Bard Foreign Language Intensives and
Study Abroad

Also visit the Global Studies page
for more information on intensives abroad or studying globally

 

Arabic: The Arabic department offers Intensive Arabic in the fall followed by a spring course.The intensive student can study in a 6-week summer immersion program at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco. Professor: Hezi Brosh

 

	Chinese: The Chinese department offers Chinese I the fall semester and Chinese II Intensive (8 credits) in the spring.
Every year in collaboration with Vassar, Bard takes intensive student to Qingdao University in Beijing, China for 1-8 weeks (6 credits). Professor: Li-Hua Ying

 

French: The French Department offers a spring Intensive French (8 credits). The student then has the option of attending the Insitute de Touraine in Tours, France, for four weeks during the summer. Professors: Odile Chilton and Eric Trudel

 

German: The German Department offers a spring German Immersion course (12 credits).Immersion students have the option of attending Collegium Palatinum in Heidelberg, Germany for four weeks in June (4 credits). This course is offered Spring 2006 and every other year. Professor: Franz Kempf

Contact Jessica Doran Haas at IILE, ext. 7081
for junior year study abroad opportunities at Humboldt University and Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

 

Hebrew: Hebrew I is offered in the fall and Beginning Hebrew II is offered in the spring. Hebrew students can follow-up with a four-week course, offered every year, in June/July at the University of Haifa in Israel (4 credits). Professor: Hezi Brosh

 

Italian: The Italian Department offers an Accelerated Italian for the fall semester. Four weeks of Intensive Italian is offered every year at the Accademia del Giglio in Florence, Italy during the January Intersession (4 credits). Professor: Joseph Luzzi

 

Japanese: Japanese is offered in the fall and Intensive Japanese (8 credits) is offered in the spring. Every year for five weeks at the end of May through July the student can study at Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto, Japan (5 credits). Professor: Gus Heldt

 

	Russian: The Russian Department offers Basic Russian in the fall and Intensive Russian (8 credits) in the spring as a follow-up course.
For four-five weeks every June/July, the student can study at Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. Professors: Marina Kostalevsky and Jennifer Day

 

	Spanish: The Spanish Department offers a fall Basic Intensive Spanish (8 credits) and Accelerated Spanish (4 credits).
Every year the student can study for four weeks starting in December at the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca in Oaxaca Mexico (4 credits). Pictures from the 2006 trip! Professors: Melanie Nicholson, Nicole Casio, and Gabriella Carrion