Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

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Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of the The New School.

The school is located in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue. [cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/lang/subpage.aspx?id=148|author=Princeton Review, The|title=Location|accessdate=2007-05-07] Although unrelated to the incident, Eugene Lang College's primary building (65 West 11th Street) was built on the same block as the infamous Greenwich Village townhouse explosion of 1970.

History

Eugene Lang "College" The New School for Liberal Arts was founded as the Freshman Year Program at the 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 1000 students, which represents a significant growth in class size over the past few years. It is now a well-known and reputable liberal arts college in New York City. [cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/lang/about.aspx?id=146|title=History|accessdate=2007-05-07]

In 2005, the phrase "The New School" was inserted into the name of each division of The New School as part of a branding and unification strategy initiated by the University's President Bob Kerrey; [cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/history.html|title=About The New School: History -- Nine Decades of the New|accessdate=2007-05-07] thus, Eugene Lang College was renamed Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, but students and faculty refer still to it simply as "Lang." [cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/lang/subpage.aspx?id=130|author=Veitch, Jonathan|title=Why Lang?|accessdate=2007-05-07]

Academics

Beginning in 2007, Lang offered degrees in the following majors:

*Culture and Media
*Liberal Arts
*Philosophy
*Psychology

Students choosing the Liberal Arts track are required to choose an academic concentration in one of twelve areas of study. [cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/lang/subpage.aspx?id=522|title=Programs Offered|accessdate=2007-05-07] Those include the following disciplines:

*The Arts (encompassing music; dance; theatre; visual arts; and arts in context, an option to study any of the aforementioned subjects in its social context)
*Culture and Media
*Education Studies
*History
*Literature
*Philosophy
*Psychology
*Science, Technology, and Society
*Religious Studies
*Social Inquiry (encompassing anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology, and urban studies)
*Urban Studies
*Writing

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, with the exception of those by The New School for Drama.

tudent Publications

"The New School Free Press", a student-run newspaper published by the journalism concentration of the Writing department, has grown from a DIY zine-style pamphlet to a professionally printed broadsheet in the years since its founding in 2002, when it was known at Inprint. It is published bi-weekly and it aims to serve both Lang and the wider New School community. The Free Press operates a blog [cite web|url=http://eugene _in. title=INPRINT|accessdate=2007-05-07] and makes digital copies of the newspaper available on the Lang website. [cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/lang/subpage.aspx?id=230|title=Inprint -- Student News|accessdate=2007-05-07]

Rankings

The College is featured prominently on The Princeton Review's Best 366 Rankings & Lists: [cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/rankings.asp?listing=1023298&LTID=1&intbucketid=|title=Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts's Best 366 College Rankings|accessdate=2008-05-15]
*"Dodgeball Targets" (#1)
*"Great College Towns" (#1)
*"Intercollegiate Sports Unpopular Or Nonexistent" (#2)
*"Long Lines and Red Tape" (#2)
*"Nobody Plays Intramural Sports" (#2)
*"Students Most Nostalgic For Bill Clinton Politics" (#2)
*"Class Discussions Encouraged" (#3)
*"Students Ignore God on a Regular Basis" (#6)
*"Most Politically Active" (#7)
*"Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians" (#10)
*"Town-Gown Relations Are Great" (#11)
*"Gay Community Accepted" (#13)
*"Students Dissatisfied with Financial Aid" (#18)
*"Lots of Race/Class Interaction" (#19)

Notable Alumni

*Ani DiFranco - Musician
*Elisa Donovan - Actress
*Matisyahu - Musician
*Sufjan Stevens - Musician
*Jake Shears - Musician
*Emily Gould - Former Co-Editor of Gawker
*Mike Doughty - Musician
*Travis Jeppesen - Writer
*Paul Dano - Actor
*Robert Schwartzman - Musician, Actor

Notable Faculty

*Bryonn Bain - Writing; hip-hop poet, co-host of "My Two Cents" on BETJ
*Siddhartha Deb - Writing; novelist
*Jill Eisenstadt - Writing; novelist, screenwriter, journalist
*Margo Jefferson - Writing; theatre critic at "The New York Times"
*Hettie Jones - Writing; poet
*Kristin Prevallet - Writing; poet, essayist
*Lynda Schor - Writing; short story writer, literary editor
*Christopher Sorrentino - Writing; novelist, short story writer
*Sekou Sundiata (late) - Writing; Grammy-nominated performance artist, poet
*McKenzie Wark - Culture and Media; virtual media theorist

ee also

*The New School
*The New School for Drama
*Mannes College The New School for Music
*Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
*Parsons The New School for Design
*The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
*The New School for General Studies

References

External links

* [http://www.lang.edu Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts]
* [http://www.newschool.edu The New School]
* [http://www.livejournal.com/users/eugene_lang Eugene Lang College LiveJournal Community]