These graduate-level courses are tailored to artists, designers, and educators interested in teaching art and design at the college level. Taught online, they explore theoretical foundations of art and design education, new online tools, and practical aspects of classroom instruction.
Designed to provide a theoretical foundation for creative professionals who teach or are preparing to teach at the university level, this course examines the historical, cultural, and theoretical underpinnings of innovative pedagogy using digital and social media. Learning can involve conventional online shells, social networking sites and experiences, modalities such as podcasts and streaming video, and even the most current tools, such as ChatRoulette. Students learn to use a variety of these software tools and digital modes and consider how to use them effectively to deliver educational information at the university level. The final course assignment includes a project brief or lesson plan as well as the design of digital and social media components.
Students explore the basics of teaching art and design courses at the university level. They develop and implement lessons, create inquiry-based dialogues about art and design, and find the most effective ways to interact with students during class critiques and discussions. The course examines distinctive aspects of teaching art and design, such as studio assignments, site visits, facilitating critiques, and cultural history and theory. By focusing on what is unique to art and design-based thinking and learning, students discover the importance of collaboration, iteration, reflective practice, and systems thinking in art and design curricula.
Design and urban practice courses offer an innovative path for students interested in developing a critical understanding of the design of complex urban environments and the transdisciplinary knowledge required to transform contemporary cities. These graduate-level courses are offered as part of the MA Theories of Urban Practice and the MS Design and Urban Ecologies programs, both of which launch in fall 2012. These courses build on students’ general understanding of cities and are designed for students interested in careers involving interventions in cities.
This colloquium investigates practice-based relationships between design, urbanism, and spatial political economy. It offers students a broad, transdisciplinary overview of design frameworks through alternating lectures and group discussions. Students develop a typomorphological understanding of cities and learn to conceptualize the relationship between physical and social aspects of urban space. Topics covered include shaping ecology and topography, land divisions and property structures, urban precincts and building blocks, and open space and infrastructure networks.
In this seminar, students develop a critical, future-oriented understanding of the history of urbanism. The seminar exposes students to multiple perspectives on urban history—including the long-dominant Eurocentric view and postcolonial and subaltern perspectives—and invites them to challenge the assumptions underlying these approaches. Students analyze change in urban environments over time and look at who shapes cities, how cities change, and why those in power want to shape and reshape cities.
This advanced course requires general historical knowledge and understanding of urbanization from a disciplinary perspective. Students should be able to discuss the modern city and have some familiarity with critical theory. Set against the backdrop of the contemporary urban financial crisis, this course offers a critical understanding of the socio-spatial contradictions produced by the architectural and urban imaginaries that emerged from the neoliberal project. This course formulates a radical urban theory that responds to the urgent need for disciplinary transformation from the conventional and deterministic morphological views of the city to one constituting a mediatory and metadisciplinary stance.
Current New School/Parsons graduate students register with your program advisor, whether you are taking a course for credit or auditing. Registration cannot be completed without advisor approval and, for credit registration, confirmation that the credits will be accepted by the student’s program. Registration must be completed in person at the Registrar’s Office, 72 Fifth Avenue.
Nonmatriculated students
Students not matriculated at The New School or Parsons can register on a noncredit basis online CE registration.newschool.edu/register.
Graduate credit tuition is $1,390 per credit.
To register for credit, download the Graduate-Level Studies registration form download PDF. Complete the form and payment information and submit via fax, mail, or in person.
Fax the form to 212.229.5648.
Mail the form to The New School, Registrar’s Office, 79 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor, New York, NY 10003.
Register in person at the Registrar’s Office, 72 Fifth Avenue.
