In this course, we will explore a set of timeless questions about how society is, or should be, organized, based on close examinations of diverse thinkers and writers from different times and different cultures. The questions raised in this course will engage the moral, social, and political foundations of human relationships, the principles according to which people assemble into societies of different scales, and the bases for interaction among societies in a world of accelerating interdependence. By engaging texts that explore these questions from multiple perspectives, students reflect on several overarching issues, including how different societies have organized their economic and political institutions, how those societies fashion both shared identities and hierarchies of difference, how people experience themselves as “individuals” or as members of a collectivity, how they experience both time and space, and how they engage with others both locally and globally. Over the semester, students develop skills that are central to a liberal arts education, including reading carefully and thoughtfully, considering questions from more than one perspective, participating in respectful and serious intellectual explorations of difficult topics, developing oral presentation skills, and writing essays that make effective and appropriate use of the ideas of others as they present the students’ own ideas to different audiences of readers. Each week, students will meet twice as an entire class for lectures and once in smaller recitation sections led by one of New York University Shanghai’s Global Postdoctoral Fellows. Students receive 4 credits for the lecture and recitation.
Note: Special care and certain criteria go into the scheduling of your GPS recitation. Therefore, you will not be able to change your assignment.
You have been placed in a math level based on your high school records and the criteria here (under Mathematics Placement). Your math placement level will be sent to you via email in late July. If we do not yet have high school exam scores for you, you have been automatically placed into Precalculus pending review of your scores after receipt. If you wish to try and place into a higher level math course than where you were placed, you will have the opportunity to take a Math Placement Exam during Orientation. See details on the “Placement Exams” page.
For International Students:
All students are required to be proficient in Mandarin Chinese up to the Intermediate 2 level by graduation. If you are not yet at that level, it is strongly recommended that you take a Chinese course in your first semester. More information about the Chinese placement and courses can be found here.
For Chinese Students:
All domestic Chinese students are required to take the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Seminar course. More information about the EAP Seminar can be found here.
You can review the list of all the elective courses here and add those you are considering taking into the Albert Shopping Cart. This elective course cannot have a time conflict with your other courses, so we suggest that you select your elective course after receiving your GPS schedule in late July.
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