MA/PhD
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Consortium

Students may take courses at our consortium partner institutions which include Columbia University GSAS (COL), Cooper Hewitt, Parsons School of Design (CH), the City University …

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701./702./703.
Directed Readings

Doctoral Students preparing for their exams register for these three directed readings in the spring semester. 3 credits.

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IND.
Independent Study

Independent study offers students the opportunity to pursue research in areas beyond the range of the standard curriculum. Through independent study, students further their knowledge …

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INT.
Internship

Full-time MA students register for the required internship with their spring courses in their first year. The internship is generally completed in the summer between …

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434
Art and Iconography of African Kingdoms and Empires, from ca. 1500 BCE
Annissa Malvoisin
2nd Floor Classroom
THU 1:30pm – 4:00pm

This course will be a broad introduction to various historical developments in art and the role of iconography in primarily ancient and medieval contexts in …

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435
Paris/Fashion
Mei Mei Rado
5th Floor Classroom
MON 9:30am – 12:00pm

Long regarded as the “capital of fashion,” Paris has played an indisputably central role in leading fashion forward. Surveying the period of 350 years from Louis …

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436
Crafting Intersectionality
Amanda Thompson
2nd Floor Classroom
FRI 9:30am – 12:00pm

The critical framework of “intersectional feminism” was first theorized Black scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s to highlight the ways in which social identities, …

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437
In Focus: Dollatry
Freyja Hartzell
5th Floor Classroom
MON 1:30pm – 4:00pm

What is a doll? This course offers students an extended opportunity to explore this deceptively simple question, as they collaborate with the instructor—and with …

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438
Japonisme: The Great Wave and Beyond
Mei Mei Rado
5th Floor Classroom
TUE 9:30am – 12:00pm

In 1872, French art critic Philippe Burty (1830-1890) coined the term Japonisme to describe contemporary European fascinations with Japan. A major focus of this course will …

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439
In Focus II: (Re)Dressing the American Body
Lauren Peters, Emma McClendon
5th Floor Classroom
FRI 1:30pm – 4:00pm

How does dress shape the American experience? In which ways have dress conventions been used to make bodies “decent” and “acceptable” in American society? And …

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468
In Focus: Playing with Fire in Eighteenth-Century France
Jeffrey L. Collins
5th Floor Classroom
FRI 9:30am – 12:00pm

Eighteenth-century France has long been celebrated for spaces and objects marked by luxury, fine craftsmanship, and aesthetic coordination. It has also been recognized as an “…

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501
Objects in Context: A Survey of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture II
Lecture Hall
MON 5:00pm – 7:30pm

This two-semester, team-taught course introduces incoming students to major historical developments in decorative arts, design, and material culture from antiquity to the present. Monday evening …

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515
Seminar Series

All students are encouraged to attend the rich program of lectures, symposia, seminars, performances, lunches, and talks organized by Bard Graduate Center’s Public Humanities + …

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584
Ceramics and Society: A Social and Cultural History of European Ceramics, 1500–1900
Andrew Morrall
5th Floor Classroom
WED 9:30am – 12:00pm

This seminar explores the evolution of ceramic techniques and materials within the wider contexts of economic, social, and cultural life. We will study the role …

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795
Exhibiting Culture/s: Anthropology In and Of the Museum
Aaron Glass
2nd Floor Classroom
WED 1:30pm – 4:00pm

Over the past two centuries, the museum has emerged as one of the primary institutional venues for intercultural encounter mediated by objects. Practices of both …

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834
American Collectors and Collections
Catherine Whalen
5th Floor Classroom
THU 1:30pm – 4:00pm

This seminar explores the history, theory, and practice of collecting in the United States from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. Both …

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851
The Occult and Its Artifact in the Middle Ages
Ittai Weinryb
5th Floor Classroom
TUE 5:00pm – 7:30pm

Miracle, magic, apotropia, and efficacy are just a few of the terms that embedded the Middle Ages with supernatural activity. This seminar explores the place …

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860
Qualifying Paper

Second-year MA students who will graduate in May must register for this final paper in the spring semester. 3 credits.

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950
Cleaning Up in Early Modern Europe: Intellectual, Social, and Material History
Deborah L. Krohn
5th Floor Classroom
WED 1:30pm – 4:00pm

Notions of purity and cleanliness are deeply entwined with the creation, maintenance, and afterlife of arts and material culture in Early Modern Europe. From the …

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967
Oceania: Art and Material Culture
Ivan Gaskell
5th Floor Classroom
THU 9:30am – 12:00pm

This course will introduce the art and material culture of the inhabitants of one third of the surface of the Earth—Oceania— focusing on their …

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970
Archaeological Lab Methods
Meredith B. Linn
5th Floor Classroom
THU 5:00pm – 7:30pm

This hands-on seminar will introduce students to the methods archaeologists use to analyze, catalogue, document, and store archaeological artifacts and will enable students to directly …

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993
Peter Paul Rubens: Designer and Diplomat
Ivan Gaskell
2nd Floor Classroom
TUE 9:30am – 12:00pm

Although Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most prominent painters of the seventeenth century, he was much else besides. An antiquarian scholar, a designer …

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