The Psychology Program cultivates an environment where teaching and research mutually inform one another by providing opportunities for students to become engaged in research during the academic year and summer, supporting faculty research, encouraging students to gain internships and externships, and hosting speakers from other institutions.
Faculty and students of the Bard Psychology Program.
About the Program
All program courses strive to introduce students to foundational content in psychology’s subfields. Courses take a multilevel approach to answering psychological questions, engage students in integrative, critical thinking about the mechanisms underlying human thought and behavior, educate students in the process of science, and prepare students to excel in their chosen place in an interdependent global society.
Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00
Areas of Study
The program provides grounding in the areas of abnormal psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology. You can learn more about these areas below.
Our Mission
The mission of Bard’s Psychology Program is to serve a foundational role in engaging the College and broader community with the science of human behavior. The program serves as a hub for the mind and behavioral sciences through curricular and cocurricular offerings that augment the course of study for all students, especially those in the Divisions of Social Studies and Science, Mathematics, and Computing, as well as through the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program. The offerings of the Pyschology Program reflect the field’s enormous breadth, covering topics ranging from genes to social systems.
Belonging in the Psychology Program
Equity is a vital foundation for innovation, leadership, and cultural awareness.
The Psychology Program believes that Psychology is a major in which any Bard student can succeed, and we strive to make the Program one in which students in all courses feel like they belong. The Program believes that equity and justice are vital foundations for innovation, leadership, and cultural awareness, and we strive to create an inclusive and accessible environment through continual efforts in pedagogy, curriculum, and advising. We aim to foster a welcoming environment that represents opportunities for all students through inclusive representation and promotion of voices historically marginalized because of such factors as race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, nationality, immigration status, age, political affiliation, and physical ability.