Student Resources
The Office of the Associate Dean provides a variety of services to undergraduate students, including:
- Collecting and processing appeals for the Weissman Committee on Academic Standing and the Pathways Appeal Committee
- Collecting and processing credit overload and pass/fail applications for Weissman students
- Approving independent study proposals
- Reviewing liberal arts ad hoc major proposals
Please review the Weissman Forms and Applications page for detailed information and instructions.
Our office (Room 8-265, Vertical Campus) is open Monday through Friday from 9:00AM – 5:00PM. Not all staff members are physically in the office on any given day. As such, the best way to communicate with staff members is via email.
You may continue to email the office at WSAS.AssocDean@baruch.cuny.edu with inquiries or call us at 646-312-3890.
Winter/Spring 2025 Schedule & Registration News
New College Option Capstone Course
Check out our new College Option capstone course. Each section is unique and taught by faculty across the arts and sciences. See the Schedule of Classes for topic descriptions.
IDC 4000 Special Topics Capstone in the Liberal Arts
This Special Topics Capstone offers advanced approaches to themes across the humanities, social sciences, and/or STEM fields. Coursework includes intersectional approaches to the liberal arts that foster complex, creative, and critical thinking about relevant academic, social, and/or global topics.
Prerequisites: ENG/CMP/LTT 2800 or 2850
Spring 2025 sections:
Section | Meeting Times | Topic | Professor |
BTRA | T/TH 9:05am-10:20am | Literature and Popular Music | Daniel Jacobson, English |
ETRA | T/TH 2:30pm-3:45pm | Performance and the City | Susan Tenneriello, Theater |
NETA | Online Asynchronous | A Natural Risk?: A History of Natural Disasters | Elizabeth Heath, History |
Pathways General Education Curriculum News – Science Requirements
EFFECTIVE FALL 2024: Students may select one course from the Life and Physical Sciences list and ANY course from the Scientific World list. Students are no longer required to take matching sets of lecture and lab courses as co-requisites.
Full details available on Baruch’s Pathways Required Core and Pathways Flexible Core pages.
Registration Permission Requests
Arts and Sciences courses:
Students who need registration permission for Weissman courses must contact the relevant academic departments; please check the department sites for contact information.
Business courses for Weissman majors:
Students in the following Weissman majors take business courses as part of their programs: Actuarial Science; Business Communications – Corporate Communication, Graphic Communication, and Business Writing specializations; Computer Science; Financial Mathematics; Music – Management of Musical Enterprises specialization; Economics-BA; and Statistics-BA.
A student who has been officially accepted into their Weissman major should not require registration permission for the relevant business courses.
Notes for Business Course Requests:
If you have not yet completed the official major declaration process, you may request permission to enroll in the upper-level business courses by clicking the course request link below. You must be eligible for official acceptance into the major to receive registration permission.
To gain admission to a major requiring upper-level (3000-level and above) business courses, you must have completed at least 45 credits, must have an overall Baruch GPA of 2.0 or higher, and must have satisfied your Pathways general education and your major’s mathematics requirements.
NOTE: Students pursuing the BA in Economics or the BA in Statistics must successfully complete all economics, mathematics, and statistics program prerequisites to gain acceptance into their major programs.
- The Associate Dean’s Office does not waive course prerequisites.
- The Associate Dean’s Office does not enter permission for closed sections. If the business class/section you want is full, you may use the Zicklin waitlist feature.
- The Associate Dean’s Office does not enter registration permission for optional business minor courses.
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