ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

A program is a course of study designed by faculty members to focus on a particular area of knowledge or a particular approach to an area. Each program establishes requirements for Moderation, course work, and Senior projects; each selects from the courses offered at the College those courses it considers required, recommended, and related to its particular focus. Every student is required to declare a major in a program by the end of his or her sophomore year in order to moderate from the Lower College to the Upper College and to become a candidate for the Bachelor of Arts degree.

1. Division of the Arts

2. Division of Languages & Literature

3. Division of Natural Sciences & Math

4. Division of Social Studies

5. Interdivisional Programs

6. Multidisciplinary Studies

Programs initiated and designed by students to integrate material from different programs and Divisions.

COURSES APPROPRIATE TO INTERDIVISIONAL PROGRAMS

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES (AADS)

ANTH 201 Ethnography of Brazil

ARTH 366 Pro- & Anti-Abolitionist Images in American Art

HIST 148 Africa: Migrations, Cross-cultural Exchange

HIST 208 West African History in the Novel

HIST 363 Writing Lives and Personal Narratives

HIST 371 The Civil Rights Movement

LIT 2134 African American Literary Geographies

LIT 3360 Black Aesthetics

Of related interest

HIST 101 Making the Atlantic Basic

HIST 138 The Mediterranean World

AMERICAN STUDIES

ARTH 110 Art of the United States 1670-1865

HIST182 Art and Protest in America

HIST 206 Understanding US Labor History

HIST 232 American Urban History

HIST 2831 Existentialism in American Culture

LIT 2134 African American Literary Geographies

LIT 2142 Fiction of 19th Century American Women

LIT 2313 Varieties of American Autobiography

LIT 258 Literature of the US II

LIT 3124 New Worlds: Amer Encounters with Self/Others

MUS 215 Topics in the History of Music

PS 122 Institutions, Processes and Politics

PS 235 The Rise & Decline of the Modern Presidency

SOC 210 Sociology of Race

SOC 315 Sex, Love, Race & Beyond

ASIAN STUDIES

All courses listed under CHINESE, JAPANESE and

ARTH 295 The Arts of India

HIST 2482 China and the "Barbarians"

HIST 2841 Nation and Region: Reassessing "China"

THTR 237 Asian Theater Lab

CLASSICAL STUDIES

All course listed under CLASSICAL STUDIES

ARTH 208 Arts of the Ancient World

ARTH 295 The Arts of India

PHIL 106 Introduction to Philosophy

COMMUNITY, REGIONAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (CRES)

ECON 102 Introduction to Microeconomics

ECON 237 Public Sector Economics

HIST 232 American Urban History

SOC 101 Intro to Sociology

FRENCH STUDIES

All courses listed under FRENCH and

HIST 235 The Sun King

LIT 328 Ideology and Political Commitment

PHIL 389 Philosophy and Literature of Jean Paul Sartre

GENDER STUDIES

CLAS 207 Women in Antiquity

HIST 206 Understanding US Labor History

HIST 284 Gender and Power in Modern China

HIST 345 Politics, Legitimacy & the Royal Marriage

LIT 2142 Fiction of 19th Century American Women

LIT 3741 Virginia Woolf

PHIL 260 Feminist Philosophy

PSY 250 Psychology of Women

PSY 354 Eating Disorders: Clinical & Cultural

REL 213 Sexuality and Spirituality

SPAN 309 Women Writing in Latin America

Of related interest

PSY 301 Stereotyping and Prejudice

GERMAN STUDIES

All courses listed under GERMAN and

LIT 115 Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries

LIT 3108 Marx, Freud, Nietzsche

LIT 328 Ideology and Political Commitment

PHIL 371 The Philosophy of Kant

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

CLAS 214 Catastrophe / Apocalypse

HIST 257 The Invisible World

NSCI 222 Physical Science before Newton

NSCI 225 Einstein

INTEGRATED ARTS

ANTH 342 Multimedia & Social Science Wkshop.

CLAS 101 The Rise and Fall of Athens

FILM 267 History of Video Art

LIT 2130 Writing about Art

LIT 390 Introduction to Critical Theory

LIT 3202 Media Theory

THTR 230 Site Specific Theater Workshop

THTR 237 Asian Theater Lab

THTR 342 Opera as Metaphor

IRISH AND CELTIC STUDIES

HIST 145 Irish History since 1600

ITALIAN STUDIES

All courses listed under ITALIAN and

ARTH 331 Seminar in Venetian Painting

HIST 138 The Mediterranean World

LIT 231 Florence

Of related interest

Courses in Latin; Roman art, history and literature

JEWISH STUDIES

LIT 276B Chosen Voices: Jewish Authors

LIT 420 Kafka and his Neighbors

LIT 430 Contemp. Masters: Saul Bellow

HIST 2131 Foundations of Jewish Studies

HIST 2701 The History of the Holocaust

REL 175 Classics of Judaism

REL 249 Beliefs and Practices of Jewish Mysticism

Of related interest

SOC 315 Sex, Love, Race & Beyond

LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN STUDIES (LAIS)

All course listed under SPANISH and

ANTH 323 Colonial Evangelization/Native Response

HIST 138 Mediterranean World

HIST 206 Understanding US Labor History

HIST 231 Colonial Latin America

PS 153 Latin American Politics

MEDIEVAL STUDIES

LIT 2141 Medieval Theology

LIT 231 Florence

LIT 250 English Literature I

LIT 371 Women in Medieval Literature

HIST 2131 Foundations of Jewish Studies

MULTI-ETHNIC STUDIES (MES)

HIST 206 Understanding US Labor History

LIT 2134 African American Literary Geographies

LIT 238 Modern African Fiction

PHIL 104 Intro to Philosophy: Multicultural Perspective

PSY 235 School Guidance and Counseling

PSY 261 Intro to Counseling Theories and Social Work

PSY 301 Stereotyping and Prejudice

SOC 210 Sociology of Race

SOC 315 Sex, Love, Race & Beyond

RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES

All courses listed under RUSSIAN and

HIST 277 Stalin's Russia

HIST 279 The Other Europe

MUS 311 Life and Music of Dimitri Shostakovich

VICTORIAN STUDIES

ANTH 208 History of Anthropology

ARTH 366 Pro- & Anti-Abolitionist Images in American Art

LIT 106 Dickens's Bleak House and Little Dorritt

HIST 225 History of the British Empire

HIST 322 History: Crime/Punishment in Europe/America

PROGRAM IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

The Program in International Education (PIE) attracts students from central and eastern Europe, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Students often come from partner universities with whom Bard maintains academic exchanges. PIE students are required to take one PIE core course each semester. PIE core courses focus on the study of politics and society from comparative perspectives. They are designed to create an environment in which PIE visiting students and full-time Bard students can exchange ideas and compare traditions, practices and experiences. Lectures and readings are designed to expose students to analytical and theoretical approaches to issues of importance to countries undergoing significant social, political and economic transformations

Program in International Education (PIE) Core Courses:

PS 237 Humanitarianism and its Discontents

PS 256 Politics and News Media

PS 413 Politics of New Democracies