Gallatin School of Individualized Study { NEW YORK UNIVERSITY } Table of Contents 3 • An Invitation from the Dean 5 • Introduction 13 • Academics 23 • Resources and Programs CREATEown your New York University Volume 26, Number 6, September 17, 2011 New York University (USPS-000-422) is published by the New York University Offi ce of Undergraduate PATH Admissions, 665 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10012-2339, once in April and six times in September. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY, and at additional entry offi ces. Postmaster: Send address changes to New York University, Offi ce of Undergraduate Admissions, 665 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10012-2339. In keeping with NYU’s commitment to sustainability, this publication is printed on FSC®-certifi ed paper. (The FSC trademark identifi es products containing fi ber from well-managed forests that are certifi ed in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council™.) For more information about NYU’s Green Action Plan, go to www.nyu.edu/about/green.html. New York University is an affi rmative action/equal opportunity institution. Principal photography by Nick Johnson. Other photography by Bob Handelman and Casey Kelbaugh. { GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY } • II • • 1 • { An invitation from the dean reativity, fl exibility, and rigor characterize the academic program of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. At Gallatin, you will have the opportunity to combine the best of a small college experience with the best of a large research Cuniversity. A Gallatin education is unique. The individualized structure of the program and its relationship to the rest of NYU are part of what makes the school so special. What does Gallatin make possible? ■ At Gallatin, you will work closely with your faculty adviser to design your own undergraduate program of study, which will include an area of concentration that you defi ne. ■ At Gallatin, you will have the opportunity to select courses from among all of NYU’s distinct undergraduate schools, colleges, and programs. ■ In Gallatin’s interdisciplinary seminars and small classes, you will be encouraged to rethink the connections between the different areas of study that compel you. ■ At Gallatin, you will explore multiple opportunities for learning outside the traditional classroom, such as internships, independent studies, and private lessons in the arts. These allow you to develop practical knowledge in your areas of interest and to link these interests to the wider world. ■ As a Gallatin student, you will view New York City—a place for limitless discovery— as your extended classroom. As a member of our urban community, you will also explore ways to contribute to the city. Study at Gallatin will broaden your intellectual horizons while giving you a chance to gain experience in areas that may represent your future career. With internships and other work experience, many Gallatin students fi nd they have gained signifi cant professional experience in their chosen fi elds before they fi nish their college years. Through our excellent advising system, we pair you with a faculty mentor who will help you construct an academic concentration that has depth and breadth. Along with these possibilities, we enable you learn to think critically by offering seminars on signifi cant world texts from the great books tradition and beyond. We make it possible for you to combine work in the arts and performance with a liberal arts undergraduate experience; we make it possible for you to specialize in advanced areas of research while also broadening your understanding of the contexts of such knowledge. If you are looking for an intellectually challenging, interdisciplinary, and creative program, I welcome you to learn more about Gallatin. Susanne L. Wofford Dean, Gallatin School of Individualized Study • 2 • GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZ The Gallatin School ofSTUDY Individualized Study, a small, innovative college at NYU, is for students who wish to push the boundaries of their education. Rather than majoring in one area of study, you’ll create an individualized concentration encompassing one or more disciplines. By combining Gallatin’s high academic standards with your own exploration, you and your faculty adviser will develop your concentration and program of study. Your academic path will include liberal arts courses from Gallatin and the College of Arts A professor gives students feedback on their group project at the end of his fi rst-year interdisciplinary seminar. and Science; freedom to take courses in NYU’s various colleges; study away; and study opportunities outside the classroom, such as internships and independent study. • 4 • • 5 • An Overview Learning Beyond the Classroom Gallatin will enable you to design an academic program that suits To complement your course work, you can also incorporate a your unique interests and goals while providing you with a strong variety of individualized projects, such as internships, independent foundation in the liberal arts. The freedom and fl exibility of the studies, tutorials, and private lessons in the performing or visual arts. Gallatin curriculum creates exciting academic challenges in and Through internships, all of New York City becomes your { innovative } out of the classroom. classroom: for example, you can intern at a publishing company, a television station, a museum, a hospital, a fi nancial institution, A Liberal Arts Foundation a Web design company, or a theatre. Besides helping you decide if Gallatin’s emphasis on individualized study is balanced by an a particular fi eld is right for you, an internship provides fi rsthand equally strong commitment to a liberal arts education. You experience that can often lead to a full-time position after will complete a liberal arts core that combines Gallatin’s courses graduation. Independent study provides you with the opportunity in writing, signifi cant texts, the history of ideas, the arts, and to design your own project and work one on one with a professor interdisciplinary studies with course offerings chosen from who is an expert in the fi eld. In tutorials, small groups of students the various departments in the College of Arts and Science. work closely with an instructor on a common topic, project, or skill. Through private lessons, you may opt to receive academic credit for Creating a Unique Concentration studies at performing or visual arts studios in the New York area. As a Gallatin student, you will develop a unique concen- tration based on your own academic and professional goals. Personalized Mentorship and Faculty Advising A concentration, which takes the place of a traditional major, As a school of individualized study, Gallatin places a great deal is a program of study organized around a theme, problem, of emphasis on providing superior, personalized advising to activity, period of history, area of the world, or central idea. each student. With more than 4,500 New York University courses Gallatin students create concentrations around a diverse array from which to choose and the opportunity to develop your own of subjects: from literature and religion to community building internships, independent studies, and tutorials, you will fi nd that through the arts, from Latin America and Asia in the 17th century one of the most important people in your life at Gallatin is your to the politics of communications, from African American academic adviser. You will be teamed with an NYU faculty member history and public policy studies to neuroscience and philosophy. who has expertise in your area of concentration. Your adviser will Through their studies, students often explore new interests and help you plan your schedule and ensure that your program has discover creative ways to integrate them into their education. depth, breadth, and coherence as well as the elements that will help Since you will take courses in other NYU colleges as well as at you reach your educational and professional goals. Your academic Gallatin, you will fully explore all that the University has to offer. adviser will become your guide, teacher, career counselor, and, above all, intellectual mentor. A student with a concentration in entertainment administration and broadcast journalism runs a movie screening for her fi lm studio internship. • 6 • • 7 • The Gallatin Community at New York University As a small college within a highly regarded research university, ‘Iolani Lightbourne Gallatin will provide you and your classmates with the best of both { worlds. Our small size—1,350 undergraduate and 200 graduate Concentration: Africana Studies, Marketing, and Communications students—creates a strong sense of community among students and faculty and will allow you to develop lasting relationships with olani Lightbourne learned early in her Gallatin career your professors, advisers, and classmates. At the same time, access that life-shaping inspiration could come from almost to all of New York University means that you will have virtually ‘ any class or academic experience. “It was actually one of unlimited resources—a wide variety of courses taught by world- I my required freshman-year writing seminars that sparked renowned scholars, excellent facilities and research institutes, and the idea for my concentration,” she says. “We read an all of the resources of New York City—at your doorstep. essay called ‘How It Feels to Be Colored Me,’ in which Zora Extraordinary Students Neale Hurston describes her process of self-discovery as an African American woman in the often