Academics
Lifelong Learning
More Sarah Lawrence for more people.
Kids at Sarah Lawrence
A Place to Learn, Create, and Grow
At Sarah Lawrence College, learning begins long before college. Our programs invite children and teens to follow their curiosity, express their creativity, explore the natural world, and connect with others through meaningful, hands-on experiences.
From preschool and imaginative play to environmental discovery, theatre, movement, and college-level study, young people can find opportunities designed for every stage of their development.
Early Childhood Center
The Early Childhood Center offers a thoughtful, progressive preschool and kindergarten curriculum for children ages 2–6. Through play, exploration, and rich on-campus experiences, children develop their creativity, curiosity, independence, and relationships with others in a nurturing learning community.
Creative Movement for Children
Creative Movement classes give children a joyful and supportive space to explore movement, imagination, and self-expression. Guided by Sarah Lawrence Dance/Movement Therapy graduate students, participants build confidence, develop body awareness, and connect with others through movement and play.
K–12 Programs at the Center for the Urban River
At the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak (CURB), the Hudson River becomes the classroom. Inquiry-based field trips and educational programs invite students to investigate local ecosystems through observation, exploration, and hands-on scientific discovery.
Precollege Programs
Sarah Lawrence precollege programs give curious and creative high school students an opportunity to experience college-level learning in a welcoming, collaborative environment. Through immersive programs in writing, theatre, visual arts, science, and other fields, students develop their skills, deepen their interests, and connect with like-minded peers.
Lunchbox Theatre
Lunchbox Theatre offers free, process-centered Saturday theatre workshops for members of the local community, including children and teens. Led by Sarah Lawrence graduate and undergraduate students, the program helps participants develop theatre skills, creative expression, and lasting connections through making and sharing art together.
Community Adventure Play Experience (CAPE)
Presented by the Child Development Institute, the Community Adventure Play Experience (CAPE) gives children the freedom to invent, build, collaborate, and solve problems through unstructured play. Using cardboard, fabric, wood, tires, and other reusable materials, children transform everyday objects into creations shaped by their own ideas and imaginations.
Professional Learning at Sarah Lawrence
Develop Your Expertise. Expand What’s Possible.
Professional learning at Sarah Lawrence brings the College’s distinctive approach to education into the workplace and the wider world. Our graduate degrees, professional development programs, specialized workforce education, and customized organizational workshops combine serious inquiry with practical application.
Whether you are preparing to enter a profession, advancing in your field, responding to new challenges, or strengthening your organization, you will find opportunities to learn from accomplished faculty and practitioners, engage with new perspectives, and turn knowledge into meaningful action.
The Child Development Institute
The Child Development Institute offers professional learning for teachers, administrators, child development specialists, and others who work with children and families. Through conferences, seminars, accredited workshops, lectures, and partnerships, participants explore progressive approaches to education and child development grounded in research, reflection, and practice.
Master’s and Dual Degree Programs
Sarah Lawrence offers distinctive graduate programs across the arts, health sciences and society, and children, childhood, and education. Students pursue advanced professional and creative study through close faculty mentorship, interdisciplinary exploration, and programs that encourage them to develop their individual voices and make meaningful contributions to their fields.
Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership
The Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership prepares professionals and organizations to meet the rapidly evolving needs of genomics and precision health. Its degree programs, workforce training, research, and leadership initiatives bring together scientific knowledge, ethical inquiry, and a commitment to building a more inclusive and person-centered healthcare system.
Sarah Lawrence at Work
Sarah Lawrence at Work partners with companies and organizations to create customized learning experiences shaped by their people, priorities, and goals. Bespoke workshops draw on the expertise of Sarah Lawrence faculty and practitioners to help teams explore complex questions, develop new capabilities, strengthen collaboration, and approach their work with greater creativity and insight.
Life’s Next Chapter at Sarah Lawrence
A Time to Explore What Comes Next
Life is not one experience or a single stage. It can be a time of transition, discovery, reinvention, creative growth, and renewed engagement with the questions that matter most.
At Sarah Lawrence, adults can explore ideas, develop their creativity, find meaningful connections, and imagine new possibilities through intellectually rigorous programs grounded in curiosity, conversation, and community.
Center for Midlife and Meaning
What questions will shape what comes next?
Explore the transitions, possibilities, and questions of the second half of life. Programs examine identity, purpose, aging, contribution and relationships, and help participants move from thinking about what they are leaving behind to imagining what they might move toward.
Extension Courses
What do you still want to understand or learn?
Follow a new curiosity or return to a longstanding interest through noncredit courses, lectures, studios, and workshops across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. No prerequisites. No grades. Just serious, conversation-driven learning in flexible on-campus and online formats.
The Writing Institute
What will you create?
Writing helps us discover meaning in experiences we have not fully understood and consider the stories we want to explore, record, revise, or pass on. The Writing Institute welcomes writers at every level into workshops, classes, seminars, readings, and a supportive creative community.
Signature Learning Community
Who will you continue learning with?
The Signature Learning Community is a membership program for adults 55+ seeking intellectual challenge, meaningful connection, and an ongoing relationship with Sarah Lawrence. Members enjoy distinctive learning opportunities, community events, Extension Course discounts, and additional ways to take part in the life of the College.
Partnering with Retirement Communities
How can a retirement community become a place from which residents continue to investigate, engage with, and contribute to the world?
Sarah Lawrence works with retirement communities to create sustained educational partnerships shaped by residents’ interests. Through resident focus groups and collaboration with community leaders, we develop courses, seminars, lectures, workshops, and creative experiences that foster intellectual engagement, meaningful connection, and a distinctive culture of inquiry, not simply a fuller activities calendar.