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.
Get Started:
Choose your Language Program
• Chinese Intensive
• French Intensive
• German Immersion
• Italian Intensive
• Japanese Intensive
• Russian Intensive
• Spanish 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 on the Application link below by the deadline. Additional requirements and information may be found on Bard's Study Abroad Process page.• Application 2013-2014
• Contact Information (While in Transit) - Language Intensive - DUE May 5th
• PAST-DUE Full e-confirmation of flight itinerary:
If you are students of Spanish, Italian, Chinese or French Intensives and have not forwarded your full itinerary e-confirmation that you received from the travel agent or site, please forward directly to Kimberly Bail at bail@bard.edu (If you previously forwarded it to Kimberly or to your professor, you may disregard). These are required for emergency purposes.
For Parents/Guardians
Parents and guardians are required to fill out and sign the form below by the deadline. This form may also be found within the student application above.• Release of Claims and Medical Treatment
Contact Us
Trish Fleming, Study Abroad Advisor: fleming@bard.edu | 845-758-7080Kimberly Bail, Faculty Administrative Assistant: bail@bard.edu | 845-758-7017