Learn Something New: Free and Discounted Courses at The New School this Fall
Join us in learning online this fall by taking one or more of these classes from anywhere in the world. Spanning topics from management to human rights to social justice, these courses and seminars offer something for everyone.
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility is offering a free online course that presents multiple perspectives on mobility and human rights. Human Rights and Migration is an 11-week course that runs from Sept. 9-Nov. 18, 2020, and draws on insight from leading experts in the field who will address the most pressing issues of the day — including migrant workers, gender, racism and xenophobia, human trafficking, child migration, immigration enforcement, and forced migration.
Healthy and Sustainable Affordable Housing
Parsons’ Healthy Materials Lab is offering a course that will help transform affordable housing in New York City and around the globe. Healthy and Sustainable Affordable Housing is a six-hour course that brings together 34 experts in the fields of design, construction, science, medicine, and public and environmental policy to discuss how housing needs can be addressed through healthier design strategies. With the belief of making the content of the course accessible to all, Healthy Materials Lab is offering the course for $50.
The New School for Social Research’s Economics Seminars Series
Running from September 8-December 1, 2020, this six-part seminar series features lectures, talks, and paper and book presentations from prominent economists. With insight from Robert Pollin, Giandomenica Becchio, Isabella Webber and more, the seminar, whether you tune into just one or all six of the sessions, is free and open to all.
Law, Justice and Human Rights in China
The New University in Exile Consortium is offering a 10-session seminar that introduces the legal system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) — in practice as well as theory — with an emphasis on institutions, norms, procedures, personnel and ideology relating to constitutional law, criminal justice, and human rights. Running from September 16-November 18, 2020, students are given the opportunity to view the contemporary legal process against the background of China’s legal traditions and pre-Communist efforts to develop a modern legal system.
Management & Social Justice Conversation Series
The Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment has been offering a free series of conversations focusing on management and social justice. Throughout the summer, the keynote panelists discussed their work, ways that social justice intersects with their own various practices, and engaged each other in stimulating and productive discussion to address social justice. The series will continue throughout the fall semester.
Seminar: Ferenczi’s Contributions to Clinical Technique and Their Applications to Contemporary Therapeutic Work
The Sándor Ferenczi Center is offering a seminar for PhD students, social workers, and MHCs, led by Anthony Bass, PhD, associate professor and a supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. This six-session seminar runs from October 26, 2020 to May 10, 2021 and considers Sándor Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on the role of countertransference in psychotherapy and its uses in the therapeutic situation. This course is free for New School and NYU Postdoc students (please email: NSSRFerencziCenter@gmail.com to reserve a spot, please note spots are limited), while general admission for all six sessions is $400 (general admission plus CE credits for the course is $500).
Classes on Race and Social Justice
In addition to the courses above, The New School offers free, online classes, available year-round, that focus on race and social justice. The following classes include discussions from scholars, experts, thought leaders, and activists on the history of racism in the United States and the actions we can take to combat it.
400 Years of Inequality’s Massive Online Open Course
2019 marked the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in North America. This course teaches the importance of observing that anniversary and focuses on the work we all need to do to recover from centuries of inequality.
Race in the U.S.
Hosted by the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment, this free public course brings together scholars, experts, thought leaders, and activists to examine such issues as racial stratification, implicit bias, and the complex, intersectional relationships between race, gender, and class. Lecturers and speakers include Mindy Fullilove, Michael Omi, Rachel Godsil, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Deva Woodly and Shanelle Matthews, and Samuel Sinyangwe and Vincent Warren, among others.
Black Lives Matter 101
As early as 1948, W.E.B. DuBois taught a university course in African-American history and culture at The New School. Almost seventy years later, in 2016, the student group The New Black School continued that tradition by organizing Black Lives Matter 101, a series of “classes” examining Black social movements in the 21st century. Watch those classes:
Class 1 — Mobilizing the African Diaspora
Class 2 — Slow Death: Black Health and Environmental Justice
Class 3 — Faith in America’s Social Movements
Class 4 — Tech and New Media
Class 5 — New Civil Rights Movement
