Macaulay Honors College

NYC Seminars

The Macaulay freshman and sophomore curriculum is organized around four seminars that explore various aspects of New York City culture and history:

• The Arts of New York
• The Peopling of New York
• Science and Technology in New York
• Shaping the Future of New York

These interdisciplinary seminars take advantage of the intellectual resources of our home city and provide a framework for research, internship and mentoring opportunities throughout the Macaulay program. The core seminars are supported by the Instructional Technology Fellows (ITFs), who provide students and faculty with online tools for research, collaboration and problem solving.

Junior Seminars and Senior Thesis

Taught by Visiting Professor Lee Quinby and other distinguished members of the faculty, the junior seminars and senior thesis enable students to pursue their own research interests and produce publishable work.

Macaulay's Opportunities Fund was created to enhance and extend our students' educational experience. Each student is eligible for up to $7500 to support a wide range of programs in New York and around the world, including study abroad, paid internships, community service, independent research, publications, or creative efforts.

Macaulay and the colleges have a number of additional scholarships and fellowships to support our students in study abroad programs - both established programs and research opportunities they develop themselves.

Just a few recent examples of how Macaulay students have used their Opportunity Fund:

• Studying Ayurvedic medicine in Tibet as it relates to women's health
• Traveling to study urban planning models used in the developing world
• Learning Arabic to study 16th-century Jewish-Islamic communities in Morocco
• Organizing a service project to help children with HIV in New York

Macaulay maintains an extensive database of New York businesses, research, cultural and not-for-profit organizations that provide high-level internship opportunities for our students.

Recent internships include:

• New York Councilmember Gale Brewer
• HBO
• JP Morgan
• Teen People magazine
• WNYC Radio

Over 97% of Macaulay students plan to attend graduate or professional school after graduation. The Macaulay Advising Program (MAP) supports each student as they prepare for graduate school.

Macaulay graduates win many prestigious scholarships and fellowships – including the NSF, Fulbright, Truman, Beinecke and Salk – and they are accepted into top graduate and professional schools such as:

• Harvard
• Yale
• Berkeley
• NYU
• Oxford
• Duke
• Columbia
• University of London
• Downstate Medical School
• Weill Cornell Medical College