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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

Other proper name	Lang
Type	Individual
Established	1985
Parent institution	The New School
President	David E. Van Zandt
Provost	Tim Marshall^[1]
Dean	Stephanie Browner^[2]
Academic staff	145 (2009)^[3]
Students	i,439 (2009)^[4]
Location	New York, New York , U.S. 40°44′06″N 73°59′49″W / xl.735°Due north 73.997°W / 40.735; -73.997 Coordinates: 40°44′06″N 73°59′49″Westward / forty.735°North 73.997°Due west / 40.735; -73.997
Campus	Urban
Colors	Parsons ruddy
Website	www.newschool.edu/lang

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, commonly referred to as Lang, is the seminar-way, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School. Information technology is located on-campus in Greenwich Village in New York City on West 11th Street off sixth Avenue.^[5]

History [edit]

Eugene Lang Higher of Liberal Arts was founded every bit the Freshman Year Programme at The New Schoolhouse in 1972 every bit a pre-college program for loftier school graduates. Iii years later, in 1975, the programme was expanded to a full undergraduate programme and renamed The Seminar College. In 1985, following a generous donation past a well-known philanthropist and educational visionary Eugene Lang and his wife Theresa, the schoolhouse was renamed Eugene Lang Higher. The college currently has an enrollment of over 1,345 students.^{[half dozen]}

In 2005, the phrase "The New School" was inserted into the name of each segmentation of The New School as part of a unification strategy initiated by the university's President Bob Kerrey;^[seven] thus, Eugene Lang College was renamed Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. In 2015, The New School rebranded again by renaming the schools to better analyze the relationship between the university and its schools. Eugene Lang College's formal title is The New School'southward Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.

Curriculum [edit]

Academics [edit]

The primary academic building for Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.

The only required classes are an introductory form on New York Metropolis, taught from the perspective of the relation of philosophy to the physical; ii lecture hall courses; and two semesters of Writing the Essay for kickoff-yr students.^[8] These intensive writing classes – function limerick course and part linguistics – take titles such as "Going Clandestine," "What's Love Got to Do With It?," "Comedy every bit Critique," and "Cruel Shoes: A Trek Through the Absurd." Students are encouraged to tailor the plan to their own interests and bookish goals.

Eugene Lang College hosts some of The New School's most experimental and advanced courses, including: "Heterodox Identities", "NYC: Graphic Gotham", "Mind-Games and Puzzle Films", "The Illusion of Color", "Punk & Dissonance", "Masculinity in Asia," "Queer Culture", "Theories of Mind", and "Play and Toil in the Digital Sweatshop".^[9]

Majors [edit]

Lang offers the following majors, and degree programs equally of 2013:^[10]

Anthropology
The Arts – encompassing the Arts in Context, Dance, Visual Arts and the option to written report any of the aforementioned subjects in its social context
Contemporary Music
Culture and Media
Economics
Ecology Studies
Global Studies
History
Interdisciplinary Science
Liberal Arts
Literary Studies – with concentrations in literature and writing
Journalism and Design
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Screen Studies
Sociology
Theater
Urban Studies

Minors [edit]

Lang offers the post-obit minors:

Alternative Manner Strategies
Anthropology
Art and Pattern History
Commercialism Studies
Chinese Studies
Code as a Liberal Art
Comics and Graphic Narrative
Advice Design
Contemporary Music
Creative Arts and Healing
Creative Entrepreneurship
Artistic Technologies for Performative Practise (awarding required)
Civilisation and Media
Dance
Information Visualization
Blueprint Studies
Digital Humanities
Dramatic Arts
Economic science
Environmental Studies
Ethnicity and Race
Fashion Communication
Mode Studies
Motion picture Product
Fine Arts
Nutrient Studies
French Studies
Gender Studies
Global Studies
Hispanic Studies
History
Interdisciplinary Science
Japanese Studies
Jewish Civilization
Journalism and Design
Literature
Museum and Curatorial Studies
Music Composition
Philosophy
Politics
Photography
Politics
Post-Genre Music: Performance and Creation
Printmaking
Psychology
Religious Studies
Screenwriting
Social Practice
Sociology
Sustainable Cities
Temporary Environments
Theater
Urban Studies
Visual Studies
Writing

The higher places emphasis on interdisciplinary learning with a "student-directed" curriculum. All of its courses are seminars. Students at Lang may too cantankerous-annals for courses sponsored by other divisions of The New School, peculiarly Parsons School of Pattern and the Schoolhouse of Drama'south new BFA program. Students are immune to double-major and apply for the university's honors program.

Student publications [edit]

Several of The New School's major publications are produced by Lang students. Among these are:

The New School Free Press, a student-run newspaper published by the journalism concentration of the Writing department, has grown from a DIY zine-way pamphlet to a professionally printed broadsheet in the years since its founding in 2002, when information technology was known as Inprint. Information technology is published monthly in print and it aims to serve both Lang and the wider New School community. The Costless Printing operates a web log^[11] and makes digital copies of the newspaper bachelor on the Lang website.^[12]
12th Street, nationally distributed literary journal; contains works from undergraduate writers in The New Schoolhouse'due south Riggio Writing & Democracy Honors Program
Eleven and a Half, the literary journal of Eugene Lang College
The Weekly Observer, an online newsletter showcasing major student and alumni achievements, special programme announcements, and other university-broad news. Distributed via MyNewSchool web portal.

Notable alumni and faculty [edit]

Alumni [edit]

Ani DiFranco, musician
Elisa Donovan, actress
Karen Maine, director and screenwriter
Matisyahu, musician
Sufjan Stevens, musician
Jake Shears, musician
Emily Gould, erstwhile co-editor of Gawker
Mike Doughty, musician
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle, feminist author
Graeme M., musician
Stacey Farber, actress
Melissa Febos, author
Travis Jeppesen, writer
Paul Dano, role player
Robert Schwartzman, musician and actor
Bethany Cosentino, musician of Best Coast
Borzou Daragahi, announcer
Nina Arianda, actress
Anita Glesta, artist

• Alex Meyers, editor, writer, and performer!

Faculty [edit]

Jennifer Baumgardner, feminist writer and speaker
Laurie Collyer, director/actress
Siddhartha Deb, novelist
Jill Eisenstadt, novelist, screenwriter, and announcer
Jennifer Gilmore, novelist
Mark Greif, co-editor of n+1
Shelley Jackson, novelist and short story writer
Margo Jefferson, former theatre critic at The New York Times
Hettie Jones, poet
Barrie Karp, creative person
Greil Marcus, music critic
Dominic Pettman, author and theorist
Kristin Prevallet, poet and writer
Katy Pyle, dancer and choreographer
Sara Ruddick, feminist philosopher
Lynda Schor, brusque story author and literary editor
Christopher Sorrentino, novelist, short story writer
Sekou Sundiata, Grammy-nominated performance artist, poet
Elizabeth Swados, writer, composer, musician, and theatre managing director
McKenzie Wark, virtual media theorist
Caveh Zahedi, director/actor

Rankings [edit]

In some college ranking programs, The New School's eight divisions are ranked separately, since their attributes and standards of access differ significantly.

The Princeton Review ranks Eugene Lang among "America's 371 All-time Colleges" and the "Best Northeastern Colleges.".^[13] Miriam Weinstein too cites the Eugene Lang division in her book, Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World.^[14] Lang has also appeared on The Princeton Review's following national lists:^[15]

"Dodgeball Targets" (#i)
"Great Higher Towns" (#1)
"Intercollegiate Sports Unpopular Or Nonexistent" (#1)
"Class Discussions Encouraged" (#ane)
"Long Lines and Cherry Tape" (#1)
"Students Nearly Nostalgic For Bill Clinton Politics" (#2)
"Least Religious Students" (#2)
"Nobody Plays Intramural Sports" (#ii)
"Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians" (#iii)
"Most Politically Active" (#7)
"Town-Gown Relations Are Great" (#11)
"Gay Community Accustomed" (#13)
"Well-nigh Liberal Students" (#16)
"Students Dissatisfied with Financial Aid" (#18)
"Lots of Race/Class Interaction" (#19)

For the by few years, Eugene Lang has consistently ranked at the superlative of the nation's "Class Discussions Encouraged" list. This can most likely exist attributed to its seminar-style academics.

See too [edit]

Educational activity in New York City
The New York Intellectuals
The New York Foundation
Project Pericles
National Book Award

References [edit]

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^ Princeton Review, The. "Location". Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-05-07 .
^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on 2011-02-05. Retrieved 2011-01-01 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy equally title (link)
^ "About The New School: History -- Nine Decades of the New". Archived from the original on 2007-05-17. Retrieved 2007-05-07 .
^ "Start Yr Experience - Eugene Lang College". newschool.edu. 2012-07-05. Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-07-05 .
^ "Courses - Eugene Lang College". newschool.edu . Retrieved 23 February 2017.
^ "Academics - Eugene Lang College". newschool.edu . Retrieved 23 Feb 2017.
^ "INPRINT". Retrieved 2007-05-07 .
^ "Inprint -- Educatee News". Archived from the original on 2007-05-xviii. Retrieved 2007-05-07 .
^ Franek, Robert; (House), Princeton Review (one Jan 2009). The Best 371 Colleges. Princeton Review Incorporated. ISBN9780375429385 . Retrieved 23 Feb 2017 – via Google Books.
^ "Making A Deviation Higher & Graduate Guide". Archived from the original on 2002-02-08.
^ "Eugene Lang Higher The New School for Liberal Arts'south Best 366 College Rankings". Retrieved 2008-05-fifteen .

External links [edit]

Official website

harmonturam1956.blogspot.com

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