"Global Liberal Studies" 101

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>Here's what I know. According to this article I read with... Sexton I believe? Or someone on the faculty, when GLS first started in 2009 they got about 600 applicants which they narrowed down to about 60-70 kids. </p>

<p>Last year, for class of 2014, about 2.5% of NYU freshman were in GLS... 94 sudents. </p>

<p>GLS is similar to IR but incorporates more than just politics... it's more "liberal arts" than IR is apparently? </p>

<p>Anybody in this program? What more can I learn about it? Also, how can it help/hurt my chances of getting into a good graduate school OR getting a job/internship??</p>

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<p>I’m not in GLS, but I’ve researched a lot about it. To learn more about it, the best information is on NYU’s website, just do a simple google search of NYU GLS and it should come up. There’s also other interesting stuff on google. </p>

<p>In terms of graduate school/internship opportunities it doesn’t hurt your chances, as long as you study/try and get an internship in a field that GLS heavily supports. If you try and get a big time internship in a Hedgefund or something, GLS isn’t going to do many favors for you. But if you try and get an internship or go on to graduate school in a field that GLS is good for, you will have no problems. Also, an important thing to note is that you won’t be at any disadvantage or have an asterisk by your name because you went to GLS. It won’t hamper your future plans in any way.</p>

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<p>Very true. I was originally going to apply IR for NYU, but I thought IR would become a too common major that’s basically going to be another “business” degree and GLS would make give me a different label since GLS seems to incorporate IR and liberal arts. </p>

<p>I’m just concerned those who hire will be like “awesome NYU” followed by a “ummm… what’s GLS? Never heard of it FAIL”. </p>

<p>Exactly how difficult is it to get into GLS right now? I like surrounding myself with competitive and motivated people to get me to work even harder but if GLS isn’t very competitive I don’t know who I’ll be taking my classes with. Other than the “global” aspect, how does it differ from LSP?</p>

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<p>Hi. I couldn’t help but notice this thread (:
I’m a GLS kid, currently a freshman year. Global Liberal Studies Program is a selective program that picks only a handful of students a year. Our class size is smaller than the most, the biggest size I have is around 30 or so students. </p>

<p>In terms of major, you’re major is Global Liberal Studies. You can’t double major but can minor in just about anything. In GLS, we cover the 7 arts, just like the Roman/Greeks did: the art of expression (reading, writing, speaking), arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. GLS does focus on intensive writing/reading, but the workload isn’t that bad. In Social Foundation Class, we cover philosophy, history, critical reading and analysis. In addition, we also do a little bit of theology. In Cultural Foundation, we cover art history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural means. </p>

<p>Indeed, we do cover more than just about any other college in NYU and the students are competitive but very supportive nevertheless. The students here are highly educated and intellectuals, but I don’t need to tell you guys that. Oh, we also conduct classes in a seminar setting, most of the time, if you’re interested in that. </p>

<p>During your sophomore year, we get to take two seminar courses that you want to concentrate on. On your 3rd year, you go study abroad for the full year and master the language/culture. Some sites include: Shanghai, Paris, Florence, Madrid…etc. You can definitely check it out on the site: [NYU</a> > A & S > International Study](<a href=“http://gls.nyu.edu/page/studyabroad]NYU”>http://gls.nyu.edu/page/studyabroad). Finally on our fourth year, we conduct our senior thesis/project. </p>

<p>The only downside about the program is that it’s fairly new and not many people know it. Those who do know them realize that we are a prestigious program. So far there’s only 1 and 2nd year (and by next year, there will be juniors!) </p>

<p>TheKiwi, I was in your state once. I wanted to major in IR at NYU because it’s what I wanted to do and b/c it’s an honor’s program. You’re definitely right. At the end of the day, when you’re applying for grad school, if one kid from harvard has IR degree and so do you, chances are, they may pick the kid from harvard. But the thing with GLS is that it’s not a known major and the curriculum you learn here is far more than anyone can imagine. If you want to study law, we study books from More’s utopia to Machiavelli’s Prince to Plato’s Republic. As for jobs, I have to say, it doesn’t affect at all. The employer will probably ask you what the major is. More so, I believe, when people are reading your resume, they’d probably glance yours at the second time b/c of your major. It’s so unique and unknown that many may want to know more about it. </p>

<p>I hope that helped a little bit!
If you have any questions, I’ll try my best to help! (:</p>

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<p>I am in GLS too, I was really offended when people in College cOnfidentia was saying how GLS is lot easier to get in compared to CAS. (I am not saying thatCAS people as a whole are less competent… ! There are smart people- many of them - at NYU. It’s just that NYU is a HUGE school, and obviously… many not-so-smart people goes to NYU as well) </p>

<p>I got a lot higher score in SAT than most CAS people 2200range , and from what Iheard, most of my classmates have SAT scores around 2100 and up. And they have many AP scores. My colleagues, including myself, are fluent (or almost fluent) in at least one other language besides their mother tongue.</p>

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<p>A friend who quit GLS last year told me NYU hired some advertising agency to do a focus group on what is wrong with GLS. She and others were paid to go to a session where some woman kept kept asking what type of classes they’d like to take. Everyone told her they would like more electives, and that they didn’t like having to take the same remedial classes as liberal studies students. (History of the Universe is total joke. You never need to study for it. I used class time to study Arabic.) </p>

<p>No one seems to know what is going on here. Advisors keep telling us different things than what the teachers tell us about junior and senior year. Some advisors tell us to look at the courses posted online but everyone knows that these classes cannot be guaranteed because the teachers overseas are not fulltime porfessors of NYU. The dean seems to make up answers all the time and says whatever he thinks will keep us from quitting. Kathaab. Now the dean wants us to choose a concentration but then some advisors say that we don’t have to take any courses in our concentration once we chose it. Enta Magnoon?</p>

<p>A senior that went to Paris last year told me that GLS students got free credits because classes did not work out for them there. Classes that were promised never took place. Be quiet and do not complain, she was told. Here are your free credits. Happy now? You better be. Jeeb Fuluus! Floos. Floos. Floos. </p>

<p>Sorry, but GLS is like Happy Meal. Marketed to make you think you’ll be Lovin’ It, but then you eat and your stomach soon hurts from old greese and you realize it’s just packaging with no nutritional value inside. Everyone seems to be quitting this year. I don’t think I’m learning what will help me find a job that will pay enough to support me. Hopefully another school will admit me and accept some of my GLS credits. Inshallah.</p>