Catalogue

Curricular Goals

The Bard curriculum should foster curiosity, growth, and joy in the pursuit of knowledge. The student’s experience of discovery, inquiry, and reflection illuminates both the self and the wider world, igniting a desire to participate in it.

A Bard education prepares students
• to practice critical engagement and informed, responsible judgment;
• to create meaningful connections between education and life, both personal and civic, at Bard and beyond, with a sustained commitment to learning; 
• to collaborate responsibly and constructively;
• to value others and other ways of being;
• to build on a foundation of both content and contexts;
• to practice close reading and writing as integral to thinking and creating; 
• to evaluate and reflect on their own interests, actions, and abilities; 
• to act while confronting complexity and contradictions.