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Bard's Graduate Programs offer specialized courses of study in the studio and performing arts, the cultural history of the material world, the curating of the contemporary visual arts, environmental policy and education, sustainable business, economic theory and policy, and discipline-based teaching for secondary schools. 

Each program prepares its students for the intellectual and practical challenges of their profession through research seminars, exhibition practicums, studio and performance critiques, chamber recitals, and professional internships, with scholars, practicing artists, curators, environmental policy makers, and educators. In culmination of these studies, the students prepare original scholarly theses, offer readings and group exhibitions of their creative work, curate exhibitions in the Center for Curatorial Studies galleries, and perform in concerts at Bard's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

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Christian Crouch Named Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College
Professor Christian Crouch.
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Christian Crouch Named Dean of Graduate Studies at Bard College

Bard College announces the appointment of Professor Christian Crouch as the incoming Dean of Graduate Studies, beginning July 1, 2021. Professor Crouch has been Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Bard since 2014. Her work focuses on the histories of the early modern Atlantic, comparative slavery, American material culture, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Professor Crouch succeeds Professor Norton Batkin, who stepped down on September 1 after 15 years as Dean of Graduate Studies. During his tenure, Norton Batkin oversaw the growth and success of Bard’s graduate programs.

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fine arts

decorative arts,
design history,
material culture

curatorial studies

photographic studies

  • Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts – Bard MFA
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
    New York City
  • Center for Curatorial Studies
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies
    New York City

environmental policy

climate science and policy

sustainable business management

environmental education

economic theory and policy

inequality analysis

  • Center for Environmental Policy
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Bard MBA in Sustainability
    New York City

  • Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • CEU-Bard Joint Advanced Certificate in Inequality Analysis
    Vienna, Austria
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Master of Arts in Teaching

  • Master of Arts in Teaching — Annandale
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Master of Arts in Teaching —
    Los Angeles
    MAT Los Angeles | Longy School of Music MAT
    Los Angeles, California
  • Master of Arts in Teaching – Al Quds
    Al Quds University, West Bank
  • Master of Arts in Teaching –
    American University of Central Asia
    Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

vocal arts

conducting

the orchestra now

performance studies

collaborative piano fellowship

  • Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Graduate Conducting at the Bard Conservatory
    Choral Conducting | Orchestral Conducting
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • The Orchestra Now
     
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Advanced Performance Studies at the Bard Conservatory
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  • Collaborative Piano Fellowship at the Bard Conservatory
    Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

master of music

art criticism and curatorial studies

music criticism

  • Longy School of Music of Bard College: Master of Music Programs
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies; Music Criticism
    Smolny College
    St. Petersburg, Russia

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