Liberal Arts Courses in New York

Eugene Lang College

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Lang offers more than 600 courses each year. Below are a few examples. Students also have access to many of the 1,700 courses offered throughout the university. To see degree and minor requirements, visit the Academic program pages.
Featured Fall 2025 Courses

Each semester, our faculty design hundreds of relevant courses that reflect the latest cultural, political, and social developments. Here’s a snapshot of some of the current courses that are available for you to choose from.

UENV 2000
Environment and Society

This course is a broad, critical and introductory exploration of both the roots of the modern environmental crisis, and the environmental studies major at The New School. It is rooted in critical and intersectional approaches to environmental studies, with attention to histories of race, colonizati...
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LHIS 2225
The Politics of Gender and Generation in Modern Africa

In contemporary Kenya, ?youth? identify as members of the ?digital age? in contrast to ?elders? who, young people lament, are woefully ?analog.? Kenya is not unique in this, and the politics of generation animate public debate at sites across the continent today. But in Africa, as in the United Stat...
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LCOD 2000
Introduction to Code as a Liberal Art

In this hybrid theory/practice seminar students will both critically examine, and learn how to craft, the code that drives computational machinery, focusing on its relevance to the domains of the liberal arts: the humanities, the arts, and the social and physical sciences. Students will learn the fu...
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LLSJ 2100
Documentary Photojournalism

The camera is a tool to engage, socially and politically, the world around us. Through close examination of photographic essays, books of photojournalism, and news reportage, students learn how to read photographs to gain an understanding of visual literacy. The course emphasizes process (drafting p...
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LINA 2010
Arts in New York City

In this course students attend a variety of music, dance, and theater performances, gallery exhibits, and public art installations in New York City as well as presentations by guest artists. Students choose 7 events/exhibits from the course menu and share their reviews in an online forum. Lang Colle...
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UGLB 3405
Hungering for Opportunities: Food and Migrations

In the contemporary world, food sparks debates on power structures, race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism that acquire particular relevance in places where people from around the world live together and interact. In this course, we examine food in relation to migration in New York City and at the na...
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LLST 3006
Reading for Writers: Fiction

RFW FICTION: DJINNS, GODDESSES, AND GHOSTS: THE SPECTRAL AND THE REAL IN INDIAN FICTION. This course explores how the novel in the Indian subcontinent ? India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka -- grapples with inequality, climate change, and authoritarianism through fictional techniques ranging from realism ...
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LPOL 2001
Seminar Slam:The Debate Studio

The Debate Studio is designed to introduce students to The New School Debate Team by way of the study of politics. It will serve as a practice seminar for those that choose to participate in debate tournaments outside of class and provides the necessary analytical and practical skills for students t...
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LPHI 3070
Action and non-action: the horizons of utopia and dystopia

This course examines the role of negativity in the constitution of action and production, with a focus on the concepts of labor, idleness, utopia and dystopia, as they are discussed in the works of Thomas More, John Locke, Charles Fourier, Adam Smith, Paul Lafargue, Bertrand Russell, Ernst Bloch, Wa...
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Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

Social justice education is integral to Lang’s identity, mission, and values. We recognize that this learning is lifelong. In light of the global actions in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and conversations around elections, anti-Blackness, racism, and oppression, we assembled this list of current course offerings centered on equity, inclusion, and social justice.

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New York City Is Your Classroom

Lang provides a rare opportunity to learn from distinguished non-faculty professionals in fields that interest you. Each semester, we offer a series of Civic Liberal Arts courses that bring community partners into Lang classrooms.

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Featured Fall 2025 Courses

Environment and Society

The Politics of Gender and Generation in Modern Africa

Introduction to Code as a Liberal Art

Documentary Photojournalism

Arts in New York City

Hungering for Opportunities: Food and Migrations

Reading for Writers: Fiction

Seminar Slam:The Debate Studio

Action and non-action: the horizons of utopia and dystopia

Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

New York City Is Your Classroom

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Undergraduate Adult Learners

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