Curriculum
Parsons’ first-year curriculum, which focuses on critically engaged approaches to art, design, and strategic thinking, provides a common experience for all incoming students. All students take most of the required courses together, with some variation
for BFA and BBA students depending on their degree type. First-year students at Parsons can tailor their study path within those requirements by selecting from thematic options available for many of the required courses.
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Expansive Experiences
Watch Parsons students and faculty discuss the new perspectives and skills the students gain during their first year--and how those experiences were adapted and reimagined for a spring 2020 period of remote learning.