CFLC | Foreign Language Intensives and Study Abroad

About Bard College Intensive-Language Programs

Congratulations — You are considering one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of any academic career.

Studying abroad, living another culture, and learning a new language opens endless opportunities and experiences. It can also be a lot of work lining up proper paperwork/documentation and ensuring that you receive academic credit for your studies.

Most foreign languages taught at Bard can be studied in an intensive format that offers both an accelerated pace of learning at Bard and a one- or two-month summer program in a country of the language of study. Programs, offered over the summer break, are designed to build on academic year studies and help students gain a command of a foreign language. The intensive format allows students to complete the equivalent of two years of language study in a few months. The immersion format, currently offered in German, is even more accelerated than the intensive format.

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Choose your Language Program

• Arabic Intensive
• Chinese Intensive
• French Intensive
• German Immersion
• Italian Intensive
• Japanese Intensive
• Russian Intensive
• Spanish Intensive

Required Forms

Students are responsible for completing and submitting all required student forms (see link below) by the deadline.
For more information download this file: Application summer language intensives.pdf

Additional Forms

Contact Form

Contact Us

Trish Fleming, Study Abroad Adviser: fleming@bard.edu | 845-758-7080
Kimberly Bail, Faculty Administrative Assistant: bail@bard.edu | 845-758-7017