The Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures can be found in the F.W. Olin Language Center building that was built in 1995. The CFLC offers the Bard community a wide range of tools for foreign-language learning and teaching, as well as for collaboration across curricular, linguistic, geographic, and cultural borders, including more than 4,000 foreign-language titles in DVD, videotape, audio CD, book, and other media formats. Its "smart" seminarspace consists of 20 multimedia computer stations that provide access to multilingual word processing and a wide variety of foreign language audio, video, and software programs via the Sony Virtuoso/Soloist learning system and an integrated Alex media server. Internet, video, audio, and international TV are available on all work-stations and can be projected on a screen. Broadcasts from more than 20 foreign language channels, including TV5 (France), Telemundo (Latin America), RAI (Italy), NTV (Russia), and Al_Jazeera (Middle East), as well as Chinese, German, Hindi, Urdu, English, Israeli, and Japanese networks, are available for viewing in all Olin teaching spaces; recordingd, digitizing, editing, and digital archiving of these programs is available in the CFLC. The Center, which has an international staff of 18 people, also has various tutoring spaces, a writing lab, a multimedia development roon, and a reception area. Read our Mission Statement

The Center welcomes any walk-ins interested in meeting and engaging with the multi-cultural international students, tutors and faculty members.

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The CFLC is located on the second floor (rooms 202-207) of the Olin Language Center, behind the Olin Humanities Building. For a campus map, click here.

Foreign language tutors and faculty should contact the language lab office at #7443 to reserve language lab spaces.

Students seeking to work as a Bard CFLC as an Assistant must be organized, responsible, fluent in at least one foreign language, willing to learn all on-the-job equipment technicalities, and be kind or accommodating to co-workers, students and faculty.

S/he must ALWAYS be prompt, able to work responsively and independently by thinking ahead on her/his own initiative.

The Language Center staff member should have at least basic if not solid knowledge of Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Familiarity with one or more of the following programs such as foreign language word processing (Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew etc.), Filemaker pro database, Adobe Photoshop, webpagemaker Dreamweaver is taken into account during the application process.

Work study students and non-work study students welcome!

To apply for a job online, click here.

If you are interested in "SPECIAL PROJECT JOBS" such as Webpage Design, Foreign Language Software Development, or Foreign Language Software Research, send an email directly to Stephanie Kufner.