<p>What I'm about to ask may come off as stupid and ignorant, but the truth is that I just don't understand how courses in Stern are outlined by semester (I am an international student and the way things are done here are so different) -</p>
<p>How many classes does one take each semester to earn the required credits? Using the link below, I notice that there aren't many general education courses in the histories and the languages or whatever; so does that fall under electives?</p>
<p>They are not electives, you’re probably referring to MAP, the Morse Academic Plan. [NYU</a> > CAS > MAP > About the Program](<a href=“http://map.cas.nyu.edu/page/abouttheprogram]NYU”>http://map.cas.nyu.edu/page/abouttheprogram)
Everyone in NYU has to complete it, but the exact requirements within it vary a bit between schools. In general, there’s a math requirement, natural science, language, expository writing, and cultural req.</p>
<p>For CAS, it’s one math class, two NatSci, two language, one or two writing, and two culture (Texts & Ideas and Cultures & Contexts). Stern has the math, one NatSci, no language, one writing, and two culture. Tisch is a bit different too. </p>
<p>They aren’t electives. Each semester you take between 12-18 credits, so since the average class is 4 credits it balances out to 4 4-credit courses for 16 total. Check my thread for more info, multiple people asked the same question already I believe.</p>
<p>Your thread scares me. Everyone’s talking about things I’ve never heard of. But thanks for responding - and can I ask one more thing? If I were to take two concentrations, would my credit requirement to graduate double? i.e. 256 credits? Because that sounds a little…impossible.</p>
<p>No. If you double major within Stern, you only have to take 4 more classes. If you want to major outside of Stern, you would use your elective class slots to fulfill that.</p>
<p>Basically, you have 16*8=128 credits expected of you to graduate, an average of 16 credits for 4 years. You can take as few as 12 one semester because there will be a few semesters where you wind up with something odd like 17 or 18 to balance it out. You can also take more than 128 in your four years, but if you exceed 18 in a single semester you pay about $1,100 more per credit. For example, if you took 18 credits all 8 semesters, you’d graduate with 144 and have paid nothing more than someone with 128.</p>
<p>A concentration is (I believe, not sure since 2015 is the first year for this) normally only 16 credits. That means that after you complete the MAP requirements and the Stern core, you have to pick at least one concentration to do. If the MAP requirements total 30 credits (not necessarily true, just a round number for the sake of example) and the Stern core is 50 (again, round number), and you then pick two concentrations at 16 credits each, that gives you 30+50+16(2)=112, so you’d have 128-112=16 credits of electives. Keep in mind that those are just round approximations I chose for the sake of example. From this, you can see that while the credit limit stays the same, your elective total will fluctuate depending on the concentrations and minors you choose.</p>
<p>This should clear things up, hope it helps, if not, say so and I’ll do my best to rephrase it.</p>
<p>hellodocks-
Oh I seeeee now.
That was very very very helpful! I get it now! Thank you SO MUCH! :)</p>
<p>woodendynomite-
Thanks a million!</p>