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The Gallatin School of Individualized Study,a small innovative school within New York University, began in 1970 and grew outof the educational reform movements of the late 1960s. As a small college withina highly regarded research institution, Gallatin provides the best of both worldsfor its 1,350 undergraduates and 200 graduate students. In close consultation withfaculty academic advisors, students create their own curriculum and unique plan forlearning, combining Gallatin’s own interdisciplinary courses with more traditionalcourses in various schools of NYU; self-directed education through independentstudies; and experiential learning through internships at New York City’s numerousinstitutions, businesses and arts organizations.the Writing Program includes a curriculum of more than 30 courses eachsemester; a Writing Center staffed by undergraduate Peer Writing Assistants; theelectronic Writing Program News; a Guest Lecture Series; Writers in Progress andGallatin Teachers Reading events, at which members of the Gallatin community readfrom their own works; the Gallatin Review, an annual student literary and visual artsmagazine; and two Community Engagement Projects: the Literacy Project and GreatWorld Texts.the Literacy Project dates from 2001 and is comprised of a Literacy inAction course (co-sponsored by the Community Learning Initiative) that combinesthe study of the adult literacy/ESOL field with volunteer work at four partnerorganizations (University Settlement Society, Fortune Society, InternationalRescue Committee, and Turning Point Educational Center); a weekly writing classat University Settlement Society; publications of writing by adults, including theLiteracy Review, Refugee Writing, Writing What We Want, and Where I’m From, andthe annual all-day Literacy Review Workshops in Teaching Writing to Adults.Great World Texts, which began in fall 2008, consists of a collaborationbetween Gallatin Writing Program faculty and undergraduate mentors with teachersand students at several New York City public high schools, including Fannie LouHamer Freedom High School, in the Bronx, New Design High School and the HenryStreet School for International Studies, in downtown Manhattan. Together, facultyand students study a canonical or “contemporary classic” work and create andpresent writing projects—including essays, stories and poems—related to it.For further information, and/or a free copy of theLiteracy Review, email the Writing Program Director,June Foley: jaf3@nyu.eduLook for the Literacy Review,Volume 9 online at the Gallatinwebsite this summer!