There students continue daily intensive study of French language and culture while living with French families. Students take fifteen class hours per week, plus ten to fifteen hours in laboratory practice and home study during the semester at Bard, and twenty hours per week during June at Collegium Palatinum, the German language institute of Schiller International University in Heidelberg. Participants may enroll concurrently in one other course at Bard. A Deutsches Haus permits interested participants to live together for the semester, making the program truly total immersion. At the Collegium Palatinum in Heidelberg in June, course days are Monday through Friday, leaving students time for independent study, research, leisure, and excursions.
Financial aid is available for the summer program.
Given in alternate years. Two years of Italian in one semester, followed by a month of study in Italy, for a total of sixteen credits. Participants may enroll in one other course at Bard during this semester. Emphasis is evenly divided among speaking, writing, reading, and aural comprehension. During the last month in Bologna, Italy, at the Centro di Cultura Italiana in the university section in the heart of the city students study in small groups with experienced teachers who specialize in teaching Italian to foreign students.