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1920s Adrian and Claire McCardell costume designers

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Paul Rand graphic designer

1940s Albert Hadleyand Mario Buatta

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Barbara Kruger artist and graphic designer

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urban Mapping project

InstallingNew York, New York, New York

Site: Flux Factory, an art and

perormance space in Queens, New York.

Condition: Students were invited to

participate in the creation oNew York,

New York, New York, an interactivemultimedia installation inspired by thePanorama, the scale model o New York

City made or the 1964 Worlds Fair, now

in the Queens Museum o Art.

Outcome: Students participated in

a large collaborative urban landscapemapping project that reimagined the

public and private spaces o New York

and explored the architectural and

conceptual elements o everyday space.

Parsons Team: Cluster8, a team o

rst-year Foundation students.

Partners: Flux Factory art collective;more than 100 artists rom all ve

boroughs o New York City and around

the world.

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INVITATION TO

EXHIBITION OPENING

Exhibit your work at

high-prole venues.

FINE ART LECTURE SERIES FLYER

Interact with the prominent

artists and designers who

are your guest lecturers and

visiting critics.

TERNSHIP PLACEMENT

uild your resume

orking directly with

esigners and clients.

STUDENT RUN NEWSPAPER

Participate in extra-curricular

activities like media and

journalism projects.

MEETING WITH NEW YORK CITY

COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Gain valuable industry experience

working on sponsored projects with

local companies and organizations.


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concepts to executives in the luxury

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Condition: The Luxury Education

Foundation sponsored an innovativeinterdisciplinary course to act as an

incubator or new ideas or participating

companies.

Outcome: Students had a rare

opportunity to interact with topexecutives in the industry and learn

about business strategy and product

development rom the inside. Projectsincluded strategies to increase brand

visibility or Faber-Castell, products to

promote Saks Fith Avenues new logo,

product concepts or Lladro, ragranceconcepts or LVMH Perumes and

Cosmetics, and Chanel 2012, a strategy

or the luxury market.

Parsons Team: Students rom Design

and Management, Integrated DesignCurriculum, Communication Design,

Product Design, and AAS Fashion

Marketing.

Partners: Columbia University graduate

business students; executives romparticipating companies.

reiMagining the chair

The installation at Design Within Reach

Challenge: To produce individual

renditions o a design iconthe BelliniChair by Helleras part o a semester-long

project, Reimagining the Chair. Students

began with an idea on paper and nished

by abricating a ull-scale prototype.

Outcome: An installation o thereinterpreted chairs was eatured in

an exhibition and reception at Design

Within Reachs New York fagship.

Parsons Team: Illustration students

rom the Beyond Editorial class.

Partners: Design Within Reach; Heller.

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Conducting on-site research or the

Urban Interventions course

Site: Lower Garden District, New

Orleans.

Challenge: To develop a mixed-income,

mixed-use development in a district

beside the Mississippi River that suereda substantial loss o aordable housing

in the atermath o Hurricane Katrina.

Outcome: Ater a semester o intensive

research and analysis o the siteits

demographics, transportation systems,and building locationsstudents devel-

oped an innovative and nancially viable

solution or community development.Their proposal was chosen as a nalist in

a nationwide competition in which the

winning team receives a $25,000 dona-

tion by JPMorgan Chase to put towardimplementation.

Parsons Team: Students rom

Integrated Design Curriculum,

Architecture, and Interior Design.

Partners: Volunteers or America;

students rom Milano The New School

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care

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Site: Guatemala.

Challenge: To work with a group oMayan weavers developing a sustainable

business enterprise to acilitate the sale

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markets.

Outcome: Fourteen students spent themonth o June in Guatemala taking part

in workshops and assessing the easibil-

ity o the project.

Parsons Team: Students and aculty

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Fashion Design, Design and Manage-ment, Graphic Design, Fashion Studies,

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Partners: Students and aculty rom

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Aairs; the international humanitarianorganization CARE; an association o

emale artisans in Guatemala.

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Finalist projects by Parsons students IsaWong (top) and Karl Alex Bulloch, JenMutrux, and Marie Clare Bush (bottom)

Challenge: To develop packaging thatencourages ecologically responsible

consumption as part o the Sustainable

Design Review, an annual student-run

competition.

Outcome: A jury o sustainable designadvocates helped narrow down the sub-

missions to ve nalists. Kiehls plans to

explore employing the winning designs

in stores nationwide.

Project Team: The competition is opento all New School students and is hosted

by the Design and Management program.

Partner: Kiehls.

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design workshop:

MargaretVille project

Constructing the new MargaretvillePavilion as part o the Design Workshop

Site: Margaretville, in upstate New York.

Challenge:For 50 years, the MargaretvillePavilion has served as a vital community

symbol and gathering place, hosting

estivals and other events. When the

village suered extreme fooding, thestructure decayed and was rendered

unstable. Students were mobilized to

redesign the pavilion and propose other

designs to revitalize the town.

Outcome: As part o Parsons uniquedesign-build program, the Design

Workshop, students designed and

constructed a 5,000-square-oot pavilion

that has become an iconic centerpiece tothe towns revitalization eorts. Designs

were also proposed or new public seat-ing, a bus depot, vendor kiosks, and ariverside pathway or erosion control.

Parsons Team: Students rom Architec-ture, Interior Design, Lighting Design,

and Product Design.

Partners: CICS and M-ARK Project, two

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Open House, a sustainability game

Site: Philip Johnsons Glass House inConnecticut, an icon o midcentury

modern style.

Condition: Parsons received a $450,000

grant rom the John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation to launch PETLab(Prototyping, Evaluation, Teaching and

Learning Lab), the rst public-interest

game design and research laboratory

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development platorm and MTVs

Think.MTV.com youth-ocused online

activist community designing learningtools and digital games that explore

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Parsons Team: Students and aculty

rom Communication Design, Design

and Technology, and Foundation.

Partners: The nonprot organizationGames or Change; Microsot; MTV.

Baris GokturkAlumnusf arts

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A native o Turkey, Baris Gokturk describes his experience at Parsons as

cosmopolitan and international. I not only met people rom all over the

world but also worked with them in my classes. Baris explored a number

o areas o design beore deciding that ne arts is his true passion. He

says, The aculty was so supportive when I switched rom Illustration

to Integrated Design Curriculum and then to Fine Arts. By allowing me

to try dierent elds, they helped me realize that what I really want to do

is paint.

Today painting is exactly what Baris does. For his junior-year intern-

ship, a standard part o the Fine Arts program, Baris worked with

sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne. He currently works with painter Fabian

Marcaccio while studying or his MFA in painting. I am working on a

series o paintings about the intangibility o inormation versus

knowledge. In my paintings, I work with sets o words whose meaning

is becoming more and more ambiguous because o overuse and deliber-

ate political misuse. Baris uses images, ound mainly through Google,

to create collages representing reconsidered meanings o the words.

I aim or a chewed-up, worn-o pictorial zone in which the mean-

ing is stripped o the wo rd, the image is stripped o meaning, painting

is stripped o painting, and so on. This way, every aspect o the work

becomes paradoxical yet its raison detre becomes meaningul.

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Twice-yearly on-campus internship

airs with representatives rom more

than 50 high-prole companies

On-campus recruiting events

A comprehensive job board with

more than 3,000 internship postingseach year

Employer and alumni panels

Workshops on rsum writing,portolio development, and

proessional networking

Aero interior designer

Anne Klein product designer

Atlantic Records

video producer

Avedavisual merchandiser

Barneys retail planner

Bergdor Goodman

assistant buyerBloomingdales

merchandise analyst

Calvin Klein

product development manager

Dassault Falcon Jet

aircrat interior designer

The Disney Corporation art director

Dreamworks

character technical director

Entertainment Weekly

creative director

Ermenegildo Zegna

sales coordinator

Este Lauder Inc.

executive design director

Fox and Fowle

assistant interior designer

Fresh Cosmeticsowner and co-ounder

Gap Inc.associate intimates designer

Giorgio Armani

merchandising coordinator

Givenchymarketing assistant

Gluckman Maynerarchitect

HarperCollins book designer

Lincoln Center

senior art director

LOralpackaging designer

Michael Kors

senior menswear designer

MTV art director

Nickelodeon

director o animationOgilvy & Mather

storyboard artist

Oscar de la Renta

creative manager

Polo Ralph Lauren

autocad designer

R/GA interactive designer

Rag & Bone

production assistant

Razorfsh

inormation architect

Rockwell Group

assistant interior designer

Saks FithAvenue buyer

Sephora graphic designer

Scholastic art director

Sesame Street art director

Smith-Miller + Hawkinson architect

Sony Music graphic designer

Sothebys senior designer

Starwood Hotelsurniture designer

Steve Madden shoe designer

Pretty Ugly (Uglydolls)

principals and toy designers

United Nations Web designer

parsons grads: where are theY now?

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recent guest lecturers and Visiting

artists

Lorna Simpson artist and photographer

Frank Gehryarchitect

Kiki SmithartistMarc Jacobs ashion designer

Chuck Close painter

Roselee Goldberg perormance art curator and critic

Marilyn Minterpainter

Bruce Mau graphic designer

Michael Graves architect and product designer

Donna Karan ashion designer

Robert Massin graphic artist

Phoebe Washburn installation artist

Fatimah Tuggarartist

John Maeda graphic designer and computer scientist

Ed Koren illustrator

Ed Sorel illustrator

Ken Johnson critic

Lynne Cook curator

Katha Pollitt

poet and columnist or The Nation

Bruce Nussbaum

Businessweekeditor

Zach Feuergallery owner

Becky Smithgallery owner

Hans-Ulrich Obrist curator

Nancy Princenthalcritic

projects

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Yosara Gonzalez, Things We Said, mixed-

media installation, Fine Art

Ashley Burke, Wound Up, animation

still using Ater Eects, Design andTechnology

Grant Willing, Wendys, c-print,

Photography


WEB-BASED GAME

Design objects and systems that

integrate theory, experimentation,

and hands-on production.

OG POST FROM WIRELESS TOY DESIGN CLASS

llaborate on projects that incorporate

merging technologies rom multiple elds.

SOUND FILE FOR BROADCAST DESIGN CLASS

Work fuidly across media to create innovative,

accessible ways o communicating inormation.

VIDEO INTERVIEW FOR CASE STUDYInvent your own research methods,

take risks, and make new discoveries.

RESEARCH FOR INFORMATION

DESIGN CLASS PROJECT

Learn to think critically about

your relationship to the society

in which you live.

PROJECTS


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Sara Choi, toy model,

Product Design

Bobae Lee, layered knit sweater and wool

pants, Fashion Design

Kevin Jean, new concepts or

the Museum Watch or Movado,digital rendering, Product Design

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Tara Kelton, Outsource, photographs o

sign painters in India hand-renderingletters typed at Parsons, Communication

Design

Stephanie Suberville, organza and

leather dress, Fashion Design

Yoon Jeong Gee, linen suit and graphic

T-shirt, Fashion Design

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Aron Han, ull-scale fat pack shelving

prototype, plywood, Product Design

Anna Skladmann, Untitled, c-print,

Photography

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Nyna Mezan,Hegelian Onions, onion skins

and thread, Fine Art

George PittsChairphtgraphy

PROJECTS


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Keiko Kojima, Untitled, lm stills, Design

and Technology

Megan Hunt, Untitled, print,

Photography

Chad Halstead, Untitled, oil on canvas,

Fine Art

PROJECTS

George Pitts is an award-winning photography director, painter, and

essayist and a renowned teacher whose work spans the ne art, commercial,

and ashion worlds. Pitts has been a Parsons aculty member since 1998

and will become chair o the Photography Department this year.

In addition to teaching at Parsons, Pitts has held a number o

prominent positions, including director o photography at Vibe magazine,

where he received three National Magazine Award nominations or Best

Photography. O his work at Vibe he says, It was an important job because

it brought unprecedented visibility to my contributions as a photo editor.

We endeavored to bring sophisticated and authentic visual approaches

to the documentation o Arican-American culture that would also have

broad appeal or all Americans and readers throughout the world.

Whether teaching, photo editing, writing, or making images, Pitts

consistently demonstrates a keen aesthetic sense and the ability to work

graciously with people o all b ackgrounds. As the incoming chair, Pitts

will uphold the high standards o the department.


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Austin Power, Untitled, oil on canvas,

Fine Art

Martina Gustavsson,Missing, abric, and

cardboard, Illustration

Hae-Jeong Choi, TerraBites , vending cart

developed in collaboration with NewYork City Greenmarket, Product Design

Emily Mak,Public Bathhouse, wood

architectural model, Architecture

Markus Bradley, Table, mixed-media

installation with plywood, foodlights,wheatgrass, electrical wire, and switch,

Fine Art

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Christian John, clock, Product Design

Carissa Lo, YoCoDo, sex-education game

or teenaged girls developed in col-

laboration with Vibe Theater Experience,Product Design

JB Chae, Color Therapy or Children, designor toy blocks, Communication Design

Martina Sencakova andAmanda TolesSeniorsitrir dsig

PROJECTS


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Rosa Chae, Stephanie Chao, Sunny Eun,

Byron Kalet, Kayoung Lim, Mark Miner,Maria Wan, Sean Kim (with Cecilia Dean,

Greg Foley, Donald Hearn), CDT100

CommemorativeKit, set of puzzle cardsinspired by the Parsons archives, tools

to complete each card, and collectible

Parsons stamps; Communication Design

Takuji Koide, Virus,Communication Design

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Hyun Joo Lee, thesis collection,

Fashion Design

Byron Kalet, The Journal o Popular Noise,

package design, Communication Design

Jack Lai,Buttery Gathering, Autodesk

Maya animation still, Design and

Technology

Nobuhiro Matsui, William Shakespeare,

time line depicting Shakespeares coinageo English words, Communication

Design

coMMunicationdesign

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Devin McGrath, Conessions o a Music

Snob, Illustration

Austin Power,Kristine, watercolor on

paper, Fine Arts

Hee Yeon Kim,Artists Residence ,

digital rendering, Interior Design

Caroline Pham, Supra Functional, sterling

silver orks and ceramic bowls and cups,

Integrated Design Curriculum

Lindsey Ruben,Desk System, plywood,

Integrated Design Curriculum

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Furniture Seminar project (instructor

Alred Zollinger), ull-scale installationat 2007 International Contemporary

Furniture Fair, Interior Design

Don Brodie, Untitled, c-print,

Photography

Miki Nagao, Currency,

Communication Design

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Chad Halstead, Untitled,

oil on canvas, Fine Art

Kiyo Watanabe,PureTAP, collapsible

water bottle designed to support theCatskill/Delaware watershed, Product

Design

Lindsay Podd, plush and vinyl toy,

Illustration

PROJECTS PROJECTS


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Cat Lauigan, White Pepper

Child, graphite and color pencilon paper, Illustration

Paul Chan,East Harlem IKEA hotel ,


Michael HoeferSeniorprdt dsig

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Kelvin Lin,Beneath the Composition:

defning the value o creativity in themusic industry, case study, Design and

Management

Ohal Woord, Untitled, digital print,

Design and Technology

Grace Doherty,Juice, silver albumen

print, Photography

Michael Hoefers interests range rom painting to jewelry making.

He says, I came to Parsons as a Fine Arts student because it is kno wn

not only or design but or social responsibility as well. I switched to

Product Design because it is anti-elitist. The things we design are useul

to everyone.

Michaels thesis project, bounce Baby Sign Products, refects

both his commitment to social responsibility and his knowledge o

product design. The project has special personal signicance or

Michael, the son o dea parents. He explains, Many dea children have

hearing parents who only know how to communicate orally. Parents

dont learn sign language because it is oreign and they are given only an

institutional approach to it. I w anted to take everyday necessities and

toys, such as baby blankets and building blocks, and add American Sign

Language and illustrations to them to introdu ce sign language to

parents and to give both hearing and nonhearing children a method o

preverbal communication.

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collage, Fine Art

Julia Chesky, Untitled, Canon 1Ds digital

le, Photography

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Rebecca Stern,Holon A., mixed-media

installation, Design and Technology

Fernando Ibarra, Untitled, c-print,

PhotographyYosara Gonzales, Womb, plastic and

thread, Fine Art

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Ji Kim, exhibition installation or Stella

Kim clothing label, Integrated DesignCurriculum

Julie Puaux, Water Taxi Terminal,


Justin ShojiAlumnusdsig ad maagmt

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Sophie Holstein, Untitled, oil on canvas,

Fine Art

Matt Edge, Untitled, digital pigment

print, Photography

For Justin Shoji, the Design and Management program was ideal,

oering him fuency in both the business and ashion worlds. I can

crunch numbers and analyze spreadsheets, and I also appreciate

creativity and design concepts. Although Justin developed many o

these skills in the classroom, his experiences as an intern proved equally

important in helping him choose a career.

As a reshman and s ophomore, Justin interned at Fashion File TV,

where he worked on bro adcasts o events during New York Fashion

Week. He also explored the world o event planning as an intern at Mark

Stephen Enterprises. But Justins avorite internship, arranged with help

rom Parsons instructor Steve Lindner, was at Diesel. There he joined

the womens wholesale group and gained incomparable hands-on

experience. I was able to assist in appointments with buyers and attend

trade shows. Theres nothing better than seeing rsthand how things

operate. Ater graduating, Justin parlayed this internship into a

ull-time job, and today he is happily employed as a customer service

representative or Diesel.

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Duncan Smith, Journey o a Mixteco,

graphic novel spread, Integrated DesignCurriculum

Christopher Nesbit, The Former Southern

End o 7th Avenue, Manhattan , c-print,Photography

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Anna Skladmann,Little Adults, c-print,

Photography

Ilana Glickman, Space Girls, c-print,

Photography

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Florian Sanger,My 7 World Wonders,

digital drawing, Illustration

Kim Fischer,In Plain English, set o cards

to help immigrants achieve independenceand literacy, Product Design

Christine Dajung Oh, re:mind, alternative

uses or non-recyclable paper products,Product Design

Pascale GatzenFacultyitgratd dsig rrilm

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Rithika Merchant,Frontal Blue, gouache

on vellum, Fine Art

Amanda Toles and Martina Sencakova,

25 E. 13th Street , rendering, Interior Design

Izzo Ahmed, Untitled, lm still,

Design and Technology

I am interested in developing educational structures that allow students

to eel ree and to understand their own power and possibilities, says

Integrated Design Curriculum instructor Pascale Gatzen. In her courses,

Gatzen ensures that her students have abundant opportunities to grow

not only as designers but also as individuals. I want my students to test

the intersection between ashion and reality. Do their designs work?

How do people react to the clothing they have made? Testing, making,

and doing are very important. We perorm in our clothes. I want students

to be present, to grow with their work as human beings.

Gatzen believes that actually making clothing is essential or

students training to become ashion designers. In the core Integrated

Fashion Curriculum class, taken by sophomores in the all, students

develop a creative and critical approach to ashion. They learn by

experimenting and playing with clothes that are worn in everyday lie.

By exploring things that attract them culturally or historically, or

example, students make garments or themselves once a week.

Through a collaborative project between New School students and

Ajkema Loya, a womens cooperative in Guatemala, Gatzen has taken

her approach to both ashion and education abroad. The students sharetheir knowledge o business, marketing, and product design with the

Guatemalan women. In return, the Guatemalan women teach the stu-

dents beading, dyeing threads, pattern making, and weaving. The

goal is or the collective to create products o their choosing and to

operate without external support.

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Beau Metting, Untitled, oil on canvas,

Fine Art

Ethan Tseng,postpulp, paper-making

kit with paper press, screen rame, andsawdust starter pack, Product Design

Yosara Gonzalez, Things We Said, mixed-

media installation (detail), Fine Art

Duncan SmithSenior (BA/BFA Dual Degree)itgratd dsig rrilm

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Duncan Smith came to Parsons to study design and liberal arts. As a

graduating senior, he has ullled his goal, earning a combined degree

in Writing and Integrated Design Curriculum. Beautiully rendered

illustrations inormed by ancient Mexican art spill rom the pages o his

thesis project, a short graphic novel based on the true story o a Mexican

worker in New York City. Duncan explains the inspiration or this project:

In my rst year, I took Community Organizing at Eugene Lang College

as part o my BA studies in the dual degree program, and I became

entwined with a nonprot group dedicated to workers rights. Thats

where I met Sergio, and I modeled the main character in my graphic

novel ater him. Still committed to promoting workers rights, Duncan

continued working with the group ater the class ended. He hopes that

his thesis project will advance this cause by shedding light on the

working Mexican population in New York, which is oten invisible.

Even with his diploma in hand, Duncan will have no time to relax: He

has received a contract to write and illus trate a childrens book about the

experiences o two Mexican cousins, one living in New York City and the

other living in Mexico.

Duncan says one o the great things about Parsons is that a loto proessors are people in the eld right now. He plans to continue

writing and illustrating, looking orward to becoming one o their peers.

Sato Masaaki, Untitled, Integrated

Design Curriculum

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Kenneth Chauti, Untitled, c-print,

Photography

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Maya Sariahmed says she came to Parsons by accident. I wasnt

considering art school. I wanted to go to a liberal arts college and get a

well-rounded education. I looked into Parsons out o curiosity, and when

I visited the Communication Design department, my decision was made;

there was something pragmatic that appealed to me and my parents, and

the energy o the sta was wonderul.

Ater two years in the program, Maya knows that her decision was

the right one. I love the broad curriculum; theres so much I can d o. I

can study book or publication design, motion or spatial graphics, or

example. I love art but dont want to be pushing a portolio in Chelsea.

Communication Design is a little more practical, but its wonderu l or

whimsical, collaborative, crazy, experimental projects, too.

Maya is particularly happy studying in New York City. Everything

that happens in the art world seems to nd its roots here, w hether youre

in Dumbo investigating the Puppet Lab, strolling through the labyrinth

o photo and ne art galleries in Chelsea, enjoying the murals in Harlem,

or perusing the works o the masters in some o the worlds greatest

museums. Art is absolutely everywhere.

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Design and Management BBA

Students explore design elds and relatedindustries. They learn business prin-

ciples and practices that will help themsucceed as managers and entrepreneurs

in todays competitive marketplace.

(See page 104.)

Design and Technology BFA

Students explore the changes in art and

design brought on by digital technolo-gies. Topics include computer systems,

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rst-year students.

Environmental Studies BA / BS

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emphasizes sustainable design, or the

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College, which emphasizes social scienceand policy. This is a direct entry program

starting all 2009. (See page 108; New York

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Photography BFAThe curriculum provides rigorous tech-

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acilities and resources

Architectural design students work

in the design studio, a large open lotully equipped with wireless digital

capability. In this atelier atmosphere,

you are assigned a permanent work area

where you can interact reely with acultyand peers. You also have access to the

latest, most innovative materials and

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that has experienced the most dramatic

changes over the past century. These

changes have resulted rom technologicaladvances and, more undamentally, rom

expanding notions o what constitutes

communication.

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Students explore a variety o design

elds and learn to use design as a toolor change, or example in the eld o

environmental sustainability. In Senior

Seminar and Thesis classes, students

work independently on case studies,which include a project brie, poster,

website, oral or digital presentation, and

ormal paper. These nal projects allow

students to display original thinkingbacked by solid research. Past project

topics include designing a street ashion

website, accessing clean water in Haiti,improving the subway riders experi-

ence, and addressing the issue o student

credit card debt.

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The Design and Technology program

encourages students to engage thecommunity through symposia,

game jams, simulations, and mobile

technology events. Parsons provides a

place to test prototypes and connectsstudents with scholars and designers

in digital media, education, and social

research. Most recently, the department

has collaborated with Games or Changeto launch PETLab, the rst public-

interest game design and research

laboratory or interactive media. Otherindustry and organizational partners

include AIGA, Apple, Atari, Cooper-

Hewitt/Smithsonian, Creative Time,

Curious Pictures, Eyebeam, gameLab,Human Rights Watch, Microsot, MTV,

NASA, the New Museum, the Open

Society Institute, Samsung, Siemens,

SensAble Technologies, UNESCO, andUNICEF.

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enVironMental studies

ieldwork

Students pursuing an environmental

studies degree use New York City and the

surrounding region as their laboratory.You apply what you learn in the class-

room to real-world problems through

eldwork with local organizations,

government agencies, and businesses.You work with leading environmental

proessionals to design experiments,

collect data, develop prototypes, andimplement projects that address

urgent urban environmental problems.

Fieldwork in the second or third year

orms the basis or a senior project.Recent eldwork has taken students to

the marshes o Jamaica Bay, green roos

in the South Bronx, and the banks o the

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In 1906, Parsons launched the rst

program in ashion design in the United

States. The history o the departmentis intertwined with the rise o Seventh

Avenue as the center o the ashion

industry. Today, roughly 70 percent o

the ashion design talent in New York isParsons educated.

Parsons ve generations o ashion

design alumni include legends such as

Claire McCardell, Adrian, and Norman

Norell; current leaders Donna Karan,Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui,

Isaac Mizrahi, Narciso Rodriguez, Mark

Badgley and James Mischka, and Zang

Toi; and new stars Jack McCollough andLazaro Hernandez (Proenza Schouler),

Behnaz Sarapour, Peter Som, Doo Ri,

Derek Lam, Chris Benz, Sophie Buhai andLisa Mayock (Vena Cava), and Flora Gill

and Alexa Adams (Ohne Titel).

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Jean Shin

Jordan Wolson

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Naland Blake

Judy Glazman

Taryn Simon

Phong Bui

Ernesto Caivano

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Illustration students learn rom some

o the best visual communicators in

the world.

Ben Katchor, an award-winningillustrator, is a new associate p roessor.

His musical, The Slug Bearers o Kayrol

Island, recently received glowing reviews

in theNew York Times . His picture-storiesand drawings appear in the New Yorker,

Metropolis Magazine , and TheForward.

Katchors weekly strips includeJulius

Knipl;Real Estate Photographer; The Jew oNew York; and The Cardboard Valise.

Tara McPherson is a painter, poster

artist, and reelance illustrator. Her

art includes comics and covers or DC

Vertigo, illustrations or companiessuch as Pepsi and Spin Magazine, and

posters or rock bands such as Beck,

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Cab or Cutie.

Nora Krugs work as an illustrator, ani-

mator, and visual narrator has appearedin publications such as theNew York

Times, the Guardian,Playboy, BLAB!, and

Le monde diplomatique . She has exhibitedher work in Europe, the United States,

and Asia and her animated Internet

project how-to-bow.com was recognized

by the New York Art Directors Club.

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integrated design curriculuM

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Integrative Fashion Curriculum

Students rethink, critique, and rerame

current ashion system and design within a variety o media, rom garments, to

images, to writing.

Integrative Urban Curriculum

Students experiment with notionso liberty, agency, citizenship, social

entrepreneurship, and design action in

relation to cities, urban environments,

and the condition o urbanity.

coMing in 2009

Integrative Sustainability Curriculum

Students research the sustainabilityo social and natural environments

and leverage design to make them moreecologically resilient and robust.

Integrative Media Curriculum

Students use xed, dynamic, and

interactive media as platorms toinvestigate the concepts and process

o imagining, representing, and

interpreting cultural, social, andenvironmental relationships.

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Combined with a proessional

apprenticeship, this degree qualies you

or the NCIDQ proessional licensingexamination. For students looking

to extend their studies, the program

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Parsons MFA in Interior Design andother graduate and research degrees.

Graduates pursue careers in residential,

contract-commercial, and hospitalitydesign; design management; design

journalism; and education.

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accolades

Over the past six years, Parsons has

produced six Surace Avant Guardians

and our Fulbright scholars. Studentshave also appeared in the Photo District

News 30, a list o notable up-and-

coming photographers. Ryan McGinley,

a recent graduate, received the YoungPhotographer Innity Award rom the

International Center o Photography and

was the youngest artist to have a soloexhibition at the Whitney Museum o

American Art.

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the designers role in improving peoples

lives. An investigation o the impact odesign on communities, A Good Lie is a

synthesis o departmental themes o the

last decade. In this course you sharpen

your ideas and get real-world client inputby working with nonprot organizations

in New York to develop design projects

that address their missions. The work othe department sees a world made better

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A BRIEF GUIDE TO

PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN

Parsons prepares students to be independent thinkers

who creatively and critically address the complex human

conditions o 21st-century culture. We are creating a diverse

learning environment or developing intelligent and

refective practices through studio-based research and critical

scholarship in order to make meaningul and sustainable

contributions todays global society. As a division o The

New School, Parsons builds on the universitys legacy o

progressive ideals, scholarship, and educational methods.

Our aculty challenges convention through a setting and

philosophy that encourages ormal experimentation, nurtures

alternative world-views, and cultivates orward-thinking

leaders and creative proessionals in a world increasingly

infuenced by art and design.

The New School was ounded in 1919 as center or discussion,

instruction, and counseling or mature men and w omen. It is

today a thriving urban university oering undergraduate and

graduate degrees in the liberal arts and social sciences, design,

and the perorming arts. It is a privately supported university

chartered by the Board o Regents o the State o New York, and

its degree and certicate programs are approved by the states

Division o Veterans Aairs.

The New School is accredited by the Commission on Higher

Education o the Middle States Association o Colleges and

Schools. Parsons The New School or Design is additionally

accredited by the National Association o Schools o Art and

Design, and the graduate program in architecture is accredited

by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

FACTS ABOUT PARSONS

Founded in 1896 by New York City artist William Merritt

Chase and associates.

Named in 1936 or longtime president Frank Alvah

Parsons, who devoted his lie to integrating visual art and

industrial design.

Became a division o The New School in 1970. Located in

Greenwich Village, New York City.

Current enrollments: Parsons enrolls nearly 4,000 students in

its undergraduate and undergraduate degree programs. The NewSchool as a whole enrolls nearly 10,000 matriculated students.

The Parsons aculty includes 127 ull-time and 1,056 part-

time members respectively. The majority o aculty members

are working proessional artists and designers.

DEGREE PROGRAMS

Parsons oers the ollowing degree programs:

Bachelor o Fine Arts (BFA) in: Architectural Design,

Communication Design, Design and Technology, Fashion

Design, Fine Arts, Illustration, Integrated Design, Interior

Design, Photography, and Product Design. (There is a ve-year

BA/BFA dual degree program in each o these areas o study;

speak to an admission counselor about the dual degree program.)

Bachelor o Business Administration (BBA) in Design and

Management.

Bachelor o Science (BS) in Environmental Studies* and

BA/BFA .

Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in: Fashion Marketing,

Fashion Studies, Graphic Design, and Interior Design.

Master o Fine Arts (MFA) in: Design and Technology,

Lighting Design, Interior Design*, Fine Arts, and

Photography.

Master o Architecture (MArch).

Master o Arts (MA) in History o Decorative Arts and Design.

Master o Architecture/Master o Fine Arts in Lighting

Design (MArch/MFA).

OTHER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Parsons oers a variety o programs or nonmatriculated

students o all ages: Summer Intensive Studies (Pre-college

and college-level) in New York City and Paris; Continuing

Education (certicate programs and general art and design

education or adults); Parsons Pre-College Academy

(certicate programs and general art and design education

or young people, grades 412).

Visit the website at www.newschool.edu/parsons or more

inormation

* New York State approval pending.

INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION

The New School is committed to creating and maintain-

ing an environment o diversity and tolerance in all areas o

employment, education, and access to its educational, artistic,

and cultural programs and activities. The New School does

not discriminate on the basis o age, race, co lor, sex, sexual

orientation, religion, mental or physical d isability, national or

ethnic origin, or citizenship, marital, or veteran status.

INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION ON THE WEB

The New School provides the ollowing institutional

inormation on the university website at www.newschool.

edu: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA);

nancial assistance inormation (ederal, state, local, private,

and institutional need-based and non-need-based assistance

programs, Title IV, FFEL, Direct Loan deerments); institutional

inormation (ees, reund policies, withdrawing rom school,

academic inormation, disability services or students);

completion/graduation rates and transer-out rates (graduation

rate o degree-seeking students, transer-out rates o degree-

seeking students). To request copies o any o these reports,

please contact the appropriate oce listed on the website.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Estimated School-Year Expenses, 200809 Academic Year

(Full-time on-campus resident)

Tuition (undergraduate)* ...............................................$33,700

University Services Fee .........................................................200

Divisional Fee .........................................................................80

Health Services Fee ...............................................................420

Health Insurance Fee** .......................................................1,667

Room and Board*** ...........................................................12,455

Books and Supplies .............................................................2,170

Personal Expenses .............................................................1,640

Transportation ......................................................................725

Other .....................................................................................190

Total ...............................................................................$53,057

* For BFA programs.

**All ull-time matriculated students are automatically charged a

Student Health Insurance Fee and a Student Health Services Fee.

Students covered by other insurance can decline these services by

submitting a waiver orm.

***Actual costs may vary widely or individuals.

STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES

The New School provides a comprehensive program o

nancial aid services or students, including signicant

institutional scholarship support based on merit and need.

All applicants who le the Free Application or Federal

Student Aid (FAFSA) will be considered or Parsons

institutional scholarships. The New School participates in

all available ederal and state aid programs, including the

Federal Pell Grant, Equal Opportunity Grant, and Federal

Family Educational Loan programs.

Visit www.newschool.edu/studentservices/nancialaid

to learn how to apply or nancial aid and more about

scholarships, loans, campus employment, and other

resources. The university oce o student nancial services

works with students and amilies o all income levels to

explore their unding options. Contact Student Financial

Services directly at 212.229.8930 or [email protected].

Note: there is a monthly payment plan that allows amilies

to spread tuition payments throughout the year.

Chase ScholarsFirst-year applicants with exceptional academic achievement

are eligible or this program o accelerated Art and Design

courses, which carries with it a supplemental scholarship award.

Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP)

The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) oers

support to residents o New York State whose amily

incomes meet guidelines established by the State Department

o Education and whose college success may no t be readily

predictable through high school grades and standardized

test scores. Candidates or HEOP assistance must exhibit the

exceptional art and design talent expected o all Parsons stu-

dents. For more inormation, send email to heop@newschool.

edu or call The New School at 212.229.8996.

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APPLY

Apply online at www.newschool.edu/parsons/apply.

Parsons seeks serious, responsible, and highly motivated

students. There is no admission ormula, and every applicant

is reviewed individually with regard to his or her experience,

achievements, and potential or personal growth at Parsons The

New School or Design. The admission committee recognizes

the benets o strong artistic preparation, but some applicants

are admitted based on their academic achievements despite

limited art or design experience.

The admissions inormation in this brochure is or applicants

to bachelors degree programs at Parsons The New School

or Design in New York City.* Complete inormation about

admission criteria and required documents, admission status

and transer admissions, and credit and course requirements

or dierent degree programs is available on the Web at

www.newschool.edu/parsons. Summary inormation is

provided below.

ADDRESS INqUIRIES TOParsons The New School or Design

University Admission

(Parsons Undergraduate Programs)

79 Fith Avenue, 5th Floor

New York, NY 10003

Telephone 212.229.5150 or

877.528.3321 (toll-ree in the U.S.)

Email [email protected]

FREqUENTLY ASKED qUESTIONS

I am a student at another college. Can I transer to Parsons

as a sophomore or junior? To be admitted as a sophomore or

junior, you must have earned the studio art credits equivalent

to the requirements o the rst year(s) o the Parsons program

to which you are applying. I you do not have the right studio

credits, you can transer in at a lower level regardless o your

previous college experience. In any case, your liberal arts

credits should be transerable i you received acceptable

grades. Note: Junior-level transers are not permitted in

Fashion Design.

I am an international applicant. How do I get an I-20

orm? I-20 orms are provided only ater an applicant has

been accepted to a degree program (BFA, BBA, BS, MFA, MA,AAS). Parsons does not issue I-20 orms or nonmatriculating,

continuing education, or certicate students.

Can I take individual courses or enroll part-time? Parsons

degree program courses are open only to ull-time matricu-

lated students. Students wishing to take individual classes at

Parsons can register or continuing education cou rses. For

more inormation, visit w ww.newschool.edu/parsons/ce.

*Parsons Paris is a separate institution with its own programs and

admission policies. For inormation about Parsons Paris, email

[email protected], or write to Parsons Paris,

14 rue Letellier, 75015 Paris, France.

How many students attend Parsons? Parsons enrolls about

3,200 undergraduate students. Studio classes are usually

limited to 15 students, and Art and Design Studies classes are

usually limited to 20 students.

Does Parsons oer career services? The oce o career

services directly supports students seeking industry

employment and oers comprehensive career guidance.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

February 1 or all admission. This is the priority deadline or

students who wish to be considered or university housing

or scholarships. However, all applicants are urged to submit

complete applications by this date. Ater the priority deadline

has passed, applications received will be considered only i

space is available.

November 1 or spring admission. Students wishing to

enter Parsons in the spring semester (see Transer Students

below) must submit all application materials by this date. I

all required materials are not submitted or postmarked by

November 1, the application will be considered or the nextall semester.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

All applications must be made using the online application

orm. The orm and complete instructions are ound on the

website at www.newschool.edu/parsons/apply. Please read the

instructions careully beore you apply. The application may

be submitted online or downloaded and mailed to the oce o

admission. All documents and artwork not being submitted

online should be mailed together in one package to the address

above.Always use the materials cover sheet posted in the Apply

section o the website. Fill it out completely and itemize everything

you are submitting.

Admission Decisions

Once the admission committee has received all your required

materials and your application is complete, you will receive a

decision within our to six weeks.

REqUIRED APPLICATION SUPPORT MATERIALS

Transcripts

Ocial high school and college transcripts must be sent to

University Admissions; see address above. Copies are not

acceptable.

International students must submit original transcripts;

a certied English translation i a transcript was recorded

in a language other than English; and a course-by-course

evaluation report prepared by World Education Services,

www.wes.org, or another member o the National Association

o Evaluation Services (NACES). I ling with WES online,

search or New School Parsons. Transcripts should be sent or

evaluation as soon as possible so that Parsons will receive the

evaluation reports prior to the application deadline.

Test Scores

SAT or ACT scores are required o all applicants currently

enrolled in U.S. high schools. Applicants who are not native

speakers o English must submit a TOEFL score*; a minimum

score o 580 on the paper test, 23 7 on the computer test, or 92

on the Internet-based test is required or an applicant to be

considered (600, 250, or 100 or Environmental Studies).

*Waiving the TOEFL Requirement: The New School or General Studies

oers intensive courses and a certifcate in English as a second language.

Many international students take these courses to prepare or academic

studies or proessional work in the United States. Parsons applicants who

pass Level Six (6) o the New School ESL courses may waive the TOEFL

exam requirement. For general inormation, current course schedules, and

ees, visit the website at www.newschool.edu/english.

The Parsons Challenge

All applicants must complete the Parsons Challenge. This

exercise helps the admission committee understand how a

potential student structures and conveys ideas.

Where do you live? What are your everyday activities?

Where do you go? What have you overlooked? Look around

your community and discover something new within your

amiliar surroundings and daily liean object, event,

activity, or location.

Interpret your discovery in three (3) perspectives in any

medium and three (3) statements o approximately 150

words each. You may proceed rom image to text or text

to image. Each interpretation should represent a dierent

point o view.

Visual media may include drawing, photography,

video, sculpture, 3D work, collage, digital images or any

combination o the above. Each written statement should

explore your creative and imaginative process and support

the visual work in both orm and content. All images and

texts must be clearly identied with your name and date

o birth.

Portolio (BFA applicants)

812 additional examples o art or design work such as but not

limited to drawing, painting, photographs, and digital media.

There are special portolio requirements or students applying

or direct-entry to Design and Technology and Photography

programs; see First Year status on the ollowing page. See

Visit Parsons on the last page o this brochure or inormation

about portolio preparation workshops and review sessions

at Parsons.

Required essay (Design and Management BBA applicants)

In an essay o 500550 words, describe a situation in which

you combined creativity and analysis to so lve a challenging

problem. The problem you describe could b e personal, social,

political, environmental, or something very dierent. The

admission committee is more interested in your process or

method in considering the problem than whether you reached

a complete solution.

Required essay (Environmental Studies BS applicants)

In an essay o 500-550 words, discuss a major environmental

challenge acing a large urban area, such as New York, Los

Angeles, Mexico City, London, etc., and propose a solution

ocusing on design and sustainability.

Personal Interview

An interview is optional but recommended. An application

must be submitted prior to scheduling an interview. To

schedule an interview, call 212.229.8989; your New School

ID number, issued when enrollment services received your

application, must be given when scheduling an interview.

EARLY ADMISSION FOR HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS

A limited number o students may be admitted to the rst-year

Foundation Program ater completing the junior year o high

school. I you are applying or early admission, you must

provide a letter rom your high school authorizing the Parsons

Foundation Program to be substituted or your senior year o

high school. You may submit PSAT scores i SAT or ACT scores

are unavailable.

CONDITIONAL ADMISSION

In some circumstances, Parsons may admit an applicant

subject to conditions as described below.

Summer Program as a Condition or Admission

The committee may admit an applicant on the condition that

he or she successully complete a Parsons summer program to

make up an academic or portolio deciency. This is determined

at the time o the admission committees initial review so that

applicants will receive notication with ample time to make

plans or the summer. The admission committee will provide

inormation about these programs i appropriate.

Probation

A student may be admitted on probation due to weak academic

perormance as indicated on transcripts. Details about proba-

tionary admission will be included in the decision letters sent

to applicants accepted under such conditions.

Summer Orientation Program or International

Students (SOPIS)

Students whose artistic and academic skills warrant admission

but whose weak English-language skills disqualiy them, may

be oered the eight-week SOPIS program as a condition oadmission. Placement in this program is solely at the discretion

o the admission committee. The admission committee will

provide inormation about these programs i appropriate.

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SPRING ADMISSION

See Transer Students inormation below: spring admissions are

limited and always require specic prior course work at Parsons

or another accredited institution. The ollowing programs

allow spring entry: Architectural Design (second-semester

sophomore); Foundation (reshman transer); Communication

Design (sophomore); Design and Technology (reshman transer

or second-semester sophomore); Fine Arts (second-semester

sophomore); Illustration (sophomore); Interior Design (second

semester sophomore); and Photography (reshman transer or

second-semester sophomore).

I the program you wish to enter does not admit new students

in the spring, or i you do not have the appropriate prior

course work, you can apply or the Foundation Program as

a reshman transer student or else apply or the next all

semester. The portolio work o transer applicants must be

equivalent to that o Parsons students at the same level. I you

have questions, please contact the oce o admission.

TRANSFER STUDENTS

Residency RequirementParsons has a two-year residency requirement or all under-

graduate degree programs. A maximum o 67 credits earned

elsewhere can be applied toward a Parsons degree.

Transer students may receive credit or college courses com-

pleted elsewhere that are similar to those oered at Parsons,

based on assessment o ocial transcripts. A grade o C or

better must have been awarded or a course to be considered.

Credit will be transerred or studio i the applicants portolio

materials demonstrate prociency in the skills or which

credit is sought. Courses considered or transer credit must

have been taken at an institution accredited by a state or

regional accre

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