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 winter and spring 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

K20.1072             Poets in Protest
K20.1116             Fate & Free Will in the Epic Tradition
K20.1135             The Medieval Mind
K20.1181             A Sense of Place
K20.1202             Tragic Visions
K20.1238             The Anatomy of Love
K20.1314             Literary and Cultural Theory
K20.1341             Metaphor and Meaning
K20.1369             Behind the Mask II
K20.1371             Ancient Comedy and Modern Thought
K20.1372             African Diasporic Art and Spirituality
K20.1466             The Philosophy of the Welfare State
K20.1468             Psychoanalysis and the Visual
K20.1482             Consuming the Caribbean
K20.1487             Performing Objects
K20.1503             Hemispheric Imaginings
K20.1522             Masculinities
K20.1528             Virtue and Villainy
K20.1529             Love as Language and Idea
K20.1533             Narratives of the Civil Rights Struggle
K20.1535             Narrating Memory, History and Place
K20.1537             Place and Memory
K20.1538             Reading and Theorizing Film
K20.1539             Travel Classics: Before Tourism
K20.1540             Power and Love in Shakespeare
K20.1541             Divine Indifference
K20.1542             Motown Matrix
K20.1544             Fanon and Revolutionary Existentialism
K20.1548             Modernity and Identity

Social Science

K20.1043             The Image: History of Media III
K20.1144             Free Speech, Media Law, and Democracy
K20.1188             Emergence of the Unconscious
K20.1300             Militaries and Militarization
K20.1313             Ethics for Dissenters
K20.1342             Language, Globalization and the Self
K20.1480             Dangerous and Intermingled
K20.1502             Everyday Life
K20.1513             New Deal Liberalism
K20.1520             The Streetroots of Latin America II
K20.1521             Political Theology
K20.1526             Explaining Ourselves
K20.1527             Finance for Social Theorists
K20.1530             Wall Street
K20.1536             Perversion
K20.1543             Imagining the Middle East
K20.1545             On Freud’s Couch
K20.1546             The Politics of Aesthetics
K20.1547             Oceania

Science

K20.1156             The Darwinian Revolution
K20.1294             Philosophy of Medicine
K20.1501             What is Biocultures?
K20.1519             Biology and Society
K20.1534             The Seen and Unseen in Science
K20.1532             Lives in Science


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