New York University Bulletin 2017-2019 New York University Bulletin 2017-2019 Graduate School of Arts and Science Announcement for the 132nd and 133rd sessions New York University Washington Square New York, New York 10003 Website: 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 . 179 Sociology . 384 Science: Administration, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese Departments, Programs . 5 Skirball Department of . 183 Languages and Literatures . 391 History of the Graduate School . 7 History . 193 Study of the Ancient World, An Introduction to New York University. 8 Institute for the . 400 Humanities and Social Thought, New York University and New York . 9 John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Admission, Registration, Master’s Program in . .208 and Degree Requirements . 403 Academic Calendar . 11 International Relations . 211 Financing Graduate Education . 408 Departments and Programs Irish and Irish-American Studies . 230 Services and Programs . 412 Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies . 14 Italian Studies . 235 Community Service . 415 Anthropology . 16 Journalism, Arthur L. Carter University Directory . 416 Journalism Institute Programs in . 241 Art History . 28 Degree and Certificate Programs Latin American and Caribbean as Registered by the State Atmosphere Ocean Science, Studies, Center for . 255 of New York . 418 Center for . 31 Library Science . 261 Schools and Colleges of Basic Medical Sciences . 34 New York University . 422 Linguistics . 262 Biology . 49 Mathematics . .268 Chemistry . 59 Middle Eastern and Cinema Studies . 64 Islamic Studies . 287 Classics . 77 Museum Studies . 293 Comparative Literature . 84 Music . 299 Computer Science . 89 Near Eastern Studies, Hagop Creative Writing . 103 Kevorkian Center Program in . .305 Culture and Media . 106 Neural Science, Center for . .308 Data Science . 110 Performance Studies . 313 Digital Humanities and Philosophy . 319 Social Sciences . 115 Physics . 327 Economics . 119 Poetics and Theory . 335 English . 131 Politics . 337 Environmental Health Sciences . 141 Psychology . 348 European and Mediterranean Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis . 366 Studies, Center for . 157 Religious Studies. 370 Fine Arts, Institute of . 160 Russian and Slavic Studies . 374 French . 166 Social and Cultural Analysis . 378 French Studies, Institute of. 172 CONTENTS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 4 Administration, Departments, Programs ADMINISTRATION English Social and Cultural Analysis Associate Professor Thomas Augst, Chair Professor Jennifer Morgan, Chair Phillip Brian Harper, B.A., M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D. Dean Institute of Fine Arts Sociology Professor Christine Poggi, Director Professor Patrick Sharkey, Chair Roberta S. Popik, B.A., M.S., Ph.D. Associate Dean for Graduate Enrollment French Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Services and GSAS Administration Professor Sarah Kay, Chair Literatures Professor Jo Labanyi, Chair Allan Corns, B.A., B.S., M.A. German Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs Professor Christopher Wood, Chair David P. Giovanella, B.A., M.A. Hebrew and Judaic Studies INTERDISCIPLINARY Assistant Dean of Enrollment Services and Professor David Engel, Chair PROGRAMS Director, GSAS Master’s College History Ancient Near Eastern and Professor David Ludden, Chair Aida Gureghian, B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Egyptian Studies Assistant Dean, Students Italian Studies Professor Ann Macy Roth, Director of Catharine R. Stimpson, B.A.; B.A., M.A. Professor David Forgacs, Chair Graduate Studies [Cantab.], Ph.D.; hon.: D.H.L., Hum.D., Journalism Ancient World Litt.D., LL.D. Professor Ted Conover, Director Professor Alexander Jones, Director Dean Emerita Linguistics Atmosphere Ocean Science Professor Lisa Davidson, Chair Associate Professor Shafer Smith, Director GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS Mathematics Basic Medical Sciences Professor Bruce Kleiner, Chair Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences, Anthropology Naoko Tanese, Director Professor Susan Anton, Chair Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Professor Marion Katz, Chair Creative Writing Art History Clinical Professor Deborah Landau, Director Professor Dennis Geronimus, Chair Music Professor David Samuels, Chair Culture and Media Biology Professor Faye Ginsburg, Director Professor Justin Blau, Chair Neural Science Professor Eric Klann, Director Data Science Chemistry Professor Richard Bonneau, Director Professor James Canary, Chair Performance Studies Associate Professor André Lepecki, Chair Environmental Health Sciences Cinema Studies Professor Max Costa, Chair, Department of Professor Anna McCarthy, Chair Philosophy Environmental Medicine Professor Robert Hopkins, Chair Classics European and Mediterranean Studies Associate Professor Andrew Monson, Chair Physics Professor Larry Wolff, Director Professor Gregory Gabadadze, Chair Comparative Literature French Studies Professor Emily Apter, Chair Politics Professor Edward Berenson, Director Professor Alastair Smith, Chair Computer Science Humanities and Social Thought Professor Denis Zorin, Chair Psychology Associate Professor S. S. Sandu, Director Professor Peter Gollwitzer, Chair Economics International Relations Professor Sydney Ludvigson, Chair Russian and Slavic Studies Clinical Professor Michael John Williams, Associate Professor Anne Lounsbery, Chair Director ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS • GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCE • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 5 Irish and Irish-American Studies Professor Joe Lee, Director Latin American and Caribbean Studies Associate Professor Jill Lane, Director Library Science Professor Alice Flynn, Director (Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University) Museum Studies Clinical Professor Bruce J. Altshuler, Director Near Eastern Studies Professor Helga Tawil-Souri, Director Poetics and Theory Professor Avital Ronell, 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 believed that the University’s best Mirroring the cultural diversity of was founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell interests lay in its interactions with the New York City, the Graduate School MacCracken, a professor of philosophy city. By the early 1900s, the Graduate of Arts and Science is an urban, diverse, and logic, and vice-chancellor at New 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 the of young women and men to doctoral university in the public service.” second university in America to award programs. The first female graduate a Ph.D. on the basis of academic students entered the University in 1888. performance and examination. Today, women constitute over half of the over 5,000 master’s and Ph.D. In addition to the emphasis on excellence graduate students enrolled in our in research, MacCracken recognized departments and programs, as well as the urban environment as both source in a growing number of institutes and and inspiration for academic life. He 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 was to be a “national university” that operates a branch campus program in in 1831 by a group of eminent private would provide a “rational and practical Rockland County at St. Thomas Aquinas citizens was a historic event in American education for all.” College. Certain of the University's education. In the early 19th century, research facilities, notably the Nelson The result of the founders' foresight is a major emphasis in higher education Institute of Environmental Medicine, today a university that is recognized both was on the mastery of Greek and Latin, are located in Sterling Forest, near nationally and internationally as a leader with little attention given to modern or Tuxedo, New York. Although overall in scholarship. Of the more than 3,000 contemporary subjects. The founders of the University