New York University Bulletin 2013-2015 New York University Bulletin 2013-2015 Graduate School of Arts and Science Announcement for the 128th and 129th sessions New York University Washington Square New York, New York 10003 Website: www.gsas.nyu.edu 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. Contents Graduate School of Arts and German . 186 Spanish and Portuguese Science: Administration, Languages and Literatures . 387 Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Departments, Programs . 5 Skirball Department of . 191 Study of the Ancient World, History of the Graduate School . 7 Institute for the . 399 History . 202 An Introduction to New York University. 8 Admission, Registration, Humanities and Social Thought, and Degree Requirements . 402 New York University and New York . 9 John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in . 216 Financing Graduate Education . 411 Academic Calendar . 11 Irish and Irish-American Studies . 222 Services and Programs . 415 Departments and Programs Italian Studies . 227 Community Service . 419 Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies . 14 Journalism, Arthur L. Carter University Directory . 420 Journalism Institute Programs in . 233 Anthropology . 16 Degree and Certificate Programs Latin American and Caribbean as Registered by the State Art History . 28 Studies, Center for . 245 of New York . 422 Atmosphere Ocean Science, Library Science . 250 Travel Directions to the Center for . 31 Washington Square Campus . 426 Linguistics . 251 Basic Medical Sciences . 34 General Index . 427 Mathematics . 258 Bioethics, Center for . 52 Schools and Colleges of Middle Eastern and Biology . 55 New York University . 430 Islamic Studies . 275 Chemistry . 64 Museum Studies . 281 Cinema Studies . 69 Music . 286 Classics . 81 Near Eastern Studies, Hagop Comparative Literature . 87 Kevorkian Center Program in . 293 Computer Science . 91 Neural Science, Center for . 297 Culture and Media . 105 Performance Studies . 301 Creative Writing . 109 Philosophy . .308 Data Science . 112 Physics . 316 East Asian Studies . 115 Poetics and Theory . 324 Economics . 119 Politics . 326 English . 131 Psychology . 340 Environmental Health Sciences . 142 Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis . 358 European and Mediterranean Religious Studies. 362 Studies, Center for . 157 Russian and Slavic Studies . .366 Fine Arts, Institute of . 160 Social and Cultural Analysis . 370 French . 168 Sociology . 379 French Studies, Institute of. 179 CONTENTS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4 Administration, Departments, Programs ADMINISTRATION Institute of Fine Arts Sociology Professor Patricia L. Rubin, Director Professor Guillermina Jasso, Chair Lauren Benton, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. Dean French Spanish and Portuguese Languages Professor Benoit Bolduc, Chair and Literatures Roberta S. Popik, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. Associate Professor Georgina Dopico Associate Dean for Graduate German Black, Chair Enrollment Services Professor Eckart Goebel, Chair Kathleen T. Talvacchia, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D. Hebrew and Judaic Studies Associate Dean for Academic and Professor David Engel, Chair INTERDISCIPLINARY Student Affairs History PROGRAMS Professor Barbara Weinstein, Chair David P. Giovanella, B.A., M.A. Ancient Near Eastern and Assistant Dean of Enrollment Services and Italian Studies Egyptian Studies Director, GSAS Master’s College Professor Virginia Cox, Chair Professor Ann Macy Roth, Director of Graduate Studies Catharine R. Stimpson, B.A.; B.A., M.A. Journalism [Cantab.], Ph.D.; hon.: D.H.L., Hum.D., Professor Perri Klass, Director Ancient World Litt.D., LL.D. Professor Robert Bagnall, Director Linguistics Dean Emerita Professor Alec Marantz, Chair Atmosphere Ocean Science Associate Professor Shafer Smith, Director Mathematics GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS Professor Esteban Tabak, Chair Basic Medical Sciences Senior Associate Dean Anthropology Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Joel D. Oppenheim, Director Professor Terry Harrison, Chair Associate Professor Everett Rowson, Chair Bioethics Biology Music Professor Dale Jamieson, Director Professor Stephen J. Small, Chair Professor David Samuels, Chair Creative Writing Chemistry Neural Science Professor Deborah Landau, Director Professor Michael Ward, Chair Professor J. Anthony Movshon, Director Culture and Media Cinema Studies Performance Studies Professor Faye Ginsburg, Director Professor Richard Allen, Chair Associate Professor Karen Shimakawa, Chair Environmental Health Sciences Classics Professor Max Costa, Chair, Department Professor David Levene, Chair Philosophy of Environmental Medicine Professor Don Garrett, Chair Comparative Literature European and Mediterranean Studies Professor Jacques Lezra, Chair Physics Associate Professor Larry Wolff, Director Professor David G. Grier, Chair Computer Science French Studies Professor Michael L. Overton, Chair Politics Professor Edward Berenson, Director Professor David Stasavage, Chair East Asian Studies Humanities and Social Thought Professor Xudong Zhang, Chair Psychology Professor Robin Nagle, Director Professor Greg Murphy, Chair Economics Irish Studies Professor Alessandro Lizzeri, Chair Russian and Slavic Studies Professor Joe Lee, Director Professor Anne Lounsbery, Chair English Latin American and Caribbean Studies Professor Christopher Cannon, Chair Social and Cultural Analysis Professor Jill Lane, Director Professor Carolyn Dinshaw, Chair ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 5 Library Science Professor Alice Flynn, Director (Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University) Museum Studies Professor Bruce J. Altshuler, Director Near Eastern Studies Professor Michael Gilsenan, Director Poetics and Theory Professor Jacques Lezra, Director Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Professor Lewis Aron, Director Religious Studies Associate Professor Angela Zito, Director ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 6 History of the Graduate School Washington Square by Fernand Harvey Lungren (c.1890). Private Collection. Photograph courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. The Graduate School of Arts and Science life. He believed that the University’s Mirroring the cultural diversity of New was founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell best interests lay in its interactions York City, the Graduate School of MacCracken, a professor of philosophy with the city. By the early 1900s, the Arts and Science is an urban, diverse, and logic, and vice-chancellor at New Graduate School had introduced courses and internationally focused major York University. concerned with major global issues, research center, with students from and the curriculum reflected movement more than 100 countries. The Graduate MacCracken believed that universities toward progressive values. School still honors the ideal expressed should respond to the needs of modernity by Albert Gallatin, the University’s by giving unprecedented priority to MacCracken’s new vision of graduate first president, who articulated the advanced research and professional training attracted ever-growing numbers institution’s primary goal: “A private training. New York University was of young women and men to doctoral university in the public service.” the second university in America to programs. The first female graduate award a Ph.D. on the basis of academic students entered the University in performance and examination. 1888. Today, women constitute over half of the 4,500 master’s and Ph.D. In addition to the emphasis on graduate students enrolled in 54 excellence in research, MacCracken departments and programs, as well as recognized the urban environment as in a growing number of institutes and both source and inspiration for academic interdisciplinary research areas. HISTORY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 7 An Introduction to New York University The founding of New York University university was to be a "national univer- University operates a branch campus in 1831 by a group of eminent private sity" that would provide a "rational and program in Rockland County at St. citizens was a historic event in American practical education for all." Thomas Aquinas College. Certain of the education. In the early 19th century, University's research facilities, notably The result of the founders' foresight is a major emphasis in higher education the Nelson Institute of Environmental today a university that is recognized both was on the mastery of Greek and Latin, Medicine, are located in Sterling Forest, nationally and internationally as a leader with little attention given to modern or near Tuxedo, New York. Although in scholarship. Of the more than 3,000 contemporary subjects. The founders of overall the University is large, the colleges and universities in America, New York University intended to enlarge divisions