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. 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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.