• Engaged Learning

    Engaged Learning

  • At Lang, we believe that real-world experience is just as important as intellectual theories explored in the classroom, so we offer a host of ways for students to engage with the world around them.

  • Engaged Learning at Lang


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    Internships

    Internships

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    Internships and civic engagement are invaluable components of the Liberal Arts program at Lang. Student interns receive professional guidance, gain hands-on experience, develop confidence, and establish an expansive network of professional contacts. Internships for academic credit are available in almost every field and have included companies such as the New York Times,  Manolo Blahnik, MoMA PS1, and eBay.
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    Lang Dean's Honor Symposium

    Lang Dean's Honor Symposium

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    Lang's academic summit celebrates student work including class projects, internships, study abroad experiences, senior capstones, and independent work in the community. #LangDHS
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    Civic Engagement and Social Justice

    Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Lang

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    CESJ runs several programs for students, faculty and staff designed to build and sustain a social justice community at Lang. Ranging from our intensive, four year Gural Scholars program to a summer fellowship, our workshops and programs offer a variety of ways to get involved.
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    Fellowships and Grants

    Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

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    There are numerous opportunities for our students to connect their interests to real-world experiences outside of the classroom through Lang-sponsored fellowships, grants, and symposia.
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    Gural Scholars

    Gural Scholars

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    The Gural Scholars Program, housed in Lang’s Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice, provides need-based scholarships each year from Orientation to graduation for up to 48 students. Scholars enroll in a year-long two-credit seminar focused on social justice theory and practice as part of this program.

  • Student Voices

    What’s your Lang experience been like?

    • I applied for a Lang Opportunity Award, and was able to go on a full ride [to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival]. I also went to Columbia with the Gural Scholars.

      Yu Ling BA/BFA majoring in Theater at Lang and Integrated Design at Parsons

    • I’ll be in Ghana . . . working with a label called Akwaaba, whose mission is to bring these amazing musicians that are not on the Internet online to diversify their revenue streams and enable them to gain agency by entering global markets. The Lang Opportunity Award, which is like a grant, will help me get there.

      Julian BA/BFA studying Anthropology at Lang and Jazz Guitar at CoPA

    • It’s really great that Lang is partnering with these programs and also giving exposure to organizations and using our resources in a way that promotes discussion, not only in class but outside of class, of questions like, How can we change the school-to-prison pipeline?

      Sabrina Double-major in Theater and Culture and Media

    • I interned with an environmentally-focused start-up and then I looked into Citi Bike as an extension of the sharing economy and wanted to understand the social and environmental justice implications of that.

      Irie Major in Environmental Studies; Minor Economics

    • In many traditional science labs that I visited during my time in Argentina [on the Mohn Family Science and Social Justice Fellowship], the Mapuche perspective was completely ignored, because science is traditionally taught in a vacuum...My project is trying to bring science out of the vacuum by putting it into poetry while also keeping a lot of those scientific roots.

      Marina Majoring in Interdisciplinary Science, with a minor in Literary Studies, focusing on poetry

  • Research & Projects

    The impact of work at Lang reaches far beyond the classroom. Learn more about how faculty, alumni, and students address contemporary social, economic, and environmental issues.

  • Take The Next Step

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Undergraduates

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Undergraduate Adult Learners

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Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.