The GBA tracks below are potential tracks and may change as certain courses are available. Prior to enrolling in a course or program of study, please consult with your academic advisor and the Bard Study Abroad Adviser to determine your academic eligibility. To view sample Global BA tracks for each academic division, click the division names below.
Division of the Arts
Key: The courses highlighted in red are the courses or programs that fulfill the Global BA requirement.
Major: Studio Arts
All courses are 4 credits unless otherwise indicated.
Semester 1: Bard Annandale
- FYSEM I
- ART 107 Drawing I
- ARTH 283 East Meets West
- JAPN 101 Introductory Japanese I
- FYSEM II
- ART 208 Drawing II: Playing w/ Pictures
- JAPN 102 Introductory Japanese II
- MATH 106 Mathematics and Politics
Semester 3: Bard Annandale
- ART 150 Extended Media I
- JAPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I
- LIT 117 Asian Humanities Seminar
- LIT 2058 The Beheaded Angel: Literature and Film after the Second World War
- ARTH 348 Asian American Artists Seminar
- JAPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
- BIO 115 Genetics and Identity
- (Re-)Writing a Politics of Belonging: Race and Recognition in American Art and Literature (Bard College Berlin OSUN course)
Semester 5: Kyoto-Seika University
- Art Animation
- Study of Expressions
- Printmaking
- Painting I
- Intercultural Practices: The Politics of Berlin’s Art/Museum/Off-Spaces
- Research-Creation: Artistic Approaches to Forced Migration and the Dilemma of the Nation State
- Advanced Studio: Tools Beyond the Studio (Level iii)
- Berlin Internship Seminar: Working Cultures, Urban Cultures
Semester 7: Bard Annandale
- SPROJ 1 (incl. Senior seminar)
- ARTH 389 Deconstructing the Museum
- LIT 2290 Tokyo Textscapes
- Power and Revolution (American University of Central Asia OSUN course, 3 credits)
- SPROJ II (incl. Senior seminar)
- ARTH 394 Do It Together: An Introduction to Contemporary Alternative Curatorial Practices (2 credits)
- MAT ED 512 Identity, Culture, and the Classroom (2 Credits)
- HIST 1001 Revolution
Division of Languages and Literature
Key: The courses highlighted in red are the courses or programs that fulfill the Global BA requirement.
Major: Literature
Semester 1: Begin in Berlin
- FYSEM I: Plato’s Republic and Its Interlocutors
- German Beginner A1
- Beginners Black and White Photography Class: The Slow Photo
- The Contemporary Novel
- FYSEM II: Forms of Love
- German Beginner A2
- Doing “Justice” after Atrocity
- Migration and Exile. Journeys in Imperial Space
- HIST 3133 Resistance & Collaboration
- LIT 201 Narrative / Poetics / Representation
- PS / GIS 207 Global Citizenship (Network course)
- MATH 116 Mathematics of Puzzles & Games
- ARTH 289 Rights and the Image
- LIT 204C Comparative Literature III: The City, the Novel, and the Making of Modern Identity
- SCI 123 Paint and Examination of Paintings
- GER 202 Intermediate German II
Semester 5: Bard Annandale
- LIT 204B Comparative Literature II: When Virtue becomes Vice: Asceticism and the Temptations of Selfhood.
- HR 253 Abolishing Prisons and the Police
- FILM 373 Cinema and Dictatorship
- HR 343 Photography & Human Rights
- Film and Text
- Life and Travel Writing
- European Union Politics
- The Bible in the Arts
- SPROJ I
- Senior Colloquium (1 Credit)
- LIT 366 Passion, Poetry, and Politics: Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Age
- HIST 289 How to Read and Write the History of the (Post-) Colonial World
- ARTH 255 Outsider Art
- SPROJ II
- Senior Colloquium (1 Credit)
- HR 358 LGBTQ Issues in US Education (2 credits)
- ANTH 237 Confronting “Crisis”: Refugees, the Pandemic, and Populism in Europe
- MUS 204 Form and Structure in Movie Musicals
Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing
Key: The courses highlighted in red are the courses or programs that fulfill the Global BA requirement.
Major: Biology
Semester 1: Bard Annandale
- FYSEM I
- BIO 162 Introduction to Neurobiology
- PSY 141 Introduction to Psychological Science
- SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish
Semester 2: Bard Annandale
- FYSEM II
- BIO 180 The Physical Context of Life
- EUS 102 Intro to Environmental & Urban Science
- SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
- BIO 201 Genetics and Evolution
- SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
- BIO 244 Biostatistics
- Environmental Law (Brac University OSUN course, 3 Credits)
- BIO 202 Ecology and Evolution
- Music as Social Life: Ethnomusical Perspectives in Musics of the World (Universidad de los Andes OSUN course)
- BIO 336 Computational Biology
- LIT 203 The Rhetoric of Conquest and Contact: (De)Colonizing Narratives of Latin America
Semester 5: Pitzer in Costa Rica (20 Credits)
- Intensive Spanish
- Core Course – Costa Rican Studies
- Tropical Restoration Ecology
- Environment, People, and Restoration
- Independent Study Project
- BIO 439 In it together: symbiosis on a changing planet (2 credits)
- BIO 208 Biology Seminar (1 Credit)
- Historical and Political Ecologies of Rivers and Watersheds (Bard College at Simon's Rock OSUN course)
- BIO 336 Computational Biology
Semester 7: Bard Annandale
- SPROJ I
- BIO 208 Biology Seminar (1 Credit)
- Disruptive Sustainable Design (Universidad de los Andes OSUN course, 3 Credits)
- BIO 325 Developmental Genetics
- ART 100 MH Digital I: Digital Foundations for Artists and Makers
- SPROJ II
- BIO 417 Computational Neuroscience (2 credits)
- Psychoanalysis and Literature (American University in Bulgaria OSUN course)
- PS 372 Environmental Political Theory
Division of Social Studies
Key: The courses highlighted in red are the courses or programs that fulfill the Global BA requirement.
Major: Anthropology
All courses are 4 credits unless otherwise indicated.
Semester 1: Bard Annandale
- FYSEM I
- HEB 101 Beginning Hebrew I
- ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- PSY 128 The Science of Behavior
- FYSEM II
- Islam and Human Rights (Al Quds Bard OSUN course)
- ANTH 212 Historical Archaeology: Early African and German Americans near Bard
- JS 101 Introduction to Jewish Studies
- ANTH 292 Anthropology for Decolonization
- Media, Art, Curatorship (European Humanities University OSUN course, 3 credits)
- MATH 105A Time, Space, Infinity
- THTR 259 Going Viral: Performance, Media, and Contagion from Modernism to the Present
- DAN 103 Beginning I Modern Dance (2 Credits)
- ANTH 324 Doing Ethnography course
- HIST 208 Anti-Semitism/Racism/Liberalism
- ANTH / GIS 224 A Lexicon of Migration (Network Course)
- HEB 102 Beginning Hebrew II
Semester 5: Central European University
- Class on Class (2 Credits)
- Sociological approaches to Romani Studies: Patterns of Exclusion, Dilemmas of Inclusion (2 Credits)
- The Rise and Fall of Development (2 Credits)
- Place Making: Critical Approaches to Anthropology (2 Credits)
- State and Culture
- Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Filmmaking
- Writing on International Affairs
- Ethics for a Connected World
- Core Seminar: Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector
- Power, War and Terror in International Affairs
- SPROJ I
- ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory
- REL 216 Jewish Mysticism
- (Re-)Writing a Politics of Belonging: Race and Recognition in American Art and Literature (Bard College Berlin OSUN course)
- SPROJ II
- ANTH 323 The Politics of Infrastructure
- LIT 2404 Fantastic Journey/Modern World
- HIST 2271 Black Modernisms