Course:	ANTH 290  Archaeology of African American Farms, Yards, and Gardens
Professor:	Christopher Lindner
CRN:	15578		Schedule/Location:		Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Hegeman 201      Fri   1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Hegeman 201
Distributional Area:		LS Laboratory Science
Credits: 4						Class cap: 12
Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies

How can we use archaeological methods to identify, analyze, and interpret places where the growing of plants by African Americans flourished, and contextualize our findings on these sites to help counter racism in the present? The laboratory science aspect of this ELAS course will derive from protocols and strategies of exploratory sampling excavations. Our goal will be identification of deposits that remain relatively undisturbed and contain artifacts that represent particularly relevant eras in the past. Thursdays, seminars will take place in person &/or by videoconference. In the winter labs on Friday, we’ll examine artifacts excavated nearby in Germantown, at the Reformed Parsonage, to prepare for the excavation in spring of a front dooryard and/or a garden beside the house. Our focus is the family headed by a free African American farmer, Henry Person. His wife, Mary, was likely born to a bondswoman at the house in 1805. Evidence of African American spiritual practices have been found in its cellar and yard. We have a field site for a safely distanced dig if precautions against the COVID pandemic warrant: Montgomery Place, the ornamental Conservatory where 19th-century African American horticulturist Alexander Gilson lived and worked. We’ll strive to involve community colleagues from the environs of Hudson, Kingston &/or Poughkeepsie, in person and via Zoom. Some students return for another month in summer for 4 more credits; see www.bard.edu/archaeology/fieldschool. The class size limit is 12, with enrollment by permission after a preliminary conversation with each interested student. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	ANTH 239  Action Research: Social Service, Community Organizing, and Anthropology
Professor:	Duff Morton
CRN:	15575		Schedule/Location:		Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 302      Fri   8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  Internship
Distributional Area:		SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice
Credits: 4						Class cap: 10
Crosslists: American Studies; Human Rights; Political Studies

Action research is research that aims to produce locally-based knowledge with practical and immediate importance to someone: for example, to a nonprofit, to a mayor, to a business, or to a union. The course is designed for students who wish to gain practical experience with health, psychological services, youth work, social movements, or related fields. We combine classroom readings with weekly work in a community organization. Students commit to a semester-long internship at a group that carries out community organizing or social service. We strive to make change by participating directly in the labor of mental health, human services, or activism. In class, students will read from traditions that grapple with problems at the intersection of social science and social change, focusing on sources important to anthropology, including texts by Vico, Marx, Scheper-Hughes, and Kesha-Kahn Perry. We will consider influences from constructivism, collaborative anthropology, and militant anthropology. The class will promote an analytic engagement with human services, encouraging us to think in an anthropological vein and emphasizing the practice of participant observation. We will strive to produce research that advances the project of the groups to which we are committed. The class will meet twice each week: (a) once for a classroom session of one hour and twenty minutes and (b) once for an internship session of four to eight hours. At both locations, we aim to put anthropology to work in the world. Interested students must email Duff Morton at gmorton@bard.edu before registration and complete a brief online form. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	ART 126 ED Mapping: You Are Here
Professor:	Ellen Driscoll
CRN:	15887		Schedule/Location:		Wed     10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher Studio Arts 141/149
Distributional Area:		PA Practicing Arts
Credits: 4						Class cap: 12
Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

Maps have been dynamic visual and conceptual inspiration for many artists.  In this class, we will work with drawing and sculptural installation to investigate the translation of scale and data to abstraction inherent in the art of mapping.  We will study a range of contemporary artists around the world for whom maps are central to their artistic practice. We will study the visual strategies, content, and context of maps in these artist's works. We will also look at a rich range of historical maps from Polynesian navigation charts to the soundless silk maps of World War 2. The work of Katherine Harmon, Rebecca Solnit, W.E. B. DuBois, the counter-maps of the Black Panthers, and the Indigenous Mapping Collective, among others will form foundations for our research and artistic exploration. The 1000-acre campus of Bard will be our laboratory for focused research and for generating three visual projects. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	ARTH 315  Material Worlds and Social Identities
Professor:	Julia Rosenbaum
CRN:	15566		Schedule/Location:		Thurs    3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 301
Distributional Area:		AA Analysis of Art
Credits: 4						Class cap: 15
Crosslists: American Studies; Experimental Humanities

How does the world of interior spaces, their furnishings and decorative objects, tell us stories, assert values, project identities? Through an engaged-learning experience with three early twentieth-century National Park sites in the Hudson Valley—the Vanderbilt Mansion, the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Home at Val-Kill—this seminar explores both the relationship between objects and identities and issues of consumption and appearance. The course will focus on American decorative arts from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century addressing theories about the purpose, meaning, and value of design and decoration as well as key movements, designers, and artists. Visiting the sites and collections regularly, we will combine the scholarly study of aesthetic ideals and social practices with hands-on examination of specific objects in the museum collections.  Key themes to be addressed include gender and the body; consumer capitalism and labor; political/class/queer identities; ethics and aesthetics.

 

Course:	BLC 220  Digital Literacies
Professor:	Jeremy Hall
CRN:	15791	Schedule/Location:		Fri   10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 101
Credits: 2					Class cap: 15

(2 Credits) This course will examine the skills necessary to produce scholarship and engage the public sphere by developing students' proficiencies in conducting and presenting research. The course uses a meta-literate approach to better understand current trends in information consumption and production, including key issues such as the role of misinformation in our current political and cultural landscape. Class time will be devoted to discussions and workshops covering a range of topics such as news and media literacy, social media and data ethics, as well as advanced research skills. Students will complete a final project centered around a civic topic or movement that will enable a deeper understanding of our current world and times. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	DAN 361  Dancing Migrations: Tracing Mexico's Points of Access and Departure
Professor:	Yebel Gallegos
CRN:	15561		Schedule/Location:		Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher PAC Conference/Nureyev Studio
Distributional Area:		AA Analysis of Art
Credits: 4						Class cap: 15
Crosslists: Latin American/Iberian Studies

Human migration has been a constant force shaping history. In many ways, human movement has created opportunities for culture to evolve and thrive. Together, we will examine the ways in which dance as a resilient art form has adapted and transformed on account of migration and cross-cultural exchanges. This course moves away from a traditional Euro-U.S.-centric approach to dance history and explores ritual and concert dance from a Mexican perspective. Offered as a seminar-style course, readings by Diana Taylor, Gloria Anzaldúa, Elizabeth Schwall, and David Delgado Shorter among others, combined with discussions, movement explorations, and visits by guest speakers will deepen our knowledge and understanding of dance as a global art form. There will be weekly writing, a mid-term project proposal, and a final project. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	EUS 102  Environmental System Science
Professor:	Elias Dueker
CRN:	15594		Schedule/Location:		Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM – 6:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 115
Distributional Area:		SA Social Analysis
Credits: 4						Class cap: 20

The science needed to understand and address our complex socio-environmental challenges comes from a broad range of disciplines. In this course, we introduce and integrate core concepts and methodologies from physical, biological, and social sciences and practice system modeling to build your capacity to think critically about the causes and solutions to complex environmental problems and sustainability challenges. We will practice the scientific method as we develop mechanistic understanding of the drivers of climate change and the consequences for the hydrological cycle, ecological processes, and people. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

 

Course:	HUM T200 LB Argentine Tango I: Exploring Human Connection
Professor:	Supervised by Leon Botstein, Practitioner: Chungin Goodstein
CRN:	15885		Schedule/Location:		Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Campus Center MPR
Distributional Area:
Credits: 2						Class cap: 20

Tango has a rich history and a distinct culture emerging from the socioeconomic conditions experienced by African, Caribbean and European immigrants in late 19th century Argentina and Uruguay. The culture evolved as tango both migrated to Europe and flourished in Argentina during the “Golden Age” (1935-1955). Tango then largely disappeared as a result of suppression under Argentina’s military regime. Tango’s global revival began in the 1980’s. Today it is danced in all major cities, and at colleges and universities, around the world. This ELAS group tutorial explores the profound human connections that Argentine Tango music and dance engender. It includes discussions of the historical and cultural context of the music and dance, and the gender politics that surround it.  In a workshop setting, the group will focus with practitioner Chungin Goodstein primarily on learning the fundamentals of the dance.   Work for the tutorial will be split between experiential learning through actual practice and readings/videos on issues relating to this dance form.  Students will also attend at least one “milonga” or community dance event either locally, or in NYC. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	MATH 116  Mathematics:Puzzles & Games
Professor:	Lauren Rose
CRN:	15356		Schedule/Location:		Wed  Fri   10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Hegeman 204
Distributional Area:		MC Mathematics and Computing
Credits: 4						Class cap: 18

Mathematics can be used to analyze many puzzles and games.  Conversely, puzzles and games can be used as a vehicle to explore new mathematics concepts.  In this class we will develop the mathematics of puzzles and games from both perspectives, as a means to solve a puzzle or win a game, and also as a fun way to learn and develop mathematical skills.  We will focus on the mathematics and the strategies behind puzzles and games such as the Rubik’s Cube, SET, Nim, Hex, and Sudoku. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences course, and the ELAS activities may include (virtual or in person) guests presenters, games related events, and games sessions for local K-12 students and community members. No prior experience with the games and puzzles listed above is required.  Prerequisite: A passing score on Part 1 of the Math Placement. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	PS 209  Civic Engagement
Professor:	Jonathan Becker  + Erin Cannan
CRN:	15750		Schedule/Location:		Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Barringer 104
Distributional Area:		SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice
Credits: 4						Class cap: 22
Crosslists: Human Rights

What does it mean to be engaged with your community? What can students in Annandale learn from students participating in civic engagement projects in universities in places like Haiti, Ghana and Bangladesh? This course will examine historical, philosophical and practical elements of civic engagement while exploring the underlying question of what it means to be civically engaged in the early 21st century. Together, students will explore issues related to political participation, civil society, associational life, social justice, and personal responsibility, as well as how issues like race and socio-economic status impact civic participation. The class reflects a balance between study and practice of engagement which includes interrogating theoretical notions of civic life while also empowering students to be active participants in the communities in which they are situated.  The culminating project asks students to propose a civic engagement project in their home or local community. This course will feature workshops, lectures and seminar discussions.  Special class visits will incorporate experiences of civic leaders, local officials, global not-for-profit leaders, and volunteers from communities proximate to participating OSUN campuses. The course is an OSUN Collaborative Course and an OSUN course, meaning that students will be enrolled from Al-Quds, Bard in Palestine and Ashesi University in Ghana, and will be paired with classes from the American University of Central Asia, Bard College Berlin, Brac University of Bangladesh, Central European University (Vienna), European Humanities University (Vilnius), University of Quisquaya in Haiti, and OSUN Refugee Leaning Hubs in Kenya, Jordan and Bangladesh. This is an OSUN class and is open to Bard students as well as students from multiple OSUN partner institutions. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	PS 251  Political Organizing: Theory and Practice
Professor:	Mie Inouye
CRN:	15680		Schedule/Location:		Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Hegeman 106
Distributional Area:		SA Social Analysis
Credits: 4						Class cap: 22
Crosslists: American Studies; Human Rights

“Don’t mourn – organize!” has long been a refrain in American popular culture. As problems like climate change, police brutality, and economic inequality grow more daunting, political organizing – the work of uniting ordinary people in mass organizations, including labor unions, political parties, community organizations, and social movement organizations, in pursuit of shared goals – seems increasingly relevant and urgent. But how does the tedious work of door-knocking, phone-banking, and facilitating meetings add up to social transformation? Do organizers build social movements, or do they stifle them? What is the role of ideology in organizing? And what forms of leadership, ritual, and relationships are necessary to sustain mass organizations? This course will explore these questions through a mix of theoretical, historical, and practical readings by political theorists, historians, and organizers including Antonio Gramsci, Jodi Dean, Saul Alinsky, Amilcar Cabral, Ella Baker, and Jane McAlevey. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences (ELAS) course. As such, assignments will include participating in and writing about the experience of political action as well as attending talks by organizers who will visit Bard throughout the semester. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	PS 385 Civic Action and Research
Professor:	Jonathan Becker + Erin Cannan
CRN:	15967		Schedule/Location:		Tue    8:30 – 9:50 AM  Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:30 AM
Distributional Area:		SA Social Analysis
Credits: 4						Class cap: 15
Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

In this upper level course, students who are leading a community engagement project deepen their understanding of civil society through participatory research and engagement that explores the structure of civil society organizations, the socio-political environment in which they operate, including the intersection between government and civil society, the root causes of social issues that they are attempting to address, and the context in which the community is addressing the issue. Students will also enhance their capacities and project management skills through a series of leadership workshops.  Each student will be required to produce a project analysis which incorporates primary and secondary research, as well as interviews of key actors in the field. Projects should focus on one of five tracks: Climate Change, Disability Justice, Youth Engagement, Social Entrepreneurship, Inclusion and Gender Equity. The course will culminate in a peer-led, OSUN-wide conference on leadership and community engagement.  Prerequisites: Students must be involved in leading a civic engagement project and have taken the CE Network Collaboration Course, OSUN CE Course or equivalent or have received and implemented an OSUN microgrant or community action award. Students must complete a course application form to be admitted. This is a 2 credit OSUN course. Select students can appeal for an accompanying two credit tutorial that would give them an option of completing four credits. Note: This course does not fulfill a post-moderation seminar requirement in PS.  This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	SOC/EUS 361  Hudson Valley Cities and Environmental (In)Justice
Professor:	Peter Klein
CRN:	15961		Schedule/Location:		Every Other Fri     10:10 AM – 12:30 PM Olin 202
Distributional Area:		SA  Social Analysis   D+J Difference and Justice
Credits: 2						Class cap 15
Crosslists: American Studies

How do urban processes of growth, decline, and revitalization affect different groups, particularly along dimensions of race, class, and gender? This place-based research seminar course looks closely at this question by examining the historical, political, and social landscape of Kingston. We will use this nearby city as a case to explore theories on urban transformation and the contemporary challenges that face small urban centers. In particular, the course will use the lens of environmental inequality to examine the effects of historical processes, as well as to investigate how residents and government officials are addressing pressing problems. The course will look specifically at issues of food justice, pollution, access to resources, environmental decision-making processes, and housing security. We will visit Kingston as a class, and students will develop and carry out their own project with a community partner. (This course fulfills the practicum requirement for moderated EUS students.) Admission by permission of the instructor. This course will usually meet every other Friday from 10:10-12:30, but students must be available from 9:00-1:00, in order to allow for off-campus trips. Please note that this is the second semester of a two-semester course. Students must have taken the first section of the course in fall 2021 to enroll. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.

 

Course:	WRIT 231  Reading and Writing the Birds
Professor:	Susan Rogers
CRN:	15759		Schedule/Location:		Tue      9:30 AM - 10:50 AM Olin 308 Thurs    7:30 AM - 10:50 AM Olin 308
Distributional Area:		PA Practicing Arts
Credits: 4						Class cap: 12
Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies

Students will become familiar with approximately a hundred local birds by ear and by sight, then write about the birds using both experience and research. To guide our writing we will read narratives of bird discovery and adventure from Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon to Olive Thorne Miller, Florence Merriam Bailey, Roger Tory Peterson, and Kenn Kaufman. Tuesdays will involve in-class discussion of readings and small group workshops, and Thursdays will often be held in the field (we will not always meet at 7:30 but you must be ready and willing to attend class at that hour). A good pair of binoculars is suggested. This is an Engaged Liberal Arts & Sciences (ELAS) course. In this course you will be given the opportunity to bridge theory to practice while engaging a community of interest throughout the semester. A significant portion of ELAS learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs in the surrounding communities or in collaboration with partners from Bard's national and international networks. To learn more please click here.