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Academic Calendar


Summer 2009

Saturday, August 8, 2009 First-Year Students Arrive

Saturday, August 8, 2009 Check-in & Financial Clearance (Bertelsmann Campus Ctr)

Sunday, August 9, 2009 First-Year Student Survey

Sunday, August 9, 2009 First-Year Student Orientation

Sunday, August 9, 2009 Check-in & Financial Clearance for Transfer students

Monday, August 10, 2009 - Thursday, August 27, 2009 Language and Thinking Program
The Language and Thinking Program is an intensive, three-week writing program. Satisfactory completion of the Language and Thinking Program is required for matriculation into the College.

Fall 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - Thursday, August 27, 2009 Academic Orientation and Writing Workshop for Transfer Students

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Transfer Students Arrive

Thursday, August 27, 2009 - Friday, August 28, 2009 Matriculation Days

Friday, August 28, 2009 Advising and Registration for New First-Year and Transfer Students

Saturday, August 29, 2009 Arrival Day for all Returning Students

Saturday, August 29, 2009 Financial Clearance for Students Returning from a Leave of Absence

Saturday, August 29, 2009 Financial Clearance for all other Returning Students

Monday, August 31, 2009 First Day of Classes

Monday, August 31, 2009 Drop/Add period begins

Monday, August 31, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Carolyn Dewald and Joseph Luzzi (Bard), Why First-Year Seminar?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 First Faculty Meeting of the Semester

Monday, September 7, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Bruce Chilton (Bard);

A Genesis of Violence

All are welcome!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Drop/Add period ends

Monday, September 21, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Roundtable: On General Education

Moderated by Leon Botstein (Bard)

Participants:
    Andrew Delbanco (Columbia), Stanley Katz (Princeton), Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (Levy Economics Institute)

All are welcome!

Monday, October 5, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Roundtable:  Bard Writers on Writing

Moderated by Philip Pardi (Bard)

Participants: Ian Buruma (Bard), Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard)

All are welcome!

Monday, October 12, 2009 - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Fall Break

Friday, October 16, 2009 - Sunday, October 18, 2009 Family Weekend
This year, families will gather in Annandale from October 16 to 18 for a variety of events, including Ask the Deans and Ask the President forums, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions.
Sunday, October 18, 2009 Virgil's Epic Afterlife
Gregson Davis
(Duke University)

Please note: Prof. Davis’s presentation is Sunday, October 18 instead of Monday.

All are welcome!


Friday, October 23, 2009 Mid-Term Grades and Criteria Sheets Due

Monday, October 26, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Film Screening:
Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest

Introduced by John Pruitt (Bard)

All are welcome!

Friday, October 30, 2009 Moderation Papers Due

Monday, November 2, 2009 Dante's "Inferno"
Giuseppe Mazzotta
(Yale University)

All are welcome!

Friday, November 6, 2009 Last Day to Withdraw from a Class

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Advising Day

Monday, November 23, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Romulus Linney

Shakespeare's King Lear

All are welcome!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - Sunday, November 29, 2009 Thanksgiving Recess
Academic break begins Wednesday, November 25th at 4 p.m.
Monday, November 30, 2009 - Friday, December 11, 2009 Registration for Spring 2010

Monday, November 30, 2009 Senior Projects Due
By 5:00 p.m. to the Dean of the College
Monday, December 7, 2009 First-Year Seminar
Matthew Deady (Bard);

Galileo's Starry Messenger
and Letter to Duchess Christina

All are welcome!


Saturday, December 12, 2009 - Friday, December 18, 2009 Completion Days

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Final Faculty Meeting of the Semester

Friday, December 18, 2009 Last Day of Classes

Saturday, December 19, 2009 - Monday, January 4, 2010 Winter Intersession


Intersession 2009

Monday, January 4, 2010 Final Grades and Criteria Sheets due


Spring 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - Thursday, January 21, 2010 Academic Orientation and Writing Workshop for New First-Year & Transfer Students

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 New First-Year and Transfer Students Arrive

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Check-in and Financial Clearance for New First-Year and Transfer Students

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - Friday, January 22, 2010 Advising and Registration for New First-Year and Transfer Students

Saturday, January 23, 2010 Arrival Day for all Returning Students

Saturday, January 23, 2010 Financial Clearance for Students Returning from a Leave of Absence

Saturday, January 23, 2010 Financial Clearance for all other Returning Students

Monday, January 25, 2010 Drop/Add period begins

Monday, January 25, 2010 First Day of Classes

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 First Faculty Meeting of the Semester

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Drop/Add period ends at 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 20, 2010 Moderation Papers due

Saturday, March 20, 2010 - Sunday, March 28, 2010 Spring Recess

Monday, March 29, 2010 Mid-Term Grades and Criteria Sheets due

Friday, April 2, 2010 Last Day to Withdraw from a Class

Monday, April 26, 2010 - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Advising Days

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Senior Projects due (5:00 P.M.)

Friday, April 30, 2010 - Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Registration for fall 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Completion Days

Monday, May 17, 2010 Senior Grades due in the Office of the Registrar

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Last Day of Classes

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Final Faculty Meeting of the Semester

Thursday, May 20, 2010 Baccalaureate and Senior Dinner

Saturday, May 22, 2010 Commencement

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Final Grades and Criteria Sheets due in the Office of the Registrar

 

Saturday,
November 7, 2009
10:20:29 am EST

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