THECOOPERUNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART COURSE CATALOG 2015|16 COOPER.EDU Cover photo: Wade Zimmerman A’XX THECOOPERUNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART COURSE CATALOG 2015|16 2 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART 2015–16 ACADEMIC CALENDAR January 18 Monday AND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday (Staff Holiday) January 19 Tuesday August 25 Tuesday Spring semester classes begin. Move-in day for Residence Hall NOTE: MODIFIED SCHEDULE; MONDAY CLASSES MEET August 25-August 30 Tuesday-Sunday January 27 Wednesday New student orientation There will be a $25 fee for Dropping classes after this date August 31 Monday February 12-15 Friday-Monday Fall semester classes begin Founder’s Day/President’s Day (Staff Holiday) September 4 Friday March 12-20 Saturday-Sunday No classes (Staff off for summer hours) Spring recess (administrative offices remain open) September 7 Monday April 19-22 Tuesday-Friday Labor Day (Staff Holiday) Registration for Fall 2016 classes September 8 Tuesday April 27 Wednesday Fall Festival (school in session) Last HSS/Engineering Wednesday Classes September 14 Monday April 28 Thursday There will be a $25 fee for Dropping classes after this date Last HSS/Engineering Thursday Classes October 12 Monday May 2 Monday Fall Breather (no classes, administrative offices remain open) Last HSS/Engineering Monday Classes October 13 Tuesday May 3 Tuesday NOTE: FRIDAY CLASSES MEET Last HSS/Engineering Tuesday Classes October 14 Wednesday May 6 Friday NOTE: MONDAY CLASSES MEET Last HSS/Engineering Friday Classes November 26-November 29 Thursday-Sunday May 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 Wednesday, Thursday, Monday-Wednesday Thanksgiving (Staff Holiday) Last meeting times for all architecture and art classes/crits. These continue in their regularly assigned rooms/spaces. November 30-December 4 Monday-Friday Final Exams for HSS and Engineering Registration for Spring 2016 classes May 11 Wednesday December 7-11 Monday-Friday NOTE: FRIDAY CLASSES, EXAMS AND CRITS MEET Last HSS/Engineering Classes Last day of Spring 2016 semester December 14-18 Monday-Friday May 12 Thursday Last meeting times for all architecture and art classes/crits. Senior grades due in the Office of Admissions and Records These continue in their regularly assigned rooms/spaces. before 4 pm. Final Exams for HSS and Engineering May 16 Monday December 18 Friday All non-senior grades are due in the Office of Last day of Fall 2015 semester Admissions and Records before 4 pm. December 19-January 18 Saturday-Monday May 23 Monday Winter recess; all schools Commencement rehearsal; annual student exhibition opens December 23-January 3 Wednesday-Sunday May 24 Tuesday Staff Holiday Commencement January 4 Monday May 30 Monday Administrative Offices reopen. All grades are due in the Memorial Day (Staff Holiday) Office of Admissions and Records before Noon July 4 Monday Independence Day Celebrated (Staff Holiday) 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2015–16 Academic Calendar 2 A Brief History 4 General Information 5 Programs 5 Facilities and Resources 5 Student Life 7 Admission Process 9 Tuition, Fees and Expenses 16 Financial Aid 17 Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards and Prizes 20 General Regulations 22 Code of Conduct 30 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture 34 Mission Statement 34 Bachelor of Architecture Professional Degree Curriculum 35 Academic Standards and Regulations 37 Master of Architecture II Post-Professional Degree Curriculum 40 Academic Integrity 42 Facilities and Resources 43 Courses 45 Faculty 47 The School of Art 49 Mission Statement 49 Bachelor of Fine Arts Curriculum 50 Academic Standards and Regulations 52 Facilities and Resources 55 Courses 58 Faculty 66 The Albert Nerken School of Engineering 68 Mission Statement 68 Overview 69 Facilities and Research 70 Bachelor of Engineering Curriculum 72 Master of Engineering Curriculum and Requirements 74 Honors and Special Programs 75 Academic Standards and Regulations 77 Grades of Record 78 Departments and Programs 81 Courses 94 Faculty and Advisory Council 114 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 118 Aims and Objectives 118 Academic Regulations 118 Courses 120 Faculty 130 Trustees, Officers, Deans, President’s Council, Administration, Emeriti, Alumni Association 131 Index 133 4 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART As one of the first colleges to offer a full-scholarship educa tion A BRIEF HISTORY both to men and women of working-class families, The Cooper Union was a pioneer long before access to education became The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, public policy. Cooper’s example motivated the founders of other established in 1859, is among the nation’s most distin guished prestigious colleges, such as Andrew Carnegie, Ezra Cornell and institutions of higher education. Matthew Vassar. Located in New York City’s East Village, The Cooper Union At first, The Cooper Union provided night classes for men is an all-honors college that provides a minimum of a 50% tuition and women in the applied sciences and architectural drawing. In scholarship to all undergraduates accepted. It offers degree addition, the Women’s Art School, open during the day, offered free programs in architecture, art and engineering and courses in art classes and training in the new occupations of photography, the humanities and social sciences. The Cooper Union has an telegraphy, “type-writing” and shorthand. enrollment of approximately 1,000 undergraduate students, Those classes—a landmark in American history and the all accepted on merit alone, and was the first college to forbid prototype for what is now called continuing education—have discrimination based on race, ethnicity or gender. The rigor of its evolved into the three distinguished schools that make up The three professional schools—The Irwin S. Chanin School of Archi- Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. tecture, the School of Art and the Albert Nerken School of Engi- Cooper, however, founded more than a college. From the neering—has made The Cooper Union one of the most selective beginning, The Cooper Union also provided a public reading room colleges in the nation. and library, and a meeting place for artists and inventors. In the Peter Cooper was a workingman’s son who had less than a historic 900-seat Great Hall, the public heard social and political year of formal schooling. Yet he went on to become an industri- reformers as well as free lectures on science and government. alist and an inventor; it was Peter Cooper who designed and built Before they were elected, Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, America’s first steam railroad engine. Cooper made his fortune Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama spoke in the cele- with a glue factory and an iron foundry. Later, he turned his entre- brated auditorium. Abraham Lincoln gave his “Right Makes preneurial skills to successful ventures in real estate, insurance, Might” speech from the Great Hall podium, earning him the railroads and telegraphy. Once, he even ran for president. nomination for the presidency. Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton and In the late 1850s, when Cooper was a principal investor and Barack Obama also spoke there as sitting presidents. Today, the first president of the New York, Newfoundland & London Tele- Great Hall continues as a home for public forums, cultural events graph Co., the firm undertook one of the 19th century’s monu- and community activities. mental technical enterprises—laying the first Atlantic cable. Many social and political movements were born in the Great Cooper also invented Jello—with help from his wife, Sarah, who Hall and the Cooper Union: the Red Cross and NAACP were added fruit to his clarified gelatin. convened here, suffragist Susan B. Anthony had her offices at As a boy, Peter Cooper learned carpentry, beer brewing and Cooper, and, recently, students in our school of engineering invented hat and coach making. But he was acutely aware of his lack of a cardboard box that can be folded and sealed in a single motion. “even a common education,” a deficiency that bothered him Peter Cooper’s dream was to give talented young people throughout his life. Though he later became one of America’s the one privilege he lacked—a good education. He also wanted richest men, he could not spell. So in 1800, as a nine-year- to make possible the development of talent that otherwise would old apprentice carriage-maker in New York City, he sought a have gone undiscovered. His dream—providing an education place where he could learn scientific techniques and theory to “equal to the best”—has come true. Since 1859, The Cooper supplement his innate inventiveness and manual skill. He found Union has educated thousands of artists, architects and engi- no such place. neers, many of them leaders in their fields. Today, his dream is As he became one of the most successful busi nessmen still our mission. of America’s Gilded Age, Cooper never forgot his beginnings or his lack of education. He thought children of immigrants and the working class deserved access to education. Inspired by a polytechnic school in Paris, he spent the last 30 years of his life creating and nurturing a school for the “boys and girls of this city, who had no better opportunity than I.” 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 5 GENERAL INFORMATION FACILITIES AND RESOURCES The Cooper Union comprises five buildings at Manhattan’s PROGRAMS Cooper Square, between Sixth and Ninth Streets and Third and Fourth Avenues. The following programs at The Cooper Union have been registered The Foundation Building At the center of this educational by the New York State Education Department. complex is the Foundation Building, the original structure which Program Hegis Code Degree was built under Peter Cooper’s supervision. Housed in the Architecture 0202 B.Arch.