ADHT's undergraduate courses bring together all of Parsons' students to acquire the intellectual depth necessary to become leaders in their chosen fields. The school's research-driven graduate programs educate the next generation of theorists, writers, critics, historians, curators, and scholars.
Students grapple with key forces shaping the world today - radical shifts in ecological flows, changes in living and working systems, growth of economic disparity, trends in consumption patterns, and increasing ethnic diversity - as they design functional, beautiful, and sustainable products, interiors, and buildings.
Students and faculty explore relationships between design and social change in the context of cities, services, and ecosystems. The school is an experimental learning environment configured to advance innovative approaches to design and business education.
A launch pad for a variety of careers in global fashion, the school promotes activism as well as innovation, melding excellence in design, craft, and marketing with civic and environmental engagement.
Rigorous practice and critical scholarship prepares students to become leading agents of commentary and change. The school offers superb training in the art and design disciplines, expanding these fields beyond their traditional boundaries through interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange.
Parsons Summer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education programs are housed together as Parsons SPACE. They offer open enrollment, nondegree study options in art and design for students of all ages and levels for credit or noncredit.
For the professional prepared to make the leap into design, Parsons offers Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degrees in Fashion Design, Fashion Marketing, Graphic Design, and Interior Design. The AAS degree programs are best suited to students with college experience who are clear about their interests in the field of design and prepared for rapid immersion in a professional course of study.
Parsons The New School for Design is establishing an academic center in Paris, where students can benefit from our innovative approach to learning in combination with the unique resources of a European art and design capital.
Architectural Design / (BFA)School of Constructed Environments
Focusing on collaboration, research, and critical thinking, this four-year, pre-professional degree program prepares students for careers in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, exhibition design, interior design, environmental art, and related fields.
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Architecture / (M.Arch)School of Constructed Environments
This three-year, NAAB-accredited graduate program focuses on contemporary issues affecting architecture. Courses in design, history, theory, technology, and representation encourage experimentation with the logics of building within a multifaceted and diverse cultural and environmental milieu.
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Architecture / (M.Arch) / Lighting Design / (MFA)School of Constructed Environments
Students may combine graduate studies in lighting design and architecture in the dual-degree program—a four-year curriculum that combines the NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture and the MFA Lighting Design degrees.
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Art and Design History and TheorySchool of Art and Design History and Theory
The core curriculum for undergraduate students throughout their four years at Parsons includes required coursework in art and design history and theory. Elective courses are organized into pathways that investigate specific fields of knowledge more deeply.
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Art, Media, and Technology / (BFA)School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons Paris
Students explore the dynamic intersections of design, art, media, and technology in a complex world. Through studio projects in cross-disciplinary contexts, the program enables students to develop the skills needed to engage with art and design as a transformative enterprise. Graduates can pursue careers in interactive and social media, film and television, motion graphics, animation, game design, advertising, graphic arts, and fine arts.
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BA/BFA Dual DegreeThis dual-degree, five-year program combines a BFA from Parsons with a BA from Eugene Lang College. It offers a strong liberal arts education and focused art and design study, requiring 90 credits each in liberal arts courses and studio courses.
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Communication Design / (BFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
Learn the art of persuasion by creating compelling messages, narrating them meaningfully, and developing strategies to broadcast them. This program encompasses typography, print design, data mapping, motion, sound, branding, packaging, advertising, and spatial and environmental graphics.
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Continuing EducationSummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
Each semester, continuing education offers open admission, nondegree studio, history, and business-oriented courses in art and design for beginner adults and accomplished professionals. Students may enroll for credit or noncredit, or apply courses towards a Parsons SPACE certificate.
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Decorative Arts Graduate Seminar in ScandinaviaSummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
The MA History of Decorative Arts and Design program offers graduate students a two-week course, held in Stockholm and Helsinki, exploring Scandinavian design and culture from the 17th to 20th centuries.
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Design and Technology / (BFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
Building on contemporary design disciplines, this program focuses on new media storytelling and interaction technologies and exposes students to emerging design and art practices such as data programming, computer graphics, animation, game design, motion graphics, and physical computing.
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Design and Technology / (MFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons Paris
Drawing on history, politics, economics, psychology, ergonomics, and other disciplines, this program combines the study of visual, interactive, and narrative aspects of technology with programming and computation. Projects may involve games, Web and mobile applications, film, video, and audiovisual performance.
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Design and Urban Ecologies / (MS)This new graduate program radically reframes the study of cities. Through research and fieldwork, students gain a broad understanding of the complex economic, political, social, environmental, and physical forces that influence urban growth and development.
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Design Business / (Graduate Certificate)This 18-credit online graduate certificate, launching in fall 2012, is aimed at those developing products and services for the new global economy. The curriculum includes six courses focusing on strategic design management, leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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Design Studies / (MA)School of Art Design History and Theory, Parsons Paris
This graduate program shapes a new generation of design thinkers who will critically examine theoretical, historical, philosophical, and social issues related to design practice, products, and discourses.
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Environmental Studies / ( BS)Looking beyond natural ecology and conservation, this program emphasizes urban ecosystems, sustainable design, and public policy. Students apply design concepts to analyze the impact of systems that sustain city life, including energy, food, water, construction, manufacturing, and transportation systems.
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Fashion Design / (AAS)This program, for adults considering careers in fashion design or seeking advanced training, offers instruction in the process, skills, and language of fashion design from concept through production. Students learn drawing, draping, patternmaking, sewing, tailoring, haute couture, and specialty techniques.
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Fashion Design / (BFA)School of Fashion, Parsons Paris
Parsons has trained five generations of designers to lead the U.S. fashion industry. Today its legacy of design education is interwoven with social and environmental imperatives, inspiring students to envision fresh ways to make beautiful, sustainable, responsible, and relevant fashion.
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Fashion Design and Society / (MFA)This advanced studio-based program in fashion design encourages students to confront real-world challenges in the fashion industry while developing their capacities not only as outstanding designers, entrepreneurs, and scholars, but also as engaged global citizens.
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Fashion Marketing / (AAS)Students in this intensive program explore the relationships between design, merchandising, and marketing. Working from a solid foundation in textiles, color theory, and fashion history, students engage with all aspects of the fashion business.
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Fashion Studies / (MA)School of Art Design History and Theory, Parsons Paris
In this groundbreaking MA program, students study fashion as object, image, text, practice, theory, and concept and develop a critical understanding of its complex global intersections with identities, histories, and cultures in the contemporary world.
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Fine Arts / (BFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
Exposed to an array of studio practices, ideas, and community and global relationships, students in the MFA Fine Arts program learn to translate concepts into individual expression by using drawing, color, form, space, and composition and to embrace interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture and making art.
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Fine Arts / (MFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
This two-year graduate program is committed to expanding the formal, intellectual, and conceptual work of advanced students, encouraging them to create, present, and interpret their work with the intellectual rigor and refined skill required to become professional artists.
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Graphic Design / (AAS)School of Art, Media, and Technology
Students explore industry trends and receive a solid foundation in the traditional practices and concepts of graphic design. Assignments mirror real-world challenges, incorporating online and multimedia applications, interactive design, typography, page layout, and publication design.
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History of Decorative Arts and Design / (MA)School of Art Design History and Theory, Parsons Paris
Offered jointly with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, this graduate program features a curriculum that focuses on the stylistic, historical, and theoretical contexts of European and American decorative arts and design from the Renaissance to the present.
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Illustration / (BFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
This program cultivates students' vision and prepares them to translate it into a wide range of traditional and emerging media. The curriculum emphasizes visual thinking, originality, art and design history and theory, and awareness of social and cultural concerns.
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Integrated Design / (BFA)A flexible, inquiry based, student driven program, Integrated Design includes thematic Core Studio courses and Labs in four areas of study (AoS)—sustainability, service design, fashion, and the urban—to focus students' interests and provide a creative and intellectual foundation.
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Interior Design / (AAS)School of Constructed Environments
Studios on design for residential, retail, workplace, and hospitality interiors and spaces that combine interior architecture and decorative arts anchor this intensive program. Students learn theory and practice through conceptual explorations of space, sustainability, and computer-aided design.
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Interior Design / (BFA)School of Constructed Environments
A leader in interior design education, this intimate program takes a research-intensive approach to place making and prepares students for a competitive marketplace. Students work in small groups with faculty to develop designs for a range of special building types.
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Interior Design / (MFA)School of Constructed Environments
This graduate program challenges students to analyze human behavior, needs, and the relationship of perception to the built interior. It prepares students to play transformative roles in the profession and teach the next generation of practitioners.
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Leadership in the ArtsSummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
Offered in collaboration with the Bank Street College of Education, this three-summer graduate degree program is designed to meet the needs of arts educators, combining studio courses with a leadership curriculum and leading to a Master's of Science in Education.
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Lighting Design / (MFA)School of Constructed Environments
With its unique focus on aesthetic design, human physiological and psychological factors, and sustainable practices, Parsons' graduate lighting program is unique in its emphasis on the values of both design and civic responsibility.
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Photography / (BFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
Students are challenged both technically and conceptually as they develop their skills through the exploration of analog and digital technology, creating multiple bodies of work influenced by film, design, fine art, video, and sound.
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Photography / (MFA)School of Art, Media, and Technology
The MFA Photography program is a 21st-century think tank that encompasses photography's multiple roles and developing position within converging media. Students develop an individual vision in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment where they learn the language of photography and master the technology driving it.
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Pre-College AcademySummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
Age-appropriate courses for students in grades 4 through 12 in subjects ranging from fashion, graphic, and interior design to drawing, painting, cartooning, photography, and portfolio development. Classes meet on Saturdays during the school year and for two weeks during the summer.
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Product Design / (BFA)School of Constructed Environments
Through an immersion in materials, fabrication processes, aesthetic considerations, and proactive social engagement, students cultivate the essential intellectual habits and technical skills to explore and responsibly integrate the expanding roles of a professional product designer.
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Strategic Design and Management / (BBA)School of Design Strategies, Parsons Paris
Project-based studio and seminar courses integrate business, design, and liberal arts education, promoting interdisciplinary learning through wide-ranging research and collaboration. The four-year curriculum educates students in the entrepreneurial and strategic aspects of design and the design aspects of business.
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Strategic Design and Management / (MS)Launching in fall 2012, this rigorous, industry-focused program will prepare students to create, manage, and lead design process-driven organizations in a complex global economy. The highly flexible program allows students to complete the curriculum entirely on campus or primarily online.
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Summer Intensive Studies: New YorkSummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
This intensive four-week, four-credit program is open to all students who wish to deepen their knowledge of art and design. Courses include five full days a week of studio classes, homework assignments, and degree-preparation and career-exploration events.
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Summer Intensive Studies: ParisSummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
Experience Paris from an insider's perspective. Explore the history of European art and design first-hand in the hundreds of museums and design studios throughout Paris. The Parsons summer program at Parsons Paris is open to all students.
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Summer Studies in Constructed EnvironmentsSummer, Pre-College Academy, and Continuing Education (SPACE)
This rigorous studio-based five-week summer program is for current college students and college graduates of any age interested in exploring and preparing for a career in architecture, interior design, or lighting design.
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Theories of Urban Practice / (MA)This research-driven graduate program provides an innovative pathway for students interested in acquiring a critical understanding of the design of cities and the transdisciplinary knowledge required to transform them.
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Transdisciplinary Design / (MFA)Graduate students in this experimental design program work in multidisciplinary teams to explore new models of practice that engage projects whose complexity challenges traditional disciplinary approaches.
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Urban Design / (BS)Students and faculty embrace New York City as a space of complex urban ecosystems, studying processes of urban transformation, exploring new urban patterns, and imagining daily practices that bring incremental but decisive improvements to our urban life.
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