Bard’s Distinctive Curriculum
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Founded in 1860, Bard College is a nationally prominent coeducational college of the liberal arts and sciences, which offers nearly fifty different programs of study in four divisions: the arts, languages and literature, natural sciences and mathematics, and social studies. Under this system, Bard’s undergraduate students follow a rigorous and enlightening four-year program that combines three distinctive elements:
Close interaction with teaching faculty is vital to the Bard experience, and students have the opportunity to study with the foremost artists and scholars in their fields. Distinguished regular and visiting faculty have included the writers Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, William Weaver, and Philip Roth; composer Joan Tower; mathematician Abe Gelbart; artists Roy Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Murray, Ken Noland, Judy Pfaff, and Stephen Shore; director JoAnne Akalaitis; and poets John Ashbery, Robert Kelly, and Ann Lauterbach.
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- The systematic integration of a broad-based curriculum with specific fields of concentration or majors
- Tutorials, seminars, and laboratory courses led by regular and visiting faculty of distinction in a faculty-to-student ratio of 1:10
- The Senior Project, a year-long individual program of original independent work guided by a faculty adviser and reviewed by a faculty committee
Close interaction with teaching faculty is vital to the Bard experience, and students have the opportunity to study with the foremost artists and scholars in their fields. Distinguished regular and visiting faculty have included the writers Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, William Weaver, and Philip Roth; composer Joan Tower; mathematician Abe Gelbart; artists Roy Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Murray, Ken Noland, Judy Pfaff, and Stephen Shore; director JoAnne Akalaitis; and poets John Ashbery, Robert Kelly, and Ann Lauterbach.
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