Admission Contact
Office of Admission
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
79 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212.229.5150 or
800.292.3040
lang@newschool.edu
Prospective students with questions about Arts in Context: Please email langarts@newschool.edu.
Chair of the Arts
Evan Rapport
Professor of Ethnomusicology
rapporte@newschool.edu
Program Directors and Departmental Faculty Advisors
Arts in Context
Cecilia Rubino
Associate Professor of Theater
rubinoc@newschool.edu
Contemporary Dance
Neil Greenberg
Professor of Contemporary Dance
neil.greenberg@newschool.edu
Contemporary Music
Clara Latham
Associate Professor of Music
lathamc@newschool.edu
Theater
Zishan Ugurlu
Professor of Theater
ugurluz@newschool.edu
Visual Studies
Kenneth White
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies
whiteka@newschool.edu
Lang Student Success Advisor for The Arts
Brian Dudley
Manager of BA/BFA Student Success
dudleyb@newschool.edu
Students in the Adult Bachelor's Program who are interested in this subject area should contact their core faculty advisor.
Part of Lang's major in The Arts, the Arts in Context concentration allows you to combine the study of an artistic discipline with a liberal arts subject of your choice from outside the arts. You pair courses in either music, dance, theater, or visual studies with another liberal arts discipline such as writing, culture and media, history, philosophy, or gender studies. You develop an innovative, transformational, and personalized course of study that equips you with the artistic skills and academic depth needed in today's creative economy.
As you design your path of study through the Arts in Context concentration, you consider what you hope to learn through your selected combination of fields. You also customize your curriculum and project work to ensure your path of study aligns with your future goals including plans for advanced graduate study. Arts in Context students make inspired connections between disciplines and advance integrated scholarship through a wide range of pairings, including:
In addition to taking Lang courses for electives, Arts in Context students can broaden their studies with courses in other parts of The New School, such as Parsons School of Design and the College of Performing Arts.
While it offers the atmosphere and intimacy of a small college, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts is part of The New School, a major progressive university in New York City. Students concentrating in The Arts in Context benefit from:
Education at Lang is designed to develop engaged citizens who are thoughtful, articulate, and creative. Arts majors concentrating in Arts in Context majors work in a wide range of fields including performance, visual arts, media, journalism, arts administration, and graduate study in related fields. They start their own business, join startups, work in social media, publicity, web design, and development. They also work as writers, visual artists, musicians, reporters, actors, educators, teaching artists, and in the fields of human rights and social advocacy. Consult our 4-Year Lang Career Pathways Map (PDF) for helpful steps and resources to link your academic journey to your future plans.
If you are planning to pursue graduate studies in the arts, consider applying to the Bachelor's-Master's program, which enables you to earn graduate credits that apply to both your Lang degree and a graduate liberal studies degree at The New School for Social Research.
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