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The Gallatin School ofIndividualized Study1 Washington Place, NewYork, NY 10003-6806 212-998-7370 www.gallatin.nyu.eduGALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYGraduate students at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study work closely with facultyadvisers to forge their intellectual interests into a rigorous liberal arts education. Students developtheir own programs of study by combining Gallatin’s core curriculum of small, stimulatinginterdisciplinary seminars and workshops with courses in other NYU schools.Additionally, students are given the opportunity to pursue independent studies (one-ononeprojects with faculty), tutorials (small group projects), private lessons and internships.Conveniently situated within the heart of New York City, Gallatin provides a variety ofways in which students can use the city as an extended classroom as they develop their capacitiesfor critical thinking, effective communication and creative work. Students experiencea flexible but rigorous education as they pursue advanced study in interdisciplinarymodes of thought.With just over 1,400 undergraduate students and approximately 200 graduate students,Gallatinenjoys the benefits of being a relatively small school housed within a major research university.Gallatin’s faculty is renowned for their excellence in teaching, research and advising,and students additionally have access to a number of outstanding faculty in other NYU schools.A HISTORYThe School is named after one of the founders of NYU,Albert Gallatin, who served as secretaryof the treasury under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Gallatin heldthe iconoclastic view that a university should not be an elitist institution to train ministersand the sons of the aristocracy, as was the common purpose of colleges of the day. He believedNew York City needed a college that would serve a varied urban population, childrenof immigrants and artisans. It was to be a school that would “elevate the standard oflearning and . . . render knowledge more accessible to the community at large.” In 1831,Gallatin’s dream was realized, and NewYork University was founded.Just as in the 19th century, the late 20th century called for new innovations in higher education.Many people felt that traditional undergraduate programs were creating studentswho were passive consumers of knowledge. In 1972, NYU responded by founding an experimentalprogram called the UniversityWithoutWalls (UWW).The UWW experiment—renamed the Gallatin Division in 1976—encouraged students to create their ownindividualized studies, work closely with faculty, initiate unique projects and experimentwith different areas of knowledge across the disciplines and professions.NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 17
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYOver the next three decades, this experiment would be transformed into a finely tunededucational approach that has developed a national reputation for its unique combinationof flexibility and high standards.The Gallatin School of Individualized Study gained officialschool status at NYU in 1995 and has graduated more than 8,650 students with bachelor’sand master’s degrees.The Gallatin School boasts an excellent core faculty of committedteacher-advisers, as well as a distinguished group of faculty advisers from all over NYU andartists and scholars from around NewYork City.An IndividualizedEducation:An OverviewThe cornerstone of the Gallatin School is its individualized approach to education. Gallatingraduate students enjoy an unusual degree of freedom to design their own individualizedprograms of study, with relatively few requirements and a wide range of opportunities.Theypursue their academic and artistic interests by taking courses in the various schools of NewYork University, engaging in self-directed education through independent studies and tutorialsand participating in experiential learning through internships at New York City’scountless institutions, businesses and arts organizations.This freedom to make of one’s education what one will, rather than being handed aprepackaged program filled with requirements and outdated assumptions about what oneshould do, presents students with a great challenge as well as a great opportunity. Meetingthis challenge makes higher education a relevant and meaningful experience. It also preparesstudents well for a life in which they may have more than one career and may even live onmore than one continent.CREATING AN INDIVIDUALIZED PROGRAMThe process of creating an individualized program begins with the student and the adviserdiscussing the student’s interests,goals and past experiences.Before registering for courses eachsemester, students articulate their educational goals and their strategies for achieving thosegoals in a Plan of Study, a document that identifies both the learning options they have chosen(courses, independent studies, etc.) and the rationale for their choices. Discussions withthe adviser also help students to integrate the many educational opportunities available tothem and to make sense of the shape and direction of their own individualized program.INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDYWhile specialization is a common characteristic of the contemporary world and the modernuniversity, the division of knowledge into academic departments often fragments thelearning experience. Little or no attention is given to how what one is studying in anEnglish course relates to one’s studies in a science or a history course. Gallatin’s interdisciplinaryapproach encourages graduate students to attend to the connections between the var-18 NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013
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