New York University Bulletin 2011-2013 New York University Bulletin 2011-2013 Graduate School of Arts and Science Announcement for the 126th and 127th sessions New York University Washington Square New York, New York 10003 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 French . 181 Spanish and Portuguese Science: Administration, French Studies, Institute of. 191 Languages and Literatures . 388 Departments, Programs . 5 German . 199 Study of the Ancient World, History of the Graduate School . 7 Institute for the . 4.98 Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University and New York . 8 Skirball Department of . .203 Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies . 4.01 Academic Calendar . 11 History . 213 Admission, Registration, Departments and Programs Humanities and Social Thought, and Degree Requirements . 4.04. John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Africana Studies . 14. Master’s Program in . 123 Financing Graduate Education . 4.13 American Studies . 19 Irish and Irish-American Studies . 229 University Directory . 4.19 Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies . 23 Italian Studies . 234. Degree and Certificate Programs as Registered by the State Anthropology . 25 Journalism, Arthur L. Carter of New York . 4.23 Journalism Institute Programs in . 24.1 Art History . 36 General Index . 4.27 Latin American and Caribbean Atmosphere Ocean Science, Studies, Center for . 253 Schools and Colleges of Center for . 39 New York University . 4.29 Library Science . 259 Basic Medical Sciences . 4.2 Linguistics . .260 Bioethics, Center for . 59 Mathematics . 267 Biology . 61 Middle Eastern and Biomaterials Science . 70 Islamic Studies . 283 Chemistry . 74. Museum Studies . .290 Cinema Studies . 80 Music . 295 Classics . 90 Near Eastern Studies, Hagop Comparative Literature . 96 Kevorkian Center Program in . .303 Computational Biology . 100 Neural Science, Center for . .307 Computer Science . 102 Performance Studies . 311 Culture and Media . 115 Philosophy . 316 East Asian Studies . 127 Physics . 323 Economics . 132 Poetics and Theory . 332 English . 14.4. Politics . 334. Creative Writing . 119 Psychology . 34.9 Environmental Health Sciences . 155 Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis . 369 European and Mediterranean Religious Studies. 373 Studies, Center for . 169 Russian and Slavic Studies . 377 Fine Arts, Institute of . 172 Sociology . 381 CONTENTS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4 Administration, Departments, Programs ADMINISTRATION Economics Psychology Professor Alessandro Lizzeri, Chair Professor Greg Murphy, Chair Malcolm N. Semple, B.Sc., Ph.D. Acting Dean English Russian and Slavic Studies Associate Professor G. Gabrielle Starr, Chair Professor Eliot Borenstein, Chair Roberta S. Popik, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. Associate Dean for Graduate Institute of Fine Arts Social and Cultural Analysis Enrollment Services Professor Patricia L. Rubin, Director Professor Mary Louise Pratt, Chair Kathleen T. Talvacchia, B.S., M.Ed., Ed.D. French Sociology Assistant Dean for Academic Professor Denis Hollier, Chair Professor Jeff Manza, Chair and Student Life German Spanish and Portuguese Languages David P. Giovanella, B.A., M.A. Professor Eckart Goebel, Chair and Literatures Assistant Dean of Enrollment Services Associate Professor Sibylle Fischer, Chair Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Director, GSAS Master’s College Professor David Engel, Chair Catharine R. Stimpson, B.A.; B.A., M.A. History INTERDISCIPLINARY [Cantab.], Ph.D.; hon.: D.H.L., Hum.D., Professor Joanna Waley-Cohen, Chair Litt.D., LL.D. PROGRAMS Dean Emerita Italian Studies Ancient Near Eastern and Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Chair Egyptian Studies Professor Ann Macy Roth, Director Journalism of Graduate Studies GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS Professor Perri Klass, Chair Anthropology Ancient World Linguistics Professor Terry Harrison, Chair Professor Robert Bagnall, Director Professor Alec Marantz, Chair Biology Atmosphere Ocean Science Mathematics Professor Stephen J. Small, Chair Associate Professor Shafer Smith, Director Professor Yuri Tschinkel, Chair Biomaterials Science Basic Medical Sciences Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Professor Van P. Thompson, Chair Senior Associate Dean Joel D. Oppenheim, Associate Professor Everett Rowson, Chair Director Chemistry Music Professor Michael Ward, Chair Bioethics Professor Michael Beckerman, Chair Professor William Ruddick, Director Cinema Studies Neural Science Associate Professor Richard Allen, Chair Computational Biology Professor J. Anthony Movshon, Director Professor Michael J. Shelley, Director Classics Performance Studies Professor David Levene, Chair Creative Writing Associate Professor Karen Shimakawa, Professor Deborah Landau, Director Comparative Literature Chair Professor Jacques Lezra, Chair Culture and Media Philosophy Professor Faye Ginsburg, Director Computer Science Professor Don Garrett, Chair Professor Michael L. Overton, Chair Environmental Health Sciences Physics Professor Max Costa, Chair, Department East Asian Studies Professor David G. Grier, Chair of Environmental Medicine Professor Xudong Zhang, Chair Politics Ergonomics and Biomechanics Professor Michael Laver, Chair Professor Margareta Nordin, Director ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 5 European and Mediterranean Studies Associate Professor Larry Wolff, Director French Studies Professor Edward Berenson, Director Humanities and Social Thought Professor Robin Nagle, Director Irish Studies Professor Joe Lee, Director Latin American and Caribbean Studies Professor Ada Ferrer, Director 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 Anselm Haverkamp, Director Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Professor Lewis Aron, Director Religious Studies Associate Professor Angela Zito, Director Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies Professors Avital Ronell and Judith Alpert, Codirectors ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 6 History of the Graduate School: 125 Years and Counting 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: 125 YEARS AND COUNTING • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 7 New York University and New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY The Fales Library, a special collection best practices and disseminating them LIBRARIES within Bobst Library, is home to the throughout the archival community. unparalleled Fales Collection of English The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Beyond Bobst, the library of the and American Literature; the Food designed by Philip Johnson and Richard renowned Courant Institute of Studies Collection, a rich and grow- Foster, is the flagship of a six-library Mathematical Sciences focuses on ing trove of cookbooks, food writing, system that provides access to the world’s research-level material in mathematics, pamphlets, paper, and archives dating scholarship