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    - Students entering Parsons share a common first-year experience. The same course sequence constitutes the first year of every BFA and BBA program, providing a foundational experience that familiarizes students with the tools, methods, and skills of art and design. First-year courses prepare students for life as skilled and socially aware artists and designers. Classes focusing on broadly relevant design concepts, tools, and methods—including studios exploring 2D and 3D processes, drawing, and digital design as well as liberal arts seminars—bring together students who are passionate about all kinds of art and design and who will one day forge new paths in an array of disciplines.
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Design Studies MA
- Drawing on the breadth and depth of expertise in design theory and practice at Parsons, this new Master of Arts program offers students the opportunity to explore design as both a field of scholarly research and an agent of social change.
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Fashion Studies MA
- Launched in fall 2010, this Master of Arts program allows students to engage in the evolving field of fashion studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students explore fashion as object, image, text, practice, theory, and concept and develop a critical understanding of fashion and its complex global intersections with identities, histories, and cultures in the contemporary world.
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History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA
- Offered jointly with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program leads to a Master of Arts degree. Graduates go on to careers as historians, curators, and scholars in museums, universities, historic houses, auction houses, and galleries.
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About ADHT

Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon

To celebrate the release of Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon, we are organizing a series of dialogues to further explore what “dark times”...

Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel

Working in Fashion / Studies MA Fashion Studies Alumni & Career Panel In recognition of the launch of our MA Fashion Studies program...

The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion

Credit: Garment designed by Nina Veresova for her “-ology” collection (2017). Photographer: Nadezhda Belova The Russian edition of Prof. Francesca Granata’s book Experimental Fashion: Performance Art,...

Legacy with Sebastian Grant - November 19th, 2020

Scholarship in the history of jewelry making in the 20th Century has often focused on a very narrow discourse based on primarily white European and...

Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion

Fashion Studies Professor Francesca Granata was interviewed about her book Experimental Fashion and the concept of the grotesque body in fashion for Thrive Global. Read the full...

Monthly Archives: May 2015

Congratulations to the ADHT Class of 2015!

By adht | Published: May 22, 2015

Yesterday, on Thursday, May 21, fifty one graduating students from the School of Art and Design History and Theory were celebrated for their hard work…

Announcing the publication of PLOT(S) Journal of Design Studies, Issue 2

By | Published: May 21, 2015

The Design Studies Classes of 2015 and 2016 are pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of Plot(s), a peer reviewed, student-edited and produced…

ADHT Is Proud to Announce 2015 Graduate Journals

By adht | Published: May 20, 2015

The School of Art and Design History and Theory is proud to present the 2015 issues of our annual graduate journals–BIAS, Plot(s), and Objective. This…

What’s Funny about This? Design and Process

By adht | Published: May 18, 2015

What’s Funny about This? Design and Process a project by Estefania Acosta, Laura Sanchez, and Misha Volf, MA Design Studies Class of 2016

ADHT Graduate Students Present at Parsons Festival

By adht | Published: May 14, 2015

Thursday, May 14 11:00am Christina Moon Opening Remarks Designing People Francesca Granata – Introduction Lauren Sagatore – Constructing the Self through Costume: Fashion Studies Dress…

Hazel Clark helps kick off Parsons Festival

By adht | Published: May 7, 2015

Thursday May 7th, from 6:00pm – 7:30pm in The Tishman Auditorium of the University Center. Professor Hazel Clark in dialogue with Opening Ceremony founders Carol Lim and…

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The School of Art and Design History and Theory offers courses to students in all schools at Parsons. Its curriculum helps student develop the intellectual rigor necessary to become the next generation of art and design leaders.

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Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon

Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel

The New Literary Review and Theory of Fashion present: Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion

Legacy with Sebastian Grant - November 19th, 2020

Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion

Monthly Archives: May 2015

Congratulations to the ADHT Class of 2015!

Announcing the publication of PLOT(S) Journal of Design Studies, Issue 2

ADHT Is Proud to Announce 2015 Graduate Journals

What’s Funny about This? Design and Process

ADHT Graduate Students Present at Parsons Festival

Hazel Clark helps kick off Parsons Festival

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