The New School

The New School is a legendary progressive university comprising eight schools bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 10,510 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. From its Greenwich Village campus, The New School launches economists and actors, fashion designers and urban planners, dancers and anthropologists, orchestra conductors, filmmakers, political scientists, organizational experts, jazz musicians, scholars, psychologists, historians, journalists, and above all, world citizens-individuals whose ideas and innovations forge new paths of progress in the arts, design, humanities, public policy, and the social sciences. In addition to its 88 graduate and undergraduate degree-granting programs and majors, the university offers certificate programs and more than 650 continuing education courses to more than 6,350 adult learners every year.

In 1919, a group of unconventional thinkers, including historian Charles Beard and philosopher John Dewey, imagined an educational venue where ideas could be discussed freely, without censorship. They published a brochure listing their lectures and opened their school, which they called The New School for Social Research, to all “intelligent men and women.” The New School was legally incorporated in 1922. It offered a curriculum for educated adults that emphasized the social, political, economic, and educational issues of the time. Celebrated scholars who taught in the first few years included Lewis Mumford, Bertrand Russell, and Felix Frankfurter, to name a few.

In 1933, the University in Exile was conceived by New School President Alvin Johnson as a haven for European scholars endangered by Hitler’s and Mussolini’s regimes. In 1934, it became the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, the second division of the university. (It is now called The New School for Social Research.) With the establishment of the Graduate Faculty, The New School became a degree-granting institution and the home of many world-renowned scholars, such as Hannah Arendt, Franco Modigliani, and Max Wertheimer.

Library
The New School owns several libraries throughout New York City and is a member of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan. In 2009, its libraries counted a total of 1,906,046 holdings

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs

• Acting
• Anthropology
• Architecture
• Architecture + Lighting Design (Dual Degree)
• Art and Design History and Theory
• Arts in Context
• Business
• Classical Music
• Communication Design
• Creative Arts Therapy
• Culture and Media
• Dance     Undergraduate
• Design and Management
• Design and Technology
• Design and Urban Ecologies
• Design Studies*
• Digital Design
• Directing
• Documentary Media Studies
• Economics
• Education Studies
• English Language Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management
• Fashion Business
• Fashion Design
• Fashion Design and Society
• Fashion Marketing
• Fashion Studies
• Film Production
• Fine Arts
• Food Studies
• Foreign Languages
• Foundation
• Global Studies
• Graphic Design     AAS, Continuing Education
• Health Services Management and Policy
• History
• History of Decorative Arts & Design
• Humanities
• Illustration
• Integrated Design
• Interdisciplinary
• Interior Design
• International Affairs
• Jazz     Undergraduate
• Leadership and Change
• Liberal Arts
• Liberal Studies
• Lighting Design
• Literature
• Media Management
• Media Studies and Film
• Nonprofit Management
• Organizational Change Management
• Organizational Development
• Performing Arts
• Philosophy
• Photography
• Playwriting
• Politics
• Product Design
• Psychology
• Public and Urban Policy
• Religious Studies
• Science
• Screenwriting
• Social Inquiry
• Social Sciences
• Sociology
• Sustainability Strategies
• Theater
• TESOL
• Transdisciplinary Design
• Urban Design
• Urban Policy Analysis and Management
• Writing

Institutes

• International Affairs and Global Perspectives
• Philosophy and Intellectual Culture
• Politics, Policy, and Society
• Art, Design, and Theory
• Environment
• Urban and Community Development
• Education
• The Center for New York City Affairs

Divisions

• The New School for General Studies
• The New School for Social Research
• Parsons The New School for Design
• Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
• Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
• Mannes College The New School for Music
• The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
• The New School for Drama
• Former Divisions
• The Actor’s Studio Drama School

Contact Details
The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5600
Official Website: http://www.newschool.edu/