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

K20.1071 Sound and Sense
K20.1081 Contemporary Aesthetics
K20.1097 Inventing Modernity I
K20.1103 Pride and Power
K20.1113 The Spirit of the Comic
K20.1122 Discourses of Love
K20.1197 Narratives of African Civilizations
K20.1229 Chinatown and the American Imagination
K20.1253 Shakespeare on the Uses of This World
K20.1258 The Ancient Theatre and Its Influences
K20.1328 Jung and Postmodern Religious Experience
K20.1330 Euripedes' Medea and Morrison's Beloved
K20.1357 The Qur'an
K20.1388 Thinking About Seeing
K20.1396 Nature and the Polis
K20.1408 Leviathans, Lovers and Libertines
K20.1410 Satan and the Angels
K20.1415 Swing Down
K20.1417 Politics and the Gods
K20.1471 Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World
K20.1478 The (Post)Colonial Arabic Novel
K20.1504 Guilty Subjects
K20.1433 The Simple Life
K20.1443 Theorizing Popular Culture
K20.1444 Looking at Popular Culture
K20.1523 Feminism, Empire, and the Postcolonial World
K20.1542 Motown Matrix
K20.1557 Religion and Modernity
K20.1558 The Travel Habit
K20.1562 Ancient Faces
K20.1563 Women's Text(tiles)
K20.1565 Critically Queer
K20.1569 Myths as Images
K20.1588 The Harlem Renaissance


Social Science
K20.1157 Speech, Silence and the Struggle for Identity
K20.1249 Colonies, Nations, Empires, Globalization
K20.1299 Objectivity & Journalism Revolution
K20.1306 Critical Social Theory
K20.1359 American Capitalism in the 20th Century
K20.1381 Creative Democracy
K20.1470 (Re)Imagining Latin America
K20.1521 Political Theology
K20.1527 Finance for Social Theorists
K20.1552 Sociology of Religion
K20.1555 Imagining India
K20.1559 Politics and Rhetoric


Science
K20.1059 Disease and Civilization
K20.1207 Origins of the Atomic Age
K20.1311 Mad Science/Mad Pride
K20.1316 Rethinking the Biological Sciences
K20.1514 Science and Religion

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