New School faculty members affiliated with the Global Platform teach in the following academic programs:
Anthropology (MA, PhD)
Through cutting-edge empirical, historical, and ethnographic scholarship, students and faculty in the Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research address the urgent social and political problems of the 21st century.
Design and Urban Ecologies (MS)
Offered through Parsons School of Design, the Master of Science in Design and Urban Ecologies program radically reframes the study of urban environments and design approaches to cities. By combining urban planning, policy, urban design, activism, and community practice, students gain the skills and expertise needed to address contemporary urban challenges.
Economics (MA, MS, PhD)
The Economics Department at The New School for Social Research offers rigorous, high-quality training for young scholars that emphasizes the history of economics, political economy, and economic history, and includes Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, Marxist, structuralist, and other heterodox approaches in conjunction with a critical and informed education in mainstream neoclassical economics.
Environmental Studies (BA/BS)
Offered through Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Eugene Lang College, and administered by the Tishman Environment and Design Center, the Environmental Studies program brings students beyond natural ecology and resource conservation to focus on urban ecosystems, sustainable design, and public policy issues like global warming.
Fashion Studies (MA)
Offered through Parsons School of Design, the groundbreaking interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Fashion Studies program, students develop a critical and historical understanding of fashion and its complex intersections with identities and cultures.
Gender and Sexuality Studies (Graduate Certificate)
The Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies is a university-wide program designed to foster intellectual collaboration on the study of gender and sexuality among students and faculty representing a variety of disciplines.
Historical Studies (MA)
Bridging the humanities with the social sciences, The New School for Social Research’s innovative Historical Studies program trains students in conceptual rigor, archival research, critical analysis, and historical writing.
Global Studies (BA)
Offered through the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Eugene Lang College, the Global Studies program’s curriculum is designed to allow undergraduates to study and work at the intersections of social sciences (political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics), human rights, and media.
International Affairs (MA/MS)
The mission of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School is to prepare engaged, reflective global citizens who can contribute to making the world more inclusive, just, and sustainable.
Politics (MA, PhD)
The Politics department of The New School for Social Research emphasizes the theoretical dimension of political analysis in both political explanation and normative evaluation. The program’s curriculum represents four major fields of study: political theory, American politics, comparative politics, and global politics.
Sociology (MA, PhD)
The Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research emphasizes theoretically-informed ethnographic, historical, and interpretive inquiry into the significant social issues of our times in local, national, and transnational contexts. The core academic areas of research of the Department of Sociology reflect the interests and research of the program’s renowned faculty: social inequalities; culture and politics; law, rights, and citizenship; historical and comparative sociology; and cities and publics.
Urban Studies (BA)
Offered through the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Eugene Lang College, Urban Studies curriculum is designed to help students think critically and address issues of growing importance including the role of the city in the national and global economy, how the city shapes and is shaped by cultural life and the natural environment, and more.