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Interdivisional Programs and Concentrations

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Bard’s approach to the liberal arts curriculum provides students and faculty with the opportunity to rethink traditional boundaries of academic divisions and disciplines.
This flexible framework allows students to create plans of study that integrate the content and methodology of multiple fields. The areas of study listed in this section are interdisciplinary in nature, and draw on faculty, courses, and resources of the four academic divisions. Most of these fields are considered concentrations, and therefore require a student to moderate either simultaneously or sequentially into a primary program. The Senior Project combines the interdisciplinary theories and methods of the concentration with the disciplinary theories and methods of the program. Several of the fields in this section are stand-alone programs, in which students can major. These include American studies, Asian studies, classical studies, environmental studies, French studies, German studies, global and international studies, human rights, Italian studies, Middle Eastern studies, Russian and Eurasian studies, and Spanish studies. Students may also choose a Multidisciplinary Studies major that allows them to develop an individualized program of study.
Programs
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Programs

  • American Studies
  • Asian Studies
  • Classical Studies
  • French Studies
  • German Studies
  • Global and International Studies
  • Human Rights
  • Italian Studies
  • Middle Eastern Studies
  • Russian and Eurasian Studies
  • Spanish Studies

Concentrations

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    • Africana Studies
    • Environmental Studies (starting fall 2022)
    • Environmental and Urban Studies (ending spring 2024)
    • Experimental Humanities
    • Gender and Sexuality Studies
    • Global Public Health
    • Irish and Celtic Studies
    • Jewish Studies
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    • Latin American and Iberian Studies
    • Medieval Studies
    • Mind, Brain, and Behavior
    • Science, Technology, and Society
    • Theology
    • Victorian Studies

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Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities
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Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities

The Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities puts Bard’s dedication to the environment, science, and social change into practice to support the fair management of shared natural resources. The Center offers students the opportunity to work across disciplines. Members conduct quantitative research in the natural and social sciences, create art, craft communication, participate in policy making, and bridge academic inquiry with community need.

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Big Ideas: Learning across Disciplines
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Big Ideas: Learning across Disciplines

Big Ideas courses are designed by two or more faculty members with expertise in different disciplines and engage with more than one distribution area (thereby earning credit in those two distributional areas with a single course). Recent Big Ideas courses include:

  • Getting Schooled in America
  • Chernobyl: The Meaning of Man-Made Disaster
  • Games at Work: Participation, Procedure, and Play
  • Causes and Consequences of Migration in the Global Economy 
  • Evolution and Religion

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