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 …

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 …

Emeralds. Chocolate. Sugar. Indigo. Precious. Sacred. Addictive. Invasive. Like human actors, commodities—and the decorative arts and material culture they can produce and sustain—have …

Starting in the 1830s, purveyors of biscuits or cookies such as Huntley&Palmers in England started distributing their products in brightly-colored tin containers. Over …

The history and impact of black architects and interior designers is underrecognized and understudied within the fields of design, decorative arts, and material culture. This …

This course seeks to chart the histories, theories, and genealogies of practice in fiber art from the post-war era to the present. We will assess …

Qipao, better known in English by its Cantonese name cheongsam, is an iconic Chinese dress featuring a body-hugging cut, standing collars, side closure, and side …

Mending has been an intrinsic aspect of dress culture for millennia but is largely overlooked in material and academic records. In this course we will …

This seminar will explore elite craft production in the urban centers of sixteenthcentury northern Europe. It focuses on the years roughly between 1540 and 1620, a unique …

This hybrid course—part seminar, part practicum—will introduce students to the theory and practice of Public Humanities. Students will work closely with the instructor—…

For much of antiquity Athens was one of the foremost cities of the Mediterranean world, famed for its power and creativity. Modern accounts tend to …

Perhaps more than ever before, contemporary designers are concerned with the intersections of natural science and utilitarian form. Our built environment is populated with complex …

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, lunches, and talks organized by Bard Graduate Center’s Public Humanities + …

This seminar surveys anthropological theories of art and material culture with a cross-cultural purview and a concentration on global Indigenous societies in colonial and contemporary …

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

This course examines the transformation of the visual and material culture of late medieval Christianity brought about by the upheavals in beliefs, religious practice and …

This course will introduce students to the historical archaeology of New York City and to the material traces of the past that lie beneath our …