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OFFICES/SERVICES SPOTLIGHT

Office of Residential Education - Residential International Student Engagement (RISE)
Sponsored by the Office of Residential Education, RISE is a new initiative connecting international students with the NYU and NYC communities, while providing support and resources for a smooth transition to the United States.

Judson Memorial Church

In 1890 the cornerstone was laid for Judson Memorial Church. Reverend Edward Judson, DD commissioned architect Stanford White to create the building as a memorial to his father, Adoniram D. Judson, who served as one of the first American foreign missionaries. In the cornerstone, the Rev. Judson placed copies of a Bible that his father had translated into Burmese.

Africana Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Science

The Program in Africana Studies, which is administered by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, offers a wide range of courses on black experiences throughout the Diaspora - including Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the United States. The Africana Studies program is committed to the study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies.

American Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Science

The Program in American Studies offers courses of study leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy - designed to prepare students for advanced work and teaching in American studies. The program interprets "American" in a broad sense to include assessments of the historical role of the United States in the Americas and, more generally, in world affairs.

Asian/Pacific American Studies - CAS

The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program offers interdisciplinary courses focusing on the experience of Asian/Pacific Americans that cross the boundaries of literature, history, film criticism, art history, urban studies, and gender studies.

Center for Global Affairs - School of Continuing and Professional Studies

The Center for Global Affairs offers a Masters degree in Global Affairs, as well as a number of continuing education courses focused on preparing for a career in the international arena, and to increase awareness of the issues that affect international relations.

East Asian Studies - CAS

The Department of East Asian Studies at New York University offers courses on China, Japan and Korea. The focus of the undergraduate program is primarily on language, history and literature and the way in which these three civilizations have interacted with the Western world to reconstitute received cultures into modern societies.

European and Mediterranean Studies - CAS/ Graduate School of Arts and Science

The Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) offers a B.A. major and minor; an M.A. degree; and provides support (in the form of fellowships, workshops, and summer funds) to doctoral students in related disciplines from across the university. CEMS offers a course of study focusing on contemporary patterns of politics, culture, and society as well as on historical development in Europe.

Gender and Sexuality Studies - Faculty of Arts and Science

The undergraduate Program in Gender and Sexuality offers a broad interdisciplinary investigation of gender and sexuality as keys to understanding human experience, fully integrating the study of gender and sexuality in its core curriculum, and insistently extending the view beyond U.S. borders.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Science

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies offers an M.A. degree in the areas of Latin American and Caribbean studies with options in museum studies, a dual degree M.A.-J.D program with the School of Law, and a joint M.A. degree with the Department of Journalism. The center also provides fellowship support for graduate students and support for faculty and graduate student research, colloquia and conferences, and outreach programs focusing on primary and secondary education in the New York area.

Latino Studies Program - Faculty of Arts and Science

The Latino Studies Program possesses strength in the arts, research training, the presence of Chicano scholars and a bilingual emphasis whose aim is to produce knowledge about populations and communities of Latin American descent living in the United States, and to integrate this knowledge into the United States' understanding of itself. The program offers an undergraduate major and minor.

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Science

The Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies offers a course of study which focuses on the past and present of a diverse region of the world extending from North Africa to Central Asia and from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. It adopts interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to Middle Eastern societies from antiquity to the present day with particular focus on the period after the emergence of Islam.

Near Eastern Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Science

The Kevorkian Center's activities focus on the histories, politics, economies, religions, cultures and languages of the area stretching from North Africa to Central Asia, and seeks to foster the interdisciplinary study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and to enhance public understanding of the region.

The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies

The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies offers one of the most comprehensive Jewish Studies programs in North America, encompassing Hebrew language and literature as well as all facets of Jewish history and culture, from the ancient through the medieval to the modern. The program offers both an undergraduate B.A and B.S., as well as graduate programs leading to the M.A. and PhD degrees.