Date: September 14, 2009
To: Department Chairs and Program Directors
From: Matthew S. Santirocco, CAS Dean
Catharine R. Stimpson, GSAS Dean
Re: Summer 2010 Courses
Many students choose to study at NYU during the summer to fulfill undergraduate or graduate requirements and to be in New York for jobs, internships, cultural experiences, or preparation for graduate school.
We want to stress that summer can be a valuable experience for both graduate and undergraduate students. On the undergraduate level, our summer courses can dovetail with the resources of New York City to create attractive curricular packages. We invite departments to consider summer offerings, both graduate and undergraduate, along these lines. We are happy to work with you over time to realize these types of initiatives.
It is time to begin determining course offerings for Summer 2010 in order to prepare the Summer Web Bulletin. This online bulletin is the heart of our summer campaign, visited by more than 200,000 students. You can view last year’s version of the Summer Web Bulletin at: http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2009/summerny/courses.html
The Web Bulletin updating process is simplified by the fact that the information you supply on the course Turnarounds, once entered into SIS by the Registrar, will automatically update your course listings on the Web Bulletin. Please note that the Registrar's Office will send out Turnarounds shortly. Please complete your Course Turnarounds and return them to the Registrar by October 19th. Thank you.
As you know, planning for Summer 2010 was included in the APR again this year and we are using ASIS for summer course planning. If the courses you are planning to offer for Summer 2010 are different from what you offered in 2009 or from what you listed in the 2010 APR submission, please contact Gwynneth Malin at gcm207@nyu.edu. Please submit course descriptions for summer courses to Carmen Montesdeoca at cm1823@nyu.edu. Our office will also contact you directly to confirm your summer 2010 course offerings.
We encourage you to think about offering courses with a potential for high enrollment in the summer. New ideas for summer offerings may include two-week intensive courses and programs that will draw international students to NYU. As you may know, students with baccalaureate degrees who wish to enter graduate school may need some additional preparation as well. For the past four years, we have offered, through the Draper Program, "Preparation for Graduate School: Summer Writing Workshop." Departments may wish to consider offering parallel courses in other disciplines.
As we emphasized in the past, Arts and Science summer sessions are integral to our larger educational and research goals. First, CAS's goal of ensuring that every student has a study abroad experience is helped by the expanded number of our summer abroad programs and by the intensive language training we offer.
Second, summer is increasingly important for students who need to complete certain CAS and GSAS degree requirements. A key feature of the joint BA/MA degree program, for example, is the accelerated accumulation of undergraduate or graduate credits by summer study. Stand-alone master's programs provide a similar opportunity. If departments offer a sufficient variety of courses during the summer, graduate students can complete their degrees more quickly. Third, summer courses can provide important teaching opportunities for graduate students.
Finally, the summer term generates significant resources for Arts and Science that are used to support our programmatic initiatives such as faculty expansion, graduate financial aid, and computing support. Summer offerings should be those that advance overall educational goals and, at the same time, produce incremental resources for Arts and Science.
For more information the summer programs office, please see:http://as.nyu.edu/page/pp.summer
We greatly appreciate your time and effort to help make the 2010 summer session successful.
Thank you.
cc: Joe Juliano, Randall Say, Department Administrator.
