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UNDERGRADUATE AND
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
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bringing together heritage brands, new
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Become a
Designer
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Integrate critical thinking and studio
skills to elevate your creativity and
value in the global settings of the next
creative revolution.
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find ways to meet human needs using
design-led approaches developed at our
New York City campus.
like an
entrepreneur
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scholarship and social justice as
powerful forces in the arts.
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Parsons Paris students go backstage to assist at
Paris Fashion Week.
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UNDERGRA
Programs
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TECHNOLOGY (BFA)
Explore new and dynamic intersections Lab; classes at Institut d’études politiques
of thinking and making with studio and de Paris, known as Sciences Po; events
liberal arts courses that emphasize a such as Paris Design Week; and exhibition
variety of perspectives and methods across opportunities at the Parsons Paris Gallery.
design, art, media, and technology. Learn
about design from both theoretical and Pursue further study, embark on a career
practical perspectives; go from building as an entrepreneur, or work in the emerging
hard coding skills to developing an communications economy, in Web design
in-depth understanding of interactive, user- and user interaction; social media;
centered design. Learn about design as photography, film, and television; motion
an enterprise that shapes the way we see graphics, animation, and game design; and
the world. Develop your ideas and research illustration, graphic design, and advertising.
in theory courses—then express them in
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, Media, and
code and in creative and technical studio
Technology program is a 120-credit course
projects. Supporting your learning are
of study offered exclusively in Paris.
student groups like Code Club and facilities
including Parsons Paris’ Media Archaeology
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FASHION DESIGN (BFA)
Become a highly skilled, relevant designer senior thesis collection to a jury of industry
with our fashion curriculum, which professionals in a graduate event and
has trained five generations of leading portfolio. Bring social and environmental
global designers, including Donna Karan, awareness to innovation in concepts and
Marc Jacobs, and Alexander Wang, who execution; develop new ways to make
studied here at Parsons in Paris. Take beautiful, sustainable, responsible, and
courses in business, fashion history, and relevant fashion.
digital design and study construction
techniques. Your work is informed by Pursue further study or put your learning
access to couture uniquely available in to work in fashion, costume, accessory,
Paris, including the city’s many fashion- or textile design; sustainable fabrication;
focused exhibitions and the archives of the marketing and merchandising; or
Fashion Conservation Lab of the Musée des fashion illustration.
Arts Décoratifs. Participate in competitions
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design
and internships, go backstage at Fashion
program is a 120-credit course of study
Week and other industry events for
offered in both Paris and New York City.
hands-on experience, and present your
Integrate business, design, and liberal Collaborate with peers at Parsons’ New
arts learning through project-based York City campus, as Parsons Paris BBA
studio and seminar courses that prepare SDM students recently did with New York–
you for entrepreneurial and strategy based MS SDM students for the Cathay
positions in the creative economy. Choose Capital Prize.
from courses on strategic thinking and
management in design and business; Leave ready to establish your own
innovation and sustainability research; business or develop design-driven
quantitative thinking, data analysis, business strategy; manage and market
and financial management; research creative projects, people, products, and
and writing; visual communication and services; and assume leadership in public
information design; scenario planning; relations, branding, marketing, social
and entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation, and sustainable design. You
business resilience. Explore professional can also pursue advanced study.
opportunities with Parisian executives,
The Bachelor of Business Administration
artists, designers, academics, and activists;
in Strategic Design and Management
intern with some of the world’s foremost
program is a 120-credit course of study
creative organizations—from heritage
offered in both Paris and New York City.
fashion houses to media companies to
firms leading in the new economies sector.
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Programs
Prepare for today’s global academic and
creative economy with cutting-edge
Interested in an intensive graduate-level
education for professionals in international
graduate curricula aligned with the ones creative industries? Beginning in summer
developed at Parsons New York. Our 2016, Parsons Paris will offer the Global
faculty are leaders in design, business, Executive Master’s in Strategic Design and
art, and technology; a low faculty-to- Management. This 18-month program—
student ratio allows for professional, conducted primarily online and with week-
mentor-style relationships that broaden and weekend-long intensives in Paris, New
your research and network. We offer York City, and Shanghai—will enable you to
strategic institutional partnerships and complete your study and build a profess-
industry affiliations, so you can conduct ional network while working full-time.
research and enrich your interdisciplinary newschool.edu/parsons-paris/
learning in one of the world’s foremost global-ms-sdm
cities for design.
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Become a bold creator in design and as videos and are accompanied by
technology with a curriculum that downloadable slides, allowing for
combines real-world projects and maximum flexibility and engagement with
forward-looking scholarship. Collaborate Parsons in New York. An on-site recitation
with peers and faculty in small, focused section provides a background for lectures,
classes; grow your network within the DT a forum for discussion, and assistance with
community at our New York campus and assignments, enhancing course content
in our Paris bachelor’s AMT community. through a supportive yet rigorous class
Connect with Paris’ broader creative and framework. Second-year, advanced-level
academic worlds through our institutional design and technology workshops are
partnerships with the Gaîté Lyrique, tailored to students’ theses. Topics
ENSCI–Les ateliers, ENSAD, and the explored include interactive systems, such
Media Lab at Sciences Po (Institut d’études as games, physical interfaces, interactive
politiques de Paris); industry affiliations; art, dynamic data visualization, urban
and resources such as Parsons Paris’ Media hacking, and mobile media.
Archaeology Lab and peer learning student
groups like the Code Club. Each semester, The Master of Fine Arts in Design and
you’ll take an academic course and a Technology offered at Parsons Paris is
studio class to develop your research and a 60-credit course of study and is the
creative practice, with opportunities to sister program to Parsons’ MFA DT in
collaborate with the MFA DT community New York City.
in New York. Many lectures are delivered
Engage in the evolving field of fashion New York City build your network and
studies by researching and analyzing collaborative abilities. Opportunities to
fashion as a global culture industry. This contribute to exhibitions and programming
master’s program challenges you to apply at major archives, collections, and digital
interdisciplinary methodologies to examine publications and curatorial platforms
fashion as object, image, text, practice, prepare you for the field. The program
theory, and concept. You integrate a range is of particular interest to students with
of disciplines—fashion history and theory, degrees in the humanities and social
art and design studies, history, museology, sciences and students with art, design, and
anthropology, sociology, ethnology, and fashion industry backgrounds. Graduates
cultural, film, and visual studies—to in this growing field go on to careers in
consider fashion in relation to design, research at fashion archives, museums,
production, consumption, representation, and galleries; positions in media and
and bodily practice. At Parsons Paris, you consulting; and teaching positions and
benefit from special resources supporting work in academia. MA Fashion Studies also
a focus on the Parisian context. Study prepares students for advanced research in
historic fashion collections at the fashion, including doctoral programs.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musée
Galliera and learn curatorial practice and The Master of Arts in Fashion Studies
conservation at those museums and at program offered at Parsons Paris is a
private galleries and archives including 42-credit course of study and is the
the Foundation Yves Saint Laurent and companion program to Parsons’ MA
Bibliothèque Forney. Joint research projects Fashion Studies in New York City.
with related programs at Parsons in
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design from the Renaissance to the and programming at major archives,
present in context and up close through collections, and digital publications and
our partnerships with the Musée des Arts curatorial platforms prepare you for the
Décoratifs and other historic institutions field. Access to the collections of partnering
throughout Paris and around the world. institutions such as the Centre national des
The curriculum, shared by the Paris and arts plastiques (CNAP), a contemporary
New York campuses, includes object- arts center, expand your resources.
focused courses enabling you to explore Exhibitions created collaboratively with
works, movements, theories, and practices students in the MFA DT, the BBA SDM, and
and go beyond connoisseurship to address other Parsons Paris programs highlight
sociohistoric meaning and aesthetic theory. your curatorial practice in the Parsons
Special attention is given to the history Paris Gallery and at Paris’ D’Days (Festival
of collections and issues of contemporary du Design Grand Paris). You can gain
curatorial practice. Parsons’ long-standing critical experience in museum practices by
relationships with cultural institutions pursuing for-credit internships in museums,
including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, galleries, auction house archives, and
in Paris, and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian historic houses in Paris.
Design Museum, in New York, allow
you to explore internationally renowned The Master of Arts in History of Design
collections, archives, and galleries. Joint and Curatorial Studies program offered at
research projects with related programs Parsons Paris is a 42-credit course of study
at Parsons in New York City build your and is the sister program to Parsons’ MA
network and collaborative abilities. HDCS in New York City.
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An Artist and Designer’s
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At Parsons Paris, you’re surrounded by world-famous museums
and universities, legendary design houses, and new media centers
that we’ve partnered with to broaden your learning opportunities.
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and sites, cafés, and shops to inspire you, sustain you, and
support your creativity.
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Marché St. Honoré (food,
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Colette (boutique)
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Expanded Campus
Our special partnerships with academic institutions,
museums, and archives across Paris offer you
unique opportunities to expand and diversify your
learning. Enrich your understanding of the context of
design with classes at Institut d’études politiques de
Paris, known as Sciences Po, or develop new creative
skills and global awareness at top French design
schools including the French National School for
Advanced Studies in Design (ENSCI–Les ateliers).
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Keep this Book to remind you
That Design goes beyond All Borders
A few facts that The new school
set us apart at A GLANCE
2014, U.S. News & World Report • Houses five schools and colleges.
#1 ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL: Parsons School • Offers 130 degree and diploma programs
of Design was named the Best College for Art and and majors and more than 50 minors.
Design in the United States.
• Has more than 10,000 degree-seeking students.
2015, Quacquarelli Symonds 2015 World
• Students come from all 50 states and 118
University Rankings
foreign countries.
#1 MOST INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY:
• The New School also offers a range of
We have a higher percentage of international
graduate programs. See details
students than any other U.S. university.
at newschool.edu/academics.
2014, U.S. News & World Report
Membership and Accreditation
#1 FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDING: The The New School is a member of the
American Institute of Architects named the New Association of American Colleges and
School University Center one of the greenest Universities and is accredited by the
buildings in the United States—and it’s the largest New York State Board of Regents and
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental by the Middle States Association of
Design) Gold Certified urban university building. Colleges and Schools.
*By Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, a London-based global provider of specialist higher
education and career information. Ranking based on feedback from both academic peers and employers.
Photography: Puxan BC, James Ewing, Gianni Pucci, Martin Seck, Erinn Springer, Vinciane Verguethen, Kristin Wichstrøm
Student Work: Eden Touil Tartour, BFA Art, Media, and Technology (p. 13); Lindsay Walsh, BFA Fashion Design (p. 18); a piece by a
Parsons graduate featured in fashion showcase De*main (p. 29); Diva Helmy, BFA Art, Media, and Technology (pp. 32–33, 38–39)
Parsons Programs
Design and Technology BFA Lighting Design MFA Strategic Design and