Arts - Bard College

Arts from Bard College is a Campus Master Study of Art degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The first year of study in the Master of Arts Program includes an intensive orientation period held in August. In both fall and spring terms, students register for four courses (12 credits), including the two-semester Survey of the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. During the late spring, first-year students earn credits by beginning an internship, usually completed in the summer months. Students also take a methodology and research course in the spring term of their first year to help launch their thesis projects. Students complete the remaining credits of course work during the fall and spring semesters of their second year. In the fall semester of their second year, students continue their thesis research, and in the spring, they complete it. The thesis is supervised by a full-time member of the BGC faculty and is also read by a second person. Full-time students must complete their thesis in the second year. MA diplomas indicate a degree in the history of decorative arts , design and culture. All MA degree candidates complete an internship that provides practical experience in an institutional or commercial setting. Students often fulfill this requirement during the summer between the first and second years of study. BGC students have been placed at more than two hundred cultural and commercial institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Mus?e du Louvre; the Victoria and Albert Museum; Waddesdon Manor; the Museum of the City of New York; the New-York Historical Society; the Hispanic Society of America; Historic Hudson Valley; the New Jersey Historical Society; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the Lower East Side Tenement Museum; the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art; Merchant's House Museum; the Museum of American Art; Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden; Wolfsonian?Florida International University; the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation; Metropolis Magazine; Christie's; Sotheby's; Formica Corporation of America; Coty, Inc.; Art in General; Philip Colleck, Ltd.; and Masterson Gurr Johns, Inc Study trips are important features of the master's degree program. They range from examining museological procedures at exemplary institutions or manufacturing processes in contemporary industries to visiting particular parks, exhibitions, or collections. View more details on Bard College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Study of Art courses.