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Bard Center for Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Languages (FLCL)
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Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures

Kassandra Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies.
Photo by Chris Kayden
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Bard’s Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program (FLCL) is predicated upon the idea that the foreign languages currently taught at Bard constitute a distinct academic field of study not just within Bard but also in the context of Bard's increasing importance as a global liberal-arts institution.

What We Do

  • Language Study
    The FLCL program promotes the critical appreciation of foreign cultures and literatures as well as resources to improve language skills. Languages currently taught at Bard include:
    Arabic Chinese 
    ESL French 
    German Hebrew
    Italian  Japanese 
    Russian Spanish 
    Greek Latin Sanskrit 
  • Language Lab
    The language lab provides extensive and bright study space and learning resources for students. Services provided by the language lab include:
    Language Tutors
    Language Tables
    Placement Tests
    Foreign Film Library
    Student Employment
    FLET Program
    About the Language Lab

Bard 2022 - International Mother Language Day

Bard's International Student Organization and Language Center designed and hosted a celebration in observance of International Mother Language Day. Students and staff members of the community got together to promote and celebrate culture and language diversity as well as multilingualism. This video was created by a Bard student, Mujtaba Naqib. He interviewed a few Bard students to give us a glimpse of what language diversity at Bard College looks like.
 
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Our Mission 

Our Mission 

Teaching students a unique set of analytical tools, Bard's Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program (FLCL) locates itself at the site where self- and other-understanding are thematized and analyzed in a unique and fundamental way, namely in and through a non–English language and its literary manifestations. Inseparably linked, the study of a foreign language and its literature engages the students in a cross-cultural dialogue and prepares them meaningfully to participate in the global community. Based on this shared mode of critical and creative inquiry, FLCL brings the existing language programs into a larger collaborative framework that strengthens their bond while recognizing each program's curricular particularities.

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