Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Contemporary Critical Theory] From Bard College at Simon's Rock

More recently the term has been widened to encompass the ideas of a broad range of theorists who have exploded the boundaries between various established academic disciplines to produce a supradisciplinary discourse to approach the contemporary moment?s central social, political, cultural, and aesthetic questions.?

Combining philosophy, social theory, cultural critique, and political commitment, this body of thought has at once arisen out of the conditions of modernity (and, for some, postmodernity) while providing a critique of its central concepts and are-visioning of its assumptions about truth, progress, representation, subjectivity, identity, rationality, meaning, language, and power.?

Courses in this program, while differing topically, forefront theory and its historical, cultural, and intellectual context. They familiarize students with the assumptions, history, and methods of several strands of contemporary critical thought, including structuralist, semiotic, poststructuralist, postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist theory.