This course uses problem-solving techniques to address the problem of designing your life and career. It offers a framework, tools, and, most importantly, a place and a community of peers and mentors where we’ll work on these issues through assigned readings, reflections, and in-class exercises. The course employs design thinking to help students develop a constructive and effective approach to finding and designing their personal and professional lives after The New School. The world of work is ever-changing and evolving with recent trends including changes to remote/hybrid work, employees seeking meaning in their work and skills-based hiring. This course will teach students how to design their lives forward during times of change and prepares students for thinking and acting to meet the challenges of that world after graduation.

This course uses problem-solving techniques to address the problem of designing your life and career. It offers a framework, tools, and, most importantly, a place and a community of peers and mentors where we’ll work on these issues through assigned readings, reflections, and in-class exercises. The course employs design thinking to help students develop a constructive and effective approach to finding and designing their personal and professional lives after The New School.