Liberal Arts Courses in New York

Eugene Lang College

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Lang offers more than 600 courses each year. Below are a few examples. Students also have access to many of the 1,700 courses offered throughout the university. To see degree and minor requirements, visit the Academic program pages.
Featured Spring 2025 Courses

Each semester, our faculty design hundreds of relevant courses that reflect the latest cultural, political, and social developments. Here’s a snapshot of some of the current courses that are available for you to choose from.

LCST 2285
Lang Film Festival

In this hands-on course, students create and design the next edition of The New Screen Fest (est. 2023), an end-of-semester film festival featuring the work of New School students and alumni with an emphasis upon capstone projects and other films made in production courses. Students will learn pract...
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LCOD 2115
Live Coding

Live coding is the creative practice of writing and editing computer programs as multimedia performance. Also referred to as real-time or on-the-fly programming, the result is a feedback loop in which the performer manipulates the code of a running system to modify its output, often in an improvisat...
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LDAN 3010
Movement Research Performance

This course develops performance skills for dance students through rehearsals and performances of a dance work choreographed by a guest artist from the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence program. Students perform the work at the end of the semester in the Lang Dance Performance. Movement Research...
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LECO 2017
Environment and Economics

This course explores competing theories of the relationship between capitalism and the environment. It begins by examining the ecological, historical, and social context of capitalist development, focusing on debates over the origin of fossil fuel, the ecological impacts of economic growth, and the ...
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LHIS 3123
America in the World

This seminar is inspired by recent public and scholarly debates about American borders and boundaries, globalization, ?Exceptionalism,? the ?War on Terror,? and other aspects of U.S. regional and global presence. The course?s diachronic axis begins with Thomas Jefferson?s notion of ?Empire of Libert...
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LINA 3072
Making in Crisis

This course explores how collective crises are experienced and represented. We will focus specifically on the use of creative practices to analyze, address, and mitigate such upheavals. Our inquiry will explore historical and contemporary health crises, environmental disasters, and national confli...
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LLSJ 2160
Fake News, Free Speech & Democracy In South Asia

This reading-intensive course examines historical and contemporary journalism practices and issues in South Asia (the lands within the modern-day borders of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives, and India). Through a variety of texts, guest Q&As, lectures, screen...
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LTHR 2015
Dramatic Masters: Comedy and Social Critique

Comedy has been speaking truth to power forever - or for at least 2500 years. Laughter opens minds and engages audiences in ideas that matter. This dramatic literature course explores major works by playwrights who are masters of using comedy for skewering social critique. Trace the line of playwrig...
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LVIS 3250
Practicing Curating

Practicing Curating will offer an in-depth introduction to curatorial practice, examining the art of exhibition-making from a cultural and theoretical perspective. The course looks at current and historical exhibitions that engage a range of public platforms, as well as curatorial writing practices ...
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Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

Social justice education is integral to Lang’s identity, mission, and values. We recognize that this learning is lifelong. In light of the global actions in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and conversations around elections, anti-Blackness, racism, and oppression, we assembled this list of current course offerings centered on equity, inclusion, and social justice.

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New York City Is Your Classroom

Lang provides a rare opportunity to learn from distinguished non-faculty professionals in fields that interest you. Each semester, we offer a series of Civic Liberal Arts courses that bring community partners into Lang classrooms.

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Featured Spring 2025 Courses

Lang Film Festival

Live Coding

Movement Research Performance

Environment and Economics

America in the World

Making in Crisis

Fake News, Free Speech & Democracy In South Asia

Dramatic Masters: Comedy and Social Critique

Practicing Curating

Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

New York City Is Your Classroom

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Submit your application

Undergraduates

Undergraduate Adult Learners

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