professional Master of Social Work, and Doctor their extended classroom and to responsibility, and undertake cross- of Philosophy degrees. The bache - explore the relationship between disciplinary course work while lor’s program prepares students for theory and practice as they develop retaining a strong individualized beginning social work practice their capacity for critical thinking, component through elective course immediately on graduation and for effective communication, and cre - work. The undergraduate curricu - admission to graduate programs ative work. lum is a full-time course of study. with advanced standing. The mas - The Mount Sinai School of The School of Continuing and ter’s program prepares students for Medicine offers the M.D. and Professional Studies (SCPS) has the core mission of social work and Ph.D. degrees in addition to a for over 70 years provided courses provides an advanced concentration combined M.D.-Ph.D. program in
7 • AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY a rigorous intellectual environ - students to be not only outstand - school, founded in 1963, became ment focused on collaboration ing clinicians and scientists but affiliated with New York between faculty and students. The also compassionate individuals University on July 1, 1999. school is committed to training who serve science and society. The
New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY institutions and to research academ - Medicine, the Dental Center’s John LIBRARIES ic freedom and promote public dis - and Bertha E. Waldmann Memorial University and The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, cussion of its history and role in our Library, and the Library of the New York designed by Philip Johnson and society. Tamiment’s Robert F. School of Law. Richard Foster, is the flagship of Wagner Labor Archives contain, The NYU Division of Libraries an eight-library system that pro - among other resources, the archives continually enhances its student vides access to the world’s scholar - of the Jewish Labor Committee and and faculty services and expands ship and serves as a center for the of more than 200 New York City its research collections, responding NYU community’s intellectual labor organizations. to the extraordinary growth of the life. Bobst Library houses 3.8 mil - The Barbara Goldsmith University’s academic programs in lion volumes and provides access Preservation and Conservation recent years and to the rapid to thousands of electronic Department in Bobst Library com - expansion of electronic informa - resources, both on site and around prises laboratories for book, film, tion resources. Bobst Library’s pro - the world via the Internet. The and audio/video conservation. In a fessional staff includes more than Library received more than 2.6 groundbreaking initiative funded 30 subject specialists who select million visits in 2008-2009 and by the Andrew W. Mellon materials and work with faculty circulated over 800,000 items. Foundation, the Division of and graduate students in every Bobst Library offers three spe - Libraries in 2008 completed devel - field of study at NYU. The staff cialized reference centers, 45 miles opment of rationales and strategies also includes specialists in under - of open stacks, and approximately for all aspects of moving image and graduate outreach, instructional 2,500 seats for student study. The audio preservation, consulting with services, preservation, electronic Avery Fisher Center for Music and a variety of other institutions to information, and digital libraries. Media, one of the world’s largest identify and test best practices and academic media centers, has 134 disseminating them throughout the FINE ARTS carrels for audio listening and video archival community. The depart - The Grey Art Gallery, the viewing and three multimedia class - ment also provides training for stu - University’s fine arts museum, rooms. Last year, the center filled dents in many aspects of book, presents three to four innovative nearly 100,000 research requests for paper, and media preservation. exhibitions each year that encom - audio and video items. The Studio Beyond Bobst, the library of the pass all aspects of the visual arts: for Digital Projects and Research renowned Courant Institute of painting and sculpture, prints and offers a constantly evolving, lead - Mathematical Sciences focuses on drawings, photography, architec - ing-edge resource for faculty and research-level material in mathe - ture and decorative arts, video, student projects and promotes and matics, computer science, and relat - film, and performance. The gallery supports access to digital resources ed fields. The Stephen Chan Library also sponsors lectures, seminars, for teaching, learning, research, and of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine symposia, and film series in con - arts events. Arts (IFA) houses the rich collec - junction with its exhibitions. The Fales Library, a special col - tions that support the research and Admission to the gallery is free for lection within Bobst Library, is curricular needs of the institute’s NYU staff, faculty, and students. home to the unparalleled Fales graduate programs in art history The New York University Collection of English and American and archaeology. The Jack Brause Art Collection, founded in 1958, Literature; the Food Studies Real Estate Library at the Real consists of more than 5,000 works Collection, a rich and growing trove Estate Institute, the most compre - in a wide range of media. The col - of cookbooks, food writing, pam - hensive facility of its kind, serves lection comprises primarily late- phlets, papers, and archives dating the information needs of every sec - 19th-century and 20th-century from the 1790s; and the Downtown tor of the real estate community. works; its particular strengths are Collection, an extraordinary multi - The newest member of the Division American painting from the 1940s media archive documenting the of Libraries is the Library of the to the present and 20th-century avant-garde New York art world Institute for the Study of the European prints. A unique segment since 1975. Bobst Library also hous - Ancient World (ISAW). The insti - of the NYU Art Collection is the es the Tamiment Library, the coun - tute, on East 84th Street, is a center Abby Weed Grey Collection of try’s leading repository of research for advanced research and graduate Contemporary Asian and Middle materials in the history of left poli - education in ancient civilizations Eastern Art, which totals some tics and labor. Two fellowship pro - from the western Mediterranean to 1,000 works in various media repre - grams bring scholars from around China. Complementing the collec - senting countries from Turkey to the world to Tamiment to explore tions of the Division of Libraries are Japan. the history of the Cold War and its the Frederick L. Ehrman Medical wide-ranging impact on American Library of NYU’s School of
8 • AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY THE LARGER CAMPUS medicine, dentistry, education, military status, age, disability, and New York University is an inte - social work, law, business and pub - any other legally protected basis. gral part of the metropolitan com - lic administration, and the creative Inquiries regarding the applica - munity of New York City—the and performing arts. tion of the federal laws and regula - business, cultural, artistic, and The chief center for undergrad - tions concerning affirmative action financial center of the nation and uate and graduate study is at and antidiscrimination policies and the home of the United Nations. Washington Square in Greenwich procedures at New York University The city’s extraordinary resources Village, long famous for its contri - may be referred to e. Frances enrich both the academic pro - butions to the fine arts, literature, White, Vice Provost for Faculty grams and the experience of living and drama and its personalized, Development, New York at New York University. smaller-scale, European style of University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Professors whose extracurricu - living. New York University itself Library, 70 Washington Square lar activities include service as edi - makes a significant contribution to South, New York, NY 10012- tors for publishing houses and the creative activity of the Village 1091, telephone 212-998-2370, for magazines; as advisers to city gov - through the high concentration of faculty; to Josephine Katcher, Senior ernment, banks, school systems, faculty and students who reside Director of the Office of Employee and social agencies; and as consult - within a few blocks of the Relations, New York University, 7 ants for museums and industrial University. East 12th Street, New York, NY corporations bring to teaching an University apartment buildings 10003-4475, telephone 212-998- experience of the world and a pro - provide housing for more than 1242, for employees; and to fessional sophistication that are 2,000 members of the faculty and Thomas Grace, Director of Judicial difficult to match. administration, and University stu - Affairs and Title IX and VI Officer Students also, either through dent residence halls accommodate and Section 504 Coordinator, Office course work or in outside activities, over 11,500 men and women. Many of the Vice President for Student tend to be involved in the vigorous more faculty and students reside in Affairs, New York University, 60 and varied life of the city. Research private housing in the area. Washington Square South, Suite for term papers in the humanities 601, New York, NY 10012-1019, and social sciences may take them to A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY telephone 212-998-4403, for stu - such diverse places as the American Since its founding, New York dents. Inquiries may also be referred Museum of Natural History, the University has been a private uni - to the director of the Office of Museum of Modern Art, a garment versity. It operates under a board Federal Contract Compliance, U.S. factory, a deteriorating neighbor - of trustees and derives its income Department of Labor. hood, or a foreign consulate. from tuition, endowment, grants New York University is a mem - Students in science work with from private foundations and gov - ber of the Association of American their professors on such problems of ernment, and gifts from friends, Universities and is accredited by the immediate importance for urban alumni, corporations, and other Middle States Association of society as the pollution of water - private philanthropic sources. Colleges and Schools (Commission ways and the congestion of city The University is committed to on Higher Education of the Middle streets. Business majors attend sem - a policy of equal treatment and States Association of Colleges and inars in corporation boardrooms opportunity in every aspect of its Schools, 3624 Market Street, and intern as executive assistants in relations with its faculty, students, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-662- business and financial houses. The and staff members, without regard 5606). Individual undergraduate, schools, courts, hospitals, settle - to race, color, religion, sex, sexual graduate, and professional programs ment houses, theatres, playgrounds, orientation, gender and/or gender and schools are accredited by the and prisons of the greatest city in identity or expression, marital or appropriate specialized accrediting the world form a regular part of the parental status, national origin, eth - agencies. educational scene for students of nicity, citizenship status, veteran or
John Sexton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Richard Foley, B.A., M.A., Lynne P. Brown, B.A., M.A., Senior J.D., President Ph.D., Vice Chancellor of Strategic Ph.D., Senior Vice President for University Planning; Chair, Faculty Advisory University Relations and Public Committee on Academic Priorities Affairs Administration David W. McLaughlin, B.S., Diane C. Yu, B.A., J.D., Chief of Martin S. Dorph, B.S., M.B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Provost Staff and Deputy to the President J.D., Senior Vice President for Finance Michael C. Alfano, D.M.D., and Budget Ph.D., Executive Vice President Norman Dorsen, B.A., LL.B., Bonnie S. Brier, B.A., J.D., Senior Robert Berne, B.S., M.B.A., Counselor to the President Vice President, General Counsel, and Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Secretary of the University Pierre C. Hohenberg, B.A., Health M.A., Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Academic Policies
9 • AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Paul M. Horn, B.S., Ph.D., Senior Lauren Benton, B.A., Ph.D., Robert S. Lapiner, B.A., M.A., Vice Provost for Research Acting Dean for Humanities Ph.D., Dean, School of Continuing and Professional Studies Debra A. LaMorte, B.A., J.D., Charles N. Bertolami, D.D.S., Senior Vice President for Development D.Med.Sc., Herman Robert Fox Carol A. Mandel, B.A., M.A., and Alumni Relations Dean, College of Dentistry M.S.L.S., Dean of Libraries Alison Leary, B.S., Senior Vice Alfred H. Bloom, B.A., Ph.D.; Richard L. Revesz, B.S.E., M.S., President for Operations hon.: LL.D., Vice Chancellor, New J.D., Dean, School of Law York University Abu Dhabi Linda G. Mills, B.A., J.D., Patricia Rubin, B.A., M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost Sally E. Blount, B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D., Judy and Michael Steinhardt for Undergraduate Education and Ph.D., Dean, Undergraduate College; Director, Institute of Fine Arts University Life; Associate Vice Vice Dean, Leonard N. Stern School of Matthew S. Santirocco, B.A.; Chancellor for Admissions and Business M.A. [Cantab.], M.Phil., Ph.D., Financial Aid, Abu Dhabi Mary M. Brabeck, B.A., M.S., Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts Dianne Rekow, B.S., B.S.M.E., Ph.D., Dean, Steinhardt School of and Science; Associate Provost for M.B.A., M.S.M.E., D.D.S., Ph.D., Culture, Education, and Human Undergraduate Academic Affairs Senior Vice Provost for Engineering Development Ellen Schall, B.A., J.D., Dean, and Technology; Provost, Polytechnic Mary Schmidt Campbell, B.A., Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Institute of NYU M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: D.F.A., Public Service Ron Robin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., D.H.L., Ph.D., Dean, Tisch School Fred S. Schwarzbach, B.A., Senior Vice Provost for Planning; of the Arts M.A., Ph.D., Dean, Liberal Studies Senior Vice Provost of New York Dennis S. Charney, B.A., M.D., Program University in Abu Dhabi Dean, Mount Sinai School of Daniel L. Stein, B.S., M.S., K. R. Sreenivasan, B.E., M.E., Medicine (affiliated) Ph.D., Dean for Science, Faculty of M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: D.Sc., Senior Dalton Conley, B.A., M.P.A., Arts and Science Vice Provost; Special Adviser for Ph.D., Dean for Social Sciences, Science and Technology to the Vice Catharine R. Stimpson, B.A.; Faculty of Arts and Science Chancellor of New York University B.A., M.A. [Cantab.], Ph.D.; hon.: Abu Dhabi Leslie Greengard, B.A., D.H.L., Hum.D., Litt.D., LL.D., M.D./Ph.D., Director, Courant Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Institute of Mathematical Sciences (on Science DEANS AND DIRECTORS sabbatical, academic year, 2009- Lynn Videka, B.S.N., M.A., 2010) Roger Bagnall, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Dean, Silver School of Social Ph.D., Director, Institute for the Robert I. Grossman, B.S., M.D., Work Study of the Ancient World Saul J. Farber Dean, NYU School of Susanne L. Wofford, B.A.; Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, Gérard Ben Arous, Maitrise B.Phil. [Oxon.], Ph.D., Dean, NYU Hospitals Center [Paris VII], DEA [Orsay], DEA Gallatin School of Individualized [Paris VI], Ph.D. [Paris VII], Peter Blair Henry, B.A.; B.A. Study Acting Director, Courant Institute of [Oxon.], Ph.D., Dean, Leonard N. Mathematical Sciences (academic year, Stern School of Business 2009-2010) Jerry M. Hultin, B.A., J.D., Jess Benhabib, B.A., M.Phil., President, Polytechnic Institute of Ph.D., Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts NYU and Science
Martin Lipton, B.S. in Econ., Daniel J. Brodsky, B.A., M.U.P. Laurence D. Fink, B.A., M.B.A. Board of LL.B., Chair Trustees Heather L. Cannady, B.A., J.D. Jay M. Furman, B.S., J.D. Arthur L. Carter, B.A., M.B.A. H. Dale Hemmerdinger, B.A. Ronald D. Abramson, B.A., Evan R. Chesler, B.A., J.D. Jonathan M. Herman, B.A., J.D. J.D.; hon.: D.F.A. Michael R. Cunningham, Charles J. Hinkaty, B.S., M.S. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak B.B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Mitchell Jacobson, B.A., J.D. Phyllis Putter Barasch, B.S., Florence A. Davis, B.A., J.D. M.A., M.B.A. Richard D. Katcher, B.A., LL.B. Barry Diller Maria Bartiromo, B.A. Richard Jay Kogan, B.A., Joel S. Ehrenkranz, B.S., M.B.A., M.B.A. Marc H. Bell, B.S., M.S. LL.B., LL.M. Jerry H. Labowitz, B.A. William R. Berkley, B.S., M.B.A.
1 0 • AN INTRO DU CT IO N T O NE W YO RK UN IVE RS ITY Kenneth G. Langone, B.A., Casey Wasserman, B.S. Herbert M. Paul, B.B.A., M.B.A. M.B.A., J.D., LL.M. Anthony Welters, B.A., J.D. Jeffrey H. Lynford, B.A., M.P.A., E. John Rosenwald, Jr., B.A., Shelby White, B.A., M.A. J.D. M.B.A. Leonard A. Wilf, B.A., J.D., Donald B. Marron William R. Salomon LL.M. (in Taxation) Constance J. Milstein, B.A., J.D. Marie Schwartz William D. Zabel, B.A., LL.B. David C. Oxman , B.A., LL.B. Larry A. Silverstein, B.A., LL.B. Lester Pollack, B.S., LL.B. LIFE TRUSTEES Joel E. Smilow, B.A., M.B.A. Catherine B. Reynolds, B.A. Diane Belfer Sheldon H. Solow Courtney Sale Ross, B.A. Mamdouha Bobst, B.A., M.A., Henry Taub, B.S. William C. Rudin, B.S. M.P.H.; hon.: L.H.D. Lillian Vernon Suresh Sani, B.A., J.D. John Brademas (President Robert F. Wright, B.A., M.B.A. Emeritus), B.A.; D.Phil. [Oxon.]; John Sexton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., hon.: D.C.L., L.H.D., Litt.D., Baroness Mariuccia J.D. LL.D. Zerilli -Marimò Constance Silver, B.S., M.S.W., Geraldine H. Coles Ph.D. John J. Creedon, B.S., LL.B., TRUSTEE ASSOCIATES Lisa Silverstein, B.A. LL.M. Bruce Berger, B.S. Jay Stein Maurice R. Greenberg, LL.B.; Leonard Boxer, B.S., LL.B. hon.: J.D., LL.D. Joseph S. Steinberg, B.A., Jane Eisner Bram, B.A., M.S.W., M.B.A. Henry Kaufman, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. Ph.D.; hon.: L.H.D., LL.D. Judy Steinhardt, B.A., Ed.M. Betty Weinberg Ellerin, B.A., Michael H. Steinhardt, B.S. Helen L. Kimmel, B.A. J.D. Daniel R. Tisch Thomas S. Murphy, B.S.M.E., Norman Goodman, B.A., J.D. M.B.A. John L. Vogelstein Marvin Leffler, B.S., M.B.A. L. Jay Oliva (President Emeritus), B.A., M.A., Ph.D.; hon.: D.H.L., Litt.D., LL.D., Ph.D.
Fred Schwarzbach, B.A., M.A., Wilnelia Gutierrez, B.A., M.P.A. Joanne Rizzi, B.A., M.A., M.S.W. Liberal Studies Ph.D. Executive Assistant to the Dean Associate Director of Student Affairs Dean; Master Teacher Program Beth Haymaker, B.A., M.F.A. Yenifer Romero-Badia, B.S., Administration Associate Director of International Academic Adviser Programs Lucile Appert, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Jen SanMiguel, B.A., M.A. Associate Director of Educational Billy Helton, B.A., M.S. Academic Administrator Technology Director of Administration Robert Squillace, B.A., M.A., Josiane Grégoire, B.A., J.D. Pamela Jefferson, B.A. M.Phil., Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Student Activities Administrator Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs; and Enrollment Services Master Teacher Paul Naour, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. Leah Guarino-Ramirez, B.A., Assistant Dean for Academic Jeff Walker-Sherson, B.A., M.A. Advising M.Ed. Academic Adviser Academic Adviser Claudie Priva-Deshommes, B.S. Academic Adviser
11 • AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AN INTRODUCTION TO Liberal Studies and the Global Liberal Studies B.A.
he Liberal Studies Program houses two programs: a two-year core curriculum pro - gram (HEGIS Code 5699*) from which students transition to other NYU Tschools to complete their bachelor’s degree and the Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts (HEGIS Code 4901*). Liberal Studies (LS) is a full-time, two-year liberal arts program. LS offers a comprehensive liberal arts background that serves as a strong foundation for further study. At the end of their LS studies, LS students who successfully complete the program requirements with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and who meet the transfer criteria of the NYU school or college to which they originally applied for their baccalaureate will enroll as juniors in that school. The LS academic experience is based on an interdisciplinary core curriculum that ful - fills the liberal arts requirements of all the undergraduate programs at NYU. LS is distin - guished by small classes and an environment in which faculty and students work closely together to develop a community dedicated to learning. LS functions like a small liberal arts college within the framework of a major research university. LS was founded in 1972. Its faculty are actively engaged in their scholarly, creative, and professional fields, and they bring enormous enthusiasm and dedication to their teaching. The program fosters close contact between faculty and students in and out of the classroom, and all students are assigned a faculty adviser from the beginning of their studies. The hallmarks of LS—small classes, an outstanding teaching faculty, individual advisement, and an integrated program of study—create an ideal learning environment. Over 13,000 students have successfully completed the program and graduated from one of NYU’s baccalaureate programs. The Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts (GLS) is an innovative program that features core course work in the liberal arts with a focus on great works in a global context and that brings the traditional liberal arts into the 21st century. GLS offers a rigorous course of study that emphasizes the great works and combines ideas, materials, and methodologies from multiple fields of inquiry, including literature, history, philosophy, political science, physical and biological sciences, mathematics, for -
*HEGIS: Higher Education eign language, music, and art. Sophomore seminars reinforce the global perspective General Information Survey. infused throughout the core curriculum and prepare students to spend their junior year Program as registered by the New York State Department of abroad at one of NYU’s many international campuses in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin Education, Office of Higher Education, State Education America. The senior year in New York combines advanced course work with a guided Building, 89 Washington research project that integrates the four years of study. Avenue, 2nd Floor, West Mezzanine, Albany, NY 12234. Graduates of GLS will be world citizens, proficient in a foreign language, engaged www.highered.nysed.gov in international cultures, and well prepared to begin their careers or for admission to Telephone: 518-474-5851 professional and graduate schools.
12 • AN INTRODUCTION TO LIBERAL STUDIES/GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES B.A. DIRECTORY FOR Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies Administration and New York University Services
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Fred S. Schwarzbach, Ph.D. Beth Haymaker, M.F.A. Joanne Rizzi, M.S.W. LS and GLS University of London Indiana University (Bloomington) New York University Administration Dean Associate Director of International Associate Director of Student Affairs Master Teacher Programs 212-998-7096 212-998-7175 212-998-7146 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Yenifer Romero-Badia, B.S., Billy Helton, M.S. Cornell University Lucile Appert, Ph.D. New Jersey Institute of Academic Adviser Tulane University Technology E-mail: Associate Director of Educational Director of Administration [email protected] Technology 212-998-3760 212-998-7168 E-mail: [email protected] Jen SanMiguel, M.A. E-mail: [email protected] University of the Arts London Pamela Jefferson, B.A. Academic Administrator Josiane Grégoire, J.D. New York University 212-998-7121 Harvard University Student Activities Administrator E-mail: [email protected] Assistant Dean for Student Affairs 212-998-9149 and Enrollment Services E-mail: [email protected] Robert Squillace, Ph.D. 212-998-7127 Columbia University E-mail: [email protected] Paul Naour, Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Ohio State University Master Teacher Leah Guarino-Ramirez, M.A. Assistant Dean for Academic 212-992-8735 New York University Advising E-mail: [email protected] Academic Adviser 212-998-7122 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Jeff Walker-Sherson, M.Ed. University of Florida Wilnelia Gutierrez, M.P.A. Claudie Priva-Deshommes, B.S. Academic Adviser New York University New York University 212-998-7183 Executive Assistant to the Dean Academic Adviser E-mail: [email protected] 212-998-7290 212-998-7172 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
13 • LS AND GLS ADMINISTRATION AND NYU SERVICES Undergraduate Admissions Office of Student Activities NYU Office of Global New York Processing Center (OSA) Programs (Study Abroad University 665 Broadway, 11th Floor Kimmel Center for University Life Admissions) 212-998-4500 60 Washington Square South, 110 East 14th Street, Lower Level Services Suite 704 212-998-4433 Office of the University 212-998-4700 E-mail: [email protected] Registrar Student Services Center Student Resource Center Center for Multicultural 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Kimmel Center for University Life Education and Programs 212-998-4800 60 Washington Square South, (CMEP) Suite 210 Kimmel Center for University Life Office of the Bursar 212-998-4411 60 Washington Square South, Student Services Center Suite 806 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Student Health Center (SHC) 212-998-4343 212-998-2800 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors 212-443-1000 Office for International Office of Financial Aid Students and Scholars (OISS) Student Services Center Counseling and Behavioral 561 La Guardia Place 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Health Services (CBH) 212-998-4720 212-998-4444 Main Office 726 Broadway, Suite 471 Wasserman Center for Career Department of Housing 212-998-4780 Development 383 Lafayette Street, 1st Floor 133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor 212-998-4600 Wellness Exchange 212-998-4730 726 Broadway, Suite 402 Office of Off-Campus Housing 212-443-9999 4 Washington Square Village (cor- ner of Mercer and Bleecker streets) Henry and Lucy Moses Center 212-998-4620 for Students with Disabilities 719 Broadway, 2nd Floor Telephone: 212-998-4980 (voice and TTY) Web site: www.nyu.edu/csd
1 4 • L S AND GLS AD MI NIS T RA TI ON A ND N YU SERVI CES NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 2009–2011
Liberal Studies (LS)
LS Academic Program ...... 16-22 LS Curriculum Overview and Requirements ...... 16 LS Required Courses ...... 16-22 LS Degree Requirements ...... 22 LS International Programs and Study Abroad ...... 23 LS Academic Advisement and Transition Requirements ...... 24-25 LS Student Awards and Honors ...... 26 Liberal Studies Academic Program
Liberal Studies Liberal Studies (LS) is composed of FRESHMAN CURRICULUM SOPHOMORE a core liberal education curriculum REQUIREMENTS CURRICULUM Curriculum that is based on the reading of All freshmen are required to com - REQUIREMENTS great works and includes courses plete a two-semester freshman writ - Overview and drawn from NYU’s eight under - During the sophomore year, stu - ing sequence focusing on expository dents are required to complete Requirements graduate schools and colleges, writing, the presentation of argu - allowing students to begin their Cultural Foundations III and Social ment, and the elements of research. Foundations III, which bring the major during their first two years. The freshman core courses Cultural LS offers a comprehensive liberal sequence begun in the first year up Foundations I and II and Social to the present. In the sophomore arts background that serves as a Foundations I and II are based on strong foundation for further study. year, students also complete a sec - the study of great works from † At the end of two years*, LS stu - ond science (if required by the antiquity to the beginning of the school to which they will transi - dents who successfully complete modern era. In the Cultural program requirements and meet tion), explore possible majors, and Foundations sequence, students begin the course work toward the transfer criteria of the NYU study literature, the visual and per - school or college to which they those majors in the appropriate forming arts, and music. In the academic departments. LS students originally applied for their bac - Social Foundations sequence, stu - calaureate will enroll as juniors in are expected to schedule meetings dents focus on philosophy, religion, with their faculty adviser during that school or college. political and social theory, and his - The LS academic experience is which they receive advice about tory. Taken together, the two choosing additional courses from based on an interdisciplinary core sequences can be seen as a large- curriculum that fulfills the liberal NYU’s extensive offerings. By the scale cultural history. The sequences end of the sophomore year, a stu - arts requirements of all the under - also provide an introduction to graduate programs at NYU. LS is dent should be able to declare a skills in critical analysis and syn - major. distinguished by small classes and thetic thinking that students need an environment in which faculty for successful study in all academic and students work closely together disciplines. Depending on the * LS is a four-semester program. to develop a community dedicated requirements of their baccalaureate † Students pursuing a prehealth track to learning. program, students may also take a should take physics, chemistry, and biology course in the natural sciences † and courses in the College of Arts and Science. mathematics. Please see the LS Web site at ls.nyu.edu for the prehealth guidelines.
Liberal Studies WRITING proficiency requirement. A tinual questioning, rethinking, Writing I and II Writing II grade that is below C revising, and making connections Required Writing is an integral part of the requires that the student repeat between texts, disciplines, and Liberal Studies Program. Every the course. ideas. Essays require students to Courses course in the program requires In Writing I, students develop demonstrate both intellectual and that students write to demonstrate both fluency and confidence as aesthetic sophistication. Students their mastery of material. Writing writers and thinkers, as well as an work on textual citation and inter - provides students with an impor - understanding of their own writing pretation, the use of sustained tant method for organizing and processes. Instructors emphasize metaphor or complex imagery in expressing their thoughts, and it the importance of students devel - the service of their ideas, rhetorical helps them develop and enhance oping their own ideas and becom - or “writerly” moves and aptness of their critical, analytical, and inter - ing conscious of their own voices language and word choice, and pretive skills. Writing proficiency and ideas in relation to other voices developing a consciousness of the is required for the NYU bachelor’s and texts. Intellectually rigorous relationship of the writer to the degree. Taking the Writing II and challenging exercises and audience. To situate writing in course and receiving a minimum assignments require students to English in its increasingly global grade of C will fulfill the writing approach both reading and writing context, students read, analyze, as processes characterized by con - and interpret challenging and
16 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM complex English language works from around the world (primarily LS COURSES AND COURSE NUMBERS Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Ireland, South Asia, Freshman Core Courses the United Kingdom, and the Writing I ...... T01.1001 United States), with attention to Writing II ...... T01.2002 the ways writing reflects place, Cultural Foundations I ...... T02.0101 history, and mobility. Subjects of Cultural Foundations II ...... T02.0102 analysis are not limited to written texts; they also come from other Social Foundations I ...... T03.0101 media and the arts (e.g., visual or Social Foundations II ...... … T03.0102 musical) and derive from experi - ence or observation. Sophomore Core Courses In Writing II, students contin - Cultural Foundations III … ...... T02.0103 ue to work on the reading and Social Foundations III ...... T03.0103 writing skills they began develop - ing in Writing I. Although stu - Natural Sciences Core Courses dents’ voices and ideas continue to Environmental Studies ...... T07.5005 be valued and encouraged, History of the Universe ...... T07.6020 Writing II places increased Life Science ...... T07.5010 emphasis on how the student’s ideas are situated in a larger con - LS Elective Courses versation with “outside” voices, Global Cultures ideas and texts—in the academy, African Cultures ...... T04.4001 the arts, and the larger world or East Asian Cultures ...... T04.2001 culture. Students produce work Latin American Cultures ...... T04.5001 based on research, usually in the Middle Eastern Cultures ...... T04.3001 form of one or more research proj - South Asian Cultures ...... T04.1001 ects. The concept of “research” is Economics I ...... T08.1001 not limited to library or online Economics II ...... T08.1002 research but is thought of in the Creative Writing I ...... T06.2001 broadest and most creative sense of Creative Writing II ...... T06.2002 the term. In performing this research, students incorporate the Internship ...... T09.7001 voices of others into the general context of their own argument or idea, helping them engage in In addition to the standard sec - cultural and ethical implications of “critical exchanges” with other tions of Writing II described artistic production and performance. voices and sources of evidence. above, LS offers two specialized This course is designed for stu - Students are expected to under - Writing II sections. These sections dents who are interested in think - stand all the formal requirements of are designed for students pursuing ing and writing about visual research writing (proper citation, a major in visual and performing art—film, video, painting, pho - constructing a bibliography, etc). arts, teaching, or social work or for tography, sculpture, theatre, and More importantly, the goal of the anyone interested in combining dance. The class focuses on a num - work in Writing II is largely the Writing II class experience ber of questions: What is the rela - focused on the importance of hav - with a community service project. tionship between the critic and the ing students place themselves in artist? How do critics write about sophisticated and critical dialogue Writing II: The Artist and the the art they see? In what ways is with other writers and thinkers, Critic in New York the critic also an artist? How does thereby connecting them to the Students pursuing degrees in the the city alter and shape the work academic community and its con - visual and performing arts take The of artists and critics? What expert - versations, and to critical discus - World Through Art, a writing ise, research, and ways of seeing sions happening outside of the course that fulfills the Writing II can we bring to visual texts? How University in the world at large. requirement. The course focuses on do artists and critics influence one Students learn to write essays that artistic and ethical issues concerning another? What does it mean to are informed by and responsive to the artist and his or her relationship look and look again, especially in the insights of others without to the University, the community, one’s own writing and art? In being dominated by them. Writing and the world. The format of the order to engage these questions II essays are usually longer than course incorporates guest lecturers the class works with theoretical those generated in Writing I, and and talks by local artists, writers, texts, visual texts, primary the drafting process is facilitated by and performers. Students read texts research, secondary research, and of providing a variety of exercises or and write papers connected to the course, students’ own writing. benchmarks to help student negoti - thematic work of the class. The Students also take advantage of the ate the complex research process. readings include classic and modern city’s art offerings through field texts about aesthetic theory and the trips to museums and galleries.
17 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM CULTURAL AND SOCIAL shaped by the arts around the Scientific Revolution and the FOUNDATIONS world. Many of the issues perti - decline of the Mogul Empire in Cultural Foundations I nent to the course—industrializa - India. This course invites students The first semester introduces the tion/urbanization; the dislocations, to consider great ideas that have arts from their origins to the end disasters, and opportunities that often helped earlier peoples organ - of antiquity, as defined for these followed cross-cultural contact; ize their lives—but which have purposes by the roughly coinci - colonialism, decolonization, con - also set them in conflict some - dent dissolutions of the Gupta, flicts of political ideology, and lib - times with other communities and Han, and Western Roman eration struggles; fundamental sometimes among themselves. empires, focusing on how individ - redefinitions of mind, language, Such ideas have sparked move - uals and social relations are shaped gender, and sexual identity—have ments for ethical and social in literature and the visual, plastic, had very different effects in various reform, conquest, recovery of lost and performing arts, as well as parts of the world. Instructors classics, and religious renewal. through music. Conceptions of the encourage students to explore Vast new empires appear during divine, the heroic, power and dis - what it means to study the arts this period, but so do challenges enfranchisement, beauty, and love from global perspectives and to to their rule. Religious conflicts are examined within the context of examine what “globalization” itself lead to civil war, and modern sci - the art and literature of East and has meant and means in the con - ence emerges as a challenge to tra - South Asia, the Mediterranean text of the arts. ditional beliefs. Throughout, world, and contiguous regions different conceptions of human (such as Germania, Nubia, and Social Foundations I nature emerge and collide. Mesopotamia). Instructors prepare The first semester introduces stu - Oppression gives rise to new the way for Cultural Foundations dents to the ancient world and movements for greater equality II by giving some attention to the ends with the dissolution of the and individual rights, and bitter models by which cultural trans - Western Roman Empire, the struggles for power lead to the cre - mission occurred across these Gupta Empire in India, and the ation of large new colonial regions prior to the rise of Islam. Han Dynasty in China. This empires, whose effects linger to course takes a global perspective the present day. In addition, the Cultural Foundations II and uses an interdisciplinary world’s different civilizations come The second semester examines the approach, and part of its aim is to into increasing contact through arts produced within diverse cul - explore enduring questions such as exploration and trade. Students are tural traditions across the globe the relation between the individ - expected to consider these ideas from the rise of Islam at the begin - ual and society, between justice and developments critically, with ning of the 7th century to the and power, and between humanity an eye to their philosophical, global empire building of the late and the divine. The ancient political, and historical signifi - 17th/early 18th century. The societies from which the texts cance; and they are encouraged to course explores the distinctive con - emerged are as much objects of explore the ways in which texts ventions and traditions of different study as the ancient texts them - that have often been read in exclu - media and the development of cul - selves. Students are expected to sively Western contexts yield new tural traditions from their ancient consider many ideas with which meaning when placed in non- foundations to the early modern they might not agree. They ask Western settings. period through successive influ - how these earlier conceptions ences and assimilations, both local speak to their own lives and how Social Foundations III and external. Diverse cultural tra - these earlier ideas connect to the The last semester examines major ditions are also considered in rela - world today. Students are encour - intellectual and historical events tion to one another: by direct aged to distinguish between from the Enlightenment and the comparisons of works even in the understanding a text in its histori - Qing Dynasty (around 1700) to absence of historical cultural con - cal settings and engaging in broad the contemporary world. This tact; by consideration of mutual historical criticism. Accordingly, period has seen some of the most interactions, exchanges, and con - writing assignments strive to rapid and significant changes in testations; by the assertion of cul - strike a balance between close human society and scientific tural dominance; and by resistance reading and comparative assess - understanding. At the same time, to such assertions. ment. In addition to drawing sem - many of the enduring questions of inal texts from the Mediterranean humanity have become even more Cultural Foundations III world and the Middle East, critical as disparate cultures inter - The third semester explores the instructors give extended attention act in a new global arena. This arts form the late 17th/early 18th to at least one Mediterranean/non- course is a capstone to the founda - century to the post-World War II European culture. tions sequence; accordingly, era, examining how they define authors and themes come from a and reflect both local cultural Social Foundations II range of texts both interdiscipli - views and rapidly shifting global The second semester spans a thou - nary and international. Among the understandings of the world. The sand years, from the rise of Islam themes the course explores are the course considers how the diverse and the reunification of China philosophical and political debates conceptions and conditions of under the Tang Dynasty (in the that followed the creation of glob - modernity both shaped and were 7th century CE) through the al colonial empires, as societies
18 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM from around the world confronted some hands-on experimentation, role of ethics, politics, and eco - imperial polices and institutions. but they also include computer- nomics in all real-life environmen - The course also considers the rise based simulations and scientific tal decisions. Students examine of vast, new international markets; inquiry using online databases. such topics as ecology and biodi - the spread of revolutionary and Students are introduced to a range versity, including the nature and national liberation movements in of scientific concepts including effects of succession, evolution, the 19th and 20th centuries; new some, using worldwide databases, and invasion species; the atmos - challenges to established property; that would not be practical in a phere, including air pollution, and the social effects of industrial - traditional laboratory setting. ozone depletion, and climate ization. In addition, instructors The LS science program brings change; sources, use, and misuse of discuss postmodern attempts to students to a level of scientific lit - water resources; human population question and undermine the insti - eracy that enables them to under - and feeding the world’s people, tutions and practices that structure stand and evaluate the science they including developments in agri - contemporary societies. In this will meet throughout their lives. culture and genetic modifications part of the sequence, students con - of organisms; and the nature of sider criticisms of Western prac - History of the Universe Earth’s energy resources and their tices that form both within the Students examine the nature of sci - use by humankind. West and from other regions of ence as a way of looking at the the world, giving special attention world and study that world as Life Science to the reception of Western texts revealed through the work of scien - This course examines some of by other traditions and, conversely, tists over the years. They learn the fundamental principles and the influence of these other tradi - about the nature of matter and processes of biological science. tions on the West. energy and how the universe has The theme of evolution is woven changed over billons of years. throughout the course. Topics LS SCIENCE Topics include the origin and include genetics, cancer, cell biolo - CURRICULUM* developments of the stars, galaxies, gy, biochemistry, biotechnology, planetary systems, and the universe and bioethics, with special empha - The Liberal Studies Program sci - itself, as well as study of the Earth sis on the human species. Many of ence curriculum is designed to and the development of life on the topics are discussed within a help meet the goal of giving our Earth and its potential to exist else - social and historical context, students the best possible founda - where in the universe. The course demonstrating the global nature of tion in the liberal arts and science. begins with the development of sci - scientific problems and scientific LS offers three science courses. entific thought at multiple loca - process. Selected readings from History of the Universe examines tions around the premodern world science journals, newspaper arti - the development of the universe by reference to Babylonian and cles, and recent books expose stu - and of life on Earth together with Chinese astronomy, Indian numeri - dent to the relevance and an examination of the growth of cal systems, and the work of such application of scientific work to our scientific understanding of scientists as Aristotle, Ptolemy, Al- their everyday lives, focusing par - that development. Life Science Sufi, Copernicus, Kepler, and ticularly on genetic disease, the introduces students to evolution, Galileo. It continues with discover - function and treatment of HIV genetics, molecular biology, and ies by the likes of Newton, Darwin, infection, and other current biotechnology. Environmental Curie, Einstein, and Hubble during important frontiers and ethical Studies examines the science of our the period of Western scientific issues in the discipline. The course environment and its role in the hegemony and ends with the also acquaints students with the making of environmental policy. multinational world of present-day historical development of life sci - LS students who plan to trans - science. Students acquire an under - ence by reference to key figures fer to the College of Arts and standing not only of modern sci - from Galen to Averroës to Mendel Science are required to take two ence but also of its development and Darwin. science courses in different branch - and of the methods, strengths, and es of science. In addition to pre - limitations of the scientific method. senting scientific subject matter, MATHEMATICS each course works to develop stu - LS students must fulfill mathemat - Environmental Studies dents’ understanding of the meth - ics and/or science requirements for Environmental decisions are fre - ods of science and the role of both the A.A. degree conferred by quent and important in daily life science in each student’s life. In LS and the bachelor’s degree to be at the levels of both personal keeping with the integrated, inter - conferred by an undergraduate behavior and governmental policy. disciplinary nature of the Liberal school or college of NYU. LS Students learn about modern envi - Studies Program, historical science requires only one mathematics or ronmental science in the context of is related to the context in which one science course for the A.A. contemporary global issues, it developed, and contemporary exploring the impact that the science is related to the issues of decisions of nations and individu - the day. Readings from appropri - als have on local and world ecolo - * Students pursuing a prehealth track do ate original scientific literature are gies. The course emphasizes the not take the science courses listed here but included. The courses include lec - science involved in environmental will be advised to take appropriate required tures and laboratory sections. The decisions while also examining the courses at the College of Arts and Science. laboratory components include
19 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM degree. Students are encouraged to matics courses; students take the Students should consult the LS Advising postpone taking math until after math courses offered at the College Center staff and refer to the specific transfer since the choice of major of Arts and Science Department of departmental Web sites and bulletins for often determines what math class is Mathematics (in the Courant information about the math requirements required. LS does not offer mathe - Institute of Mathematical Sciences). for their bachelor’s degree program.
LS Elective • Global Cultures course also explores the decolonial - eties, cultures, politics, and history • Economics I and II ization of the continent, the atten - of the contemporary Near East and Courses • Creative Writing I and II dant struggles for independence, Islamic North Africa. Sociological, • Internships and post-liberation problems. The historical, and political texts, as impact of modernity on cultural well as achievements in the fine While enrolled in LS, students roles and the transformation of and performing arts, films, and lit - take courses at the NYU school or African cultures in the diaspora erary works, are employed to college where they will earn their also receive attention. examine the region’s rich historical bachelor’s degree. While these legacy and current complexity. courses are considered electives in East Asian Cultures Topics include the historical-cul - LS, they should be selected so that This course offers a broad interdis - tural relations between the Middle they fulfill either school, major, or ciplinary introduction to China, East and the West; the impact of minor requirements in the school Japan, and Korea, generally con - historical, economic, and political to which students intend to trans - centrating on one of these regions. change in the region’s cultures and fer. LS also offers a limited number Students study aspects of the tradi - societies; and the contemporary of eletive courses that are not tional and/or modern cultures of state of the region. required for the core program. one or more of these countries, These are listed below. such as the foundational texts of South Asian Cultures major schools of thought, as well as This course offers a broad interdis - GLOBAL CULTURES literary, political, philosophical, ciplinary introduction to the Students may choose as electives religious, and artistic works. Topics society and culture of the Indian from one of five courses featuring may include the roots and growth subcontinent, concentrating on one the regions of Africa, East Asia, of East Asian culture, national or or more of the nations of India, Latin America, the Middle East, cultural identity in relation to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and and South Asia. Given the ever- imperialism and colonialism, East- Sri Lanka. Students study aspects increasing complexity of today’s West tensions, modernism’s clash of the traditional and/or modern world, Global Cultures is designed with tradition, the persistence of cultures of one or more of these to help students understand soci - the traditional within the modern, countries, such as the foundational eties that have long histories and the East Asian diaspora, and ques - texts of major schools of thought, enormous diversity within them - tions of East Asian “modernities.” as well as literary, political, philo - selves—societies and cultures that sophical, religious, and artistic intersect across the globe. These Latin American Cultures works. The course explores the courses introduce students to This course offers a broad, interdis - interactions of historical tradition aspects of one particular region’s ciplinary introduction to the diver - and change and illuminates such cultural development. “Culture” is sity in the Caribbean and the issues as colonialism, sectarianism, broadly defined as including, but Americas beyond the United States and modernization. not limited to, such disciplines as and Canada. Given the European, history, philosophy, the arts, poli - American, African, Asian, and ECONOMICS tics, and social institutions. Course indigenous Indian influences on LS offers two economics courses as materials stress primary over sec - the region’s varied cultures and electives for students. Economics I ondary sources and may include societies, the course focuses on one is a prerequisite for Economics II. multimedia ones. Following are or more of such topics as the social, the LS global cultures courses. political, artistic, economic, and Economics I ethnological issues of the pre- This course introduces basic con - African Cultures Columbian, colonial, independ - cepts of macroeconomic theory. This course offers a broad interdis - ence, and contemporary periods. It Topics include unemployment; ciplinary introduction to the great traces both cultural communities inflation; aggregate demand; diversity of peoples, places, and and differences within Latin income determination and stabi - cultures in the African continent. America. The course also explores lization policies; fiscal and mone - Students use a variety of historical Latin American ideas about the tary policies; and the Keynesian sources, literature, and film to place that the region occupies in monetarist debate over stabiliza - explore the paradigms of tradition - the Americas and the world. tion policy. al cultures of precolonial societies and the disruptions of those struc - Middle Eastern Cultures Economics II tures by the incursions of Islam This course offers a broad interdis - This course introduces basic con - and European colonialism. The ciplinary introduction to the soci - cepts of microeconomic theory by
20 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM examining price theory and its • Will be structured as an appren - final project whose precise nature applications. Topics include con - ticeship (that is, skills and is to be determined in consultation sumer demand and choice; indif - responsibilities graduate over the with the faculty director (for ference curve analysis; big business course of the internship) example, a 10-page academic and public policy; and factor mar - • Incorporate a research component /professional paper, a portfolio, or kets and the distribution of • Provide opportunities to use aca - other work appropriate to the income. demic skills (e.g., writing, nature of the internship) and sub - analysis, computer literacy, pub - mitted by the end of the term. CREATIVE WRITING lic speaking) The faculty director will provide Two-credit courses in creative writ - • Require a variety of assignments written comment on the work. ing are offered as electives in LS for • Include progressively challeng - Upon completion of the intern - students with strong creative writ - ing tasks/assignments ship, the onsite supervisor will ing interest. These courses offer LS • Engage intern in a culture of provide a performance evaluation students the opportunity to devel - teamwork and collaboration of the student. The internship will op their creative writing in an inti - • Encourage autonomous decision be graded on a pass/fail basis. mate workshop setting. Creative making and production Writing I is not a prerequisite for • Give intern opportunities for Liberal Studies Departmental Creative Writing II. synthesizing knowledge and Internships information Students may also be invited by Creative Writing I As part of an intensive liberal the appropriate faculty member to This course is designed for stu - arts curriculum, it is important file applications for the following dents who have mastered basic that internships in the Liberal internships conducted within writing skills but seek guidance in Studies Program situate the stu - Liberal Studies. In these cases, the fine points of literary crafts - dent in an interdisciplinary, chal - decisions will be based purely on manship. Although students are lenging, and flexible environment. the merit of the student’s proposal, free to work in any medium, they During the course of the intern - the value of the internship itself are encouraged to experiment with ships, students should develop being assumed; consequently, the professional creative writing tech - their communication abilities, student needs to file only an niques such as exposition, narra - knowledge of the field, and analyt - Internship Proposal Form if a fac - tion, description, characterization, ical and critical thinking. Ideally, ulty member has invited him or monologue, stream of conscious - internships will train students in a her to do one of these internships. ness, dialogue, and dramatization. variety of methodologies and pro - mote self-confidence as the student Academic Computing : The stu - Creative Writing II moves forward. Internships should dent gains practical experience in This course focuses on in-class dis - also familiarize students with ethi - the field of preparing, deploying, cussion of student manuscripts. cal procedures and restrictions and maintaining digital education - Attention is given to point of within the organization. al support materials by working in view, structure as a means of Internships characterized by the office of the Liberal Studies arousing and satisfying curiosity, the following are not acceptable associate director of educational and effective use of analogy, irony, within Liberal Studies criteria: technology for approximately 10 metaphor, and symbol. In individ - • Involve an excessive amount of hours per week. The student may ual conferences, students discuss clerical or non-field-related work work with imaging and streaming their personal writing problems • Do not provide for frequent con - software, learning management and learn how to edit their own tact between intern and supervi - systems, Internet video and tele - work for syntactical precision. sors/colleagues conferencing equipment, and pro - Underlying all work—at home, in • Limit intern’s work to a narrow gramming languages like HTML, class, and in conference—is con - and repetitive activity SMIL , and Flash—all in the con - cern for individual style. • Restrict the exercise of inde - text of an interdisciplinary liberal pendent judgment arts program making innovative INTERNSHIPS • Do not articulate clear objectives use of technology across the range and methods for internship of its course offerings. The student Many internships are paid intern - training assembles a portfolio of his or her ships or volunteer internships that • Have unrealistic expectations for electronic work as well as writes a do not involve or require or allow the student’s performance and reflective essay on the relations academic credit. Students do not outcomes between technology, pedagogy, need permission from Liberal Applications will be reviewed and the humanities. Assigned Studies to take such internships. LS by the Office of the Assistant readings may range from George students who have completed fresh - Dean for Academic Affairs; com - Landow’s Hypertext 3.0 to Pierre man year may only receive academ - pleted applications should be filed Levy’s Becoming Virtual. ic credit for internships. with the Liberal Studies Advising • May include governmental, Center, which will then register Advanced Research corporate, or nonprofit the students whose proposals have Techniques : The student gains organizations been approved and inform stu - practical experience in a variety of dents of its decisions. advanced research methods by The student must complete a working 10 hours per week with a
21 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM faculty member engaged in a internship involves more than of research undertaken. (Only fac - scholarly project with a complex finding materials in standard ulty members who have received a research element. Students in a library catalogs. The student keeps Liberal Studies Faculty Research particular term might work with a log of the skills he or she devel - Challenge Award [or the equiva - specialized databases and indexes, ops and writes a reflective essay on lent] for the year in question are conduct archival research, gain a the intricate relation of informa - eligible to direct Advanced grounding in paleographic analy - tion and analysis. Readings might Research Techniques internships.) sis, do onsite archaeological work, range from Edward Tufte to John or otherwise practice advanced Creswell, as well as more special - research skills; in any case, the ized material in the particular field
Students who complete the follow - LS Degree ing requirements may apply to COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE A.A. DEGREE* Requirements receive an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree. Points Points The student must complete at Freshman Year Sophomore Year least 64 points with a minimum GPA of 2.0. The student must Writing I and II 8 Cultural Foundations III 4 complete successfully the following Cultural Foundations Social Foundations III 4 required courses: Writing I and II; I and II 8 Electives 26-28 Social Foundations I and II 8 Cultural Foundations I, II, and III; † Social Foundations I, II, and III; Science or Mathematics 6, 4 and one semester of either mathe - matics or science. Total for A.A. degree: ...... 64 The student’s transcript must (36-38 core points; 26-28 elective points = 64 points) also indicate that the Undergraduate Admissions Processing Center has * LS students studying in Florence, London, and Paris take equivalent LS and NYU received an official final high school courses and credit hours. For more information, go to transcript indicating the date of the Florence: www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/freshmen.programs/florence; student’s high school graduation. If London: www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/freshmen.programs/london; and this transcript has not been received, Paris: www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/freshmen.programs/paris. the student will be notified by the † Some students take these courses during the sophomore year. Course descriptions can be Office of the University Registrar, found on pages 19-20. Note: The LS curriculum requirements for students transfer - and it will be the responsibility of ring to the Tisch School of the Arts and the College of Arts and Science for prehealth the student to have such a transcript are posted at ls.nyu.edu. sent to the admissions office by For more information about NYU study abroad programs, go to whatever deadline established for www.nyu.edu/studyabroad . graduation by the registrar. Note: Students must apply for the A.A. degree. complete four semesters of full- WRITING PROFICIENCY Degrees are awarded three time enrollment in LS. Full-time REQUIREMENT times each year (in January, May, enrollment is defined as the com - and September). Students with Writing proficiency is required for pletion of a minimum of 12 credit the NYU bachelor’s degree. The incompletes on their transcripts hours in each of the four semes - must satisfy those incompletes by writing proficiency requirement is ters. Summer session enrollment fulfilled by completing the certain deadlines in order to will not be counted toward the receive their A.A. degree on time. Writing II course with a mini - residency requirement. mum grade of C. A Writing II Note: Other NYU schools and RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT grade that is below grade C colleges have specific residency requires that the student repeat LS is a four-semester program. LS requirements. Students should the course. students planning to earn the consult the Web sites and bul - Associate in Arts degree and trans - letins of those schools and colleges fer to one of the baccalaureate for up-to-date information about programs at NYU normally must these requirements.
22 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM Liberal Studies International Programs and Study Abroad
Liberal Studies offers first-year Arts and Science laboratory science For more information about LS’s Liberal Studies programs in Florence, London, and courses, making it particularly international programs for fresh - International Paris. * Students in the interna - appropriate for prehealth profes - men, go to the following Web sites: tional programs enroll in three sions students and those majoring • Florence: www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/ Programs for full-year core courses (Cultural in science. The Paris program at freshmen.programs/florence Freshmen Foundations, Social Foundations, the NYU in Paris Center offers and Writing) and elective courses students convenient access to the • London: www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/ designed to enhance their interna - city’s cultural monuments and freshmen.programs/london tional experience (for example, landmarks. • Paris: www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/ Italian language in Florence). Each At the completion of their freshmen.programs/paris LS study abroad site has unique freshman year abroad, students advantages in addition to its loca - matriculate as LS sophomores in *Note: Liberal Studies students tion. LS in Florence students enjoy New York. Students who meet the who wish to enroll in the freshman a spectacular setting, Villa La minimum GPA of 3.0 (B) or bet - program at a global site must be 18 Pietra, a complex of Renaissance ter, and who meet other program years of age on or before the date buildings on a hill about a mile requirements, transition as juniors of their travel to the site for pur - from the center of the city. LS in to the NYU school or college to poses of study. London allows students access to which they originally applied for certain introductory College of their baccalaureate.
NYU encourages every under- for one semester at NYU interna - the spring semester of freshman Liberal Studies graduate to have an international tional sites in Florence, Paris, or year to ensure that they plan their International experience. LS offers 100 of its London. Students interested in academic program to make the sophomores an extraordinary array sophomore study abroad should best use of their international Programs for of opportunities to study abroad consult with the LS adviser during experience. Sophomores
LS students also may participate in NYU Study Abroad sites, includ - the Dean’s Circle University Other Study NYU Summer Study Abroad pro - ing Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Buenos Scholars program also have an Abroad grams. In addition, after their Aires, Florence, Ghana, London, international travel experience. transfer from LS, juniors and sen - Madrid, Paris, Prague, or Shanghai. Opportunities iors may study at one of several LS students who are members of
23 • LIBERAL STUDIES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AND STUDY ABROAD Liberal Studies Academic Advisement and Transition Requirements
he LS academic advisement system is designed to help students navigate a com - plex university, identify students’ academic goals, and provide advice and infor - Tmation about how best to achieve those goals. LS is a student-oriented liberal arts program. Class size is kept small to ensure substantial faculty-student interaction, the fac - ulty know their students by name, and the academic advisement system provides academic support and problem-solving services.
LIBERAL STUDIES E-mail announcements are sent to interested in the respective bul - ADVISING CENTER flag these deadlines and to letins and online Web sites, and The LS Advising Center, located at announce the schedule of preregis - making use of the vast resources of 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, is open tration information sessions each New York University). Faculty Mondays through Fridays from 9 semester. Note: All students are advisers often refer students to the a.m. to 5 p.m. The assistant dean advised to visit the LS Web site LS Advising Center to have an aca - for academic advising and LS’s aca - periodically (www.ls.nyu.edu ) to get demic problem solved or a regis - demic advising staff are available for answers to preliminary questions tration problem rectified; to the individual meetings with students about majors, courses, registration, NYU Student Health Center for or via e-mail for students studying policies, deadlines, and resources. medical treatment or psychological abroad ( [email protected] ). The counseling; to the Wasserman academic advising staff serves as a FACULTY ADVISERS Center for Career Development to resource for students about require - In addition to the services offered get expert advice about finding an ments transitioning to their bac - by the LS Advising Center, all LS internship, developing a résumé, calaureate program. All LS students students are assigned a faculty or beginning a job search; or to are required to meet with their adviser. Normally, students will be specific NYU departments, adviser during the semester and advised by the same faculty adviser resources, or Web sites to obtain have at least one meeting scheduled for the two years that they spend additional information. Students in anticipation of the following in LS. (After transitioning to the have a responsibility to be proac - semester’s preregistration period. baccalaureate program from which tive in arranging and keeping Students can register via Albert they expect to earn their bachelor’s appointments with their adviser. (NYU’s online registration system) degree, students are assigned a only after being cleared to register, new faculty adviser in the depart - LIBERAL STUDIES and LS students are cleared each ment in which they declare their ELECTRONIC semester by their adviser. Advisers major.) Faculty advisers in LS are NEWSLETTER remind students of the degree and prepared to give academic advice LS publishes an electronic newslet - transfer requirements yet to be sat - to their students: advice to fresh - ter that is sent to all current LS isfied, give advice about choosing men about college adjustment students via e-mail on a monthly electives, and answer students’ ques - issues (such as time management, basis. Therefore, it is absolutely tions about majors, requirements, juggling extracurricular activities essential that all LS students acti - and deadlines. The LS Advising with academic responsibilities, and vate their NYU e-mail account and Center also provides information to beginning the search for a major regularly check their NYU e-mail. students about meeting deadlines and a minor) and to sophomores The LS electronic newsletter lists for registering for courses, making about meeting academic goals all upcoming extracurricular events schedule changes, withdrawing (making plans for transitioning to and includes special announce - from courses, satisfying incom - one of the baccalaureate programs, ments about key deadlines, impor - pletes, applying for internal transfer, finding out the details about the tant events, and activities. and applying for study abroad. department in which they are
24 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT AND TRANSITION REQUIREMENTS Liberal Studies LIBERAL STUDIES sions office that he or she intends satisfy these requirements. For TRANSITION to enroll in the NYU school or example: Students transferring to Transition REQUIREMENTS college to which the student origi - the Gallatin School of Individualized nally applied. Students are notified Study are encouraged to have one Requirements LS students who meet established via e-mail when the process is Gallatin interdisciplinary seminar and Procedures transfer criteria will transition as complete. on their transcript before transfer; juniors to the NYU school or col - Each school or college requires students transferring to the College lege to which they originally a minimum GPA for guaranteed of Arts and Science are encouraged, applied. Note: Students who are transition. The minimum GPA for but not required, to sample at least not certain about the school or col - guaranteed transition from LS to one course in the department to lege to which they originally an undergraduate school or college which they plan to transfer; and applied should visit the LS at NYU is 3.0; students are also prehealth students have particular Advising Center to have the mat - required to have earned an average course requirements that must be ter clarified before choosing elec - of 3.0 or better in electives taken taken in sequence and finished tives. There is some leeway for in the school or college to which within a certain time period. LS changing tracks (i.e., applying for they are transferring. The mini - students should visit www.ls.nyu.edu a transfer to an NYU school or mum GPA for transfer to the for curriculum guidelines for pre - college to which the student did Tisch School of the Arts is 3.0; health students, as well as meet not originally apply), but off-track also required is a successful with their LS prehealth adviser. transfers are not guaranteed and demonstration of talent, through Liberal Studies is a four-semes - the competitiveness of off-track either an audition (for drama or ter program. Exceptions: some transfers varies from school to dance students) or a portfolio (for departments in the Steinhardt school. Students with queries film, photography, or dramatic School of Culture, Education, and about the possibility of an off- writing students). Students inter - Human Development and the track transfer should meet with an ested in transferring internally to a Tisch School of the Arts require adviser in the LS Advising Center. school or college other than that to early transfer, and students who which they originally applied express interest in these depart - LIBERAL STUDIES must consult the staff of the LS ments will be advised accordingly. TRANSITION PROCEDURES Advising Center no later than fall LS students who complete the core In the spring semester of their semester of their sophomore year. course requirements will have met sophomore year, LS students begin Some schools require specific most or all of the liberal education the seamless process of transition - course work on the transcript before requirements of NYU’s schools ing to their baccalaureate division. a student is eligible to transition to and colleges. The process is done via e-mail. that school. LS students must use The student notifies the admis - their elective space while in LS to
25 • LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT AND TRANSITION REQUIREMENTS Liberal Studies Student Awards and Honors
WALLACE GOEBETZ Incomplete or N at the time the are based solely on merit and are MEMORIAL PRIZE list is compiled. Note that grade open to LS students at the end of The Wallace Goebetz Memorial point averages are not rounded off. the freshman year. Students do not Prize is awarded to one graduating need to be eligible for financial aid LS sophomore. This prize serves to DEAN’S CIRCLE to receive the award. Scholarships recognize academic scholarship, Students who complete the fresh - will be applied to tuition charges and it is awarded on the basis of man year with a cumulative grade for the fall semester of the sopho - highest academic average. The point average of 3.65 or better and more year. The awards are for one prize was established in memory of who have earned at least 30 credit year only and are not renewable. To Professor Wallace Goebetz, a long- hours will be invited to apply for be eligible to apply, students must standing member of the School of the Dean’s Circle University have a cumulative NYU GPA of Continuing and Professional Scholars program, LS’s honor socie - 3.75 or better with no outstanding Studies faculty who actively par - ty. Dean’s Circle scholars participate incomplete grades, must have ticipated in the development of in a range of activities with faculty, earned at least 32 credit hours the degree program. including visits to cultural events toward the degree, must not have (e.g., performances, museum been subject to any disciplinary exhibits, and concerts) and an inter - sanctions, and must enroll full ELAINE KUNTZ MEMORIAL time in for the fall semester. WRITING PRIZE national travel experience. Members are also expected to engage in com - Eligible students must submit an The Elaine Kuntz Memorial munity service and to work over the application that includes an essay Writing Prize was established in course of the year on a major and a letter of support from an LS 1988 in memory of Dr. Kuntz, research project on a topic related to faculty member. who was the program’s first associ - Dean’s Circle travel. In recent years, ate director and a member of the the Dean’s Circle scholars have trav - STEVE CURRY faculty. The prize is awarded to an eled to the Brazil, Czech Republic, SCHOLARSHIPS LS freshman each year for an out - Cuba, England, Germany, Spain and standing essay produced in a writ - Curry awards, in honor of the pro - Turkey. Dean’s Circle members in gram’s first associate dean, provide ing course. The Writing faculty good standing also receive favorable nominates students for this prize. students who study abroad and consideration for the University receive financial aid with funds for Scholars program in the school to academic research travel during DEAN’S HONORS LIST which they enroll in as juniors. their international experience. At the end of each academic year, a Dean’s Honors List is compiled. MICHAEL L. PROBST This is an honors roll of matricu - SCHOLARSHIPS lated students who have achieved an average of 3.650 or higher for LS students are encouraged to that academic year (September- apply for the Michael L. Probst May) in at least 28 graded points. Scholarships. The scholarship was In order to be listed, a student endowed by a former distinguished must not have any grades of NYU administrator. The awards
26 • LIBERAL STUDIES STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 2009–2011
Global Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts (GLS)
GLS Academic Program ...... 28-36 GLS Curriculum Overview and Requirements ...... 28-29 GLS Required Courses ...... 30-36 GLS Degree Requirements ...... 35 GLS International Programs and Study Abroad ...... 37-38 GLS Academic Advisement ...... 39 GLS Additional Academic Opportunities ...... 40-41 Cross-School Minors ...... 40 Accelerated B.A./M.A. Program ...... 40-41 Professional Edge Certificates ...... 41 GLS Student Awards and Honors ...... 42 Global Liberal Studies Academic Program
Global Liberal The Global Liberal Studies Global Liberal Studies is a study, and experiential learning. Bachelor of Arts (GLS) is a rigor - leader in the use of instructional At each site, students draw upon Studies ous course of study in the liberal technology to support the goals of cultural resources that transform arts that emphasizes the great liberal education. The Simonides their chosen city into a learning Curriculum works and combines ideas, materi - portfolio of electronic tools pro - laboratory . Overview and als, and methodologies from multi - vides students with a flexible elec - ple fields of inquiry, including tronic palette for storing and The Freshman Year Requirements literature, history, philosophy, annotating digital materials from Students begin Global Liberal political science, physical and bio - their course work, building and Studies in New York or at NYU logical sciences, mathematics, for - sharing their own multimedia doc - in Florence, London, or Paris. * eign language, music, and art. uments created with these materi - The Global Liberal Studies pro - Sophomore seminars reinforce the als, and networking with students grams abroad fit in seamlessly global perspective infused through - who share common academic with the academic program at out the core curriculum and pre - interests. By recentering instruc - Washington Square so that course pare students to spend their junior tional technology on the educa - requirements are met on time for year abroad at one of NYU’s many tional experience of the individual graduation in four years. During international campuses in Africa, student, Simonides allows the way the freshman year, students exam - Asia, Europe, and Latin America. a student understands his or her ine the world’s major cultural tra - The senior year in New York com - work in relation to off-campus life ditions and the ways in which they bines advanced course work with a and across courses to become a are connected through eight core guided research project that inte - pedagogical focus. Students in courses: Writing I and II, Cultural grates the four years of study. GLS begin using Simonides in Foundations I and II, Social Students in GLS complete an their first semester, build their Foundations I and II, Global integrated, interdisciplinary cur - portfolios and make new connec - Cultures, and a laboratory science riculum that emphasizes direct tions with other students and fac - course. Students participate in engagement with the ideas of the ulty members over their entire small, in-class discussions that past as well as the challenges of the time in GLS (including the junior encourage them to think in new contemporary world. Core course year at an international site), and and different ways. Students work in the liberal arts, with a draw upon its resources to com - advance their communication and focus on the great works, is infused pose their senior thesis. writing skills, which are empha - with global content and involves sized in all courses. students in the study of not only FRESHMAN AND Western tradition but also other of The Sophomore Year SOPHOMORE CURRICULUM In the sophomore year, students cultures around the world. GLS REQUIREMENTS fosters close collaboration between pursue the study of world culture. faculty and students in and out of In the first- and second-year core In Cultural and Social Foundations the classroom, and all students are courses, all students read the foun - III, students continue their foun - advised by faculty and professional dational works of many world cul - dation courses and advance to advisers. Working closely with fac - tures in their material and 20th-century great works. In their ulty, students study the original intellectual contexts, and they sophomore seminars, students works of philosophers, scientists, begin to make critical and imagi - learn sophisticated methods of cul - social scientists, historians, musi - native connections that foster tural analysis and explore issues of cians, artists, writers, and other independent intellectual inquiry. transnational importance. The great thinkers as they become more Students are prepared by their seminars are discussion-based, active critical thinkers themselves. sophomore courses for integrating writing intensive, and interdisci - Faculty design classes that combine the experiences of their junior year plinary, and they require the com - ideas, materials, and methodologies of study at an international site pletion of a significant research from multiple fields of inquiry, into their developing sense of how encouraging conversations across the global and the local connect and intersect. In the junior year, the disciplines through discussion *Global Liberal Studies students who wish and intensive writing embedded in students immerse themselves in the life and language of one of to enroll in the freshman program at a all classes. Classes are taught in global site must be 18 years of age on or small class settings that facilitate NYU’s global sites through focused course offerings, language before the date of their arrival to the site for students’ participation. purposes of study.
28 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM project. In addition to the ensures that each student selects The Senior Year seminars, sophomores also take a courses that relate coherently to The senior year provides students second science course, an adviser- each other and to the student’s with both appropriate course work approved elective, an intensive thesis. In effect, the senior year is and opportunities for guided inde - language course in preparation for tailored to meet the goals and pendent research and writing as the junior year of international aspirations of each student. part of the thesis project. The study, and a Quantitative senior year consists of four major Reasoning course. The Junior Year elements: the senior thesis; the The junior year of international senior colloquia, which develops a JUNIOR AND SENIOR study is a unique feature of the theme broadly related to the thesis CURRICULUM Global Liberal Studies B.A. In the topic; capstone seminars that use a first three semesters, students REQUIREMENTS selection of works drawn from acquire a broad understanding of both traditional and modern glob - Throughout the junior and senior the interconnections between world al canons to provide a coherent years, faculty and staff mentor stu - cultures. In their fourth semester, overview of the four years of the dents as writers and scholars as students begin to explore in depth program; and electives specially they engage in extended study and the cultural context and language chosen to complement each stu - independent projects. The senior of the site at which they will study dent’s individual program and thesis draws upon all the student as juniors. The sites available in a career goals. Students will also has accomplished, capping the given year are carefully selected to have the chance to represent their degree with a fully realized indi - coordinate with every aspect of a educational achievements in an vidual statement on a topic that student’s four-year course of study. innovative and reflective electronic relates the student’s international Students don’t just study at an format that they can maintain experience and interests to the international site—the site itself throughout their four years in the wider web of global connections becomes an important subject of Global Liberal Studies program traced over the four years in the study. Experiential learning, special and then take with them when program. Students complete GLS topics, and language courses they graduate. with a richer understanding of the immerse students in the history Throughout each student’s aca - world and the tools to contribute and contemporary culture of the demic career, a distinct thread will to its future. site. As part of their junior year, emerge based largely on where and The junior year of international students complete a substantial what the student has chosen to study is the centerpiece of the research essay in preparartion for study abroad. The senior year the - Global Liberal Studies B.A. In the the senior thesis. Upon return, sis requires in-depth exploration of first three semesters, students students join a senior colloquium a subject that is related to both acquire a broad understanding of keyed to their international experi - international study and to the the interconnections between ence while they use advanced body of work already completed in world cultures. In the fourth research techniques to complete a the program. Faculty work closely semester, students begin to explore senior thesis that grows out of the with each student to integrate all in depth the cultural context and junior-year experience. the major elements of the senior language of the site at which they The junior year experience is year, ensuring an educational expe - will study as juniors. The sites integrated closely into students’ rience uniquely tailored to the available in a given year are care - academic careers. At their global individual student’s needs and fully selected to coordinate with sites, students take courses each interests. Senior electives may every aspect of students’ four-year semester in Advanced Global include upper-level courses in the courses of study. Cultures (which provides students College of Arts and Science, All GLS juniors spend a year with a closer geographical focus on including courses that are cross- studying at an NYU international the country in which they reside listed with the Graduate School of site. GLS will select junior-year and which is supplemented by Arts and Science. global study sites from among cocurricular programming, includ - NYU’s international programs. ing museum trips, architectural The sites are selected to ensure ACCELERATED B.A./M.A. tours, and lectures by local artists PROGRAM that all courses and cocurricular and scholars); a service learning programs are available. The sites sequence (engaging in appropriate The Liberal Studies Program and in a typical year will be located in community-based projects the Graduate School of Arts and Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin designed by staff and faculty and Science (GSAS) offer Global America. combining guided research in an Liberal Studies (GLS) students the The senior year serves as the appropriate field of study with opportunity to earn both the bach - capstone of each student’s educa - supervised practical work); a for - elor’s degree and the master’s tion. Students return to New York eign language course; and electives degree in a number of departments for a year of course work and guid - geared toward the particular aca - in a shorter period of time. For ed research that integrates the demic emphases and geographic more information, see pages 40-41 work they undertook during their advantages of the site. Students of this bulletin. junior year of international study thus attain a thorough working with the foundation established in knowledge of the historical and freshman and sophomore year. contemporary culture and society Careful, individual advising of the site at which they study.
29 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM Global Liberal Writing I and II how the student’s ideas are situated Mesopotamia). Instructors prepare Writing is an essential part of the in a larger conversation with “out - the way for Cultural Foundations Studies Global Liberal Studies Program. side” voices, ideas, and texts—in II by giving some attention to the Every course requires that students the academy, the arts, and the larg - models by which cultural trans - Required write to demonstrate their mastery er world or culture. Students pro - mission occurred across these Courses of material. Writing courses also duce work based on research, regions prior to the rise of Islam. provide students with an impor - usually in the form of one or more tant method for organizing and research projects. The concept of Cultural Foundations II expressing their thoughts while “research” is not limited to library The second semester examines the enhancing their critical, analytical, or online research but is thought of arts produced within diverse cul - and interpretive skills. in the broadest and most creative tural traditions across the globe In Writing I, students develop sense of the term. In performing from the rise of Islam at the both fluency and confidence as this research, students incorporate beginning of the 7th century to writers and thinkers, as well as an the voices of others into the gener - the global empire building of the understanding of their own writ - al context of their own argument late 17th/early 18th century. The ing processes. Instructors empha - or idea, helping them engage in course explores the distinctive con - size the importance of students “critical exchanges” with other ventions and traditions of different developing their own ideas and voices and sources of evidence. media and the development of cul - becoming conscious of their own Students are expected to under - tural traditions from their ancient voices and ideas in relation to stand all the formal requirements foundations to the early modern other voices and texts. of research writing (proper citation, period through successive influ - Intellectually rigorous and constructing a bibliography, etc.). ences and assimilations, both local challenging exercises and assign - More important, the goal of the and external. Diverse cultural tra - ments require students to work in Writing II is largely ditions are also considered in rela - approach both reading and writing focused on the importance of hav - tion to one another: by direct as processes characterized by con - ing students place themselves in comparisons of works even in the tinual questioning, rethinking, sophisticated and critical dialogue absence of historical cultural con - revising, and making connections with other writers and thinkers, tact; by consideration of mutual between texts, disciplines, and thereby connecting them to the interactions, exchanges, and con - ideas. Essays require students to academic community and its con - testations; by the assertion of cul - demonstrate both intellectual and versations, and to critical discus - tural dominance; and by resistance aesthetic sophistication. Students sions happening outside of the to such assertions. work on textual citation and inter - University in the world at large. pretation, the use of sustained Students learn to write essays that Cultural Foundations III metaphor or complex imagery in are informed by and responsive to The third semester explores the the service of their ideas, rhetorical the insights of others without arts form the late 17th/early 18th or “writerly” moves and aptness of being dominated by them. century to the post-World War II language and word choice, and Writing II essays are usually longer era, examining how they define developing a consciousness of the than those generated in Writing I, and reflect both local cultural relationship of the writer to the and the drafting process is facilitat - views and rapidly shifting global audience. To situate writing in ed by providing a variety of exer - understandings of the world. The English in its increasingly global cises or benchmarks to help course considers how the diverse context, students read, analyze, students negotiate the complex conceptions and conditions of and interpret challenging and research process. modernity both shaped and were complex English language works shaped by the arts around the from around the world (primarily Cultural Foundations I world. Many of the issues perti - Africa, Australia, Canada, the The first semester introduces the nent to the course—industrializa - Caribbean, Ireland, South Asia, arts from their origins to the end tion/urbanization; the dislocations, the United Kingdom, and the of antiquity, as defined for these disasters, and opportunities that United States), with attention to purposes by the roughly coinci - followed cross-cultural contact; the ways writing reflects place, dent dissolutions of the Gupta, colonialism, decolonization, con - history, and mobility. Subjects of Han, and Western Roman flicts of political ideology, and lib - analysis are not limited to written empires, focusing on how individ - eration struggles; fundamental texts; they also come from other uals and social relations are shaped redefinitions of mind, language, media and the arts (e.g., visual or in literature and the visual, plastic, gender, and sexual identity—have musical) and derive from experi - and performing arts, as well as had very different effects in various ence or observation. through music. Conceptions of the parts of the world. Instructors In Writing II, students contin - divine, the heroic, power and dis - encourage students to explore ue to work on the reading and enfranchisement, beauty, and love what it means to study the arts writing skills they began develop - are examined within the context of from global perspectives and to ing in Writing I. Although stu - the art and literature of East and examine what “globalization” itself dents’ voices and ideas continue to South Asia, the Mediterranean has meant and means in the con - be valued and encouraged, Writing world, and contiguous regions text of the arts. II places increased emphasis on (such as Germania, Nubia, and
30 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM Social Foundations I nature emerge and collide. by other traditions and, conversely, The first semester introduces stu - Oppression gives rise to new the influence of these other tradi - dents to the ancient world and movements for greater equality tions on the West. ends with the dissolution of the and individual rights, and bitter Western Roman Empire, the struggles for power lead to the GLOBAL CULTURES Gupta Empire in India, and the creation of large new colonial Students choose from one of five Han Dynasty in China. This empires, whose effects linger to Liberal Studies courses featuring course takes a global perspective the present day. In addition, the the regions of Africa, East Asia, and uses an interdisciplinary world’s different civilizations come the Middle East, Latin America, approach, and part of its aim is to into increasing contact through and South Asia. Given the ever- explore enduring questions such as exploration and trade. Students are increasing complexity of today’s the relation between the individ - expected to consider these ideas world, this component of the cur - ual and society, between justice and developments critically, with riculum is designed to help stu - and power, and between humanity an eye to their philosophical, dents understand societies that and the divine. The ancient soci - political, and historical signifi - have long histories and enormous eties from which the texts cance; and they are encouraged to diversity within themselves—soci - emerged are as much objects of explore the ways in which texts eties and cultures that intersect study as the ancient texts them - that have often been read in exclu - across the globe. These courses selves. Students are expected to sively Western contexts yield new introduce aspects of one particular consider many ideas with which meaning when placed in non- region’s cultural development. they might not agree. They ask Western settings. “Culture” is broadly defined as how these earlier conceptions including, but not being limited Social Foundations III speak to their own lives and how to, disciplines such as history, phi - The last semester examines major these earlier ideas connect to the losophy, the arts, politics, and intellectual and historical events world today. Students are encour - social institutions. Course materi - from the Enlightenment and the aged to distinguish between als stress primary over secondary Qing Dynasty (around 1700) to understanding a text in its histori - sources and may include multime - the contemporary world. This cal settings and engaging in broad dia. In their first year, students period has seen some of the most historical criticism. Accordingly, choose from one of the Global rapid and significant changes in writing assignments strive to Cultures courses described below. strike a balance between close human society and scientific understanding. At the same time, reading and comparative assess - African Cultures many of the enduring questions of ment. In addition to drawing sem - This course offers a broad interdis - humanity have become even more inal texts from the Mediterranean ciplinary introduction to the great critical as disparate cultures inter - world and the Middle East, diversity of peoples, places, and act in a new global arena. This instructors give extended attention cultures in the African continent. course is a capstone to the founda - to at least one Mediterranean/non- Students use a variety of historical tions sequence; accordingly, European culture. sources, literature, and film to authors and themes come from a explore the paradigms of tradition - Social Foundations II range of texts both interdiscipli - al cultures of precolonial societies The second semester spans a thou - nary and international. Among the and the disruptions of those struc - sand years, from the rise of Islam themes the course explores are the tures by the incursions of Islam and the reunification of China philosophical and political debates and European colonialism. The under the Tang Dynasty (in the that followed the creation of glob - course also explores the decolonial - 7th century CE) through the al colonial empires, as societies ization of the continent, the atten - Scientific Revolution and the from around the world confronted dant struggles for independence, decline of the Mogul Empire in imperial polices and institutions. and post-liberation problems. The India. This course invites students The course also considers the rise impact of modernity on cultural to consider great ideas that have of vast, new international markets; roles and the transformation of often helped earlier peoples organ - the spread of revolutionary and African cultures in the diaspora ize their lives—but which have national liberation movements in also receive attention. also set them in conflict some - the 19th and 20th centuries; new times with other communities, challenges to established property; East Asian Cultures sometimes among themselves. and the social effects of industrial - This course offers a broad interdis - Such ideas have sparked move - ization. In addition, instructors ciplinary introduction to China, ments for ethical and social discuss postmodern attempts to Japan, and Korea, generally con - reform, conquest, recovery of lost question and undermine the insti - centrating on one of these regions. classics, and religious renewal. tutions and practices that structure Students study aspects of the tra - Vast new empires appear during contemporary societies. In this ditional and/or modern cultures of this period, but so do challenges part of the sequence, students con - one or more of these countries, to their rule. Religious conflicts sider criticisms of Western prac - such as the foundational texts of lead to civil war, and modern sci - tices that form both within the major schools of thought, as well ence emerges as a challenge to tra - West and from other regions of as literary, political, philosophical, ditional beliefs. Throughout, the world, giving special attention religious, and artistic works. different conceptions of human to the reception of Western texts Topics may include the roots and
31 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM growth of East Asian culture, works. The course explores the History of the Universe national or cultural identity in interactions of historical tradition Students examine the nature of sci - relation to imperialism and colo - and change and illuminates such ence as a way of looking at the nialism, East-West tensions, mod - issues as colonialism, sectarianism, world and study that world as ernism’s clash with tradition, the and modernization. revealed through the work of scien - persistence of the traditional with - tists over the years. They learn in the modern, the East Asian SCIENCE* about the nature of matter and diaspora, and questions of East The science curriculum in the energy and how the universe has Asian “modernities.” Global Liberal Studies Program changed over billons of years. gives our students the best possible Topics include the origin and Latin American Cultures foundation in the liberal arts and developments of the stars, galaxies, This course offers a broad interdis - science by introducing them to sci - planetary systems, and the universe ciplinary introduction to the diver - entific principles analysis applica - itself, as well as study of the Earth sity in the Caribbean and the ble to many world issues and and the development of life on Americas beyond the United States problems. GLS offers three science Earth and its potential to exist else - and Canada. Given the European, courses. All students take History where in the universe. The course American, African, Asian, and of the Universe, which examines begins with the development of sci - indigenous Indian influences on the development of the universe entific thought at multiple loca - the region’s varied cultures and and of life on Earth together with tions around the premodern world societies, the course focuses on one the growth of our scientific under - by reference to Babylonian and or more of such topics as the social, standing of that development. Chinese astronomy, Indian numeri - political, artistic, economic, and Students must take a second sci - cal systems, and the work of such ethnological issues of the pre- ence course; they have a choice scientists as Aristotle, Ptolemy, Columbian, colonial, independ - between Life Science, which intro - Al-Sufi, Copernicus, Kepler, and ence, and contemporary periods. It duces students to evolution, genet - Galileo. It continues with discover - traces both cultural communities ics, molecular biology, and ies by the likes of Newton, Darwin, and differences within Latin biotechnology; and Environmental Curie, Einstein, and Hubble during America. The course also explores Studies, which examines the sci - the period of Western scientific Latin American ideas about the ence of our environment and its hegemony and ends with the place that the region occupies in role in the making of environmen - multinational world of present-day the Americas and in the world. tal policy. science. Students acquire an under - In addition to presenting scien - standing not only of modern sci - Middle Eastern Cultures ence but also of its development This course offers a broad interdis - tific subject matter, each course works to develop students’ under - and of the methods, strengths, and ciplinary introduction to the soci - limitations of the scientific method. eties, cultures, politics, and history standing of the methods of science of the contemporary Near East and and the role of science in each stu - dent’s life. In keeping with the Environmental Studies Islamic North Africa. Sociological, Environmental decisions are fre - historical, and political texts, as integrated, interdisciplinary nature of Global Liberal Studies, histori - quent and important in daily life well as achievements in the fine at the levels of both personal and performing arts, films, and lit - cal science is related to the context in which it developed, and con - behavior and governmental policy. erary works, are employed to Students learn about modern envi - examine the region’s rich historical temporary science is related to the issues of the day. Readings from ronmental science in the context of legacy and current complexity. contemporary global issues, explor - Topics include the historical-cul - appropriate original scientific lit - erature are included. Each course ing the impact that the decisions tural relations between the Middle of nations and individuals have on East and the West; the impact of honors the GLS commitment to small classes. The laboratory com - local and world ecologies. The historical, economic, and political course emphasizes the science change in the region’s cultures and ponent of each course emphasizes computer-based simulations and involved in environmental deci - societies; and the contemporary sions while also examining the role state of the region. scientific inquiry using online databases, introducing students to of ethics, politics, and economics in all real-life environmental deci - South Asian Cultures a range of scientific concepts, sions. Students examine such top - This course offers a broad interdis - including some using worldwide ics as ecology and biodiversity, ciplinary introduction to the socie - databases that would not be prac - including the nature and effects of ty and culture of the Indian tical in a traditional laboratory set - succession, evolution, and invasion subcontinent, concentrating on one ting. The GLS science curriculum species; the atmosphere, including or more of the nations of India, brings students to a level of scien - air pollution, ozone depletion, and Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and tific literacy that will enable them climate change; sources, use, and Sri Lanka. Students study aspects to understand and evaluate the sci - of the traditional and/or modern ence they will meet throughout cultures of one or more of these their lives. Note: GLS accepts countries, such as the foundational AP credit toward the program’s * Students pursuing a prehealth track do texts of major schools of thought, Science requirement. not take the science courses listed here but as well as literary, political, philo - will be advised to take appropriate required sophical, religious, and artistic courses at the College of Arts and Science.
32 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM misuse of water resources; human to their immediate antecedents— poker. Note: GLS accepts certain population and feeding the world’s for instance, discussion of contem - AP credit in fulfillment of the people, including developments in porary psychoanalytic approaches program’s Quantitative Reasoning agriculture and genetic modifica - might be grounded in Freud and requirements. tions of organisms; and the nature Lacan, while recent theories of the of Earth’s energy resources and gaze might be studies in the con - JUNIOR SERVICE their use by humankind. text of earlier theoretical texts from LEARNING I AND II the Futurist or Dadaist move - (Experiential Learning ) Life Science ments. Special attention is paid to This course examines some of the movements that influence both Students come into close contact fundamental principles and academic thinking and life outside with the daily life of the site at processes of biological science. The the academy. Theoretical models which they are studying through theme of evolution is woven are examined both for the ways experiential learning, engaging in throughout the course. Topics they illuminate the interpretation group projects designed and super - include genetics, cancer, cell biolo - of specific texts and as important vised by local site staff. In consulta - gy, biochemistry, biotechnology, texts in their own rights. tion with a faculty director, and bioethics, with special empha - students conduct research in the sis on the human species. Many of Sophomore Seminar: Global appropriate field of study as well as the topics are discussed within a Topics perform practical work. They com - social and historical context, This course introduces students to a plete a substantial individual proj - demonstrating the global nature of major facet of the social, intellectual, ect (to be submitted in installments scientific problems and scientific and/or cultural context of the region over the course of each term) in con - process. Selected readings from sci - in which they will study as juniors. sultation with the faculty director. ence journals, newspaper articles, Rather than focusing narrowly on and recent books expose student to the city that houses the international ADVANCED GLOBAL the relevance and application of site, Global Topics provides a larger TOPICS scientific work to their everyday regional frame into which students This course concentrates in an inter - lives, focusing particularly on can fit their individual experiences disciplinary fashion on issues of spe - genetic disease, the function and of living outside the United States. cial interest in the context of the treatment of HIV infection, and Interdisciplinary in scope, the course particular international site where other current important frontiers focuses on how, in the context of a the course is taught. It includes and ethical issues in the discipline. particular social and cultural components that take full advantage The course also acquaints students moment, cultures transform (or of the specific site—e.g., museum with the historical development of attempt transformation) in relation trips and architectural tours, explo - life science by reference to key fig - to each other. A section might, for rations of neighborhoods, lectures ures from Galen to Averroës to instance, focus on a region-specific by or conversations with members Mendel and Darwin. Note: GLS theme involving cultural transfor - of the community (scholarly and accepts certain AP credit in fulfill - mation, such as Marxism in Asia, otherwise), and the like. The course ment of the program’s Science with a particular emphasis on the illuminates aspects of the culture requirements. Cultural Revolution in China. and history of the host country in Alternatively, a section might relation to regional and local issues. SOPHOMORE SEMINARS address a more broadly defined phe - While the freshman courses nomenon of transformation, such as SITE-SPECIFIC ELECTIVES encourage students to comprehend world feminism or the changing politics of agriculture. A section The electives students take at the the possibilities for broad interdis - site are guided by careful advising ciplinary understandings, the might focus either on the contempo - rary world or on a moment or period to ensure a coherent program, sophomore seminars form a very including (when appropriate) different experience. These semi - before the 20th century, but regard - less of the era it chiefly concerns, progress toward a minor in an area nars emphasize writing-intensive relevant to the student’s global research on specific topics as well significant attention is paid to how history informs the present. focus. In addition, advisers help stu - as activities such as student pre - dents select electives that are geared sentations, student-moderated dis - toward the particular academic cussions, and peer feedback. QUANTITATIVE emphases and geographic advan - Students read and respond to the REASONING tages of the site so that students seminal great works in each field. In consultation with their adviser, have an educational experience students choose one of several unique to the site at which they are Sophomore Seminar: Approaches Quantitative Reasoning courses. studying and revelatory of its cul - This course introduces students to Each of them aims at acquainting ture. The goal is that students not the most influential recent intellec - students with elementary princi - simply have a “study abroad” expe - tual movements across a range of ples of mathematical inquiry; each rience, but that they immerse them - fields. Emphasis falls on the ideas stresses the use of mathematical selves in the site’s culture. and methods of analysis that have means to address real-world mat - created the various intellectual cli - ters ranging from the numerical mates of the late 20th and early substrata of natural phenomena to 21st centuries, with some reference polling data and probability in
33 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM SENIOR CAPSTONE SEMINARS I AND II* GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES COURSES AND The senior capstone seminars COURSE NUMBERS address a focused interdisciplinary Freshman Year topic of international scope, refining Writing I ...... T01.1001 the liberal studies work of a stu- Writing II ...... T01.2002 dent’s previous years by exploring a closely defined theme in great Cultural Foundations I ...... T02.0101 depth. The theme might concern a Cultural Foundations II ...... T02.0102 particular form of content, such as Social Foundations I ...... T03.0101 Americans abroad, or an intellectual Social Foundations II ...... T03.0102 construct, such as irony in the ancient and modern worlds. Texts Science I are drawn from numerous disci- Environmental Studies ...... T07.5005 plines, forms, and media; approach- Life Science ...... T07.5010 es to those texts also include a History of the Universe ...... T07.6020 variety of disciplinary perspectives. Global Cultures South Asian Cultures ...... T04.1001 SENIOR COLLOQUIUM East Asian Cultures ...... T04.2001 (FULL-YEAR COURSE) Middle Eastern Cultures ...... T04.3001 The senior colloquium pursues a African Cultures ...... T04.4001 theme intimately connected to the Latin American Cultures ...... T04.5001 site and themes students encoun- tered during their junior year. For Sophomore Year example, students who studied at Sophomore Seminar: Approaches ...... T05.1001 Berlin in junior year might take a Sophomore Seminar: Global Topics ...... T05.2003 colloquium on emerging defini- Intensive Language I* tions of European identity in the Quantitative Reasoning* 20th and 21st centuries, with a Cultural Foundations III ...... T02.0103 special focus on changing concepts of what it means to be German. In Social Foundations III ...... T03.0103 addition to exploring material Electives ...... related to the theme, the course constitutes an advanced education Science II in a broad range of intellectual Environmental Studies ...... T07.5005 methods. The colloquium instruc- Life Science ...... T07.5010 tor also serves as the first reader of History of the Universe ...... T07.6020 the student’s thesis. In addition to research and writing skills, stu- Junior Year at an NYU Global Site dents receive substantial instruc- Intensive Language II* tion aimed at refining their Advanced Global Topics ...... T10.3001 (Fall) abilities in practical areas, such as ...... T10.3002 (Spring) conceiving and delivering oral pre- Junior Service Learning I and II ...... T10.3051 (Fall) sentations, incorporating visual ...... T10.3052 (Spring) material into verbal arguments, Advanced Language Course* leading discussions, and crafting successful group projects. Site-Specific Electives
SENIOR THESIS Senior Year Senior Thesis ...... T11.4001(Fall) The senior thesis (or an equivalent ...... T11.4002 (Spring) body of creative work) concerns a topic related both to the student’s Senior Colloquium ...... T11.5001 (Fall) international study experience and ...... T11.5002 (Spring) work in the program as a whole. Senior Capstone Seminar I and II ...... T11.6001 (Fall) The thesis, interdisciplinary in its ...... T11.6002 (Spring) scope and methodology, involves both primary and secondary Electives research and is normally global or comparative in approach. It epito- *Offered at the NYU College of Arts and Science. mizes the student’s undergraduate career, relating in a significant and substantive manner to earlier aca- *An upper-level College of Arts and Science (with permission) be substituted for one demic experiences, including those course, including those cross-listed with the semester of the senior capstone seminar. at an NYU international site (or Graduate School of Arts and Science, may
3 4 • G LO BAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM sites), and treating a significant number of primary texts; it will COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE B.A. DEGREE* also engage the current critical lit- erature in its field of study. Points Points Freshman Year Junior Year at an INTENSIVE LANGUAGE Writing I and II 8 NYU Global Site STUDY Social Foundations I 4 Intensive Language II 4 Language study is a keystone of Social Foundations II 4 Advanced Global Topics 8 GLS, as one cannot begin to under- Cultural Foundations I 4 Junior Service Learning stand global history and issues Cultural Foundations II 4 I and II 8 without extended study of a lan- Science I 6 Advanced Language Course 4 guage besides English. That all Global Cultures 4 Site-Specific Electives 8 students engage in advanced lan- guage study, regardless of their ini- Points Points tial level of proficiency, is one of Sophomore Year Senior Year Global Liberal Studies’ distin- Sophomore Seminar: Senior Thesis 8 guishing features. The GLS lan- Approaches 4 Senior Colloquium 8 guage requirement is not a Sophomore Seminar: Senior Capstone proficiency requirement that may Global Topics 4 Seminars I and II 8 be satisfied on the basis of prior Intensive Language I 4 Electives 8 study or fluency. Rather, it is a lan- Quantitative Reasoning 4 guage study requirement; even stu- Cultural Foundations III 4 dents with considerable proficiency Social Foundations III 4 in the language will improve on Electives 4 that proficiency, normally by at Science II 6 least three semesters of study. Students prepare for their inter- Total for B.A. degree: ...... 128 national experience by taking one semester of intensive work in the * GLS course descriptions can be found on pages 30-36. language spoken at the site, usually in the spring of sophomore year. For instance, a student with little or no GLS Economics II (microeconomics), applications. Topics include con- prior education in French who and GLS Creative Writing, as well as sumer demand and choice; indiffer- wants to spend junior year in Paris advanced language instruction in the ence curve analysis; big business (assuming that site was offered in a NYU College of Arts and Science and public policy; and factor mar- particular year) would take (CAS). Students also may pursue over kets and the distribution of income. Intensive Elementary French. 40 all-University minors, including During the junior year at one of several languages and economics in Creative Writing NYU’s international sites, students CAS, business studies in CAS and Two-credit courses in creative writ- enroll in one class each semester in NYU Stern School of Business, and ing are offered as electives in GLS the target language, usually a sec- communication studies in the NYU for students with strong creative ond semester of intensive language Steinhardt School of Culture, writing interest. These courses (to continue the example above, the Education, and Human Development. offer GLS students the opportunity student would take Intensive to develop their creative writing in Intermediate French) followed by a an intimate workshop setting. semester of more advanced study of Economics Creative Writing I is not a prereq- the language. If a student can GLS offers two economics courses as uisite for Creative Writing II. demonstrate appropriate proficiency, electives for students. Economics I however, he or she takes courses is a prerequisite for Economics II. Creative Writing I taught in the language itself. At This course is designed for stu- some sites, this includes course Economics I dents who have mastered basic work at NYU’s local partner univer- This course introduces basic con- writing skills but seek guidance in sities. Students may, in consultation cepts of macroeconomic theory. the fine points of literary crafts- with their adviser, decide to contin- Topics include unemployment; manship. Although students are ue their language study in order to inflation; aggregate demand; free to work in any medium, they complete a minor in the language. income determination and stabi- lization policies; fiscal and mone- are encouraged to experiment with tary policies; and the Keynesian professional creative writing tech- ELECTIVES monetarist debate over stabiliza- niques such as exposition, narra- Students complement their GLS tion policy. tion, description, characterization, course work with a wide array of elec- monologue, stream of conscious- tives in GLS and in other NYU Economics II ness, dialogue, and dramatization. schools chosen in careful consultation This course introduces basic con- with their adviser. These may include cepts of microeconomic theory by GLS Economics I (macroeconomics), examining price theory and its
3 5 • G LO BAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM Creative Writing II tions within the organization. al support materials by working in This course focuses on in-class dis- Internships characterized by the office of the Liberal Studies cussion of student manuscripts. the following are not acceptable associate director of educational Attention is given to point of within Liberal Studies criteria: technology for approximately 10 view, structure as a means of • Involve an excessive amount of hours per week. The student may arousing and satisfying curiosity, clerical or non-field-related work work with imaging and streaming and effective use of analogy, irony, • Do not provide for frequent con- software, learning management metaphor, and symbol. In individ- tact between intern and supervi- systems, Internet video and tele- ual conferences, students discuss sors/colleagues conferencing equipment, and pro- their personal writing problems • Limit intern’s work to a narrow gramming languages like HTML, and learn how to edit their own and repetitive activity SMIL, and Flash—all in the con- work for syntactical precision. • Restrict the exercise of inde- text of an interdisciplinary liberal Underlying all work—at home, in pendent judgment arts program making innovative class, and in conference—is con- • Do not articulate clear objectives use of technology across the range cern for individual style. and methods for internship of its course offerings. The student training assembles a portfolio of his or her INTERNSHIPS • Have unrealistic expectations for electronic work as well as writes a Many internships are paid intern- the student’s performance and reflective essay on the relations ships or volunteer internships that outcomes between technology, pedagogy, do not involve or require or allow Applications will be reviewed and the humanities. Assigned academic credit. Students do not by the Office of the Assistant readings may range from George need permission from Liberal Dean for Academic Affairs; com- Landow’s Hypertext 3.0 to Pierre Studies to take such internships. pleted applications should be filed Levy’s Becoming Virtual. GLS students who have completed with the Liberal Studies Advising freshman year may only receive aca- Center, which will then register Advanced Research demic credit for internships. the students whose proposals have Techniques: The student gains • May include governmental, been approved and inform stu- practical experience in a variety of corporate, or nonprofit dents of its decisions. advanced research methods by organizations The student must complete a working 10 hours per week with a • Will be structured as an appren- final project whose precise nature faculty member engaged in a ticeship (that is, skills and is to be determined in consultation scholarly project with a complex responsibilities graduate over the with the faculty director (for research element. Students in a course of the internship) example, a 10-page academic/ particular term might work with • Incorporate a research component professional paper, a portfolio, or specialized databases and indexes, • Provide opportunities to use aca- other work appropriate to the conduct archival research, gain a demic skills (e.g., writing, nature of the internship) and sub- grounding in paleographic analy- analysis, computer literacy, pub- mitted by the end of the term. sis, do onsite archaeological work, lic speaking) The faculty director will provide or otherwise practice advanced • Require a variety of assignments written comment on the work. research skills; in any case, the • Include progressively challeng- Upon completion of the intern- internship involves more than ing tasks/assignments ship, the onsite supervisor will finding materials in standard • Engage intern in a culture of provide a performance evaluation library catalogs. The student keeps teamwork and collaboration of the student. The internship will a log of the skills he or she devel- • Encourage autonomous decision be graded on a pass/fail basis. ops and writes a reflective essay on making and production the intricate relation of informa- • Give intern opportunities for Liberal Studies Departmental tion and analysis. Readings might synthesizing knowledge and Internships range from Edward Tufte to John information Students may also be invited by Creswell, as well as more special- As part of an intensive liberal the appropriate faculty member to ized material in the particular field arts curriculum, it is important file applications for the following of research undertaken. (Only fac- that internships in Liberal Studies internships conducted within ulty members who have received a situate the student in an interdis- Liberal Studies. In these cases, Liberal Studies Faculty Research ciplinary, challenging, and flexible decisions will be based purely on Challenge Award [or the equiva- environment. During the course of the merit of the student’s proposal, lent] for the year in question are the internships, students should the value of the internship itself eligible to direct Advanced develop their communication abil- being assumed; consequently, the Research Techniques internships.) ities, knowledge of the field, and student needs to file only an analytical and critical thinking. Internship Proposal Form if a fac- Ideally, internships will train stu- ulty member has invited him or dents in a variety of methodologies her to do one of these internships. and promote self-confidence as the student moves forward. Internships Academic Computing: The stu- should also familiarize students dent gains practical experience in with ethical procedures and restric- the field of preparing, deploying, and maintaining digital education-
3 6 • G LO BAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC PROGRAM Global Liberal Studies International Programs and Study Abroad
International Global Liberal Studies students Global Liberal Studies Global Liberal Studies have two opportunities to study Freshman Year in Florence Freshman Year in Paris Study abroad, either in their freshman GLS freshmen may choose to Incoming freshmen to the Global year or junior year in the program. spend a year living and studying Liberal Studies Program have Freshmen can study in Florence, at La Pietra, NYU’s 57-acre estate the opportunity to study at NYU London, or Paris. The specific in Florence, Italy. In 1994, Sir in Paris. Known as the City of NYU international sites available Harold Acton, a patron of the arts, Lights, Paris is one of the most to GLS students in their junior bequeathed to the University this captivating cities in Europe. The year will differ by year but will property, which overlooks the city Eiffel Tower, the symbol of the normally include at least one site from a hillside. On the grounds city, dominates the skyline. The in Asia, Europe, and Latin are five villas containing residences Right Bank (Rive Droite) is home America. Study at an international for students and faculty, class - to monumental buildings, grand site during the junior year is rooms, computer labs, study boulevards, and major museums, required regardless of the site at lounges, and dining and exercise including the Louvre and the which the student has spent fresh - facilities. Florence, the birthplace Centre Georges Pompidou. The man year. For a complete list of of the Renaissance, is a unique Left Bank (Rive Gauche) evokes a NYU study abroad sites, go to place in which to begin a human - bohemian and intellectual atmos - www.nyu.edu/studyabroad . istic education. La Pietra is the phere with its artist communities, home of a major international stu - cafés, restaurants, jazz clubs, and THE FRESHMAN YEAR dent community. Students from all hip boutiques. Most Global Liberal Studies stu - over the world and from NYU’s dents choose to begin their pro - campus in New York are engaged THE JUNIOR YEAR gram in New York. Some choose in learning at all levels. The aca - The junior year of required inter - to begin at NYU in Florence, demic program in Florence national study is a unique feature London, or Paris. * During the includes visits to many important of the Global Liberal Studies B.A. freshman year, GLS students museums and historic sites in the In the first three semesters, stu - examine the world’s major cultural region. dents acquire a broad understand - traditions and the ways in which they are connected through eight Global Liberal Studies core courses: Writing I and II; Freshman Year in London Cultural Foundations I and II; As a world capital of banking, Social Foundations I and II; insurance, commerce, design, and theatre, London is a cosmopolitan *The Global Liberal Studies programs Global Cultures; and a laboratory abroad fit in seamlessly with the academic science course. Students partici - city and home to institutions of global importance, including the program at Washington Square so that pate in small in-class discussions course requirements are met in time for that encourage them to think in London Stock Exchange, the Tate Modern, and the British Museum. graduation in four years. GLS students new and different ways. They who choose to begin their freshman year advance their communication and GLS freshmen who select the London program have the opportu - abroad must complete an academic question - writing skills, which are empha - naire and review it with an adviser to sized in all courses. Students who nity to begin their liberal arts edu - cation while exploring the city’s ensure that the freshman year abroad meets choose to begin in Florence, their long-term academic goals in GLS. London, or Paris † often take accel - centuries-old historic landmarks erated language courses or other and its contemporary wonders. †Note: Global Liberal Studies students approved electives in place of who wish to enroll in the freshman program Global Cultures or Science. at a global site must be 18 years of age on or before the date of their travel to the site for purposes of study.
37 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AND STUDY ABROAD ing of the interconnections they develop and use advanced ulty and combining guided between world cultures. In their research techniques to complete a research in an appropriate field of fourth semester, students begin to senior thesis that grows out of the study with supervised practical explore in depth the cultural con - junior year experience. work); a foreign language course; text and language of the site at The junior year experience is and electives geared toward the which they will study as juniors. integrated closely into students’ particular academic emphases and The sites available in a given year academic careers. At their global geographic advantages of the site. are carefully selected to coordinate site, students take courses each Students thus attain a thorough with every aspect of a student’s semester in Advanced Global working knowledge of the histori - four-year course of study. Students Cultures (which provide them cal and contemporary culture and don’t just study at an international with a closer geographical focus on society of the site at which they site—the site itself becomes an the region in which they reside study. The junior year abroad important subject of study. and which are supplemented by requires a full immersion year at the Experiential learning, special top - cocurricular programming, includ - specific site. Students are expected ics, and language courses immerse ing museum trips, architectural to spend both semesters of junior students in the history and con - tours, and lectures by local artists year at one site, given that the temporary culture of the site. and scholars); an experiential sophomore year courses and senior Upon return, students join a sen - learning sequence (engaging in year course work are connected to ior colloquium keyed to their appropriate community-based the junior year site selected. international experience, while projects designed by staff and fac -
38 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AND STUDY ABROAD Global Liberal Studies Academic Advisement
LS ADVISING CENTER FACULTY ADVISERS Faculty advisers may also refer The LS Advising Center, located at Academic advisement is a vital students to the LS Advising 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, is open part of the GLS undergraduate Center to have an academic or reg - Mondays through Fridays from 9 experience. During the first week istration issue solved; to the NYU a.m. to 5 p.m. The assistant dean of freshman year, students are Student Health Center for medical for academic advising and the aca - assigned a GLS faculty member as treatment or psychological coun - demic advising staff are available for their academic adviser. Students seling; to the Wasserman Center individual meetings with students meet with their faculty adviser to for Career Development to get or via e-mail for students studying discuss educational and profession - expert advice about finding an abroad ( [email protected] ). The al objectives and techniques for internship, developing a résumé, academic advising staff serves as a succeeding in college. Students are or beginning a job search; or to resource to assist students with mat - encouraged to meet with their specific NYU departments, ters such as registration deadlines, adviser regularly, beginning in the resources, or Web sites to obtain degree requirements, selecting elec - first year. Together, students and additional information. tives, choosing majors and minors, their adviser establish working All GLS students are required study abroad options, making relationships that foster academic to meet with their faculty adviser schedule changes, satisfying incom - excellence and personal growth. during the semester and have at pletes, withdrawing from courses, Academic advisers also assist stu - least one meeting scheduled in etc. Important advising information dents in preparing for registration anticipation of the following is available on the GLS Web site each semester by making sure stu - semester’s preregistration period. (see www.gls.nyu.edu ). Note: All stu - dents are on track for meeting Students can register via Albert dents are advised to visit the GLS requirements and by providing (NYU’s online registration system) Web site periodically to get answers advice about choosing electives. only after being cleared to register, to preliminary questions about Students maintain close contact and GLS students are cleared each majors, courses, registration, poli - with their faculty adviser during semester by their adviser. cies, deadlines, and resources. their junior year, and in the senior year, students also work closely with their thesis supervisor.
39 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT Global Liberal Studies Additional Academic Opportunities
GLS students are eligible to take school minors in a range of disci - taking two degrees without over - advantage of the academic pro - plines. The Web site also lists lap is that students are allowed to grams listed below. Each program names and e-mails of the school take M.A. courses before they offers GLS students the opportuni - and departmental contacts for each complete the B.A. degree. ty to add an area of expertise or cross-school minor. In order to complete the pro - higher learning to their GLS edu - gram in five years, students are cational experience by earning ACCELERATED B.A./M.A. advised to complete a fourth of the credits for a minor in a specific PROGRAM M.A. requirements before the field, a combined bache - beginning of the fifth year. Students Web site: www.gls.nyu.edu/page/ lor’s/master’s degree, or a profes - can accelerate more rapidly by tak - bama sional certificate. Each program ing additional graduate courses has specific requirements, and stu - The Liberal Studies Program and before they complete the B.A. dents should refer to the Web sites the Graduate School of Arts and listed below for additional infor - Science (GSAS) offer Global Admission and Eligibility mation. Students are also advised Liberal Studies (GLS) students the Criteria to confer with an academic adviser opportunity to earn both the bach - Applicants must have completed a in the Liberal Studies Advising elor’s degree and the master’s minimum of 48 credits toward the Center, who can help students degree in numerous departments bachelor’s degree but not more consider available options for tak - in a shorter period of time and at than 96 credits or six semesters, ing courses in other NYU schools less cost than is normally the case. whichever comes first (advanced and help them choose those that Qualifying students are typical - standing credits may be counted best fit their academic goals. The ly accepted into a program toward for this purpose). The student opportunity to pursue and com - the end of the sophomore year or must have a minimum 3.5 GPA plete any of these academic pro - the beginning of the junior year. In for admission to, and continuation grams depends on a variety of their remaining undergraduate in, the B.A./M.A. program. factors including academic record, semesters, they can then accelerate GSAS requires the submission academic goals, course scheduling by taking some graduate courses of a formal graduate school appli - and sequencing, program require - during regular terms and/or during cation for admission to the ments, and advance planning. the summer. In the graduate por - B.A./M.A. program, but the usual Note: These optional programs tion of the program, students can GRE requirement and the applica - supplement the GLS bachelor’s qualify for a scholarship covering tion fee will be waived. Students degree and do not replace GLS up to 50 percent of the tuition for will be officially admitted to requirements. the master’s degree. The scholar - GSAS when they have completed ship is only for one year. their undergraduate requirements, CROSS-SCHOOL MINORS The program is intended for which must be no later than their (ALL-UNIVERSITY MINORS) students whose career goals will be eighth semester. furthered by graduate-level train - Web site: www.nyu.edu/advisement/ ing but do not plan—at least not Scholarships and Financial Aid majors.minors and click “Cross immediately—to go on for doctor - The accelerated B.A./M.A. pro - School Minors.” al work in the field of their M.A. gram features a tuition scholarship The cross-school minors program degree. ensuring that students pay for no allows students to complete the more than 50 percent of the credits course requirements for certain Curriculum required for the master’s portion of minors in specific fields, in an Students in the program must sat - the program. The scholarship is NYU school in which they are not isfy all of the requirements of both provided on completion of the enrolled. The specific minor desig - the bachelor’s degree and the mas - bachelor’s degree. It is calculated nation will appear on the student’s ter’s degree; there is no double- on the basis of the remaining cred - NYU transcript. A number of counting of courses. The main its needed for the master’s degree NYU academic departments in difference between the B.A./M.A. and the additional payments the several NYU schools offer cross- program and the typical process of student made in order to accelerate
40 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES study while matriculated for the information about the scholarship pleted 64 credits with a GPA of bachelor’s degree (tuition for more program. 3.5 or higher, have the opportuni - than 18 points during a regular The GSAS admissions require - ty to apply to earn (at no addition - semester or for any summer gradu - ment to take the GRE is waived al tuition cost) a noncredit ate courses). The tuition scholar - for students in the B.A./M.A. pro - certificate at NYU’s School of ship will remain available for 12 gram. However, students must Continuing and Professional months after the completion of the still provide GES with an official Studies. These Professional Edge undergraduate degree. and final copies of their academic Certificates are designed for high- Once students matriculate transcript showing proof of receipt achieving and highly motivated in GSAS, they become eligible of the bachelor’s degree. full-time juniors and seniors pur - for services available only to grad - suing a liberal arts degree who also uate students, including special Advisement and Questions want additional professional train - student loans. General information and advise - ing in a particular field. Most cer - ment about the accelerated tificates require five courses, which Application Procedures B.A./M.A. program is available in vary in length from a weekend to a GLS students apply for admission the Liberal Studies Advising whole term. Certificates are offered to the B.A./M.A. program through Center, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor. in several fields including foreign the Liberal Studies Advising As early as possible, students language translation and interpre - Center (726 Broadway, 6th Floor). should discuss with an adviser how tation; design, digital arts, and They do not submit an application the program might fit into both video production; fine arts apprais - for admission to GSAS. All admis - their curricular program and their al; publishing; law and paralegal sions advising and processing are longer-range plans. Questions studies; marketing and advertis - handled by the Liberal Studies about eligibility for, or application ing; finance and accounting; and Advising Center. to, the B.A./M.A. program should real estate and architecture. To apply, a student completes a be directed to the Liberal Studies Interested students should refer to special version of the GSAS admis - Advising Center. Students are also the Web site above for program sions application available from the encouraged to discuss their plans requirements, certificate descrip - Liberal Studies Advising Center, with their faculty adviser and with tions, and application deadlines two letters of recommendation, and the assistant dean for academic and procedures. Students should a statement of purpose. After the advising. also meet with an adviser in the student has successfully completed Liberal Studies Advising Center at the undergraduate requirements, PROFESSIONAL EDGE 726 Broadway, 6th Floor. the Liberal Studies Advising Center CERTIFICATES AT THE NYU notifies GSAS Graduate Enrollment SCHOOL OF CONTINUING Services (GES) that the student may be admitted to the master’s AND PROFESSIONAL program. Liberal Studies Advising STUDIES (SCPS) forwards the original application http://cas.nyu.edu/page/ug.professional/ materials to GES. GSAS mails the edge student an official letter of admis - At the end of their sophomore sion to the master’s program and year, GLS students who have com -
41 • GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES Global Liberal Studies Student Awards and Honors
DEAN’S HONORS LIST courses taken while enrolled in STEVE CURRY At the end of each academic year, GLS, and V- and G-level graded SCHOLARSHIPS a Dean’s Honors List is compiled. courses taken while enrolled in Curry awards, in honor of the pro - This is an honors roll of matricu - other divisions of the University, gram’s first associate dean, provide lated students who have achieved will be used in computing the students who study abroad and an average of 3.650 or higher for honors average. Pass grades are not receive financial aid with funds for that academic year (September- counted; grades received in courses academic research travel during May) in at least 28 graded points. taken at other institutions are also their international experience. In order to be listed, a student not counted. The student must For additional information on must not have any grades of also have a clean record of conduct. scholarships and awards, go to Incomplete or N at the time the Latin honors will be deter - www.gls.nyu.edu. list is compiled. Note that grade mined on the basis of cumulative point averages are not rounded off. GPA so that summa cum laude is limited to the top 5 percent of the LATIN HONORS graduating class, magna cum laude to the next 10 percent of the To graduate with Latin honors, a graduating class, and cum laude to student must have completed at the next 15 percent of the gradu - least 64 points in the Global ating class. Liberal Studies B.A. in courses in which the letter grades A through D were received. All graded
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Academic Policies and Procedures ...... 44-51 Student Life Resources ...... 52-53 Counseling and Health Services ...... 54 Admission ...... 55-60 Liberal Studies ...... 55-56 Global Liberal Studies ...... 56-57 Financial Aid ...... 57-58 Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid ...... 61-66 Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies Administration and Faculty ...... 67-69 Calendar ...... 70-71 Washington Square Campus Map ...... 72-73 Travel Directions to the Washington Square Campus ...... 74 Frequently Called Numbers ...... 75 Index ...... 76-77 Academic Policies and Procedures*
WRITING PROFICIENCY Computing the Grade Point dents have one semester to finish REQUIREMENT Average the work for a course in which an Writing proficiency is required for The grade point average (GPA) incomplete grade was received. If the NYU bachelor’s degree. The can be obtained by determining the course work is not completed writing proficiency requirement is the total of all grade points earned after the statutory time for making fulfilled by completing the Writing and dividing that figure by the up incompletes has elapsed, the II course with a minimum grade of total number of credits completed. temporary grade of I shall become C. A Writing II grade that is below For example, if an LS student has an F and will be computed in the the grade of C requires that the completed an 18-credit schedule student’s grade point average. student repeat the course. and receives grades of A, A-, B, and C+, respectively, in four 4- W Grade credit courses and a B+ in a 2- The grade of W indicates an offi - ONLINE COURSE credit course, the student’s cial withdrawal from a course. REGISTRATION (ALBERT) semester GPA would be computed Albert is the NYU student infor - as follows: Pass/Fail Option mation services Web site. Students Applies to both Liberal Studies can use Albert to register for cours - 4.0 (A) x 4 credits = 16.0 and Global Liberal Studies stu - es, change addresses, and review 3.7 (A-) x 4 credits = 14.8 dents: Students may elect no more transcripts and financial aid infor - 3.0 (B) x 4 credits = 12.0 than one pass/fail option each term, mation. Albert can be accessed via 2.3 (C+) x 4 credits = 9.2 including the summer sessions, for a NYUHome at http://home.nyu.edu . 3.3 (B+) x 2 credits = 6.6 total of no more than 16 points while they are degree candidates in Total grade points 58.6 GRADES LS and GLS. The pass/fail option is GPA=58.6 divided by 18=3.255 not available for courses completed To receive a final grade for a course, at other institutions. a student must be in regular atten - The total grade points (58.6) is The choice to elect pass/fail dance and satisfactorily complete divided by the number of credits grading in any course must be all examinations and other assign - earned (18) to obtain the GPA made before the completion of the ments prescribed by the instructor. (3.255). Note: There are no A+, ninth week of the term (or the A student will not receive a grade D-, or F+ grades. See Pass/Fail third week of a six-week summer for any course for which she or he is Option, below, for information session); after that time, the grad - not officially registered. about pass/fail policies, including ing option cannot be changed. Students who request faculty to those that apply specifically to LS Note that once elected, the choice review the calculation of a final students. of pass/fail grading cannot be grade must do so within one month changed back to the letter grade after the course ends. The review I Grade (Incomplete) option. No grade other than P or F must normally be completed with - The grade of I (Incomplete) is a will be recorded for students choos - in one month but may be extended temporary grade that indicates ing the pass/fail option. P includes in the case of a formal grade appeal that the student has, for good all passing grades and is not count - to the dean. reason, not completed all of the ed in the grade point average. F is The following grades are award - course work but that there is the counted in the grade point average. ed and are computed in the grade possibility that the student will The pass/fail option is not per - point average: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, eventually pass the course when all mitted for any required course. C, C-, D+, D, and F. In general, A of the requirements have been indicates excellent work; B indicates completed. A student must ask A Note for Liberal Studies good work; C indicates satisfactory the instructor for a grade of I, Students (only) about Pass/Fail: work; D indicates passable work and present documented evidence of Students should note that in other is the lowest passing grade; and F illness or the equivalent, and clari - schools of NYU, the pass/fail option indicates failure. The weights fy the remaining course require - assigned to the grades in computing ments with the instructor. the grade point average are as follows: The incomplete grade is not *Note: The following policies (pages 44- A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, awarded automatically. It is not 51) apply to students enrolled in either the B = 3.0, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, used when there is no possibility Liberal Studies Program or the Global C = 2.0, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, that the student will eventually Liberal Studies Program. Exception -Page D = 1.0, and F = 0.0. pass the course. In general, stu - 46 applies to GLS students only.
44 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES generally is not permitted for any ADVANCED STANDING financial aid should consult the Morse Academic Plan courses, for CREDITS Office of Financial Aid immediate- any degree requirements, for courses LS accepts a maximum of 32 cred- ly if they register for, or drop to, in the major and the minor, or for its of advanced standing. While fewer points than they indicated required preprofessional courses. GLS accepts up to 32 advanced they would take on the application Students who change majors may standing credits, the structure of for financial aid. A change in not be able to use courses taken the program does not normally enrollment status may affect the under the pass/fail option to satisfy allow for early graduation. financial aid students receive. It requirements of the new major. Advanced standing credits are col- may also affect their financial obli- Students contemplating the pass/fail lege credits earned before entering gation to the University by mak- option should consult with a LS NYU. Advanced standing credits ing them immediately responsible staff adviser about the likely effect are submitted to the NYU for any charges incurred up to the of such grades on their academic Undergraduate Admissions point of withdrawal. The refund and career plans. Processing Center and evaluated by schedule is not applicable to stu- The form for declaring the LS the LS Academic Advising Center. dents whose registration remains in pass/fail option may be obtained in Examples of advanced standing the flat-fee range (12-18 points). the LS Advising Center, 726 credits are credits earned at other The refund schedule is based Broadway, 6th Floor. colleges and universities before on the total applicable tuition, admission to NYU in which the excluding nonrefundable fees and CHANGE OF PROGRAM grades earned were B or better and deposits. Students who are due a Students may access Albert online for which scores of 4 or 5 were refund can speed the process by to adjust their schedule by drop- obtained on the Advanced Placement going to the Office of the Bursar ping and adding courses until the examinations. International at 25 West Fourth Street and fil- end of the third week of classes; all Baccalaureate, French Baccalaureate, ing a refund request form. schedule changes made after the A-levels, and Abitur credits may also For more information about third week of the semester must be result in advanced standing credit. NYU tuition policies, go to approved by the LS Advising Some courses taken at other colleges www.nyu.edu/bursar. Center. Ultimately, the courses that may not be honored by NYU. students sign up for are their In order to receive evaluation AUDITING A COURSE responsibility. When not certain of advanced standing credits, stu- Students may audit a designated about changes they want to make, dents should request that official course with the consent of the LS students should check with the LS AP results, college transcripts, and assistant dean for academic advis- Advising Center. Students may other documentation be sent to ing and the permission of the withdraw from a course up until the the Undergraduate Admissions instructor. Auditors may not pre- ninth week of the semester. Courses Processing Center, New York empt space required for registered dropped during the first three University, 665 Broadway, 11th students. Audited courses will not weeks of classes will not appear on Floor, New York, NY 10012-2339 appear on students’ official tran- the transcript. After the third week While LS accepts advanced script, nor will credit or a grade be of classes, students can no longer standing credits, the work reflect- awarded. Students should not audit add a course, and a W will be ed by these credits will not substi- courses required by their curricu- recorded on their transcript if they tute for any of the LS core courses. lum. Audited courses will not be withdraw from a course. This grade The only LS requirements for considered to satisfy prerequisite will not be included in the calcula- which advanced standing credits requirements for advanced courses. tion of their grade point average. may substitute are mathematics Auditors are allowed to attend Note: LS students are strongly and science. Students should also classes but not to participate in cautioned that they should not note that the several undergradu- other ways. Auditors may not sub- add courses or change sections of ate schools and colleges of NYU mit papers or take exams. Students courses after the second week of the have different policies on whether who wish to audit should fill out semester. Students who wish to add AP or other advanced standing the approval form no later than the a course in the third week must credit will be accepted in fulfill- first day on which the class meets. secure permission from the instruc- ment of major and other require- Forms are available in the Liberal tor in advance. Students who add a ments. Students should consult Studies Advising Center. course or change a section at any with the LS Advisement Center time are fully responsible for all about advanced standing credits STUDENT GRIEVANCES work previously assigned. and how they will be counted. Students who have complaints After the ninth week of classes, See also pages 46-47, 59-60. about grades or other academic students can withdraw from a matters should attempt in the first course only in case of severe emer- REFUNDS instance to resolve them by con- gency. Late withdrawals must be Each semester, the Office of the tacting the instructor of the approved by the dean. Undergrad- Bursar establishes a refund sched- course. If the matter cannot be uates are not allowed to completely ule that applies to withdrawals. resolved in this way, students withdraw from all courses through The first calendar week consists of should consult with the assistant Albert. For complete withdrawal, the first seven calendar days begin- dean for academic affairs, who may students must see a member of the ning with the official opening date attempt to bring about an infor- LS advising staff. of the term. Students who receive mal resolution.
4 5 • A CAD EM IC P OLIC IES AND PR OCED URES ADDITIONAL ADVANCED PLACEMENT EQUIVALENCIES 1 INFORMATION ABOUT COURSE ADVANCED STANDING EXAMINATION GRADE POINTS EQUIVALENCIES CREDIT POLICIES FOR THE Art History 4,5 4 V43.0001 or V43.0002 GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES Biology † 4,5 6 T07.5010 PROGRAM Calculus AB* 4,5 4 V63.0121 Calculus BC* 4,5 4 V63.0121 Global Liberal Studies participates † in the Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry 4,5 6 T07.6020 Program of the College Entrance Chinese Language 2 Examination Board. Global Liberal and Culture 4,5 4 V33.0204 Studies students who present AP Computer Science A 4,5 4 V22.0101 test scores with the appropriate Computer Science AB 4,5 4 V22.0101 grade (usually 4 or 5) may receive English Language -- No credit awarded college credit toward the degree. English Literature 4,5 4 No course equivalent Students who receive AP credit may Environmental Science † 4,5 6 T07.5005 not take the corresponding NYU European History 4,5 4 V57.0001 or V57.0002 course for credit. If they do so, they French Language 4,5 4 V45.0101 will lose the AP credit. French Literature 4,5 4 V45.0115 AP credit in chemistry or German Language 4,5 4 Any 100-level language course physics may be used to substitute Italian Language 4 No course equivalent for History of the Universe. AP and Culture 4,5 4 V59.0012 credit in biology may be used to Japanese Language substitute for Life Science, and and Culture 4,5 4 V33.0250 2 AP credit in environmental science Latin Literature 4,5 4 No course equivalent may be used to substitute for Latin: Vergil 4,5 4 V27.0006 Environmental Studies. AP credit Macroeconomics 4,5 4 T08.1001 in any mathematics examination or Microeconomics 4,5 4 T08.1002 in statistics may be used to fulfill Music Theory -- No credit awarded the Quantitative Reasoning Physics B † 4,5 6 T07.6020 requirement. Students may not Physics C † 4,5 6 T07.6020 present AP credit (or any form of advanced standing) for courses in Politics (U.S. Govt. and Politics) 4,5 4 No course equivalent the core curriculum (the Cultural Foundations, Social Foundations, Politics (Comp. Govt. and Politics) 4,5 4 No course equivalent and Writing sequences). Note that the AP equivalencies Psychology 4,5 4 V89.0001 listed below are for students in Spanish Language 4,5 4 V95.0004 Global Liberal Studies only and Spanish Literature 4,5 4 V95.0200 apply to requirements and electives Statistics* 4,5 4 V89.0009 in the GLS program of study. Studio Art -- No credit awarded However, students who declare cer - U.S. History 4,5 4 V57.0009 or V57.0010 tain cross-school minors may need World History 4,5 4 No course equivalent to consult the Liberal Studies Advising Center about credits that may apply to particular minors or ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT AND GLOBAL LIBERAL that may satisfy certain departmen - STUDIES REQUIREMENTS tal prerequisites. Note also that examinations AP EXAMINATION GRADE REQUIREMENT SATISFIED marked (*) with the indicated Biology 4,5 Life Science score will satisfy the GLS Calculus AB 4,5 Quantitative Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning require - Calculus BC 4,5 Quantitative Reasoning ment; examinations marked (†) Chemistry 4,5 History of the Universe with the indicated score will sat - Environmental Science 4,5 Environmental Studies isfy one of the GLS Science Physics B 4,5 History of the Universe requirements. Physics C 4,5 History of the Universe Statistics 4,5 Quantitative Reasoning
1 The AP examinations in computer science AB, French literature, Latin literature, and Italian language were administered for the last time in May 2009. 2 In order to receive credit for a score of 4 or 5 on Chinese language and culture and/or Japanese language and culture, students must successfully place above Intermediate II on lan - guage placement exams administered by the Department of East Asian Studies. Credits awarded in this manner count as elective credit and cannot be applied to the East Asian studies minor.
46 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Students may, if they wish, for full-time students as maintain - ATTENDANCE petition the Committee on Student ing a grade point average of 2.0 or Although the administration does Grievances. The committee will better and completing 32 credit not supervise attendance of classes, seek information from the com - hours per year (exclusive of sum - it supports the standards imposed plainant and the instructor and mer sessions). by instructors. Students who, in then hold a hearing on the matter. Such progress is essential for the judgment of the instructor, The committee’s judgments may students to remain eligible for stu - have not substantially met the be appealed to the dean. dent aid. Therefore, while I and W requirements of the course or who grades are not computed in a stu - have been excessively absent may ACADEMIC PROGRESS dent’s grade point average, they be considered to have withdrawn The Committee on Academic will affect the student’s eligibility unofficially and may be given a Progress monitors the academic for financial aid. Students who final grade of F. See Change of performance of students and places have any questions about this can Program, above. students on academic warning and call the Office of Financial Aid at academic probation. It also makes 212-998-4444 to determine if EXAMINATIONS their financial aid is in jeopardy. recommendations on terminating Students are required to be present students who have not made suffi - INDEPENDENT STUDY for all scheduled examinations. cient progress. Its decisions may Makeup examinations are at the be appealed to the dean. In special circumstances (such as discretion of an instructor. The Students are expected to when a student is working on a semester calendar indicates a week progress toward the degree and to preapproved research paper with a at the end of each semester during remain in good standing. Good faculty member), a student may be which examinations are to be standing is defined as maintaining able to take a 2-credit independent given. The syllabus for each course a GPA of 2.0 or above. study course. should indicate the date of the Students whose GPA falls below final examination; if a syllabus 2.0 in any semester will be placed RELIGIOUS POLICIES does not indicate the date of the on academic probation. Normally, New York University, as a nonsec - final examination, this should be these students will be expected to tarian institution, adheres to the brought to the attention of the raise their GPA above 2.0 in the general policy of including in its assistant dean for academic affairs. following semester, or they will be official calendar only certain legal Students should make their travel placed on terminal probation. holidays. However, it has also long plans with scheduled examination Students on terminal probation who been University policy that mem - dates in mind. Early departure do not make academic progress as bers of any religious group may, from New York at the end of a stipulated in their notice of proba - without penalty, absent themselves semester is no excuse for missing tion may be dismissed. Students from classes when compliance with an examination, nor should stu - whose GPA falls between 2.0 and their religious obligations requires dents expect that instructors will 2.5 in any semester will receive a it. In 1988, the University Senate change the date of the examination notice of academic warning from affirmed this policy and passed a to accommodate their travel plans. the committee. resolution that elaborated on it as Students who receive a notice of follows: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY academic dismissal after they have registered for the next semester are In the process of learning, students 1. Students who anticipate being acquire ideas from many sources required to discontinue attendance absent because of any religious and will receive a full refund of and exchange ideas and opinions observance should, whenever pos - with classmates, professors, and their current semester tuition. sible, notify faculty in advance of Students who wish to contest others. This occurs in reading, such anticipated absence. writing, and discussion. Students their academic dismissal must 2. Whenever feasible, examina - appeal, in writing, to the dean are expected—often required—to tions and assignment deadlines build their own work on that of within 20 days of the notification should not be scheduled on reli - of academic dismissal. After a other people, just as professional gious holidays. Any student absent researchers and writers do. Giving review of the appeal, a decision from class because of religious will be rendered in writing. credit to someone whose work has beliefs shall not be penalized for helped one is courteous and hon - Note: Students receiving federal any class, examination, or assign - or state financial aid or other forms est. Plagiarism, on the other hand, ment deadline missed on that day is a form of fraud. Proper acknowl - of external financial aid are or days. required to make “satisfactory edgment marks the difference. 3. If examinations or assignment A hallmark of the educated progress.” It is the responsibility of deadlines are scheduled, any stu - the student to determine what student is the ability to acknowl - dent who is unable to attend class edge information derived from effect any academic action taken because of religious beliefs shall be against him or her may have on the others. LS expects that a student given the opportunity to make up will be scrupulous in crediting student’s financial aid entitlements. that day or days. Note: Students receiving finan - those sources that have con - 4. No adverse or prejudicial effects tributed to the development of his cial aid should note that the shall result to any student who University’s Office of Financial or her ideas. In particular, it is the avails him/herself of the above responsibility of the student to Aid defines “satisfactory progress” provisions.
47 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES learn the proper forms of citation. • Math tutoring is available an academic event, program, or Refer to the LS “Academic through the College Learning class; actual or threatened violence Integrity Guide” posted on the Center ( www.nyu.edu/cas/clc ) and or harassment; use, possession, or LS Web site at www.ls.nyu.edu . also at the College of Arts and storage of any weapon, dangerous Plagiarism is presenting some - Science Department of chemicals, fireworks, or explosives; one else’s work as though it were Mathematics, in the Courant hazing; and violations of any local, one’s own. More specifically, pla - Institute of Mathematical state, and federal laws. giarism is to present as one’s own a Sciences (http://math.nyu.edu ). The NYU Code of Conduct sequence of words quoted without • The College Learning Center, at prohibits the above violations. quotation marks from another the College of Arts and Science, Students who violate the policies writer, a paraphrased passage from offers tutoring services and may be subject to disciplinary another writer’s work, or facts or workshops (see below for more charges by the Committee on ideas gathered, organized, and information). Student Discipline. Decisions of reported by someone else, orally the committee may be appealed to and/or in writing. Since plagiarism The College Learning Center the dean. The committee may is a matter of fact, not of the stu - The College of Arts and Science impose the following sanctions: dent’s intention, it is crucial that operates the College Learning acknowledgment of the sources be Center at three locations: Weinstein 1. Warning: Notice to the stu - accurate and complete. Even where Hall, University Hall, and Third dent, orally or in writing, that there is no conscious intention to Avenue North Residence Hall. The continuation or repetition of the deceive, the failure to make appro - center provides extensive academic conduct found wrongful, or par - priate acknowledgment constitutes support services to students in all ticipation in similar conduct, plagiarism. Penalties for plagia - divisions of the University who within a period of time stated rism range from a failing grade for take courses in the College. The in the warning, shall be cause a paper or a course to dismissal center offers various free services, for disciplinary action. from the University. including the following: 2. Censure: Written reprimand for When an instructor finds that • Individual and group tutoring violation of specified regulation, a student has violated the policy sessions including the possibility of on academic integrity, the instruc - • Examination review sessions more severe disciplinary sanc - tor will impose an appropriate • Residence hall group study tion in the event of conviction sanction and also notify the assis - sessions for the violation of a school reg - tant dean for academic affairs. • Study skills assessment ulation within a period of time Sanctions may range from a failing • Academic Success Workshops stated in the letter of reprimand. grade for the assignment to a fail - • Computer-assisted tutoring 3. Disciplinary Probation: ing grade for the course. The Exclusion from participation in record of the finding will be kept For more information, go to privileges or extracurricular on file while the student is in LS. www.nyu.edu/cas/clc . school activities as set forth in In the event of a second viola - the notice of disciplinary proba - tion of the policy, the matter will be STUDENT CONDUCT AND tion for a specified period of referred to the Committee on DISCIPLINE time. Academic Standards. The commit - Students are expected to familiarize 4. Restitution: Reimbursement for tee treats all such violations serious - themselves and to comply with the damage to or misappropriation ly, and they may result in the rules of conduct, academic regula - of property. Reimbursement imposition of sanctions such as aca - tions, and established practices of may take the form of appropri - demic probation, suspension, or the University and the Liberal ate service to repair or otherwise expulsion. Decisions of the commit - Studies Program. If, pursuant to compensate for damages. tee may be appealed to the dean. such rules, regulations, and prac - 5. Suspension: Exclusion from tices, the withdrawal of a student classes and other privileges or ACADEMIC SUPPORT is required before the end of the extracurricular activities as set SERVICES term for which tuition has been forth in the notice of suspension for a definite period of time. The academic support services paid, a refund will be made accord - Students may not make academ - available to LS and GLS students ing to the standard schedule for ic progress at another institu - include the following: refunds. The University’s “Policy tion and then transfer those • The Writing Center, part of the on Student Conduct” can be found credits back to NYU during the Expository Writing Program at at www.nyu.edu/students.guide . term of suspension. A student the College of Arts and Science, The following are examples of who has been suspended and offers tutorial help in writing for the offenses for which students who is not found to be responsi - the University community. The may be subject to disciplinary ble for the violation of school center is located at 411 Lafayette action: cheating, plagiarism, or policy shall be allowed full Street, 3rd Floor. See also forgery of academic documents or opportunity to make up what - www.nyu.edu/cas/ewp and click on form of identification; deliberate ever work was missed due to the “Writing Center.” destruction, theft, or unauthorized use of laboratory data, research suspension. materials, computer resources, or University property; disruption of
48 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES 6. Dismissal: Termination of (recommended method) or (2) writ - INFORMATION ON HOW student status for an indefinite ing a request letter (see below) and TO REQUEST ENROLL - period. The conditions for read - mailing/faxing the completed and MENT VERIFICATION mission, if any are permitted, signed letter. The fax number is shall be stated by the panel in 212-995-4154; the mailing address Students can view/print their own the order of dismissal. Students is New York University, Office enrollment certification directly may not make academic progress of the University Registrar, from Albert using the integrated at another institution and Transcripts Department, P.O. Box National Student Clearinghouse then transfer those credits back 910, New York, NY 10276-0910. student portal. This feature can be to NYU during the term of There is no charge for academic accessed from the “Enrollment dismissal. transcripts. Certification” link on the Albert Writing a Request Letter: A homepage. Eligible students are also able to view/print a Good LEAVE OF ABSENCE request letter must include all of the following information: Student Discount Certificate, Students who wish to take a which can be mailed to an auto semester off must obtain an official • University ID number • Current name and any other insurer or any other company that leave of absence from the associate requests proof of a student’s status director of student affairs before name under which you attend/attended NYU as a good student (based on the stu - the beginning of the semester. dent’s cumulative GPA). This fea - Those who do not obtain an offi - • Current address • Date of birth ture is available for students in all cial leave of absence must apply schools except the School of Law. for readmission. A leave may be • School of the University you attend/attended and for which Verification of enrollment or requested for one semester or for graduation may also be requested the entire academic year. Leave of you are requesting the transcript • Dates of attendance by submitting a signed letter with absence applications may be the following information: obtained from, and should be sub - • Date of graduation • Full name and address of the University ID number, current mitted to, the LS Advising Center name and any name under which at 726 Broadway, 6th Floor. person or institution to which the transcript is to be sent the student attended NYU, cur - Students may apply for a med - rent address, date of birth, school ical leave of absence at any time. There is no limit for the num - ber of official transcripts that can of the University attended, dates This will be granted upon the rec - attended, date of graduation, and ommendation of a physician or be issued to a student. You can indicate in your request if you the full name and address of the therapist, the NYU Student person or institution to which the Health Center, or the NYU would like us to forward the tran - scripts to your home address, but verification is being sent. Students Counseling and Behavioral Health should address their request to Services office. Program changes we still require the name and address of each institution. Office of the University Registrar, may also be requested based on Transcript and Certification medical conditions. Unofficial transcripts are avail - able on Albert. Department, New York University, Students who leave for medical P.O. Box 910, New York, NY or psychological reasons will be If you initiate your transcript request through the online request 10267-0910. Signed requests may required to show medical docu - also be faxed to 212-995-4154. mentation stating that the student form, you will receive e-mail con - firmation when the Office of the Please allow seven business days is able physically and/or emotion - from the time the Office of the ally to continue school. In addi - University Registrar has received your signed request form. If you University Registrar is in receipt of tion, students who take a leave of the request. Students who wish to absence for psychological reasons have any questions or concerns, please contact the office at 212- confirm receipt of their request must be evaluated by NYU’s should contact the office at 212- Counseling and Behavioral Health 998-4280, and a representative will assist you. 998-4280, and a representative Services office before returning to will assist them. Currently, the school. Once a final examination peri - od has begun, no transcript will be office is not accepting requests for certification by e-mail. OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS forwarded for any student who is currently enrolled in courses until Official copies of your University all the student’s final grades have FAMILY EDUCATIONAL transcript can be requested when a been received and recorded. Please RIGHTS AND PRIVACY ACT stamped and sealed copy of your notify the Office of the University (FERPA) University records is required. Registrar immediately of any The Family Educational Rights and Requests for official transcripts change of address. Privacy Act (FERPA) establishes require the signature of the student Students are able to access their requirements for the protection of requesting the transcript. Currently, grades at the end of each semester the privacy of students. FERPA and NYU is not accepting requests for a via Albert, NYU’s Web-based reg - its attendant regulations govern the transcript by e-mail. istration and information system. release of information from student A transcript may be requested Albert can be accessed via educational records, provide for stu - by either (1) completing the online NYUHome at http://home.nyu.edu . dent access to their records, and request form at www.nyu.edu/ establish a means for students to registrar/transcript-form.html and request the amendment of records mailing/faxing the signature page
49 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES that they believe are inaccurate, schools and colleges of NYU. or local business and instances in misleading, or otherwise in viola - Students who wish to have sum - which the bearer of the weapon is tion of their rights of privacy. New mer work at another university licensed by an appropriate licens - York University’s “Guidelines for substitute for courses or require - ing authority and has received Compliance with the Family ments at NYU will require written permission from the Educational Rights and Privacy approval from the appropriate executive vice president of the Act” summarizes the rights of the NYU school or college as well as University. University’s students under FERPA from the LS Department. To and its attendant regulations, as receive NYU credit once permis - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY well as the corresponding obliga - sion is granted, a student must SIMULATED FIREARM tions of the University, and may be earn a grade of B or better and POLICY viewed at www.nyu.edu/apr/ferpa.htm . then arrange for all official tran - Disclosure: Generally, person - scripts and scores to be forwarded New York University strictly pro - ally identifiable information to the LS Advising Center and to hibits simulated firearms in and/or regarding a student cannot be dis - the Undergraduate Admissions around any and all University closed without his or her written Processing Center, New York facilities—academic, residential, or consent, although there are excep - University, 665 Broadway, 11th other. This prohibition extends to tions to this rule, which are Floor, New York, NY 10012-2339 all buildings—whether owned, explained in the Guidelines. leased, or controlled by the University. The possession of a Information is personally identifi - ARREARS POLICY able if it would make a student’s simulated firearm has the potential The University reserves the right to of creating a dangerous situation identity easily traceable. This deny registration and withhold all includes the student’s name, for the bearer and others. information regarding the record of The only exceptions to this policy address, Social Security number or any student who is in arrears in the other such identifying number, are instances in which (1) the bear - payment of tuition, fees, loans, or other er is in possession of written per - photograph, or parent’s name charges (including charges for housing, and/or address. mission from a dean, associate dining, or other activities or services) dean, assistant dean, or depart - Education Records Covered for as long as any arrears remain. Under FERPA: The Guidelines ment head and (2) such possession or use of simulated firearms is describe those education records DIPLOMA ARREARS POLICY that are covered by FERPA and directly connected to a University- that are available for student Diplomas of students in arrears will or school-related event (e.g., play, review. “Education records” refers be held until their financial obliga - film production). Whenever an to any record or document con - tions to the University are fulfilled approved simulated firearm is taining information directly relat - and they have been cleared by the transported from one location to ed to a student and is not limited Bursar. Graduates with a diploma another, it must be placed in a to a file with the student’s name hold may contact the Office of the secure container in such a manner on it. Bursar at 212-998-2806 to clear that it cannot be observed. Storage Student Access: Requests by arrears or to discuss their financial of approved simulated firearms students for access to their educa - status at the University. shall be the responsibility of the tion records should be referred to Department of Public Safety in a Assistant Provost Barnett W. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY location designated by the vice Hamberger, 194 Mercer Street, WEAPONS POLICY president for public safety. Under 4th Floor, 212-998-2310. no circumstances, other than at a New York University strictly pro - public safety storage area, may hibits the possession of all approved simulated firearms be SUMMER SESSION weapons, as described in local, stored in any University owned, NYU does not normally accept state, and federal statutes, that leased, or controlled facilities. summer school transfer credits includes, but is not limited to, firearms, knives, explosives, etc., taken at another university. In rare IMMUNIZATION circumstances, and only with prior in and/or around any and all approval, students may take such University facilities—academic, REQUIREMENTS summer courses. Students who residential, or others. This prohi - New York State Public Health Law wish to apply for approval must do bition extends to all buildings— (NYS PHL) 2165 requires all stu - so by filing a petition (forms are whether owned, leased, or dents registering for 6 or more cred - available at the LS Advising controlled by the University, its in a degree-granting program to Center) no later than the first of regardless of whether the bearer or provide immunization documenta - May preceding the summer in possessor is licensed to carry that tion for measles (rubeola), mumps, which work is to be taken. No weapon. The possession of any and rubella (German measles) prior late applications are considered. weapon has the potential of creat - to registration. Students born before Students are also advised that ing a dangerous situation for the January 1, 1957, are exempt. New courses taken during the summer bearer and others. students should complete the MMR at other universities may not fulfill The only exceptions to this section of the Student Health requirements toward degrees and policy are duly authorized law History form. Continuing students majors in the other undergraduate enforcement personnel who are should complete and submit a performing official federal, state, Student Immunization Record Form
50 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES (PDF), available at www.nyu.edu/ All Veterans. Allowance uate, with the VA matching shc/pdfs/student_immunization_ checks are usually sent directly to NYU’s tuition contribution for record.pdf. veterans by the Department of each student. New York State Public Health Veterans Affairs. Veterans and eli - To be eligible for the Yellow Law (NYS PHL) 2167 requires gible dependents should contact Ribbon benefits, an individual that all students registered for 6 or the Office of the University must be entitled to the maximum more credits submit a Meningitis Registrar each term for which they post-9/11 benefit. An individual Response Form as formal confir - desire Veterans Affairs certification may be eligible for the Yellow mation of their decision as to of enrollment. Ribbon Enhancement if: whether or not to be immunized All veterans are expected to • He/She served an aggregate peri - with the meningococcal (meningi - reach the objective (bachelor’s or od of active duty after September tis) vaccine. New students should master’s degree, doctorate, or certifi - 10, 2001, of at least 36 months. complete the Meningitis Response cate) authorized by Veterans Affairs • He/She was honorably dis - section of the Student Health with the minimum number of cred - charged from active duty for a History form. Continuing students its required. The Department of service connected disability and should complete and submit a Veterans Affairs may not authorize had served 30 continuous days Meningitis Response Form (PDF), allowance payments for credits that after September 10, 2001. available at www.nyu.edu/shc/pdfs/ are in excess of scholastic require - • He/She is a dependent eligible meningitis_response.pdf. ments, that are taken for audit pur - for Transfer of Entitlement under Failure to comply with state poses only, or for which nonpunitive the Post-9/11 GI Bill based on a immunization laws will prevent grades are received. veteran’s service under the eligi - NYU students from registering for Applications and more infor - bility criteria, as described on the classes. In addition to these mation may be obtained from the U.S. Department of Veterans requirements, the NYU Student student’s regional office of the Affairs Web site. Health Center recommends that Department of Veterans Affairs. The Department of Veterans students also consider hepatitis B Additional guidance may be Affairs is currently accepting and varicella immunizations. obtained from the Office of the applications for the Post-9/11 GI Students should discuss immu - University Registrar, 25 West Bill. To qualify for the Yellow nization options with their pri - Fourth Street, 1st Floor. Ribbon Enhancement, students mary care provider. Since interpretation of regula - must apply to the VA. The VA tions governing veterans’ benefits will then determine a student’s eli - VETERANS BENEFITS is subject to change, veterans gibility for the Post-9/11 GI Bill Various Department of Veterans should keep in touch with the and issue the student a Certificate Affairs programs provide educa - Department of Veterans Affairs or of Eligibility. Note: Students can tional benefits for spouses, sons, NYU’s Office of the University apply using the VA Form 22-1990 and daughters of deceased or per - Registrar. (PDF), and the form includes the manently disabled veterans as well instructions needed to begin the as for veterans and in-service per - YELLOW RIBBON process. sonnel, subject to certain restric - GI EDUCATION After a student is issued a tions. Under most programs, the ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM Certificate of Eligibility from the student pays tuition and fees at Department of Veterans Affairs, NYU is pleased to be participat - indicating that the student quali - the time of registration but will ing in the Yellow Ribbon GI receive a monthly allowance from fies for the Yellow Ribbon Education Enhancement Program Program, please contact Clara Veterans Affairs. (Yellow Ribbon Program), a provi - Veterans with service-connect - Fonteboa, at [email protected] or 212- sion of the Post-9/11 Veterans 998-4823. ed disabilities may be qualified for Educational Assistance Act of educational benefits under Chapter The Office of the University 2008. The program is designed to Registrar must certify to the 31. Applicants for this program help students finance, through are required to submit to the Department of Veterans Affairs scholarship assistance, up to 100 that the eligible person is enrolled Department of Veterans Affairs a percent of their out-of-pocket letter of acceptance from the col - as a full-time undergraduate stu - tuition and fees associated with dent in order for the funds to be lege they wish to attend. On education programs that may meeting the requirements for the paid under the Yellow Ribbon exceed the Post 9/11 GI Bill Program. Department of Veterans Affairs, tuition benefit, which will only the applicant will be given an pay up to the highest public in- Authorization for Education (VA state undergraduate tuition. Form 22-1905), which must be Beginning in the 2009-2010 presented to the Office of the academic year, NYU will provide University Registrar, 25 West funds toward the tuition of each Fourth Street, 1st Floor, before qualifying veteran who has been registering for course work. admitted as a full-time undergrad -
51 • ACADEMIC POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Student Life Resources
t NYU, there are extraordinary opportunities to participate in student life. Students participate in a wide variety of University activities, including hundreds Aof student clubs, volunteer programs, and intercollegiate sports. To learn more about NYU student activities, go to www.nyu.edu/community and click on “Student Life.” To learn more about student activities and cocurricular activities for Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies, go to www.liberalstudies.nyu.edu.
LIBERAL STUDIES AND Program Board Office of Lesbian, Gay, GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES Kimmel Center for University Life Bisexual, and Transgender ELECTRONIC 60 Washington Square South, Student Services NEWSLETTER Suite 707 Kimmel Center for University Life Telephone: 212-998-4984 60 Washington Square South, The Liberal Studies Program E-mail: [email protected] Suite 602 publishes a monthly electronic Telephone: 212-998-4424 newsletter that is sent to all LS and Fraternity and Sorority Life E-mail: [email protected] GLS students via e-mail. Therefore, Kimmel Center for University Life Web site: www.nyu.edu/lgbt it is essential that students activate 60 Washington Square South, their NYU e-mail account and reg - Suite 704 ALUMNI ACTIVITIES ularly check their NYU e-mail. Telephone: 212-998-4710 Office for University The electronic newsletter lists E-mail: [email protected] cocurricular events and includes Development and Alumni special announcements about Relations Ticket Central Box Office 25 West Fourth Street, 4th Floor important deadlines, special events, Kimmel Center for University Life and student activities. Telephone: 212-998-6912 60 Washington Square South, E-mail: [email protected] Suite 206 Web site: alumni.nyu.edu Listed below are some University Telephone: 212-998-4949 resources for students. Web site: www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral ATHLETICS STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND Commuter and Off-Campus Department of Athletics, SERVICES Student Services Intramurals, and Recreation Jerome S. Coles Sports and Student Resource Center 60 Washington Square South, Recreation Center Kimmel Center for University Life Suite 210 181 Mercer Street 60 Washington Square South, Telephone: 212-998-4418 Telephone: 212-998-2020 Suite 210 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: coles.sportscenter@ Telephone: 212-998-4411 Web site: www.nyu.edu/src/ nyu.edu E-mail: student.resource.center@ commuters Web site: www.nyu.edu/athletics nyu.edu Web site: www.nyu.edu/src Center for Multicultural Education and Programs Palladium Athletic Facility 140 East 14th Street Office of Student Activities Kimmel Center for University Life Telephone: 212-992-8500 (OSA) 60 Washington Square South, Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Kimmel Center for University Life Suite 806 palladiumathleticfacility 60 Washington Square South, Telephone: 212-998-4343 Suite 704 Web site: www.cmep.nyu.edu Telephone: 212-998-4700 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.osa.nyu.edu
52 • STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES BOOKSTORES Office of Off-Campus Housing Protestant Campus Ministries Main Bookstore 4 Washington Square Village Kimmel Center for University Life 18 Washington Place (corner of Mercer and Bleecker 60 Washington Square South, Telephone: 212-998-4667 streets) Room 207 Web site: www.bookstores.nyu.edu Telephone: 212-998-4620 Telephone: 212 -998-4711 Web site: www.nyu.edu/housing/ Web site: Computer Store offcampus www.protestantministrynyu.com 242 Greene Street Telephone: 212-998-4672 Department of Residential Life Spiritual Diversity Network E-mail: [email protected] 75 Third Avenue, Level C2 Telephone: 212-998-4956 Web site: www.bookstores.nyu.edu Telephone: 212-998-4311 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Professional Bookstore residential.education For a complete list of student reli - 530 La Guardia Place gious and spiritual clubs and Telephone: 212-998-4680 Office of Summer Housing organizations at NYU, visit E-mail: [email protected] 14A Washington Place www.osa.nyu.edu/clubdocs/website.php . Web site: www.bookstores.nyu.edu Telephone: 212-998-4621 (Serves the Leonard N. Stern Web site: www.nyu.edu/summer/ SAFETY ON CAMPUS School of Business [Graduate housing Department of Public Safety Division], the School of Law, and 14 Washington Place the Robert F. Wagner Graduate INTERNATIONAL Telephone: 212-998-2222; School of Public Service.) STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS 212-998-2220 (TTY) Office for International E-mail: [email protected] CAREER SERVICES Students and Scholars (OISS) Web site: www.nyu.edu/public.safety Wasserman Center for Career 561 La Guardia Place Development Telephone: 212-998-4720 New York University’s annual 133 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor E-mail: intl.students.scholars@ Campus Security Report includes sta - Telephone: 212-998-4730 nyu.edu tistics for the previous three years Fax: 212-995-3827 Web site: www.nyu.edu/oiss concerning reported crimes that Web site: www.nyu.edu/ occurred on campus, in certain off- careerdevelopment RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL campus buildings or property RESOURCES owned or controlled by NYU, and COMPUTER SERVICES AND on public property within or Catholic Center immediately adjacent to the cam - INTERNET RESOURCES 371 Sixth Avenue/Avenue of the pus. The report also includes insti - Information Technology Americas tutional policies concerning campus Services (ITS) Telephone: 212-998 -1065 security, such as policies concerning 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor (Client Web site: washingtonsquarecatholic.org sexual assault, drugs, and alcohol. Services Center) You can obtain a copy of the cur - Telephone Help Line: 212-998- Edgar M. Bronfman Center for rent report by visiting the follow - 3333 Jewish Student Life–Hillel at ing Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Web site: www.nyu.edu/its NYU public.safety/policies . 7 East 10th Street DINING Telephone: 212-998-4114 Web site: www.nyu.edu/bronfman SERVICES FOR STUDENTS NYU Campus Dining Services WITH DISABILITIES Telephone: 212-995-3030 Hindu Students Council Henry and Lucy Moses Center Web site: www.nyudining.com Web site: www.nyu.edu/clubs/hsc for Students with Disabilities 719 Broadway, 2nd Floor HOUSING The Islamic Center Telephone: 212-998-4980 (voice Department of Housing 371 Sixth Avenue/Avenue of the and TTY) Services Americas Web site: www.nyu.edu/csd 383 Lafayette Street, 1st Floor Telephone: 212 -998-4712 Telephone: 212-998-4600 Web site: www.icnyu.org Fax: 212-995-4099 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/housing
53 • STUDENT LIFE RESOURCES Counseling and Health Services
COUNSELING SERVICES For mental health emergencies, Immunization Clinic Students experiencing personal call the Wellness Exchange hotline 726 Broadway, Suite 347 problems or who need some addi - at 212-443-9999 or the NYU Telephone: 212-443-1199 tional support to get through a Department of Public Safety at E-mail: health.immunizations@ stressful time can get assistance 212-998-2222 to be connected to nyu.edu through free, voluntary, and confi - a crisis response coordinator. For appointments only: dential individual and group 212-443-1188 counseling. For more information NYU STUDENT HEALTH For more information about stu - or to make an appointment, CENTER dent immunization requirements, see pages 50-51. students should call NYU’s Student Health Center Counseling and Behavioral Health 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors Men’s Health Service Services at 212-998-4780. For Telephone: 212-443-1000 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors mental health emergencies, stu - E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 212-443-1111 or dents should call the Department Web site: www.nyu.edu/nyuhc 212-443-1122 of Public Safety at 212-998-2222 The University Student Health Appointments are encouraged. (24 hours, seven days a week) or Center provides a walk-in clinic the NYU Wellness Exchange staffed by physicians, nurse practi - Pharmacy Services hotline at 212-44 3-9999 tioners, physician assistants, and 726 Broadway, 4th Floor (www.nyu.edu/999 ). nurses. Also available are special - Telephone: 212-443-1050 ists, by appointment only, in the Web site www.nyu.edu/shc/ Counseling and Behavioral areas of dermatology, gynecology, medservices/pharmacy.html Health Services (CBH) medical consultation, nutrition, 726 Broadway, Suite 471 dentistry, and orthopedics. Telephone: 212-998-4780 Women’s Health Services 726 Broadway, Suite 404 Web site: www.nyu.edu/counseling Student Health Insurance Telephone: 212-443-1166 Services Appointments are required. Wellness Exchange 726 Broadway, Suite 346 726 Broadway, Suite 402 Telephone: 212-443-1020 Telephone: 212-443-9999 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nyu.edu/999 Web site: www.nyu.edu/health/ insurance Emergencies and After-Hours NYU students in degree-granting Crisis Response programs are required to maintain For a life- or limb-threatening health insurance. Most students emergency, call 911. are automatically enrolled in an For a non-life-threatening NYU-sponsored student health emergency, call Urgent Care insurance plan as part of NYU’s Services at the Student Health registration process. For more Center (SHC), 212-443-1111. information, the Student When the SHC is closed, call the Health Insurance Services office NYU Department of Public can be reached via e-mail at Safety, 212-998-2222. [email protected].
54 • COUNSELING AND HEALTH SERVICES Admission: Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies
Applicants are selected for LS from The minimum requirements mit in support of your application, Liberal Studies the pool of freshman applicants to for consideration are as follows: we recommend that you send us Admission NYU’s undergraduate schools and • 4 years of English all of your scores. Using our colleges. The Admissions • 3-4 years of academic requirement options above, we Committee offers only to a select mathematics will use the combination of scores group of freshman applicants the • 2-3 years of foreign language that best presents your candidacy. opportunity to enroll in the • 3-4 years of laboratory sciences Liberal Studies (LS) Program at • 3-4 years of social studies APPLICANTS WITH our New York City campus or at It is strongly recommended INTERNATIONAL our site in Florence, London, or that students continue mathemat - CREDENTIALS Paris. Transfer applicants are not ics and language courses in their eligible for admission to LS. senior year of high school. Applicants to New York The Admissions Committee Freshman candidates should University who are neither U.S. carefully considers each candidate’s submit official score reports for citizens nor permanent residents of application and gives weight to a standardized tests: the United States must complete number of factors: academic record, • The SAT Reasoning Test and the application for admission to standardized test scores, recom - two SAT Subject Tests or undergraduate study available mendations from counselors and • The ACT (with Writing Test) or online at admissions.nyu.edu . Please teachers, and essays. The commit - • The SAT Reasoning Test and indicate on the application for tee also seeks a class that is diverse two Advanced Placement (AP) admission your country of citizen - in all respects and carefully consid - Exam scores or ship and, if you’re currently resid - ers the applicant’s special talents, • Three SAT Subject Test scores ing in the United States, your alumni affiliation, socioeconomic (one in literature or the humani - current visa status. background, geographic location, ties, one in math or science, and Freshman applicants (those and race and ethnicity. The com - one nonlanguage of the student’s who are currently attending or mittee is also interested in appli - choice) or who previously completed second - cants who have an active and • Three AP Exam scores (one in ary school only) seeking to begin sustained level of involvement in literature or the humanities, one studies in the fall (September) school and/or community activities in math or science, and one non - semester must submit applications and who have taken on the respon - language of the student’s choice) and all required credentials on or sibility of leadership. Students who can demonstrate before January 1. evidence of an extraordinary accom - All freshman applicants are plishment outside of normal class - required to submit official score LIBERAL STUDIES reports for standardized tests as ADMISSIONS PROCESS room or scholastic activity, such as a major publication in a national or stated in the Liberal Studies Admission to the Liberal Studies international journal, a published admissions process guidelines (see Program is based on the quality of book, a film or other outstanding above). the applicant’s secondary school visual or performing artistic accom - If the applicant’s secondary record. Sound preparation, howev - plishment, a scientific or other education culminates in a maturity er, should include English, with remarkable discovery, winning a certificate examination, he or she is heavy emphasis on writing; social national competition, or the equiva - required to submit an official copy studies; foreign language; mathe - lent will be required to provide only of the grades received in each sub - matics; and laboratory sciences. an SAT score, or two SAT Subject ject. All documents submitted for The Admissions Committee pays Test scores, or two AP Exam scores. review must be official; that is, particular attention to the number The AP Exams must be taken prior they must be either originals or of honors, Advanced Placement to the senior year to be applicable copies certified by authorized per - (AP), and International during the admissions cycle. sons. A “certified” photocopy or Baccalaureate (IB) courses the If you have taken the SAT or other copy is one that bears either applicant has completed in high ACT more than once, or if you an original signature of the regis - school. The students most compet - have SAT Subject Test or AP trar or other designated school offi - itive for admission will exceed Exam scores that you wish to sub - cials or an original impression of these minimums.
55 • ADMISSION the institution’s seal. Uncertified lieu of the TOEFL, acceptable Application for Certificate of photocopies are not acceptable. If results on the IELTS (International Eligibility (AFCOE) online will be these official documents are in a English Language Testing System) included in the acceptance packet. foreign language, they must be examination administered by the Appropriate evidence of financial accompanied by an official English British Council will be considered. ability must be submitted with the translation. For information on this test, visit AFCOE to the Office for Inter- In addition, every freshman their Web site at www.ielts.org. national Students and Scholars in applicant whose native language is Applicants residing in the New order for the appropriate visa docu - not English must take the TOEFL York area may elect to take, in lieu ment to be issued. If the appli - (Test of English as a Foreign of the TOEFL or IELTS, the cant’s studies are being financed by Language). Information concern - English proficiency test of the means of his or her own savings, ing this examination may be University’s American Language parental support, outside private or obtained by writing directly to Institute, located at 48 Cooper government scholarships, or any TOEFL/ETS, P.O. Box 6151, Square, Room 200, New York, NY combination of these, he or she Princeton, NJ 08541, U.S.A., or 10003-7154, U.S.A. An appoint - must arrange to send official letters by visiting the Web site at ment to take the test may be made or similar certification as proof of www.toefl.org. Each student must by telephoning 212-998-7040. such support. New students may request that his or her score on Financial documentation is not wish to view the multimedia tuto - this examination be sent to the required when filing an applica - rial for international students at Undergraduate Admissions tion. If the student is accepted, www.nyu.edu/oiss. Processing Center, code 2562. In instructions for completing the
Global Liberal GLOBAL LIBERAL STUDIES number of honors, Advanced classroom or scholastic activity, ADMISSIONS PROCESS Placement (AP), and International such as a major publication in a Studies Admission to the Global Liberal Baccalaureate (IB) courses the national or international journal, a Admission Studies (GLS) Program is highly applicant has completed in high published book, a film or other selective. When reviewing applica - school. The students most compet - outstanding visual or performing tions, the Admissions Committee itive for admission will exceed artistic accomplishment, a scientif - weighs a number of factors: academ - these minimums. ic or other remarkable discovery, ic record, standardized test scores, The minimum requirements winning a national competition, or recommendations, and essays. The for consideration are as follows: the equivalent will be required to Admissions Committee actively • 4 years of English provide only an SAT score, or two seeks students who have a variety of • 3-4 years of academic SAT Subject Test scores, or two interests, talents, and goals. The mathematics AP Exam scores. The AP Exams committee carefully considers the • 2-3 years of foreign language must be taken prior to the senior applicant’s special talents, alumni • 3-4 years of laboratory sciences year to be applicable during the affiliation, socioeconomic back - • 3-4 years of social studies admissions cycle. ground, geographic location, and It is strongly recommended that If you have taken the SAT or race and ethnicity. The Admissions students continue mathematics and ACT more than once, or if you Committee is also interested in language courses in their senior have SAT Subject Test or AP applicants who have an active and year of high school. Exam scores that you wish to sub - sustained level of involvement in Freshman candidates should mit in support of your application, school and/or community activities submit official score reports for we recommend that you send us and who have taken on the responsi - standardized tests: all of your scores. Using our bility of leadership. • The SAT Reasoning Test and requirement options above, we Transfer applicants are not eli - two SAT Subject Tests or will use the combination of scores gible for admission to the Global • The ACT (with Writing Test) or that best presents your candidacy. Liberal Studies Program. • The SAT Reasoning Test and The Global Liberal Studies Applicants are urged to file two Advanced Placement (AP) Program application also requires their application by the stated Exam scores or applicants to submit an additional deadlines in order to be given full • Three SAT Subject Test scores essay describing why their talents, consideration. (one in literature or the humani - interests, backgrounds, and goals The quality of an applicant’s ties, one in math or science, and make them strong candidates for secondary school record is more one nonlanguage of the student’s the program. important than a prescribed pat - choice) or The admission application— tern of courses. Sound preparation, • Three AP Exam scores (one in including all supporting creden - however, should include English, literature or the humanities, one tials—must be received by January 1 with heavy emphasis on writing; in math or science, and one non - for regular decision admission. social studies; foreign language; language of the student’s choice) Applications received after this mathematics; and laboratory sci - Students who can demonstrate date will be considered only if ences. The Admissions Committee evidence of an extraordinary space remains. If NYU is your pays particular attention to the accomplishment outside of normal first-choice college, we encourage
56 • ADMISSION you to apply under the Early who are currently attending or this examination be sent to the Decision Plan. Early Decision can - who previously completed second - Undergraduate Admissions didates should submit the applica - ary school only) seeking to begin Processing Center, code 2562. In tion and all supporting credentials studies in the fall (September) lieu of the TOEFL, acceptable by November 1. Our obligation semester must submit applications results on the IELTS (International under this arrangement is to pro - and all required credentials on or English Language Testing System) vide you with an admission deci - before January 1. Transfer appli - examination administered by the sion beginning in mid-December, cants are not eligible for admission British Council will be considered. while your obligation is to attend to the Global Liberal Studies For information on this test, visit NYU if admitted. Program. their Web site at www.ielts.org. To send your scores to New All freshman applicants are Applicants residing in the New York University, enter the appro - required to submit official score York area may elect to take, in lieu priate code number in the test reports for standardized tests as of the TOEFL or IELTS, the English booklet. For all SATs, Advanced stated in the GLS admissions proficiency test of the University’s Placement Exams, and the process guidelines (see above). American Language Institute, locat - TOEFL, the University’s code If the applicant’s secondary edu - ed at 48 Cooper Square, Room 200, number is 2562. For the ACT, the cation culminates in a maturity cer - New York, NY 10003-7154, U.S.A. code number is 2838. Detailed tificate examination, he or she is An appointment to take the test information on these examinations required to submit an official copy may be made by telephoning 212- may be obtained from the College of the grades received in each sub - 998-7040. Board, 45 Columbus Avenue, New ject. All documents submitted for Financial documentation is not York, NY 10023-6917; 212-713- review must be official; that is, they required when filing an application. 8000; www.collegeboard.com . must be either originals or copies If the student is accepted, instruc - Detailed information on the ACT certified by authorized persons. A tions for completing the may be obtained from ACT, 500 “certified” photocopy or other copy Application for Certificate of ACT Drive, P.O. Box 168, Iowa is one that bears either an original Eligibility (AFCOE) online will be City, IA 52243-0168; 319-337- signature of the registrar or other included in the acceptance packet. 1270; www.act.org. designated school officials or an Appropriate evidence of financial original impression of the institu - ability must be submitted with the APPLICANTS WITH tion’s seal. Uncertified photocopies AFCOE to the Office for INTERNATIONAL are not acceptable. If these official International Students and Scholars CREDENTIALS documents are in a foreign lan - in order for the appropriate visa guage, they must be accompanied document to be issued. If the appli - Applicants to New York by an official English translation. cant’s studies are being financed by University who are neither U.S. In addition, every applicant means of his or her own savings, citizens nor permanent residents of whose native language is not parental support, outside private or the United States must complete English must take the TOEFL (Test government scholarships, or any the application for admission to of English as a Foreign Language). combination of these, he or she undergraduate study available Information concerning this exam - must arrange to send official letters online at admissions.nyu.edu . Please ination may be obtained by writ - or similar certification as proof of indicate on the application for ing directly to TOEFL/ETS, P.O. such support. New student may admission your country of citizen - Box 6151, Princeton, NJ 08541, wish to view the multimedia tuto - ship and, if you’re currently resid - U.S.A., or by visiting the Web site rial for new international students ing in the United States, your at www.toefl.org. Each student must at http://www.nyu.edu/oiss. current visa status. request that his or her score on Freshman applicants (those
Financial Aid For many students, financial aid is (FAFSA). NYU recommends that not be charged a fee when filing an important consideration in students apply electronically via the this form. deciding where to go to college. NYU Web site at www.nyu.edu/ The FAFSA is the only applica - Financial aid packages at NYU are financial.aid . A paper FAFSA form tion students must complete to be awarded when students are offered may be obtained from the student’s considered for all federal financial admission, and they take into high school or by calling 800-4- aid, including Federal Pell Grants, account both financial need and aca - FED-AID or by visiting the FAFSA Federal Supplemental Educational demic merit. NYU also offers a Web site at www.fafsa.ed.gov . Opportunity Grants, Federal wide range of financing alternative Freshman applicants should submit Subsidized Stafford Student Loans, plans to assist students with meet - the FAFSA between January 1 and Federal Unsubsidized Stafford ing the cost of attendance. In order February 15. When filing the Student Loans, Federal Perkins to maximize their opportunities for FAFSA, students must request that Loans, Federal Work-Study, and financial assistance, students who their information be sent to New other federal financial aid programs. are U.S. citizens must file the Free York University by entering the Please note that NYU uses Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA code 002785. Students will only the FAFSA form. Students
57 • ADMISSION who have completed the College have to complete separate applica - file the Free Application for Scholarship Service application or tions for their state programs if Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) any other financial aid application their state grants can be used at between January 1 and February 15. should not list NYU as a recipient New York University. After the admission decision is of the information. Early decision candidates who made and the appropriate financial New York State residents will submitted the NYU Early aid applications are submitted, a also be required to complete a sep - Decision Financial Aid Application request for financial aid is consid - arate application for the Tuition by November 1 will be able to ered. (See also the Tuition, Fees, and Assistance Program (TAP) (mailed receive a financial aid estimate by Financial Aid section, pages 63-67.) to the student automatically), and the early decision notification date. students from other states may Early decision applicants must also
All prospective students and their To make an appointment for a program. Students may contact LS Campus Visits parents are invited to visit the tour, an information session, or a to speak to an academic adviser, New York University campus at class visitation, visit the Under- current student, or faculty mem - Washington Square. Opportunities graduate Admissions Web site at ber. Students selected for LS will to tour the University, to meet admissions.nyu.edu or call 212-998- receive information on the dates students and faculty, and to attend 4524. It is suggested that arrange - and times of the LS sessions. classes are available to interested ments be made several weeks prior Applicants may also visit the LS students. to visiting the campus. Web site at ls.nyu.edu for more Although interviews are not In addition, applicants who information about the academic available, a visit to the campus is have been selected by the program. strongly recommended. Tours of Admissions Committee for the Students admitted to the the campus and admissions infor - Liberal Studies Program may also Liberal Studies sites in Florence, mation sessions are conducted sev - attend an information session with London, and Paris for the fresh - eral times daily, Monday through the program’s dean, faculty, stu - man year of study will be invited Friday and on select Saturdays in dents, and members of the to visit these campuses in the the fall, except during University Admissions Committee in order to spring, prior to the May 1 tuition holidays. learn more about the LS academic deposit deadline.
Prospective students and their fami - moderately priced, quality accom - use Club Quarters Midtown. Near NYU Guest lies visiting New York are invited to modations for University-affiliated Fifth Avenue, it is close to shopping, Accommodations stay at the Club Quarters, a private guests. Features include a cus - Broadway theatres, and Rockefeller hotel convenient to the University. tomized NYU floor and lounge dec - Center. For information and reserva - at Washington Club Quarters Downtown, a 280- orated to highlight the University’s tions, call 212-575-0006 or visit Square room, private, first-class business presence in New York. Rates are www.nyu.edu/about/hotels.html to learn hotel, is located in the Wall Street well below those for comparable of other nearby hotels. area of Manhattan. By special accommodations in Manhattan. On arrangement with NYU, it offers weekends, visitors are welcome to
Freshman candidates should sub - language of the student’s choice) year to be applicable during the Required mit official score reports for stan - Students who can demonstrate admissions cycle. Testing dardized tests: evidence of an extraordinary If you have taken the SAT or • The SAT Reasoning Test and accomplishment outside of normal ACT more than once, or if you two SAT Subject Tests or classroom or scholastic activity, have SAT Subject Test or AP • The ACT (with Writing Test) or such as a major publication in a Exam scores that you wish to sub - • The SAT Reasoning Test and national or international journal, a mit in support of your application, two Advanced Placement (AP) published book, a film or other we recommend that you send us Exam scores or outstanding visual or performing all of your scores. Using our • Three SAT Subject Test scores artistic accomplishment, a scientif - requirement options above, we (one in literature or the humani - ic or other remarkable discovery, will use the combination of scores ties, one in math or science, and winning a national competition, or that best presents your candidacy. one nonlanguage of the student’s the equivalent will be required to The test booklets provide a choice) or provide only an SAT score, or two space in which applicants who • Three AP Exam scores (one in SAT Subject Test scores, or two want their scores sent to New literature or the humanities, one AP Exam scores. The AP Exams York University may enter the in math or science, and one non - must be taken prior to the senior appropriate code number. For the
58 • ADMISSION SAT and Advanced Placement from the College Board, 45 International applicants resid- Examinations, the University’s Columbus Avenue, New York, NY ing in the New York area may code number is 2562. For the 10023-6917; telephone: 212-713- elect to take, in lieu of the ACT, the code number is 2838. 8000; www.collegeboard.com. TOEFL, the English proficiency Arrangements to take these Detailed information on the ACT test of the University’s American examinations should be made dur- may be obtained from ACT, 500 Language Institute, located at 48 ing the junior and senior years in ACT Drive, P.O. Box 168, Iowa Cooper Square, Room 200, New high school and one month prior City, IA 52243-0168; telephone: York, NY 10003-7154, U.S.A. An to the examination date. It is rec- 319-337-1270; www.act.org. appointment to take the test may ommended that applicants seeking In addition, every international be made by calling 212-998-7040. September admission should take applicant whose native language is In lieu of the TOEFL or the the SAT Reasoning Test (SAT not English must take the Test of English proficiency test of NYU’s Subject Tests) or ACT (with English as a Foreign Language American Language Institute, Writing Test) during the preced- (TOEFL). Information concerning acceptable results on the IELTS ing October, November, or this examination may be obtained (International English Language December. If applicants wish to by writing directly to TOEFL/ETS, Testing System) examination submit results of the Advanced P.O. Box 6151, Princeton, NJ administered by the British Placement Examinations, the tests 08541, U.S.A., or by visiting the Council will be considered. For should be taken in the spring of Web site at www.toefl.org. Each stu- information on this test, visit the their junior year in high school. dent must request that his or her Web site at www.ielts.org. Detailed information on the score on this examination be sent SATs and Advanced Placement to the Undergraduate Admissions Examinations, may be obtained Processing Center, code 2562.
Student Visas Matters pertaining to student visas Studies sites in New York City, upon receipt of the tuition and orientation programs at the Florence, London, and Paris will deposit. and Orientation Liberal Studies and Global Liberal be provided to admitted students
Readmission of Any former student who has been application for readmissions is University must complete the reg- out of attendance for more than available at www.admissions.nyu.edu. ular application for undergraduate Former Students two consecutive terms and who Students who have attended admission, submit an official tran- wishes to return to LS-GLS must another college or university since script, and pay the $65.00 applica- apply for readmission. The NYU their last attendance at New York tion fee.
Advanced NYU participates in the Advanced Processing Center and evaluated by University, 665 Broadway, 11th Placement Program (AP) of the the LS Advising Center. Floor, New York, NY 10012-2339 Standing College Entrance Examination Examples of advanced standing While LS accepts advanced Board. In accordance with New credits are credits earned at other standing credits, the work reflect- Credits York University policy, if test colleges and universities before ed by these credits will not substi- results are 5 or 4, depending on admission to NYU in which the tute for any of the LS core classes. the subject examination, the stu- grades earned were B or better and The only LS requirements for dent may receive college credit for which scores of 4 or 5 were which advanced standing credits toward the degree. obtained on the Advanced may substitute are mathematics LS accepts a maximum of 32 Placement examinations. Inter- and science. Students should also credits of advanced standing. GLS national Baccalaureate, French note that several undergraduate accepts a maximum of 32 credits; Baccalaureate, A-levels, and schools and colleges of NYU have however, the structure of the pro- Abitur credits may also result in different policies on whether AP gram does not normally allow early advanced standing credit. Some or other advanced standing credit graduation. Please refer to page 46, courses taken at other colleges may will be accepted in fulfillment of “Additional Information About not be honored by NYU. major and other requirements. Advanced Standing Credit Policies In order to receive evaluation Students should consult with for the Global Liberal Studies of advanced standing credits, stu- the LS Advising Center about Program.” Advanced standing dents should request that official advanced standing credits and how credits are college-level credits AP results, college transcripts, and they will be counted toward the earned before entering NYU. They other documentation be sent to baccalaureate degree. are submitted to the NYU the Undergraduate Admissions See also pages 45-47, 60. Undergraduate Admissions Processing Center, New York
5 9 • AD M ISSI ON Credit by The Advanced Placement Program any possible combination of nonres- maturity certificate examinations (AP) (College Entrance Examination ident special examination programs for advanced standing credit, i.e., Examination Board), the International Bacca- shall not exceed a total of 32. British “A” levels, French laureate Program (IB), and the International Baccalaureate Baccalauréat, German Abitur, results of some foreign maturity cer- (IB). NYU recognizes for Italian Maturità, or the Federal tificate examinations enable under- advanced standing credit higher Swiss Maturity Certificate. Official graduate students to receive credit level examinations passed with reports must be submitted to the toward the bachelor’s degree on the grades of 5, 6, or 7. No credit is Undergraduate Admissions basis of performance in college-level granted for standard level exami- Processing Center. examinations or proficiency examina- nations. Official reports must be For information regarding the tions related to the college’s degree submitted to the Undergraduate possibility of advanced standing requirements, subject to the approval Admissions Processing Center for credit for other maturity certificates, of the NYU school or college. review. please contact the Undergraduate The maximum number of cred- Maturity Certificate Admissions Processing Center at its allowed toward the degree Examinations. NYU will consid- admissions.nyu.edu or 212-998-4500. requirements that are a result of er the results of certain foreign See also pages 45-47, 59.
The Enrollment To be enrolled, an admitted candi- International applicants (non- For more information about date must do the following: U.S. citizens and non-U.S. perma- Global Liberal Studies, please Process 1. Accept the University’s offer of nent residents) admitted to Liberal contact us: admission and pay the required Studies/Global Liberal Studies will Global Liberal Studies nonrefundable tuition deposit. follow the guidelines listed above New York University 2. If applicable, pay the required and upon payment of the tuition gls.nyu.edu nonrefundable housing deposit. deposit will be provided with all 212-998-7270 3. Have his or her high school and the pertinent information for college (if applicable) forward a securing a student visa to enroll at For more information about final transcript to the New York University. Please note admission, please contact us: Undergraduate Admissions that upon acceptance, non-U.S. Office of Undergraduate Processing Center. citizens and non-U.S. permanent Admissions 4. File a medical report. residents must submit appropriate New York University 5. Contact the individual school or evidence of financial ability. admissions.nyu.edu college for registration and aca- 212-998-4500 demic advisement. 6. Pay balance of tuition and/or For more information about housing fees by the stipulated scholarships and financial aid, deadlines. please contact us: 7. Register for classes when Office of Financial Aid notified. New York University www.nyu.edu/financial.aid 212-998-4444
6 0 • AD M ISSI ON Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid
hen estimating the net cost to the family of a university education, a student should consider two factors: (1) the total cost of tuition, fees, and materials Wrelated to a particular program, plus costs directly related to the choice of living style (dormitory, apartment, commuting costs) and (2) financial aid that may be available from a variety of sources. This section provides information on both of these dis - tinct but related topics.
Tuition and For 2010-2011 tuition and fees, The unpaid balance of a stu - Other Students visit www.nyu.edu/bursar/tuition.fees. dent’s account is also subject to an Tuition, per point, Fees— interest charge of 12 percent per per term ...... $1,078.00 2009-2010 Following is the schedule of fees annum from the first day of class established by the Board of until payment is received. Fall term 2009: Trustees of New York University Holders of New York State nonreturnable registration and for the year 2009-2010. The Tuition Assistance Program services fee, first point . . 403.00 Board of Trustees reserves the Awards will be allowed credit right to alter this schedule with - toward their tuition fees in the Fall term 2009 out notice. Tuition, fees, and amount of their entitlement, pro - nonreturnable registration and expenses may be expected to vided they are New York State res - services fee, per point, for increase in subsequent years and idents, are enrolled on a full-time registration after first will be listed in supplements to basis, and present with their point ...... 59.00 this bulletin. schedule/bill the Award Certificate Note that the registration and for the applicable term. Spring term 2010: services fee covers membership, Students who receive awards nonreturnable registration and dues, etc., to the student’s class after registration will receive a services fee, first organization and entitles the stu - check from the University after point ...... 416.00 dent to membership in such the New York State payment has University activities as are sup - been received by the Office of the Spring term 2010: ported by this allocation and to Bursar and the Office of the nonreturnable registration and receive regularly those University Registrar has confirmed eligibility. services fee, per point, for and college publications that are The following is an explanatory registration after first supported in whole or in part by schedule of fees for 2009-2010. point ...... 59.00 the student activities fund. It also Basic Health Insurance includes the University’s health Full-Time Students Benefit Plan services, emergency and accident Tuition, 12 to 18 points, coverage, and technology fee. per term ...... $18,293.00 Full-time students automatically All fees are payable at the time enrolled 1,2 ; all others can select: of registration. The Office of the Fall term 2009: Bursar is located at 25 West nonreturnable registration Annual ...... $1,261.00 Fourth Street. Checks and drafts and services fee ...... 1,089.50 Fall term ...... 487.00 are to be drawn to the order of Spring term 2010: 1Waiver option available. New York University for the exact Spring term ...... 774.00 nonreturnable registration 2Students automatically enrolled amount of the tuition and fees (coverage for the spring and and services fee ...... 1,089.50 in the Basic Plan or the required. In the case of overpay - summer terms) ment, the balance is refunded on Comprehensive Plan can change For each point taken in excess request by filing a refund applica - Summer term ...... 341.00 between plans or waive the plan of 18, per point, per term tion in the Office of the Bursar. (only for students who did not entirely (and show proof of other (includes a nonreturnable acceptable health insurance). A fee will be charged if payment register in the preceding term) is not made by the due date indicat - registration and services fee of ed on the student’s statement. $59.00 per point) . . . $1,137.00
61 • TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID Comprehensive Health ARREARS POLICY computing any refund granted the Insurance Benefit Plan The University reserves the right to student. International students automati- deny registration and withhold all The refund period (see schedule cally enrolled 1,2 ; all others can information regarding the record of below) is defined as the first four select: any student who is in arrears in the calendar weeks of the term for payment of tuition, fees, loans, or other which application for withdrawal Annual ...... $1,963.00 charges (including charges for housing, is filed. The processing of refunds dining, or other activities or services) takes approximately two weeks. Fall term ...... 758.00 for as long as any arrears remain. REFUND PERIOD Spring term ...... 1,205.00 SCHEDULE (FALL AND (coverage for the spring and DIPLOMA ARREARS POLICY summer terms) Diplomas of students in arrears will SPRING TERMS ONLY) be held until their financial obliga - This schedule is based on the total Summer term ...... 530.00 tions to the University are fulfilled applicable charge for tuition, (only for students who did not and they have been cleared by the excluding nonreturnable fees and register in the preceding term) Bursar. Graduates with a diploma deposits. hold may contact the Office of the Withdrawal through the Stu-Dent Plan Bursar at 212-998-2806 to clear official first day Dental service through NYU’s arrears or to discuss their financial of the semester: ...... 100% College of Dentistry: status at the University. (100% of tuition and fees)* Primary member ...... $225.00 WITHDRAWAL AND Withdrawal on the second calendar day of classes through REFUND OF TUITION Partner ...... 225.00 the end of the first calendar A student who for any reason finds week of classes: ...... 100% Dependent it impossible to complete a course (100% of tuition only) (under age 16) ...... 80.00 for which he or she has registered should consult with an academic Second calendar week of Renewal membership . . . . 185.00 adviser. An official withdrawal classes: ...... 70% Tuition Only must be filed either on Albert Third calendar week of Maintenance of Matriculation (through the first three weeks of classes: ...... 55% Tuition Only the term only) or in writing on a Per term ...... varies Fourth calendar week of completed Change of Program classes: ...... 25% Tuition Only Plus (drop/add) form with the Office of Nonreturnable registration and the University Registrar. ( Note: An After the fourth calendar services fee: official withdrawal must be filed if week: ...... NO REFUND Fall term ...... $344.00 a course has been canceled, and, in this case, the student is entitled to *Note: After the official opening Spring term ...... 357.00 a refund of tuition and registration first day of the semester, all fees fees paid.) Withdrawal does not (including school-related fees) are Special Fees for All Students necessarily entitle the student to a nonrefundable. Late payment of refund of tuition paid or a cancella - tuition fee ...... $25.00 tion of tuition still due. A refund The above refund schedule is not of tuition will be made provided applicable to students whose regis - Late registration fee such withdrawal is filed within the tration remains within the flat-fee commencing with the scheduled refund period for the range. second week of classes . . . . 50.00 term (see schedule below). Note: A student may not with - Merely ceasing to attend a class draw from a course after the ninth Late registration fee does not constitute official with - week of the fall or spring semester commencing with the drawal, nor does notification to or the last two weeks of each sum - fifth week of classes . . . . . 100.00 the instructor. A stop payment of mer session. a check presented for tuition does Exceptions to the published Penalty fee ...... $20.00 not constitute withdrawal, nor refund schedule may be appealed does it reduce the indebtedness to in writing to the LS-GLS dean, Special Programs the University. The nonreturnable 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, and For expenses for study in the NYU registration fee and a penalty fee of should be supported by appropri - programs abroad and in NYU $20.00 for a stopped payment ate documentation regarding the international exchange programs, 1Waiver option available. must be charged in addition to circumstances that warrant consid - contact the NYU Office of Global any tuition not canceled. eration of an exception. Exceptions 2Students automatically enrolled Programs, 110 East 14th Street, in the Basic Plan or the The date on which the Change are rarely granted. Lower Level, New York, NY of Program form is filed, not the Federal regulations require Comprehensive Plan can change 10003-4170; 212-998-4433; between plans or waive the plan last date of attendance in class, is adjustments reducing financial aid if www.nyu.edu/studyabroad and considered the official date of the a student withdraws even after the entirely (and show proof of other www.nyu.edu/global/exchange. acceptable health insurance). student’s withdrawal. It is this NYU refund period. Financial aid date that serves as the basis for amounts will be adjusted for stu -
62 • TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID dents who withdraw through the • Matriculated and registered for This interest-free plan allows for ninth week of the semester and have 6 or more points all or a portion of a student’s edu - received any federal grants or loans. • Without a previously unsatisfac - cational expenses (including This adjustment may result in the tory University credit record tuition, fees, room, and board) to student’s bill not being fully paid. • Not in arrears (past due) for any be paid in monthly installments. NYU will bill the student for this University charge or loan The traditional University difference. The student will be The plan includes a nonrefund - billing cycle consists of one large responsible for payment of this bill able application fee of $50.00 , lump sum payment due at the before returning to NYU and will which is to be included with the beginning of each semester. remain responsible for payment even initial payment on the payment TuitionPay is a budget plan that if he or she does not return to NYU. due date. enables a family to spread payments For any semester in which a Interest at a rate of 1 percent over the course of the academic year. student receives any aid, that per month on the unpaid balance By enrolling in this plan, you semester will be counted in the will be assessed if payment is not spread your fall semester tuition satisfactory academic progress made in full by the final install - payments over a four-month period standard. This may require the ment due date. (June through September) and your student to make up credits before A late payment fee will be spring semester tuition payment receiving any further aid. Students assessed on any late payments. over another four-month period should review the “satisfactory aca - A separate deferred payment (November through February). demic progress” standard for their plan application and agreement is With this plan, you budget the school so that they do not jeopard - required for each semester this plan cost of your tuition and/or hous - ize future semesters of aid. is used. The Deferred Payment Plan ing, after deducting any financial Students who withdraw should will be available at www.nyu.edu/ aid you will be receiving and/or review the Refunds page on the bursar/forms in July for the fall any payments you have made NYU Office of the Bursar Web semester and in December for the directly to NYU. site ( www.nyu.edu/bursar ). spring semester. A nonrefundable enrollment For additional information, fee of $50.00 is required when DEFERRED PAYMENT PLAN please visit the Office of the Bursar applying for the fall/spring The Deferred Payment Plan allows Web site at www.nyu.edu/bursar/ TuitionPay Plan. You must enroll you to pay 50 percent of your net paymentplans or call 212-998-2806. in both the fall and spring plans. balance due for the current term Monthly statements will be mailed on the payment due date and defer TUITIONPAY PLAN by TuitionPay, and all payments the remaining 50 percent until TuitionPay (formerly called AMS) should be made directly to them. later in the semester. This plan is is a payment plan administered by For additional information, con - available to students who meet the Sallie Mae. The plan is open to all tact TuitionPay at 800-635-0120 following eligibility requirements: NYU students with the exception or visit the NYU Bursar Web site of the SCPS noncredit division. at www.nyu.edu/bursar .
New York University awards finan - Many awards are granted purely A student who has received a Financial Aid cial aid in an effort to help students on the basis of scholastic merit, financial aid award must inform his meet the difference between their while others are based on financial or her department and the Office of own resources and the cost of educa - need. It is frequently possible to Financial Aid if he or she subse - tion. All awards are subject to avail - receive a combination of awards quently decides to decline all or part ability of funds and the student’s based on both. University scholar - of that award. To neglect to do so demonstrated need. Renewal of assis - ships or fellowships may be granted may prevent use of the award by tance depends on annual reevaluation by themselves or in conjunction another student. If a student has not of a student’s need, the availability of with student loans or Federal claimed his or her award (has not funds, the successful completion of Work-Study employment. To enrolled) by the close of regular (not the previous year, and satisfactory ensure that maximum sources of late) registration and has not progress toward completion of available support will be investigat - obtained written permission from his degree requirements. In addition, ed, students must apply for finan - or her department and the Office of students must meet the published cial aid by the appropriate deadline. Financial Aid for an extension, the filing deadlines. Detailed informa - It is the student’s responsibility award may be canceled, and the stu - tion about financial aid is available to supply true, accurate, and com - dent may become ineligible to on the Office of Financial Aid Web plete information to the Office of receive scholarship or fellowship aid site, www.nyu.edu/financial.aid . Financial Aid and to notify them in future years. A concise summary is also included immediately of any changes or cor - Determination of financial in the NYU Students Guide, available rections in his or her financial situ - need is also based on the number at the Student Resource Center, ation, enrollment status, or of courses for which the student Kimmel Center for University Life, housing status, including tuition indicates he or she intends to reg - 60 Washington Square South, Suite remission benefits, outside scholar - ister. A change in registration 210, and online at www.nyu.edu/ ships and grants, and state-spon - therefore may necessitate an students.guide . sored prepaid college savings plans. adjustment in financial aid.
63 • TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID HOW TO APPLY Renewal Eligibility. Financial aid merit or need. There is no special Students must submit the Free awards are not automatically application for NYU scholarships. Application for Federal Student renewed each year. Continuing All students are automatically con - Aid (FAFSA), and New York State students must submit a FAFSA sidered for academic (merit-based) residents must also complete the each year by the NYU deadline, and financial (need-based) scholar - preprinted New York State continue to demonstrate financial ships after applying for admission Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) need, make satisfactory progress and financial aid. The FAFSA and application. (The TAP application toward degree requirements, and the admissions application contain is also available on the Internet be in good academic standing. all the information needed for when using FAFSA on the Web. scholarship determination. Citizenship. In order to be eligi - See www.nyu.edu/financial.aid/tap .) ble for aid from NYU and from AnBryce Scholarship. Through The FAFSA (available online at federal and state government the generosity of the AnBryce www.fafsa.ed.gov ) is the basic form sources, students must be classified Foundation, this scholarship is for all student aid programs. Be either as U.S. citizens or as eligible awarded each year to a small num - sure to complete all sections. noncitizens. Students are consid - ber of academically motivated stu - Students should give permission ered to be eligible noncitizens for dents who demonstrate financial on the FAFSA for application data financial aid purposes if one of the need and are the first generation in to be sent directly to New York following conditions applies: their family to attend college. The University (the NYU federal code 1. U.S. permanent resident with award covers up to the cost of number is 002785). an Alien Registration Receipt tuition and is renewable over four Students are encouraged to apply Card I-551 (“green card”). years of undergraduate study at for financial aid electronically—the 2. Other eligible noncitizen with NYU. In addition to educational fastest and most accurate method. an Arrival-Departure Record (I- and cultural activities, these schol - See www.nyu.edu/financial.aid or 94) showing any one of the follow - ars participate in a rich combina - www.fafsa.ed.gov . Entering freshmen ing designations: (a) “Refugee,” tion of orientation and mentoring should submit the application by (b) “Indefinite Parole,” programs. February 15 for the fall term or by (c) “Humanitarian Parole,” November 1 for the spring term. (d) “Asylum Granted,” or Arch Award. This NYU scholar - Graduate students should consult (e) “Cuban-Haitian Entrant.” ship is awarded each year to stu - the Financial Aid Web site or dents who demonstrate financial their department for financial aid Withdrawal. Those receiving fed - need and are committed to having deadlines. eral aid who withdraw completely a positive impact on the world. Students requiring summer may be billed for remaining bal - The award helps students meet financial aid must submit a sum - ances resulting from the mandato - full tuition needs and is renewable mer aid application in addition to ry return of funds to the U.S. over four years of undergraduate the FAFSA and TAP application. government. The amount of feder - study at NYU. The Office of The application, available in al aid “earned” up to that point is Undergraduate Admissions has February, can be obtained from the determined by the withdrawal partnered with NYU’s Wasserman Financial Aid Web site or the date and a calculation based upon Center for Career Development to Office of Financial Aid. the federally prescribed formula. create a career development and Generally, federal assistance is internship program for these ELIGIBILITY earned on a pro-rata basis. scholars that will introduce them Enrollment. To be considered for to career options and help them financial aid, students must be UNIVERSITY-SPONSORED develop career potential and mar - officially admitted to NYU or AND -ADMINISTERED ketable professional skills. matriculated in a degree program PROGRAMS and making satisfactory academic Lewis Rudin City Scholars. progress toward degree require - Through the generosity of its NYU has established the Lewis ments. Students in certain certifi - alumni and other concerned citi - Rudin City Scholars to recognize cate or diploma programs may zens, as well as from funds sup - the academic excellence and com - also be eligible for consideration. plied by the federal government, munity service of exceptional Generally, University-administered the University is able to provide graduates from New York City aid is awarded to full-time students. an extensive financial aid program high schools. Rudin Scholars will Half-time students (enrolled for for its students. Awards are com - receive a merit scholarship and fewer than 12 but at least 6 credit petitive and based on academic may also qualify for need-based points per semester) may be eligi - achievement, test scores, and, in financial aid. ble for a Federal Stafford Loan or a most cases, financial need. Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal PLUS Loan, but they must Scholarships and Grants also maintain satisfactory academic Scholars. This honor is offered to Scholarships and grants awarded select freshmen who demonstrate progress. Part-time undergraduate by the University generally range students may also be eligible for exceptional scholastic ability and a from $500 to $25,000. In addi - commitment to the principles of Aid for Part-Time Study (APTS) tion, the University has estab - (New York State residents only— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lished separate scholarship funds including leadership, community separate application is necessary) for students in special situations of or for a Pell Grant. service, humanitarianism, and
64 • TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID social progress. Martin Luther Center for Career Development is eligibility, must be otherwise eligi - King, Jr. Scholars are eligible to located at 133 East 13th Street, ble for financial aid, and must be receive a merit scholarship and 2nd Floor; 212-998-4730. enrolled for 3 to 11 credit points may also qualify for need-based per term. Applications are avail - financial aid. They participate in Resident Assistantships. Resident able from the Office of Financial cultural and social events and assistants reside in the residence Aid or their Web site. The applica - community service activities. halls and are responsible for organ - tion deadline varies; please consult Scholars also travel domestically izing, implementing, and evaluat - the Office of Financial Aid. and internationally and conduct ing social and educational activities. research projects. Assistants also serve as peer coun - Additional programs are listed at selors and sources of information for www.hesc.com . For complete infor - New York University Merit dormitory residents. Compensation mation, contact the New York Scholarships. The University may include room and/or board, Higher Education Services sponsors scholarships for finalists and/or a stipend. Applications and Corporation (HESC) toll-free at in the annual National Merit further information may be 1-888-697-4372, or visit the Scholarship Program. New York obtained from the Department of Web site at www.hesc.com . University must be listed as the Residential Education, New York first choice of schools in order to University, 75 Third Avenue, Level States Other Than New York. qualify for New York University C2, New York, NY 10003-5582; Some students from outside New Merit Scholarships. 212-998-4311. York State may qualify for funds from their own state scholarship The Reynolds Program in Social ALL OTHER SOURCES programs that can be used at New Entrepreneurship. The Reynolds OF AID York University. These students Program in Social Entrepreneurship should contact their state financial State Grants offers 20 graduate fellowships and aid agency (call 1-800-433-3243 New York State offers a wide vari - 10 undergraduate scholarships each to get its telephone number and ety of grants and scholarships to year. The program is a comprehen - address) to ask about program residents. Although application is sive initiative designed to equip the requirements and application pro - made directly to the state and next generation of social entrepre - cedures. Students who receive an grants are awarded by the state, neurial leaders and infrastructure eligibility notice from their state the amount each student is expect - developers and managers with the program should submit it to the ed to receive is estimated and skills, resources, and networking New York University Office of taken into account by the opportunities needed to help solve Financial Aid in advance of University when assembling the society’s most intractable problems registration. in sustainable and scalable ways. student’s financial aid package. The undergraduate scholarship pro - Federal Grants and Benefits New York State Tuition vides up to $40,000 over two years Assistance Program (TAP). Pell Grant Program. The Federal and dedicated curricular and cocur - Legal residents of the state of New Pell Grant Program provides assis - ricular activities. Students must York who are enrolled in a full- tance to undergraduate students submit an application for consider - time degree program of at least 12 who demonstrate financial need ation. For more details, visit credit points a term, or the equiva - according to economic criteria and www.nyu.edu/reynolds. lent, may be eligible for awards program requirements established by the federal government. To be Part-Time Employment under this program. The award varies, depending on income and eligible, students must enroll in a Wasserman Center for Career degree or approved certificate/ Development. Most financial aid tuition cost. Students applying for TAP diploma program and be matricu - award packages include work-study. lated for their first bachelor’s This means that students are eligi - must do so via a FAFSA applica - tion (see the earlier How to Apply degree. (Students are not eligible ble to participate in the Federal if they have already completed a Work-Study Program and may earn section). Return the completed application as instructed. For bachelor’s degree.) By submitting up to the amount recommended in the Free Application for Federal their award package. Work-study more information about TAP, visit www.nyu.edu/financial.aid/tap.html . Student Aid (FAFSA), students wages are paid directly to the stu - are also applying for a Federal dent on a biweekly basis and are Aid for Part-Time Study Pell Grant. normally used for books, transporta - (APTS). A financial aid program tion, and personal expenses. to help New York State residents Federal Supplemental It is not necessary to be award - pursuing part-time undergraduate Educational Opportunity Grants ed work-study in order to use the degree study offers awards in (SEOG). These federally funded services of the Wasserman Center. amounts of up to $2,000 per aca - grants are awarded to undergradu - All students may use the center as demic year. The amount of an ates whose financial need is sub - soon as they have paid their tuition award is determined by the institu - stantial. All FAFSA filers who deposit and may also wish to use tion. To be eligible, the student qualify are automatically consid - the center as a resource for summer must have filed a FAFSA and ered for this grant. However, funds employment. Extensive listings of demonstrated financial need, must for this program are very limited. both on-campus and off-campus not have exhausted his or her TAP jobs are available. The Wasserman
65 • TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID Veterans Benefits. Various pro - The annual interest rate is cur - more borrowing eligibility. For grams provide educational benefits rently 5 percent, and interest does details about additional unsubsi - for spouses, sons, and daughters of not accrue while the student dized amounts available and the deceased or permanently disabled remains enrolled at least half time. maximum aggregate limits for all veterans as well as for veterans and Stafford loans combined, see our in-service personnel who served on Federal Stafford Loan Program. Web site at www.nyu.edu/ active duty in the United States The Federal Stafford Loan is financial.aid/stafford_unsub.html . Armed Forces after January 1, obtained from a bank or other 1955. In these programs, the lender (or from the U.S. Department Federal PLUS Loan Program. amount of benefits varies. of Education if a Federal Direct Loan The PLUS loan enables parents of Applications and further infor - is suggested) and is generally dependent undergraduate students mation may be obtained from the insured by both the state and federal and qualifying graduate students student’s regional office of the governments. The total amount bor - to borrow up to the full amount of Department of Veterans Affairs. rowed in any year may not exceed an NYU education minus other Additional guidance may be the cost of education minus the total aid. There is no aggregate loan obtained from the Office of the family contribution and all other limit, and individual lenders will University Registrar, 25 West financial aid received that year. The evaluate credit history. The inter - Fourth Street, 1st Floor. interest rate is fixed at 5.60 percent. est rate is fixed at 8.50 percent. Stafford loan payments are copayable An origination fee of up to 3 per - Scholarships and Grants from to NYU and the student, and funds cent will generally be deducted Other Organizations are applied first to any outstanding from the loan funds. PLUS loan In addition to the sources of gift aid balance on the student’s account. An disbursements are made copayable described above, students may also origination fee of up to 3 percent to NYU and the parent, and funds be eligible for a private scholarship may be deducted from the loan are applied first to the current or grant from an outside agency or funds. years outstanding balance on the organizations. Some sources to Students may qualify for both students account. explore are employers, unions, pro - subsidized and unsubsidized fessional organizations, and commu - Stafford loans. The interest on the Private Loans nity and special interest groups. Federal Subsidized Stafford Loan is A private (nonfederal) loan may be (The NYU Office of Undergraduate paid by the U.S. government a financing option for students Admissions Web site includes some while the student is in school and who are not eligible for federal aid examples of such outside scholar - remains enrolled at least half-time. or who need additional funding ships available to undergraduates The Federal Unsubsidized Stafford beyond the maximum amounts that can be used at NYU. Visit Loan terms and conditions are offered by federal loans. For more admissions.nyu.edu/financial.aid/ essentially the same as the subsi - information on the terms and con - scholarships.html .) dized loan except the federal gov - ditions of the suggested private ernment does not pay the interest loan (as well as applications), visit Federal Loans while the student is in school. our Web site: www.nyu.edu/ Federal Perkins Loan Program. Instead, the interest is accrued and financial.aid/private-loans.php. New York University administers added to the principal of the loan. the Federal Perkins Loan Program, Employee Education Plans Subsidized Stafford loans are Many companies pay all or part of supported by the federal govern - based strictly on financial need. ment. The University determines the tuition of their employees During the first year of study, a under tuition refund plans. eligibility for a Perkins loan based student may borrow up to a total on a student’s financial need and Employed students attending the of $5,500 (combined subsidized University should ask their per - availability of funds; students are and unsubsidized), with no more considered for this loan when they sonnel officers or training directors than $3,500 as the subsidized about the existence of a company apply for financial aid. The amount. In subsequent years, the University generally awards tuition plan. Students who receive total is increased to $6,500 for tuition reimbursement and NYU Perkins loans to the neediest full- sophomores (with no more than time students only. employees who receive tuition $4,500 as the subsidized amount), remission from NYU must notify Perkins loans are made possible $7,500 for juniors and seniors through a combination of the Office of Financial Aid if they (with no more than $5,500 as the receive this benefit. resources: an annual allocation subsidized amount), and $20,500 from the U.S. Department of for graduate students (with no Education, a contribution from more than $8,500 as the subsi - New York University, and repay - dized amount). ments by previous borrowers. For independent undergraduate students and some dependent undergraduate students whose par - ents do not qualify for a PLUS loan, the Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loan Program offers yet
66 • TUITION, FEES, AND FINANCIAL AID Liberal Studies and Global Liberal Studies Administration and Faculty
Fred S. Schwarzbach, Ph.D. Beth Haymaker, M.F.A. Joanne Rizzi, M.S.W. Administration University of London Indiana University (Bloomington) New York University Dean Associate Director of International Associate Director of Student Master Teacher Programs Affairs
Billy Helton, M.S. Yenifer Romero Badia, B.S. Lucile Appert, Ph.D. New Jersey Institute of Academic Adviser Tulane University Technology Associate Director of Educational Director of Administration Jen SanMiguel, M.A. Technology University of the Arts London Pamela Jefferson, B.A. Academic Administrator Josiane Grégoire, J.D. New York University Harvard University Student Activities Administrator Robert Squillace, Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Columbia University and Enrollment Services Paul Naour, Ph.D. Assistant Dean for Academic Ohio State University Affairs Leah Guarino-Ramirez, M.A. Assistant Dean for Academic Master Teacher Academic Adviser Advising Jeff Walker-Sherson, M.Ed. Wilnelia Gutierrez, M.P.A. Claudie Priva-Deshommes, B.S. University of Florida New York University New York University Academic Adviser Executive Assistant to the Dean Academic Adviser
Rochelle Almeida, Ph.D. Andre Carrington, Ph.D. Sean Eve, M.F.A. Faculty St. John’s University New York University New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Joyce Apsel, Ph.D. Davida Chang, M.Phil. Robert Fitterman, M.A. University of Rochester Columbia University Temple University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Emily Bauman, Ph.D. Brian Culver, Ph.D. Miriam Frank, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh New York University New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
John Bell, M.A. Nina d’Alessandro, M.A. Ifeona Fulani, Ph.D. University of Minnesota New York University New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Rhoda Berenson, Ph.D. Lindsay Davies, Ph.D. Robin Goldfin, M.F.A. New York University Temple University New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Jacqueline Bishop, M.F.A. Peter Diamond, Ph.D. Robert Gurland, Ph.D. New York University Johns Hopkins University New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Professor Emeritus
67 • LS/GLS ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY Jessamyn Hatcher, Ph.D. Heather Masri, Ph.D. Stephen Policoff, B.A. Duke University New York University Wesleyan University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Brendan Hogan, Ph.D. James McBride, J.D. Joseph Portanova, Ph.D. New School for Social Research Benjamin Cardozo School of Law Columbia University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Susanna Horng, M.F.A. Afrodesia McCannon, Ph.D. Ronald Rainey, Ph.D. Sarah Lawrence College University of California (Berkeley) Columbia University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Jacqueline Jaffe, Ph.D. Ascension Mejorado, Ph.D. Nancy Reale, Ph.D. Indiana University Complutense University of Madrid New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Robert Jeske, Ph.D. Suzanne Menghraj, M.F.A. Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Columbia University Carnegie Mellon University Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Gerceida Jones, Ph.D. Walter Miller, M.A. J. Ward Regan, Ph.D. New York University Columbia University State University of New York Master Teacher Professor Emeritus (Stony Brook) Master Teacher Philip Kain, M.P.S. Carley Moore, Ph.D. New York University New York University Martin Reichert, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University Master Teacher Karen Karbiener, Ph.D. Patricio Navia, Ph.D. Columbia University New York University Tamuira Reid, M.F.A. Master Teacher Master Teacher Sarah Lawrence College Master Teacher Stephanie Kiceluk, Ph.D. Roberta Newman, Ph.D. Columbia University New York University Anthony Reynolds, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher New York University Master Teacher Catherine King, M.S. Lori Nicholas, M.S. University of Montana New York University Fred Schwarzbach, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher University of London Master Teacher William Klein, Ph.D. Eugene Ostashevsky, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Stanford University Michael Shenefelt, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Columbia University Master Teacher Gail Linsenbard, Ph.D. Christopher Packard, Ph.D. University of Colorado (Boulder) New York University Robert Squillace, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher Columbia University Master Teacher Matt Longabucco, Ph.D. Louis Pataki, Ph.D. New York University Yale University Cheryl Sterling, Ph.D. Master Teacher Master Teacher University of Wisconsin Master Teacher Julianne Lutz Warren, Ph.D. Albert Piacente, Ph.D. University of Illinois (Urbana- University of Virginia Lenny Tevlin, Ph.D. Champaign) Master Teacher CUNY Graduate Center Master Teacher Master Teacher James Polchin, Ph.D. Molly M. Martin, Ph.D. New York University Tilottama Tharoor, Ph.D. Columbia University Master Teacher New York University Master Teacher Master Teacher
68 • LS/GLS ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY Joseph Thometz, Ph.D. Shouleh Vatanabadi, Ph.D. Amy Wilkinson, Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union State University of New York University of Missouri (Columbia) (Berkeley) (Binghamton) Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher Rolf Wolfswinkel, Ph.D. Elayne Tobin, Ph.D. José Vázquez, Ph.D. University of Cape Town University of Pittsburgh CUNY Graduate Center Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, Ph.D. Timothy Tomlinson, M.F.A. Philip Washburn, Ph.D. State University of New York Columbia University Columbia University (Binghamton) Master Teacher Master Teacher Master Teacher
Heidi White, Ph.D. New School for Social Research Master Teacher
69 • LS/GLS ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY Calendar 2009-2010 For 2010-2011 calendar, visit www.nyu.edu/registrar/calendars
2009 Labor Day: holiday Monday September 7 All dates inclusive Fall term begins Tuesday September 8 Last day for withdrawing from a course without a “W” Monday September 28 Last day for filing or revoking Pass/Fail option; last day for withdrawing from a course with a “W” Monday November 9 Thanksgiving recess Thursday-Saturday November 26-28 Legislative day Tuesday December 15 (classes meet on a Thursday schedule; therefore, Tuesday classes do not meet) Last day of classes Tuesday December 15 Reading day Wednesday December 16 Fall term final examinations Thursday-Wednesday December 17-23 Winter recess Thursday-Saturday December 24–January 16
70 • CALENDAR 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: holiday Monday January 18 Spring term begins Tuesday January 19 Last day for withdrawing from a course without a “W” Monday February 8 Presidents’ Day: holiday Monday February 15 Spring recess Monday-Saturday March 15-20 Last day for filing or revoking Pass/Fail option; last day for withdrawing from a course with a “W” Monday March 29 Legislative day Tuesday May 4 (classes meet on a Monday schedule; therefore, Tuesday classes do not meet) Last day of classes Tuesday May 4 Reading day Wednesday May 5 Spring term final examinations Thursday-Wednesday May 6-12 Commencement: conferring of degrees Wednesday May 12 2010 Summer Session I Monday-Friday May 17-June 25 Memorial Day: holiday Monday May 31 2010 Summer Session II Monday-Friday June 28-August 6 Independence Day: holiday Monday July 5
Additional Important Calendar Dates: 1. For refund schedule, see Refund Period Schedule in the Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid section of this bulletin. 2. For registration and drop/add schedules, consult the LS Advising Center, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor.
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North Key to Buildings c 285 Mercer Street 57 Housing Deutsches Haus Silver Towers d Copy Central 383 Lafayette Street 42 Washington Mews (21) 100, 110 Bleecker Street (68) 1 Carlyle Court 283 Mercer Street 58 D’Agostino Hall East Building 25 Union Square West Skirball Department 35 Broadway Block 110 West Third Street 239 Greene Street (41d) 53 Washington Square South (46b) 2 Coral Towers 59 561 La Guardia Place 129 Third Avenue a 715 Broadway Education Building Straus Institute for the b 719 Broadway 60 Mercer Street Residence 35 West Fourth Street (41e) Advancement for Law and Society 3 Thirteenth Street 240 Mercer Street Residence Hall c 721 Broadway Faye’s @ the Square 22 Washington Square North (26) 47 West 13th Street 61 Mail Services 45 West Fourth Street (41f) Student Health Center d 1 Washington Place 547 La Guardia Place 4 145 Fourth Avenue e 5 Washington Place Founders Hall 726 Broadway (36) 62 Washington Square Village, 1-4 120 East 12th Street (11) Student Services Center 5 University Hall 36 726 Broadway 63 530 La Guardia Place 110 East 14th Street a College of Nursing Furman Hall 25 West Fourth Street (42a) 64 Off-Campus Housing 245 Sullivan Street (46d) 6 Palladium Hall b Liberal Studies Program Third Avenue North 140 East 14th Street 4 Washington Square Village Glucksman Ireland House Residence Hall c Student Health Center a Wasserman Center for 65 665 Broadway 1 Washington Mews (24) 75 Third Avenue (12) Career Development 37 411 Lafayette Street 66 Second Street Residence Hall Goddard Hall Thirteenth Street Residence Hall 133 East 13th Street 38 48 Cooper Square 1 East Second Street 79 Washington Square East (41g) 47 West 13th Street (3) 7 113 University Place 39 20 Cooper Square 67 University Plaza Gould Plaza (53) Tisch Hall 8 838 Broadway 40 Hayden Residence Hall 68 Silver Towers Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 40 West Fourth Street (54) 100, 110 Bleecker Street 9 7 East 12th Street 33 Washington Square West 50 West Fourth Street (51a) Torch Club 69 Coles Sports and 10 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 41 Education Block Gramercy Green 18 Waverly Place (34b) 24 West 12th Street a Pless Hall Recreation Center (not shown) 181 Mercer Street 316 Third Avenue Twenty-sixth Street Residence 82 Washington Square East 334 East 26th Street (not shown) 11 Founders Hall 70 194, 196 Mercer Street Greenwich Hotel 120 East 12th Street b Pless Annex 636 Greenwich Street (not shown) Undergraduate Admissions 82 Washington Square East 12 Third Avenue North 71 Puck Building Gould Welcome Center (26 Washington Place) 295 Lafayette Street Hayden Residence Hall Residence Hall 33 Washington Square West (40) 50 West Fourth Street (51a) 75 Third Avenue c Bookstore a Wagner Graduate School 18 Washington Place of Public Service Housing University Court 13 Rubin Residence Hall 383 Lafayette Street (57) 334 East 25th Street (not shown) 35 Fifth Avenue d East Building 239 Greene Street NOT SHOWN Institute of French Studies University Hall 14 Bronfman Center 15 Washington Mews (25a) 110 East 14th Street (5) 7 East 10th Street e Education Building 35 West Fourth Street Broome Street Residence 400 Broome Street Kaufman Management Center University Plaza (67) 15 Brittany Residence Hall 44 West Fourth Street (52) 55 East 10th Street f Faye’s @ the Square Vanderbilt Hall 45 West Fourth Street Butterick Building 16 Lillian Vernon Creative 161 Sixth Avenue Kevorkian Center 40 Washington Square South (45) g Goddard Hall 50 Washington Square South (46a) Washington Square Village, Writers House 79 Washington Square East Gramercy Green 58 West 10th Street 316 Third Avenue Kimball Hall 1-4 (62) 17 Alumni Hall 42 Student Services Block Greenwich Hotel 246 Greene Street (34a) Wasserman Center for 33 Third Avenue a 25 West Fourth Street 636 Greenwich Street Kimmel Center for Career Development 18 Barney Building b 240 Greene Street Lafayette Street Residence University Life 133 East 13th Street (6a) 34 Stuyvesant Street c 242 Greene Street 80 Lafayette Street 60 Washington Square South (48) Waverly Building 19 13 University Place d Public Safety Twenty-sixth Street Residence King Juan Carlos I Center 24 Waverly Place (33c) 20 Cantor Film Center 14 Washington Place 334 East 26th Street 53 Washington Square South (46c) Weinstein Residence Hall 36 East Eighth Street e 14A Washington Place University Court La Maison Française 11 University Place (22) 21 Deutsches Haus f 10 Washington Place 334 East 25th Street 16 Washington Mews (25b) Woolworth Building 42 Washington Mews g 8 Washington Place Woolworth Building Lafayette Street Residence 15 Barclay Street (not shown) 15 Barclay Street 22 Weinstein Residence Hall h 19 West Fourth Street 80 Lafayette Street (not shown) 11 University Place Lillian Vernon Creative BY STREET 23 10 Astor Place 43 Meyer Block Alphabetical List a Meyer Hall Writers House 10 Astor Place (23) 24 Glucksman Ireland House 4 Washington Place (Numbers in parentheses correspond 58 West 10th Street (16) 665 Broadway (65) 1 Washington Mews to the Key to Buildings and map) Mail Services 25 a Institute of French Studies b Psychology Building 715 Broadway (35a) 6 Washington Place BY BUILDING NAME 547 La Guardia Place (61) 719 Broadway (35b) 15 Washington Mews Mercer Street Residence b La Maison Française 44 133 MacDougal Street 721 Broadway (35c) a Wilf Hall Alumni Hall 240 Mercer Street (60) 16 Washington Mews 33 Third Avenue (17) 838 Broadway (8) b Provincetown Playhouse Meyer Hall 26 Straus Institute for the Barney Building 4 Washington Place (43a) 20 Cooper Square (39) Advancement of Law 45 Vanderbilt Hall 34 Stuyvesant Street (18) 48 Cooper Square (38) 40 Washington Square South Moses Center for Students and Society 7 East 12th Street (9) 22 Washington Square North 46 Judson Block Bobst Library with Disabilities 70 Washington Square South (49) 715 Broadway (33b) One-half Fifth Avenue (28) 27 19 Washington Square North– a Kevorkian Center Bookstore 14 East Fourth Street (56) NYU Abu Dhabi 50 Washington Square South Off-Campus Housing 18 Washington Place (40c) 4 Washington Square Village (64) 145 Fourth Avenue (4) 28 One-half Fifth Avenue b Skirball Department Brittany Residence Hall Palladium Hall 240 Greene Street (42b) 29 1-6 Washington Square North 53 Washington Square South c King Juan Carlos I Center 55 East 10th Street (15) 140 East 14th Street (6) 242 Greene Street (42c) a Silver School of Social Work 53 Washington Square South Bronfman Center Pless Annex 1 Washington Square North 411 Lafayette Street (37) 7 East 10th Street (14) 26 Washington Place (41b) b Graduate School of Arts d Furman Hall 530 La Guardia Place (63) 245 Sullivan Street Broome Street Residence Pless Hall 561 La Guardia Place (59) and Science 400 Broome Street (not shown) 6 Washington Square North 47 58 Washington Square South 82 Washington Square East (41a) 194, 196 Mercer Street (70) Brown Building Provincetown Playhouse 30 Rufus D. Smith Hall 48 Kimmel Center for 285 Mercer Street (34c) University Life 29 Washington Place/ 133 MacDougal Street (44b) 25 Waverly Place 111, 113A Second Avenue (32) 31 Seventh Street Residence Hall 60 Washington Square South 245 Greene Street (33d) Psychology Building 40 East Seventh Street a Skirball Center for the Butterick Building 6 Washington Place (43b) 13 University Place (19) 32 111, 113A Second Avenue Performing Arts 161 Sixth Avenue (not shown) Public Safety 113 University Place (7) 33 Silver Center Block 49 Bobst Library Cantor Film Center 14 Washington Place (42d) 1 Washington Place (35d) 70 Washington Square South a Silver Center for 36 East Eighth Street (20) Puck Building 5 Washington Place (35e) Arts and Science 50 Schwartz Plaza Carlyle Court 295 Lafayette Street (71) 8 Washington Place (42g) 100 Washington Square East/ 51 Shimkin Hall 25 Union Square West (1) Rubin Residence Hall 10 Washington Place (42f) 33 Washington Place 50 West Fourth Street Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 35 Fifth Avenue (13) 14, 14A Washington Place (41d,e) b Grey Art Gallery a Jeffery S. Gould 24 West 12th Street (10) Rufus D. Smith Hall 1-6 Washington Square North (29) Welcome Center 100 Washington Square East Coles Sports and 25 Waverly Place (30) 19 Washington Square North (27) 52 Kaufman Management c Waverly Building Recreation Center Schwartz Plaza (50) 22 Washington Square North (26) 24 Waverly Place Center 181 Mercer Street (69) 44 West Fourth Street Second Street Residence Hall 58 Washington Square South (47) d Brown Building Copy Central 1 East Second Street (66) 29 Washington Place 53 Gould Plaza 19 West Fourth Street (42h) 283 Mercer Street (34d) Seventh Street Residence Hall 34 Kimball Block 54 Tisch Hall Coral Towers 25 West Fourth Street (42a) 40 West Fourth Street 40 East Seventh Street (31) a Kimball Hall 129 Third Avenue (2) Shimkin Hall 246 Greene Street 55 Courant Institute Courant Institute 251 Mercer Street 50 West Fourth Street (51) b Torch Club 251 Mercer Street (55) Silver Center for Arts and Science 18 Waverly Place 56 Silk Building D’Agostino Hall 100 Washington Square East/ 14 East Fourth Street 110 West Third Street (58) 33 Washington Place (33a) Travel Directions to the Washington Square Campus*
Lexington Avenue Subway Seventh Avenue Subway Eighth Street Crosstown Bus Local to Astor Place Station. Walk Local to Christopher Street- Bus numbered 8 to University west on Astor Place to Broadway, Sheridan Square Station. Walk Place. Walk south to Washington then south on Broadway to east on West Fourth Street to Square. Waverly Place, and west on Washington Square. Waverly Place to Washington Broadway Bus Square. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Bus numbered 6 to Waverly Place. (PATH) Walk west to Washington Square. Broadway Subway To Ninth Street Station. Walk Local to Eighth Street Station. south on Avenue of the Americas Walk south on Broadway to (Sixth Avenue) to Waverly Place, Waverly Place, then west on then east to Washington Square. Waverly Place to Washington Square. Fifth Avenue Bus Buses numbered 2, 3, and 5 to Sixth or Eighth Avenue Subway Eighth Street and University Place. To West Fourth Street-Washington Walk south to Washington Square. Square Station. Walk east on West Bus numbered 1 to Broadway and Fourth Street or Waverly Place to Ninth Street. Walk south on *See Washington Square Campus map Washington Square. Broadway to Waverly Place and and key for specific addresses. west to Washington Square.
74 • TRAVEL DIRECTIONS Frequently Called Numbers www.nyu.edu ls.nyu.edu gls.nyu.edu
Admissions (Undergraduate) Disabilities, Students with International Students and 212-998-4500 212-998-4980 (voice and TTY) Scholars, Office for 665 Broadway 719 Broadway, 2nd Floor 212-998-4720 561 La Guardia Place Bobst Library (Information) Employment, Student 212-998-2505 212-998-4730 Lost and Found 70 Washington Square South Wasserman Center for Career 212-998-1305 Development, 133 East 13th Street, Department of Public Safety Bookstore, Main 2nd Floor 14 Washington Place 212-998-4667, 4668 18 Washington Place Financial Aid Registrar, Office of the 212-998-4444 University Bursar 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor 212-998-4850 212-998-2800 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor 25 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor Health Center, Student 212-443-1000 Ticket Central Campus Safety and 726 Broadway, 3rd and 4th Floors 212-998-4999 Transportation Services Kimmel Center for University Life 212-998-2222; 212-998-2220 Housing (University) 60 Washington Square South, (TTY) 212-998-4600 Suite 206 14 Washington Place 383 Lafayette Street, 1st Floor Wellness Exchange, NYU Counseling and Behavioral Housing (Off-Campus) 212-443-9999 Health Services 212-998-4620 999 (on-campus phone) 212-998-4780 4 Washington Square Village www.nyu.edu/999 726 Broadway, Suite 471 726 Broadway, Suite 402 Information—Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 212-998-4636 Shimkin Hall, 50 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor
75 • FREQUENTLY CALLED NUMBERS Index
A B E Abroad, study B.A./M.A., accelerated Early Decision Plan, GLS ...... 37-38 program ...... 29, 40-41 GLS admission ...... 56-57 LS...... 23 Board of Trustees...... 10-11 Electives Academic advisement GLS ...... 35-36 Bookstores ...... 53 GLS ...... 39 LS ...... 20-22 LS...... 24 Electronic student Academic integrity ...... 47-48 C newsletter...... 24, 52 Academic opportunities, Calendar, academic ...... 70-71 Employee education plans. . . . . 66 additional, GLS ...... 40-41 Campus map ...... 72-73 Employment, student ...... 65 Academic policies and Enrollment process ...... 60 procedures ...... 44-51 Campus safety and transportation services ...... 75 Enrollment verification, Academic program request for...... 49 GLS ...... 12, 28-36 Campus visits ...... 58 LS ...... 12, 16-22 Career services ...... 53, 65 Examination, credit by ...... 45-47, 59-60 Academic progress ...... 47 Change of program ...... 45 Examinations ...... 47 Academic support services . . . . 48 College Learning Center ...... 48 Accreditation ...... 9 Computer services and Internet Administration resources ...... 53 F LS and GLS ...... 11, 13, 67 Conduct and discipline, Faculty ...... 67-69 NYU ...... 9-11 student ...... 48-49 Faculty advisers Admission ...... 55-60 Counseling and health services . 54 GLS ...... 39 GLS ...... 56-57 LS...... 24 LS ...... 55-56 Courses, required GLS ...... 30-35 Family Educational Rights and Advanced standing LS ...... 16-20 Privacy Act (FERPA)...... 49-50 credits ...... 45-47, 59-60 Curriculum requirements Financial aid ...... 57-58, 63-66 Advisement, academic GLS ...... 28-29 Frequently called numbers . . . . 75 GLS ...... 39 LS...... 16 LS...... 24 Advising Center, LS ...... 24, 39 D G Affirmative action policy ...... 9 Global Liberal Studies B.A. (GLS) Deadlines, admission, GLS . . . . 56 Albert (online course Academic opportunities, registration)...... 24, 39, 44, 45, Deferred Payment Plan...... 63 additional ...... 40-41 Academic policies and ...... 49, 62 Degree requirements procedures...... 44-51 GLS ...... 35 Alumni activities ...... 52 Academic program . . 12, 28-36 LS...... 22 Arrears policy ...... 50, 62 Advisement, academic . . . . . 39 Dining services ...... 53 Awards and honors...... 42 Athletics...... 52 International programs and Diploma arrears policy . . . . 50, 62 Attendance ...... 47 study abroad ...... 37-38 Disabilities, services for students Introduction...... 12 Auditing...... 45 with ...... 53 Grades...... 44-45 Awards and honors, student GLS ...... 42 Grants and scholarships. . . . 64-66 LS...... 26
7 6 • IND EX Grievances, student ...... 45, 47 N T Guest accommodations...... 58 New York University Telephone numbers, frequently Administration ...... 9-11 called ...... 75 Board of Trustees ...... 10-11 Testing, required ...... 58-59 Deans and directors ...... 10 H Introduction ...... 5-11 Transcripts, official ...... 49 Health insurance ...... 54, 61-62 Map ...... 72-73 Transition requirements and Services ...... 14 Health services ...... 54 procedures, LS...... 25 Travel directions...... 74 Housing ...... 53 Travel directions to the Washington Square campus . . . 74 O Tuition and fees...... 61-63 I Online course registration TuitionPay plan ...... 63 Immunization (Albert) . . . 24, 39, 44, 45, 49, 62 requirements ...... 50-51 Independent study ...... 47 V International credentials, appli- P Veterans benefits...... 51 cants with Plagiarism ...... 47, 48 GLS ...... 57 Visas, student ...... 59 LS ...... 55-56 International programs and study R abroad Readmission of former W GLS ...... 37-38 students ...... 59 Wasserman Center for Career LS...... 23 Services...... 53, 65 Refund of tuition . . . . . 45, 62-63 International Students and Weapons and firearms policy . . 50 Scholars, Office for ...... 53 Religious and spiritual resources ...... 53 Wellness Exchange . . . . 14, 54, 75 Introduction to Withdrawal from courses. . . 62-63 Global Liberal Studies B.A. . 12 Religious policies ...... 47 Liberal Studies Program. . . . 12 Residency requirement, LS . . . . 22 Writing Center...... 48 New York University . . . . 5-11 Resident assistantships ...... 65 Writing proficiency requirement ...... 22, 44
L S Leave of absence ...... 49 Safety on campus ...... 53 Y Liberal Studies Advising Yellow Ribbon GI Education Center...... 24, 39 Scholarships and grants . . . . 64-66 Enhancement Programs ...... 51 Liberal Studies Services, New York Academic policies and University...... 14 procedures...... 44-51 Student activities...... 14, 52-53 Academic program . . 12, 16-22 Advisement, academic . . . . . 24 Student conduct and Awards and honors...... 26 discipline...... 48-49 International programs and Student life resources...... 52-53 study abroad...... 23 Introduction...... 12 Study abroad and international Transition requirements and programs New York University is an affirmative procedures ...... 25 GLS ...... 37-38 action/equal opportunity institution. LS...... 23 Produced by Advertising and Publications, Libraries ...... 8 Summer session ...... 50 New York University. Loans ...... 66
M Map...... 72-73
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