Liberal Arts Requirement

Gallatin Courses

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
K20.1103 Pride and Power
K20.1113 The Spirit of the Comic
K20.1197 Narratives of African Civilizations
K20.1253 Shakespeare on the Uses of This World
K20.1289 Narrative Investigations II
K20.1318 Shakespeare and the London Theatre
K20.1331 Readings in Asian & Comparative Philosophy
K20.1351 Behind the Mask I: Exteriority
K20.1368 Arabic Poetry
K20.1387 The Photographic Imaginary
K20.1388 Thinking About Seeing
K20.1389 Sappho and David
K20.1390 American Shakespeare
K20.1397 The Powerless Empowered
K20.1408 Leviathans, Lovers and Libertines
K20.1413 Moral Behavior
K20.1415 Swing Down
K20.1417 Politics and the Gods
K20.1454 The Iliad
K20.1464 In Full Effect: Hip Hop Culture
K20.1471 Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World
K20.1483 The Public Theatre and the Village
K20.1500 Moses and Modernity
K20.1504 Guilty Subjects
K20.1505 Russian Revolutionaries
K20.1515 Homer/Ellison: The Odyssey and Invisible Man
K20.1420 Reading Poetry
K20.1421 Wallace Stevens and the 20th Century
K20.1433 The Simple Life
K20.1443 Theorizing Popular Culture
K20.1444 Looking at Popular Culture
K20.1507 Abroad at Home

Social Science
K20.1055 The Struggle for the Word
K20.1157 Speech, Silence and the Struggle for Identity
K20.1193 Culture as Communication
K20.1248 Thinking Politically
K20.1299 Objectivity & Journalism Revolution
K20.1306 Critical Social Theory
K20.1379 Liberalism and Sexuality in America
K20.1380 Three Revolutions: Haiti, Mexico and Cuba
K20.1381 Creative Democracy
K20.1382 Coming-of-Age in America
K20.1412 Yellow Peril
K20.1470 (Re)Imagining Latin America
K20.1475 American Politics After 9/11
K20.1508 Societies and Cultures of the Middle East
K20.1509 The Streetroots of Latin America I


Science
K20.1298 Ecology and Environmental Thought
K20.1311 Mad Science/Mad Pride
K20.1358 Rethinking Science
K20.1514 Science and Religion
K20.1516 Understanding the Universe
K40.1107 Experiential Anatomy for Performers

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