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In addition to fulfilling the college-wide distribution requirements for graduation, students majoring in the program are expected to complete successfully the Integrated Arts Major Conference, as well as a technical seminar and a history/theory course related to their proposed Senior Project work. The Integrated Arts Major Conference (IAMC) is the hallmark of the Integrated Arts program. Required for Integrated Arts majors, but open to all, the IAMC is often taught as a collaboration between professors from different disciplines. Through this lively and dynamic pedagogical approach, students and faculty alike are challenged to interrogate their practice in terms of larger historical and critical discourses. As guest faculty and visiting artists are on hand to critique student work and present current research, the IAMC provides a curricular and academic context for the work of the program. Recent topics include: "Location Recording for Music and Media Makers," "Multimedia Installation and Events" and "Space, Sound and the Moving Image." In order to successfully complete an Integrated Arts senior project students are required to take the IAMC or another 300-level practicing arts course in their area of concentration. The second graduation requirement for an Integrated Arts major is the successful completion of one history, criticism or theory course in the student's new or secondary area of study. For example, a student who has studied creative writing in the Lower College and wishes to combine this area with video in the Integrated Arts program might enroll in Film/IA 167 "Survey of Media Art" or Film/IA 219 "Film and Modernism" to fulfill their history requirement. Alternately a student who is interested in pursuing installation or expanded art forms might enroll in Art History 274, "Art After Pop", Art History 334 "Postmodernism and Deconstruction," or alternately Music 363 "John Cage and His World." Advising Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 integratedarts@bard.edu
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