Students may take courses at our consortium partner institutions which include Columbia University GSAS (COL), the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY), the …

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

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 …

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 …

From the earliest interactive kiosks developed in the 1990s to the AR, VR, and AI experiences of today, digital technologies have long served as an …

From richly decorated breastplates to simple converted farm tools, arms and armor were central to the material culture of early modern Europe. Military history, courtly …

This course offers a broad examination of the material remains of medieval culture through three interpretive lenses: visual culture, material culture, and globalism. It introduces …

To gather, in protest or in diplomacy, is never neutral. Every space of assembly is a small experiment in worldmaking and a rehearsal for power. …

This seminar takes its name from a 1945 publication explaining the United States government’s wartime program of conservation and rationing, emphasizing why dress and raw …

Judaica, or Jewish Ceremonial Art, refers to objects used in Jewish rituals in synagogues and homes. This seminar will provide an introduction to Judaica, including …

What is the purpose of design? All design aspires, at some level, to change the world in which we live, and with it, our experience …

Over the past few decades, and especially in recent years, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped our world: how we communicate, how we conduct research, and …

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 …

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

This seminar examines the shifting boundaries of craft and design in the United States from World War II to the present. In the postwar era’…

In the past century, scholarship on art and material culture has benefited greatly from the discussion of the materials and ideas relating to the Mediterranean …

This seminar explores the history, theory, and practice of collecting in the United States from the turn of the 19th century to the present. Both …

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

Ethnography, understood as cultural description, is associated primarily with anthropology although it is a practice taken up by many other disciplines. The term generally refers …

Few human-made things last in their original form. Artworks and other artifacts change over time. Some are inherently unstable. Some are purposefully modified. In others, …

In the late 1890s, French architect Hector Guimard—now best known for his sprouting, organic designs for the Paris Metro—coined the phrase “Reject the …

This seminar focuses on the abundance of new scholarly research and other forms of art writing that examine craft in contemporary art and theory. Another …

Ever since their inception in classical Greece, lifelike freestanding statues representing real or ideal human forms have been prized as expressions of cultural, religious, aesthetic, …