RGS Program Application

Applications
Applications for the Rohatyn Global Scholars program are open. Use this link to apply.
Applications are due by Friday, September 19, 2025.
All first-year students are eligible to apply to RGS. This includes “Febs”.
Past First Year Seminars
2023-2024
First Year Seminars
- FYSE 1043 Deserts: Myths, Mystery, Magic
- FYSE 1047 Nature and Society
- FYSE 1048 The Lives of the Buddha
- FYSE 1051 The Russia Idea
- FYSE 1053 K-pop & Transcultural Fandom
- FYSE 1058 Documentaries & Social Justice
- FYSE 1059 The Politics of Hope
- FYSE 1067 Information State Across Ages from the Library of Alexandria to the Snowden Files
- FYSE 1069 Digital Platforms & Social Change
- FYSE 1376 Postwar Japan in Film and Literature
- FYSE 1378 American Environmentalisms After 1960
- FYSE 1419 Civil Wars and Civil Rights
- FYSE 1424 Science and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives
- FYSE 1514 Refugee Stories
2022-2023
2022-2023 Eligible First Year Seminars
Rohatyn Global Scholars 22-23 were enrolled in one of the following 22-23 First Year Seminars:
- FYSE 1005 Migration: Pol, Ethics, Lit
- FYSE 1006 Marvel Comics and Society
- FYSE 1007 Abolutionism(s): Then and Now
- FYSE 1009 Seeing and Being
- FYSE 1010 Environmental Intimacies
- FYSE 1013 Teaching the 1619 Project
- FYSE 1016 Black Epistemologies
- FYSE 1017 Politics in Francophone Lit
- FYSE 1029 Worldbuilding
- FYSE 1041 Social Issues and Public Policy
- FYSE 1120 Earth Resources: Origins, Use, and Environmental Impacts
- FYSE 1308 Political Theory of Black Diaspora
- FYSE 1309 The True Believer
- FYSE 1317 The Philosophy of Human Rights
- FYSE 1419 Civil War and Civil Rights
- FYSE 1554 Global Environmental Racism
- FYSE 1575 Growth and Its Limits
- FYSE 1580 Imagining a Better Tomorrow
- FYSE 1585 HowMoney MakesWorld Go Round
2021-2022
For the pilot year (2021-2022), 14 Rohatyn Global Scholars were selected from the following first-year seminars:
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FYSE 1021 Love and Death in Western Europe, 1300-1900
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FYSE 1031 Questions of Evidence: Historical, Legal, and Psychotherapeutic
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FYSE 1049 Myth and Cosmology
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FYSE 1242 Cinema and Memory
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FYSE 1332 Reading Africa
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FYSE 1534 Who Owns Culture? History, Culture and Decolonization
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FYSE 1571 Race, Body, and Spectacle
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FYSE 1574 The International Drug Trade
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FYSE 1576 Great Ideas in Economics
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FYSE 1583 Growing Up Other in the Americas
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FYSE 1558 Fighting for Justice
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FYSE 1588 You’re the Expert: Being a Public Scientist