Brooklyn College
| Brooklyn College | |
|---|---|
| motto | Nil sine magno labore ("Nothing without great commitment") |
| founding | 1930 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | New York City , USA |
| president | Karen L. Gould |
| Students | 17.094 |
| Professors | 558 |
| Foundation assets | $ 54 million |
| Website | www.brooklyn.cuny.edu |
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The Brooklyn College , officially Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is a state liberal arts college in New York City in the US state of New York . It is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). Founded in 1930, around 17,000 students are currently enrolled here. Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Science, or Master’s degree .
During its 80-year history, Brooklyn College earned itself the nickname “the poor man's Harvard” due to its comparatively low student fees but high reputation and the picturesque campus. It ranks 19th in the United States in terms of the number of graduates who have completed a PhD after completing their Bachelor's degree.
Faculties
Brooklyn College is divided into three “divisions”, which in turn are divided into the individual subject faculties (economics, psychology, biology, etc.).
- Humanities and Natural Sciences (School of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
- General Studies (School of General Studies)
- Division of Graduate Studies
The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College also offers courses at undergraduate (Bachelor) and graduate (Master) level. It encompasses the areas of performance as well as musicology, composition and musical education.
Personalities
Lecturers
- Vito Acconci - artist
- F. Murray Abraham - actor
- Hannah Arendt - political scientist, philosopher
- Christopher Coletti - Trumpeter
- Michael Cunningham - writer
- Wilhelm Richard Gaede , after his naturalization in the USA William Richard Gaede, was a high official under the Prussian minister of education Adolf Grimme and emigrated to the USA after 1933, where he became professor for German studies at Brooklyn College and later also dean.
- Allen Ginsberg - poet
- Agnieszka Holland - film director
- Rosamond S. King - literary scholar
- David Konstan - Classical Philologist
- Abraham Maslow - psychologist
- Elizabeth Murray - artist
- Philip Pearlstein - artist
- Ad Reinhardt - artist
- Mark Rothko - artist
- Kurt Seligmann - painter and graphic artist
Graduates
- Stanley Cohen (BA 1943) - Biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1986)
- Richard Bellman (BA 1941) - mathematician
- Barbara Boxer (BA 1962) - politician
- Shirley Chisholm (BA 1946) - first African American MP to the US House of Representatives
- Donald Kagan (BA 1954) - historian
- Paul Mazursky (BA 1951) - film director
- Bernie Sanders (BA 1960) - politician and presidential candidate
- Frank McCourt (MA 1967) - author
- Stuart A. Rice (BS 1952) - chemist
- Irwin Shaw (BA 1934) - theater director
- Jimmy Smits (BA 1980) - actor
- James Franco (MFA 2010) - actor
Web links
notes
- ^ University Herald: Top 10 Most Sober Colleges , August 2013
- ↑ Arendt taught Modern European History here in 1942. It was her first academic activity after fleeing France
- ↑ Sonja Petra Karsen: Report on the father , in: Gerd Radde: Fritz Karsen: a Berlin school reformer of the Weimar period , Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 3-631-34896-7 , p. 409. Literature by William Richard Gaede in WorldCat and by Wilhelm Richard Gaede
- ↑ Bernie Sanders' Brooklyn. In: am New York. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
- ^ Allen Ginsberg and James Franco Overlap Once Again - CUNY Newswire - CUNY. In: www1.cuny.edu. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
Coordinates: 40 ° 37 ′ 52 ″ N , 73 ° 57 ′ 9 ″ W.