9 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

Linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock is the study of language. Studying language enables us to understand the ways in which people encode their experience, communicate their sense of the world, transmit knowledge, and interact with each other.

The Creative Writing concentration at Bard College at Simon's Rock in creative writing offers students the opportunity to explore an array of writing styles and genres, thereby helping them discover and develop their own voices.

The requirements of the Literary Studies program at Bard College at Simon's Rock are designed to foster students’ skills as interpreters of literature and as writers, while also instilling appreciation of form and knowledge about literature and its relationship to social and political contexts.

This French and Francophone Studies concentration at Bard College at Simon's Rock is designed for students interested in achieving mastery of French language beyond the basic level. Along with their study of French language, students in the concentration also study the literature, culture, history, and politics of Europe and the francophone world.

Students in the Theatre Arts program at Bard College at Simon's Rock receive one-on-one instruction, a variety of opportunities to learn about all aspects of performance, and the encouragement to fashion their own programs of study in consultation with the faculty.

The Arts program at Bard College at Simon's Rock complements concentrations in the arts with a focus on creativity and artistic expression. 

The Philosophical Studies program at Bard College at Simon's Rock welcomes students to explore diverse approaches to these and other fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. 

The term Contemporary Critical Theory at Bard College at Simon's Rock has traditionally been identified with the critiques of modernity offered by Frankfurt School theorists, especially Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, but also Walter Benjamin.

History as an academic discipline at Bard College at Simon's Rock provides crucial knowledge about “the human condition.” We, as individuals, could not comprehend our daily lives without the aid of personal memory, and the same holds true for us in the aggregate—as ethnic, national, social, and gendered groups.