Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

The Lang College Dean’s Honor Symposium is an academic summit for Lang students to present their class projects, internships, study abroad experiences, senior capstones, or independent work to the community.

The interdisciplinary panels will present their work in engaging and inventive ways and the poster sessions lets you learn more about Lang work at a glance.

This year, the Dean's Honor Symposium will take place on the internet! Panels will be streamed as scheduled and posters will be presented on Lang's Instagram account. 

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Sustainable Systems is a course that is central to the First Year experience. The key tenet of the course is to shift perspectives so that the full design cycle is considered in every element of the design process. Below are projects from upper year Parsons students who take sections of this course called "Practices."

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Your first year at Parsons is a period of exploration and interdisciplinary discovery that prepares you to thrive in a complex and rapidly changing world. These two semesters immerse you in a broad range of art and design concepts, skills, and critical practices. You become a resilient and proficient maker, grounded in methods of systems thinking and problem solving that you can apply to your main area of study and your future endeavors.


EDUCATIONAL APPROACH
We will fulfill our mission by extending The New School’s legacy as a nontraditional academic community, nimble and responsive to change, that:

Focuses on and engages with critical contemporary issues
Prioritizes humanity and culture in designing systems and environments to improve the human condition, an approach that draws on design thinking and the liberal, creative, and performing arts
Places project-based learning at the center of the educational experience
Takes full advantage of our New York City location and connectivity to global urban centers