Liberal Arts Requirement

Gallatin Courses (Fall 2007)

As students plan their schedule, they should keep in mind the liberal arts requirement. Students are required to complete a minimum of 32 credits in the liberal arts as follows: First-Year Seminar (4 credits or one course); Expository Writing (8 credits or two courses—Writing Seminar I and II, or the equivalent); Humanities (8 credits or two courses); Social Science (8 credits or two courses); and Science or Math (4 credits or one course). Transfer students will have their transcripts reviewed upon admission to determine which, if any, of the liberal arts requirements they have fulfilled. Students transferring with more than 32 credits may take a Gallatin interdisciplinary seminar in lieu of the First-year Seminar.


To fulfill this requirement, students may take courses in several schools, departments, and programs of the University, as well as in Gallatin (see page 34 of the Gallatin Bulletin). Below is a list of Gallatin interdisciplinary seminars being offered this fall that may be counted toward the liberal arts requirement. In addition, students are urged to review their academic progress and degree requirements via the internet and the NYU Albert System: http://www.albert.nyu.edu/

Humanities
K20.1081 Contemporary Aesthetics
K20.1097 Inventing Modernity I
K20.1103 Pride and Power
K20.1107 Belief and Skepticism
K20.1113 The Spirit of the Comic
K20.1197 Narratives of African Civilizations
K20.1202 Tragic Visions
K20.1251 Sex, Gender, Nature, Culture
K20.1277 Alchemy and Transformation of the Self
K20.1331 Readings in Asian & Comparative Philosophy
K20.1341 Metaphor and Meaning
K20.1368 Arabic Poetry
K20.1371 Comedy: Ancient and Modern
K20.1384 Modernism and Imperialism
K20.1385 Black Cultural Studies
K20.1388 Thinking About Seeing Miller
K20.1390 American Shakespeare
K20.1399 American Bohemia
K20.1408 Leviathans, Lovers and Libertines
K20.1410 Satan and the Angels
K20.1411 What Was Conceptualism
K20.1413 Moral Behavior: Sentiment and Psychology
K20.1415 Swing Down
K20.1417 Politics and the Gods
K20.1418 Literary Geography
K20.1471 Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World
K20.1472 The Invention of Love
K20.1483 The Public Theatre and the Village

Social Science
K20.1043 The Image: History of Mass Media
K20.1063 The Meaning of Silence
K20.1119 Authority, Modernity and Democracy
K20.1193 Culture as Communication
K20.1249 Colonies, Empires, Nations, Globalization
K20.1299 Objectivity & Journalism Revolution
K20.1336 Contemporary Political Economy
K20.1379 Liberalism and Sexuality in America
K20.1381 Creative Democracy
K20.1409 The Postcolonial World & Legacies of Empire
K20.1412 Yellow Peril
K20.1419 Primary Texts: Plato and Machiavelli
K20.1470 (Re)Imagining Latin America


Science
K20.1298 Ecology and Environmental Thought
K20.1311 Mad Science/Mad Pride
K20.1460 Environmental Risk and Society
K20.1484 The Emergence of Mind: Who Am I?

CAS Departments

In addition to Gallatin School courses, students may fulfill the liberal arts requirement through courses offered in the following College of Arts and Science departments:

Humanities
Africana Studies
American Studies
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Classics
Comparative Literature
Dramatic Literature, Theatre History, and the Cinema
East Asian Studies
English
European Studies
Fine Arts
French
German
Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Hellenic Studies
History
Irish Studies
Italian
Music
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Near East Language & Literature
Philosophy
Portuguese
Religious Studies
Russian and Slavic Studies
Spanish
Morse Academic Plan (V55.0400 –.0599 and V55.0700–0799)

Social Science
Anthropology
Economics
Gender and Sexuality Studies
International Relations
Journalism and Mass Communication
Linguistics
Metropolitan Studies
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Morse Academic Plan (V55.0600–0699)

Science and Math
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth & Environmental Science
Mathematics
Neural Science
Physics