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The Divisions of The New SchoolAs we approach the 100th anniversary of the university's founding, The New School's legacy of change remains a source of pride. The New School has been evolving since the day it began offering nondegree courses for working adults, responding to changes in the marketplace of ideas, career opportunities, and human curiosity. Each area of study, degree program, and school within the university has a unique story—from the founding division's focus on nontraditional students to the new approaches to design, management, urban policy, and the performing arts introduced by the divisions that have become part of The New School since the 1970s. Today undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students still come to The New School expecting a university like no other. For that reason, the story of The New School's seven divisions, themselves the products of continuous reinvention, occupies a special place in the history of higher education. Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts65 West 11th Street, New York NY 10011 | 212.229.5665 Eugene Lang College is The New School's four-year liberal arts college for traditional-age undergraduates. What began as the experimental Freshman Year Program in 1972 and transitioned into the Seminar College in 1975 finally became a division of the university in 1985. This bold experiment in undergraduate education was named to honor educational philanthropist and New School trustee Eugene M. Lang. Students at Eugene Lang College enjoy small seminar-style classes taught by a faculty of prominent scholars, many of whom are also affiliated with The New School for Social Research. Lang is one of only a few liberal arts colleges in the country situated in the center of a major metropolitan area, a location that offers its students unsurpassed opportunities for civic engagement and internships. Mannes College The New School for Music150 West 85th Street, New York, NY 10024 | 212.580.0210 Founded in 1916 by David Mannes and Clara Damrosch, Mannes became part of The New School in 1989. A leading conservatory of classical music, the college provides professional training for some of the most talented student musicians in the world. The comprehensive curriculum, the faculty of world-class artists, and the resources of a progressive university support students in their quest for virtuosity in vocal and instrumental music, conducting, composition, and theory. Like the students they teach, Mannes faculty members come from every corner of the world. They include performers and conductors from prominent orchestras, ensembles, and opera companies and renowned solo performers, composers, and scholars from every field of classical music. The New School for Drama151 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014 | 212.229.5150 The New School has been a center of innovation in theater since Erwin Piscator founded the Dramatic Workshop here in the 1940s. His students included Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Harry Belafonte, Elaine Stritch, and Tennessee Williams. Piscator established a tradition of excellence in theater education that continues at The New School today. The graduate program in dramatic arts was introduced in 1994 to prepare talented individuals for careers as actors, playwrights, or directors. The school's New York City setting offers students abundant opportunities to learn through observation as well as professional connections through the broadest career network in the country. The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 | 212.229.5896 Established in 1986, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music offers talented undergraduates an opportunity to train with professional artists from New York's peerless jazz community. The New School employs a teaching model based on the tradition of the artist as mentor: Our students study and perform with some of the world's most accomplished musicians and are immersed in the history, development, and latest incarnations of jazz, blues, pop, and all the ever-evolving genres of contemporary music. Learning takes place in the classroom, ensemble playing, one-on-one tutorial sessions, public performances, and master classes with legendary performers. Students develop their creative talents to meet the high standards of professional musicianship exemplified by the faculty. The New School for Public Engagementwww.newschool.edu/publicengagement 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 | 212.229.5615 The New School for Public Engagement embodies the values that motivated the university's founders in 1919. The division was formed in 2011 through the integration of The New School for General Studies, home of the founders' adult and continuing education programs, and Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, created in 1975 to offer graduate study in public administration and civic life. The New School for Public Engagement is a unique academic enterprise. Its degree and certificate programs and continuing education courses connect theory to practice, support innovation in culture and communication, and encourage democratic citizenship through lifelong education. The New School for Public Engagement offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and professional certificates as well as hundreds of open-enrollment continuing education courses for adults in Greenwich Village and online. The New School for Social Researchwww.newschool.edu/socialresearch 16 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003 | 212.229.5700 In 1933, The New School gave a home to the University in Exile, a refuge for German scholars fleeing persecution by the Nazis. In 1934, The New School incorporated this community as a graduate school of political and social science. In recognition of the graduate faculty's unparalleled contribution to social science discourse, the division retains the name of The New School for Social Research. Opportunities abound for graduate students to cross disciplinary boundaries and collaborate with social scientists, humanists, designers, and artists in other divisions of the university. The New School for Social Research addresses the most relevant political, cultural, and economic concerns of the day while fostering the highest standards of scholarly inquiry. Parsons The New School for Design2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 | 212.229.8950 Parsons is one of the preeminent colleges of art and design in the world. Founded as the Chase School of Art in 1896 by artist William Merritt Chase and his circle, Parsons was renamed in 1936 for its longtime president, Frank Alvah Parsons, who dedicated his career to integrating visual art and industrial design. Parsons became part of The New School in 1970. The first institution to award university degrees in fashion design, interior design, and lighting design in the United States, Parsons has earned a national reputation as a school at the vanguard of design education. Students in its undergraduate and graduate degree programs hold themselves to exceptional standards of creativity and scholarship, developing their skills and building knowledge in laboratories, workshops, and seminars. Nonmatriculated students of all ages can participate in certificate and general art and design education programs for design professionals and anyone with an interest in art and design.
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