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Catalogue

The Bard College Catalogue contains detailed descriptions of the College's undergraduate programs and courses, curriculum, admission and financial aid procedures, student activities and services, history, campus facilities, affiliated institutions including graduate programs, and faculty and administration.

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  • Mission
    • Mission
  • Acknowledging Bard's Origins
    • Acknowledging Bard's Origins
  • History of Bard
    • History of Bard
    • Bard College: A Selective Chronology
    • Presidents of Bard College*
  • Learning at Bard
    • Overview
    • The Five Pillars of the Bard Education
    • The Curriculum
    • Academic Programs and Concentrations
    • Academic Requirements and Regulations
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    • Interdisciplinary Curricular Initiatives
  • The Bard College Conservatory of Music
    • Conservatory of Music Undergraduate Program
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Bard College Catalogue 2022-23

Boards of Bard College

Bard College Board of Trustees

James C. Chambers ’81, Chair
Emily H. Fisher, Vice Chair
Brandon Weber ’97, Vice Chair
Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life Trustee
Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer; Life Trustee

Fiona Angelini
Roland J. Augustine
Leonard Benardo
Leon Botstein, President of the College, ex officio
Mark E. Brossman
Jinqing Cai
Marcelle Clements ’69, Life Trustee
The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Honorary Trustee
Asher B. Edelman ’61, Life Trustee
Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Robert S. Epstein ’63
Barbara S. Grossman ’73, Alumni/ae Trustee
Andrew S. Gundlach
Matina S. Horner, ex officio
Charles S. Johnson III ’70
Mark N. Kaplan, Life Trustee
George A. Kellner
Mark Malloch-Brown
Fredric S. Maxik ’86
Jo Frances Meyer, ex officio
Juliet Morrison ’03
James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee
Hilary C. Pennington
Martin Peretz, Life Trustee
Stewart Resnick, Life Trustee
David E. Schwab II ’52, Life Trustee
Roger N. Scotland ’93, Alumni/ae Trustee
Annabelle Selldorf
Mostafiz ShahMohammed ’97
Jonathan Slone ’84
Geoffrey W. Smith
Alexander Soros
James A. von Klemperer
Susan Weber
Patricia Ross Weis ’52

Bard College Alumni/ae Association
Board of Governors

KC Serota ’04, President
Mollie Meikle ’03, Vice President; Development Committee Cochair
Gerry Pambo-Awich ’08, Secretary/Treasurer

Beth Shaw Adelman ’74
Robert Amsterdam ’53
Hannah Becker ’11, Young Alumnx Committee Chair
Brendan Berg ’06
Jack Blum ’62
Connor Boehme ’17
Michael Burgevin ’10
Hannah Byrnes-Enoch ’08, Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Matthew Cameron ’04
Kathleya Chotiros ’98, Development Committee Cochair
Charles Clancy III ’69
Peter Criswell ’89
Caia Diepenbrock ’15
Greg Drilling ’16
Nicolai Eddy ’14
Sarah Elia ’06
Nolan English ’13
Sarah Everit ’92
Randy Faerber ’73, Events Committee Cochair
Gianna Fenaroli ’16
Andrew F. Fowler ’95
Richard Frank ’74
Jazondré Gibbs ’19
Hasani Gunn ’18
Eric Goldman ’98
Alexander Habiby ’18
Boriana Handjiyska ’02, Career Connections Committee Cochair
Nikkya Hargrove ’05, Diversity Committee Cochair
Sonja Hood ’90, Nominations Committee Cochair
Miriam Huppert ’13
Maud Kersnowski-Sachs ’86, Communications Committee Chair
Kenneth Kosakoff ’81
Jacob Lester ’20
Darren Mack ’13
Ava Mazzye ’20
Peter F. McCabe ’70
Emily Melendes TON ’20
Ryan Mesina ’06, Nominations Committee Cochair
Steven Miller ’70
Anne Morris-Stockton ’68
Anna Neverova ’07, Career Connections Committee Cochair
Karen G. Olah ’65
Claire Phelan ’11
Tyrone Santana Copeland ’01
Dan Severson ’10
Levi Shaw-Faber ’15
Genya Shimkin ’08, Diversity Committee Cochair
George A. Smith ’82, Events Committee Cochair
Lindsay Stanley ’12
Geoffrey Stein ’82
Walter Swett ’96
Paul Thompson ’93
Max Toth ’22
Zubeida Ullah-Eilenberg ’97
Kristin Waters ’73
Brandon Weber ’97
Ato Williams ’12
Nanshan (Nathan) Xu ’17

Emeritus
Claire Angelozzi ’74
Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63
Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56
Cathaline Cantalupo ’67
Arnold Davis ’44
Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95
Kit Ellenbogen ’52
Barbara Grossman Flanagan ’60
Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68
R. Michael Glass ’75
Dr. Ann Ho ’62
Charles Hollander ’65
Maggie Hopp ’67
Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65
Roger N. Scotland ’93
Dr. Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69
Barbara Crane Wigren ’68


Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University
Board of Governors

Jens Reich, Honorary Chair
Kimberly Marteau Emerson, Chair
Susan Gillespie, Vice Chair

Florian Becker, ex officio
Leon Botstein, ex officio
Ronald A. Crutcher
Josef Joffe
Ben Koerner
Alexander Papachristou
Ken Roth
Jacques Séguin
Michael Steinberg
Catherine Toal, ex officio
Taun Toay, ex officio
Marylea van Daalen
Christine Wallich

Academic Advisory Council
Leon Botstein, Chair
Jonathan Becker
Deirdre d’Albertis
Gregory B. Moynahan


Bard College Conservatory of Music 
Advisory Board 

Belinda Kaye, Chair 

Gonzalo de Las Heras
Gregory Drilling ’16
Alan D. Hilliker
Susan B. Hirschhorn
Stephen Kaye
Y. S. Liu
Solange Merdinian ’09
Eric Wong


Bard College at Simons Rock: The Early College
Board of Overseers

James M. Clark Jr. ’76, Chair
Chloe Demrovsky ’01, Vice Chair
Matt Strassler ’81, Second Vice Chair
Emily H. Fisher, Chair Emerita
Robert B. Strassler, Chair Emeritus

Sameer Agrawal ’00
Loren AliKhan ’99
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, ex officio
Christopher Derhammer Hill ’86
Jennifer Fan ’99
Jill Rosenberg Jones
Dan Lipson ’74
Scott Shenker
Brianna Strange ’06
Taun Toay, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Bard College, ex officio
John Weinstein, Provost and Vice President, ex officio


Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program
Alumni/ae Advisory Board

Megan Naidoo ’13, BGIA Spring ’11, President
Rachel Van Horn ’12, BGIA Fall ’11, Vice President
Amanda Maria-Elena Turcios, BGIA Summer ’19, Secretary
Ruth Tekleab, BGIA Summer ’18, Community Chair

Connor Boehme ’17, BGIA Spring ’16
Peter DeBartolo ’07, BGIA Fall ’04, Spring ’05
Cliff Hunt, BGIA Summer ’11
Fiona Korwin-Pawlowski, BGIA Spring ’05
Rachel Meyer ’06, BGIA Spring ’04 
Diana Pitcher ’12, BGIA Spring ’11
Simone Salvo ’13, Spring ’12


Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Board of Trustees

Nancy Druckman, Chair
Michele Beiny-Harkins, Vice Chair; Nominations
Brandy S. Culp, BGC MA ’04, Secretary
Dr. Leon Botstein, ex officio
Nicolas Cattelain
Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch, ex officio
Hélène David-Weill 
Philip D. English 
Ana Horta Osório
Holly Hotchner
Fernanda Kellogg
Dr. Wolfram Koeppe
Dr. Arnold L. Lehman
Martin Levy
David Mann
Dr. Caryl McFarlane
Dr. Steven Nelson
Jennifer Olshin, BGC MA ’98
Melinda Florian Papp
Lisa Podos
Ann Pyne, BGC MA ’07
Linda Roth
Sir Paul Ruddock
Gregory Soros
Luke Syson
Dr. Charlotte Vignon
Dr. Susan Weber, ex officio
Shelby White
Mitchell Wolfson Jr.
Philip L. Yang Jr.


Bard Music Festival
Board of Directors

Denise S. Simon, Chair
Roger Alcaly
Leon Botstein, Artistic Director, ex officio
Michelle R. Clayman
David Dubin
Robert C. Edmonds ’68
Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Emerita
Sanford J. Friedman
Christopher H. Gibbs, Artistic Director, ex officio
Thomas Hesse
Susan Petersen Kennedy
Barbara Kenner
Gary Lachmund
Vivien W. Liu
Thomas O. Maggs
Kenneth L. Miron
Christina Mohr
James H. Ottaway Jr.
Felicitas S. Thorne

 

Center for Civic Engagement
Board of Advisors

James H. Ottaway Jr., Chair
David Becker
Jonathan Becker, ex officio
Christina Dawson
James Friedlich
Susan H. Gillespie, ex officio
Harry A. Johnson Jr. ’17
George A. Kellner
Jill Lundquist
Jamie O’Donnell
Alex Papachristou
Nandini Ramanujam
Joel Rosenthal
Felicitas S. Thorne
 

Center for Curatorial Studies
Board of Governors

Martin Eisenberg, Chairman

Leon Botstein, ex officio
Amy Cappellazzo
Lori Chemla
Lonti Ebers
John Garcia
Marieluise Hessel, Founding Chairman
Avery Willis Hoffman
Maja Hoffmann
Audrey Irmas, Emeritus
Scott Lorinsky
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Annabelle Selldorf
Lowery Stokes Sims
Melissa Schiff Soros
Michael Ward Stout

Fisher Center Advisory Board

Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair

Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Leon Botstein, ex officio
Stefano Ferrari
Alan H. Fishman
Neil Gaiman
S. Asher Gelman ’06
Nina B. Matis 
Rebecca Gold Milikowsky
Anthony Napoli
Denise S. Simon
Martin T. Sosnoff
Toni Sosnoff
Felicitas S. Thorne, Emerita
Taun Toay, ex officio 
Andrew E. Zobler
 

Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle
Board of Directors

Vern Bergelin, President
Marianne Wurlitzer, Vice President
Leslie Gershon, Secretary
Robert Weiss, Treasurer

Terence Boylan
Dennis Giauque
Christopher H. Gibbs
Susan Hinkle Lindner
Christopher Scholz

Jaime Laredo, Artistic Director
Sharon Robinson, Artistic Director
Joan Tower, Advisory Director
Deb Rinehart, Administrator 


Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Board of Governors

Eric Breon, Chairman
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College
James K. Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President, Levy Economics Institute; Jerome Levy Professor of Economics, Bard College
Mostafiz ShahMohammed ’97, Chairman and CEO, Amur Equipment Finance
Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics, Bard College; Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute
L. Randall Wray, Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute


Longy School of Music of Bard College
Board of Governors

Garth H. Greimann, Chair
Matina S. Horner, Vice Chair
Dwight Quayle, Secretary

Roland J. Augustine
Sandra Bakalar
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, ex officio
Gene D. Dahmen
Robert S. Epstein
Harriet E. Griesinger
Michael Guleserian
Roseanne Kumins
Ruth M. McKay
Virginia Meany
Jo Frances Meyer
Kristin A. Mortimer
Donald W. Schroeder
Robert B. Straus
Jeannette H. Taylor
Taun Toay, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Bard College, ex officio
Ann Welch, Chief Operating Officer, Longy School of Music of Bard College, ex officio
Karen Zorn, President, Longy School of Music of Bard College; Vice President, Bard College, 
ex officio

 

US-China Music Institute
Artistic Council

Xavier Bouvier
Chen Yi
Han Mei
Marianne Jacobsen
Martha Liao
Robert Martin
Wu Man
Ye Xiaogang
Yu Long
Zhang Xian
Zhou Long
 

 

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