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The program is based in artistic practice, including studio arts, performance, media, and the interplay among them. History and theory courses take an interdisciplinary approach to draw upon the wealth of Berlin’s museums, monuments, galleries, performances, and nontraditional venues.

Curriculum

This curriculum option is a combination of practicing arts, arts-themed academics, and an internship or curatorial studies seminar. There are no prerequisites and students may freely choose four courses from throughout the curriculum. All courses carry 4 credits.

The Arts and Society track supports students who are coming to Berlin specifically to: create under the supervision of Berlin-based artists; explore connections between the arts, academic humanities, and social engagement; and experience the city’s arts culture as a participant

Coursework Spring 2020

Visit the Bard College Berlin website for a complete list of courses throughout the curriculum.

BCB Course List

Foundational Courses

  • Modern Movements in the Visual Arts
  • Beginners Black and White Photography Class: The Slow Photo
  • The Threepenny Opera: A New Musical Theater
  • Introduction to Aesthetics
  • Found Fragments & Layered Lines: mixed-media techniques for drawing and collage
  • The Age of Film: The Human Condition Through Visual Representation
  • American Art since 1945
  • Making a Performance: Devised Theater as Artistic Research

Advanced Courses

  • Painting as Object
  • Research-Creation: Artistic Approaches to German History, Memory of Forced Migration and the War
  • Photography and Social Practices
  • Contemporary Narratives in New Media: Systems, Mechanisms, and the Instruments of Power
  • The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of John Carpenter
  • Through the Looking Glass: Art and the Oneiric
  • Claiming your voice; Moving images that speak
  • Living Double Lives: Art & Virtuality  
  • Expanded Narration: Telling Stories in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
  • Contemporary Performance and Posthuman poet(h)ics
  • Advanced Painting: Oil Paint and After
  • Advanced Studio Practice
  • Palestinian Film: Aesthetics, History, Politics  

Internship Program

Internship Program

Bard College Berlin offers advanced students the opportunity to gain practical experience alongside their studies by completing an optional internship and internship course. The internship provides students with the chance to contribute to an organization’s or individual’s work. The course is designed to embed the internship into an academic framework, with readings from diverse sources and related field trips. BCB assists students in finding an internship placement that matches their qualifications and interests, and our list of internship hosts is constantly growing.

More about Internships in Berlin

Cultural Program

Cultural Program

Culturally rich and artistically diverse, Berlin is an exciting city to explore. Bard Abroad in Berlin’s cultural program exposes students to a wide range of artistic, historical, and cultural experiences. Film nights, dinners, gallery visits, lectures, and theater and musical performances round out the cultural program. Listed below are sample excursions from previous semesters. 

Cultural Program

  • Walking tours of Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg, and Mitte
  • Schönhausen Palace
  • Story of Berlin” Museum
  • Brandenburger Tor
  • Bundestag
  • Strandbad
  • Alte Nationalgalerie
  • Jewish Museum
  • Holocaust Memorial
  • Sachsenhausen former Concentration Camp and Memorial Site
  • Karl-Marx-Allee
  • Friedrichshain
  • Bernauer Straße Wall Memorial
  • Mauerpark 
  • Haus der Geschichte
  • Kulturbrauerei
  • Former Ministry of State Security (“Stasi”) Headquarters
  • Teufelsberg spying station
  • Potsdam
    • Including Sanssouci Palace and Gardens
  • Bauhaus-Archiv
  • Hufeisensiedlung
    • Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Berliner Siedlungen der Moderne”
  • Museum of TV and Television
  • Potsdamer Platz and Neue Nationalgalerie (Kulturforum)

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