Parsons Launches Transdisciplinary Design Program. Whatever That Is.

This September, 15 lucky grad students will enroll in the country's first MFA program in transdisciplinary design at Parsons. Then, just two short years later, they'll surely graduate to find myriad career options, all aimed at filling this country's desperate need for transdisciplinarians.

What's that? Your mom (the one whose name is at the bottom of your tuition checks) wants to know what, exactly, transdisciplinary studies means?

Herein lies the problem that Jamer Hunt, the program's...