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Arts Workshops
Gallatin offers a large variety of arts workshops in music, dance, theatre, and the visual arts. These workshops are taught by successful New York City artists, performers, and writers; they are designed for both beginning and advanced students.
First-Year Program
All students who enter Gallatin with fewer than 32 units are required to take three courses that constitute the First-Year Program: a First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar, which introduces students to the goals, methods, and philosophy of university education and to the interdisciplinary, individualized approach of the Gallatin School, and a two-semester writing sequence, which prepares students for the kinds of writing they will be doing in their other courses.
Interdisciplinary Seminars
The core component of the undergraduate curriculum, interdisciplinary seminars focus on major issues or themes in—and across—the humanities and arts, social sciences, and sciences. Through these seminars, students encounter a range of important historical periods and fields, and develop a global component to their studies.
Practicums
These hands-on courses emphasize a practical approach to a particular industry.
Advanced Writing Courses
In a workshop format with no more than 15 students, the advanced writing courses engage students in a wide variety of writing exercises and offer an opportunity to share work with fellow students and a practicing professional writer/teacher.
Individualized Projects, Undergraduate
Gallatin offers students an opportunity to pursue their interests through a variety of alternatives outside the traditional classroom: independent study, tutorials, internships, and private lessons.
Graduate Core
Graduate students are required to take a proseminar, which introduces them to theories and methodologies in the humanities, social sciences or arts, and a thesis seminar, which helps them prepare their thesis proposal.
Graduate Electives
Graduate electives are available in a variety of fields, including arts, creative writing, and social theory and methods. Most of these courses are open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
Individualized Projects, Graduate
Global
Gallatin students may take advantage of several forms of global learning. Whether they spend three weeks in India as part of a Gallatin travel course or an entire semester in Paris studying French literary movements, Gallatin students return to NYU's Washington Square campus with expanded academic and cultural horizons.