Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

"Lang College" redirects here. For the residential college in Australia, see Dunmore Lang College.
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
Type Private
Established 1985
President David E. Van Zandt
Provost Tim Marshall[1]
Dean Stephanie Browner[2]
Academic staff
 145 (2009)[3]
Students 1,439 (2009)[4]
Location New York City, New York, USA
40°44′06″N 73°59′49″W / 40.735°N 73.997°W / 40.735; -73.997Coordinates: 40°44′06″N 73°59′49″W / 40.735°N 73.997°W / 40.735; -73.997
Campus Urban
Colors Parsons Red
Nickname Lang
Website www.newschool.edu/lang

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School university. It is located on-campus in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue.[5]

History

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts was founded as the Freshman Year Program at The New School in 1972 as a pre-college program for high school graduates. Three years later, in 1975, the Freshman Year Program was expanded to a full undergraduate program and renamed The Seminar College. In 1985, following a generous donation by well-known philanthropist and educational visionary Eugene Lang and his wife Theresa, the school was renamed Eugene Lang College. The college currently has an enrollment of over 1,345 students.[6]

In 2005, the phrase "The New School" was inserted into the name of each division of The New School as part of a unification strategy initiated by the University's President Bob Kerrey;[7] thus, Eugene Lang College was renamed Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts; students and faculty refer to it as "Lang."[8]

Academics

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

Unlike most US universities, The New School has a "student-directed curriculum", which does not require its undergraduates to take extensive general education courses. Consequently, students at Lang are encouraged to explore before focusing on a major, selecting topics that are of interest to them. The only required classes are an introductory course on New York City - taught from the perspective of the relation of philosophy to the physical - two lecture hall courses, and two semesters of Writing the Essay for freshman students.[9] These intensive writing classes - part composition class and part linguistics - have titles such as "Going Underground," "What's Love Got to Do With It?," "Comedy as Critique," and "Cruel Shoes: A Trek Through the Absurd." Students are encouraged to tailor the program to their own interests and academic goals.

Eugene Lang College hosts some of The New School's most experimental and avant-garde courses, including: "Heterodox Identities", "NYC: Graphic Gotham", "Mind-Games and Puzzle Films", "The Illusion of Color", "Punk & Noise", "Masculinity in Asia," "Queer Culture", "Theories of Mind", and "Play and Toil in the Digital Sweatshop".[10]

Lang offers the following majors, and degree programs as of 2013:[11]

Lang also offers the following minors:

The college places emphasis on interdisciplinary learning with a "student-directed" curriculum. All of its courses are seminars. Students at Lang may also cross-register for courses sponsored by other divisions of The New School, especially Parsons School of Design and the School of Drams's new BFA program. Students are allowed to double-major and apply for the university's honors program.

Student publications

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

Rankings

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

The Princeton Review ranks Eugene Lang among "America's 371 Best Colleges" and the "Best Northeastern Colleges.".[14] Miriam Weinstein also cites the Eugene Lang division in her book, Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World.[15] Lang has also appeared on The Princeton Review's following national lists:[16]

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

Notable alumni and faculty

For a complete list of notable New School alumni and faculty, see List of The New School people.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

References

External links

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