Liberal Arts Requirement

Gallatin Courses (Spring 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 summer and 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
K20.1061 Literary Forms: The Craft of Criticism
K20.1072 Poets in Protest
K20.1083 Slavery & Culture: US and Brazil
K20.1116 Fate & Free Will in the Epic Tradition
K20.1135 The Medieval Mind
K20.1181 A Sense of Place
K20.1216 Performing Politics & Minority Experience
K20.1238 The Anatomy of Love
K20.1258 The Ancient Theatre and Its Influences
K20.1263 American Road Trip
K20.1266 Ancient Indian Literature
K20.1289 Narrative Investigations II
K20.1314 Literary and Cultural Theory
K20.1318 Shakespeare and the London Theatre
K20.1328 Jung and Postmodern Religious
K20.1367 The Body in the Arabic Tradition
K20.1370 Popular Culture & Black Civil Rights
K20.1372 African Diasporic Art and Spirituality
K20.1373 Critical Approaches to Photography
K20.1374 The Birth of the World
K20.1375 Romantics and Revolutionaries
K20.1376 Memory and Forgetting
K20.1393 Trauma, Transmission, Postmemory
K20.1396 Nature and the Polis
K20.1397 The Powerless Empowered
K20.1399 American Bohemia
K20.1400 Autobiography: Study of the Self
K20.1432 The Meaning of Home

Social Science
K20.1074 The Caribbean: Crossroads & Creolization
K20.1144 Free Speech, Media Law, and Democracy
K20.1214 Cultural Resistance
K20.1313 Ethics for Dissenters
K20.1337 Beyond the Invisible Hand
K20.1342 Language, Globalization and the Self
K20.1359 American Capitalism in the 20th Century
K20.1394 Latinos and the Politics of Race
K20.1398 Birth Control
K20.1402 Ethnographic Fictions
K20.1406 Revolutionary Media: Theory and Practice
K20.1407 Television and Dissent
K20.1458 Walter Lippmann
K20.1459 Antonio Gramsci and the Power of Culture

Science
K20.1156 The Darwinian Revolution

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