Thinking across the University

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Thinking Across the University (TATU) introduces first-generation college students to the university through the lens of academic disciplines while interrogating the distinctive ways each values and produces knowledge. The course aims to contextualize and demystify these implicit values and beliefs by examining the epistemological premises of academic disciplines. The course considers inequality by pairing fundamental texts with contemporary scholars, drawing frequently from NYU’s faculty. Students will compare diverse methodological and disciplinary approaches to better understand how knowledge is shaped by cultural and historical conventions. Students will learn how scholarship emerges from structural inequities and see how scholarship reshapes our ways of thinking about inequality.