Liberal Arts Foundation

To fulfill the liberal arts foundation, students may take courses in several departments and programs of the University, as well as in Gallatin. To see the list of Gallatin interdisciplinary seminars being offered this term that may be counted toward the liberal arts foundation, please visit Gallatin’s course listing page.

Below is a list of NYU departments and courses that satisfy an area of the liberal arts foundation. NYU courses that are not included in the list below will NOT be counted toward the liberal arts foundation.

Humanities

CAS Departments and Programs

• Africana Studies, SCA-UA 101-199
• American Studies, SCA-UA 201-299
• Art History, ARTH-UA
• Asian/Pacific/American Studies, SCA-UA 301-399
• Classics, CLASS-UA
• Comparative Literature, COLIT-UA
• Dramatic Literature, DRLIT-UA
• East Asian Studies, EAST-UA
• English, ENGL-UA
• European & Mediterranean Studies, EURO-UA
• French, FREN-UA
• German, GERM-UA
• Hebrew Language and Literature, HBRJD-UA
• Hellenic Studies, HEL-UA
• History, HIST-UA
• Irish Studies, IRISH-UA
• Italian, ITAL-UA
• Medieval & Renaissance Studies, MEDI-UA
• Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, MEIS-UA
• Music, MUSIC-UA
• Philosophy, PHIL-UA
• Religious Studies, RELST-UA (all courses with the exception of Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion, RELST-UA 1, which fulfills the social science requirement)
• Russian and Slavic Studies, RUSSN-UA
• Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature, SPAN-UA
• Morse Academic Plan, MAP-UA 400–599, 700-799

Social Science

CAS Departments and Programs

• Animal Studies, ANST-UA
• Anthropology, ANTH-UA (all courses with the exception of Human Evolution, ANTH-UA 2, which fulfills the math/science requirement)
• Child/Adolescent Mental Health, CAMHS-UA
• Economics, ECON-UA (all courses with the exception of Statistics, ECON 18, which fulfills the math/science requirement)
• Gender and Sexuality Studies, SCA 401-499
• International Relations, INTRL-UA
• Journalism, JOUR-UA
• Law and Society, LWSOC-UA
• Linguistics, LING-UA
• Metropolitan Studies, SCA-UA 601-699
• Politics, POL-UA (all courses with the exception of Quantitative Methods in Political Science, POL-UA 800, which fulfills the math/science requirement)
• Psychology, PSYCH-UA (all courses with the exception of Statistical Reasoning for the Behavioral Sciences, PSYCH-UA 9, and Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, PSYCH-UA 10, both of which fulfill the math/science requirement)
• Sociology, SOC-UA
• Morse Academic Plan, MAP-UA 600–699

CAS Course (in addition to the departments listed above)

• Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion, RELST-UA 1

Steinhardt Courses

• Art and City: A Sociological Perspective (LIBAR-UE 201)
  
• Culture Wars in America (LIBAR-UE 551)
• Developmental Psychology Across the Lifespan (LIBAR-UE 633)
• Education and the American Dream (LIBAR-UE 552)
• History of Communication (LIBAR-UE 592)
• History of the Professions in the United States (LIBAR-UE 553)
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration (LIBAR-UE 531)
• Introduction to Education (LIBAR-UE 554)
• Introduction to Human Communications & Culture (LIBAR-UE 593, MCC-UE 5)
• Introduction to Media Studies (LIBAR-UE 591, MCC-UE 1)
• Introduction to Personality Theories (LIBAR-UE 632)
• Power, Resistance Identity: American Social Movements (LIBAR-UE 202)
• Survey of Developmental Psychology (LIBAR-UE 631)

MATH OR SCIENCE

CAS Departments and Programs

• Biology, BIOL-UA
• Chemistry, CHEM-UA
• Computer Science, CSCI-UA
• Environmental Studies, ENVST-UA
• Mathematics, MATH-UA
• Neural Science, NEURL-UA
• Physics, PHYS-UA
• Morse Academic Plan, MAP-UA 100–399

CAS Courses (in addition to the departments listed above)

• Human Evolution, ANTH-UA 2
• Statistics, ECON 18
• Quantitative Methods in Political Science, POL-UA 800 
• Statistical Reasoning for the Behavioral Sciences, PSYCH-UA 9
• Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, PSYCH-UA 10