Bard High School Early College Bronx Campuses

Bard High School Early College Bronx focuses on a rigorous liberal arts and sciences curriculum, enabling students to transition seamlessly from high school to college-level studies. Through small seminar classes taught by accomplished college faculty, the program emphasizes critical reading, writing, discussion, and interdisciplinary thinking using Bard's Writing and Thinking pedagogy. Students earn a high school Regents diploma and a Bard College Associate of Arts degree with 60 transferable credits, preparing them for top four-year universities.

• Humanities Seminar Sequence: A four-semester core program engaging with foundational texts including Homer's Iliad, Plato's Republic, Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Darwin's Origin of Species, Marx's Communist Manifesto, Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Du Bois' Souls of the Black Folk, Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Kafka's The Trial, and Coates' Between the World and Me.
• Sciences: High school courses like Living Environment, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics; college-level sciences with laboratory components required for two semesters.
• Mathematics: Common Core Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II; two semesters of college mathematics starting from appropriate core courses.
• Social Studies: US History and Government, Global History and Geography; electives in social sciences.
• Literature: Integrated seminars and electives fulfilling four semesters of literature/social science requirements.
• World Languages: Two semesters of college-level foreign language study.
• Arts: Three credits in music, theater, creative writing, dance, or visual arts.
• Health and Physical Education: Eight semesters of PE and one semester of health for Regents diploma.

The curriculum begins with a Writing & Thinking Workshop each fall, fostering skills applied across all disciplines. Faculty are terminal-degree holders trained in early college methods, supporting Bronx students' academic success.9289