Admission

The application deadline has passed. However, further applications will be reviewed. Please contact neworleans@bard.edu for more information.

• Application for Admission (for Bard and Simon's Rock Students) [PDF]
• Application for Admission (for Non-Bard Students) [PDF]

All application information should be sent to:

Bard Urban Studies in New Orleans Program
2117 S. Lopez Street
New Orleans, LA 70125

Courses

A total of three courses will be offered, including one core course that all students will take.

Anthropology of the City

This seminar will investigate the relationship between the creation of cultural narrative and the spatial-historical development of the city in and beyond New Orleans. Students will engage the history and culture of New Orleans through film and other media, as well as through excursions across the city.

Instructor: Martha Ward, Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, University of New Orleans

Public Policy and Urban Planning

Course will provide a critical overview of public policy and land-use planning as legal and social structures. Students will focus in particular on the role of planning in New Orleans' rebuilding process, from neighborhood-driven initiatives to city-wide mega-plans.

Instructor: Robert Collins, Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Urban Planning, Dillard University

Urban Geography and New Orleans (core course)

An introduction to geography as a means of engaging problems related to land, rights, and human interaction. Through maps, field trips, and texts, the course will engage the history of human and ecological development in New Orleans through the relationship between people and place. How has history shaped the urban form of New Orleans and of the city in general? What role do historical patterns in urban form play in the rebuilding of the city?

Instructor: Richard Campanella, Director, Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research


All courses, as well as student housing, will be held at Xavier University in the heart of New Orleans. Xavier will provide meals, as well as access to library facilities, gym, health services, and more.

Internships

Each internship will be facilitated and overseen by a mentor within the partner organization as well as a summer-semester faculty member. Internship opportunities include:

Broadmoor Improvement Association

The Broadmoor Improvement Association (BIA) is one of the oldest neighborhood associations in New Orleans. Established in 1930 as the Broadmoor Civic Improvement Association to address the needs of the developing Broadmoor neighborhood, it was incorporated in 1970 as the Broadmoor Improvement Association, Inc. to stop "blockbusting" in Broadmoor, a multi-racial/multi-ethnic community. Since Katrina, the Broadmoor Improvement Association has worked to re-establish Broadmoor as a vibrant, diverse, and thriving community in the heart of New Orleans.
Link: http://www.broadmoorimprovement.com/

Central City Renaissance Alliance

The Central City Renaissance Alliance draws together outside resources and institutions with the needs of community members and community business as they rebuild the historically and culturally vibrant Central City neighborhood.

FutureProof Sustainable Design Consultancy

FutureProof is a sustainable design consultancy providing progressive and viable solutions for smart building and development. It works directly with architects, engineers, builders, developers, property owners, and neighborhood associations to integrate efficient and climate appropriate design principles into their projects.
Link: http://www.futureproofnola.com

GroundWorks

GroundWorks New Orleans works to change the economic and social prosperity of neighborhoods by improving their physical environment. GroundWorks develops and builds innovative land-use solutions to create opportunities for ecological revitalization, economic development, and community engagement.

Holy Cross Neighborhood Association

The Holy Cross Neighborhood Association advocates for resources and rebuilding in the historic Holy Cross section of the Lower 9th ward. HCNA seeks to establish Holy Cross as a model sustainable neighborhood, integrating green design and construction methods into their revitalization plans.
Link: http://www.holycrossneighborhood.org/

Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association

The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) was established in the aftermath of Katrina to play a lead role in rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. Organized and controlled by residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, NENA addresses not only the immediate recovery needs created by the storm’s destruction, but also the institutional neglect and disinvestment that plagued the neighborhood long before Katrina. NENA works with current Lower Ninth Ward residents, displaced residents living in other parts of New Orleans, and the broader diaspora who want to return to the neighborhood.
Link: http://www.9thwardnena.org/

Preservation Resource Center: Operation Comeback

The Preservation Resource Center's Operation Comeback promotes the purchase and renovation of vacant historic properties. Started in 1987 as a focused effort to revitalize the Lower Garden District, Operation Comeback expanded rapidly and now works with dozens of neighborhood associations and community development corporations citywide to revitalize New Orleans. By acquiring and repairing blighted and adjudicated properties sitting vacant, Operation Comeback also provides homes for first-time buyers, returns property to commerce, removes health hazards which decrease quality of life and helps catalyze the rebirth of New Orleans' historic neighborhoods.

Preservation Resource Center: Rebuilding Together

Rebuilding Together is a neighborhood revitalization program that brings together volunteers and skilled trades people to renovate and repair the homes of low-income elderly and/or disabled homeowners in neighborhoods throughout the city. Supported by grants from the City of New Orleans' Division of Housing and Development, the PRC's Rebuilding Together is a local affiliate of Rebuilding Together based in Washington, D.C.

Thanks to the Rebuilding Together program, low-income senior and/or disabled homeowners have their homes repaired at no cost. These joint efforts of neighborhood associations and volunteers stabilize the community, give those who care an opportunity to stand up for our city, improve the quality of life for our citizens, and help preserve the ethnic and economic diversity vital to New Orleans' character.
Link: http://prcno.org/programs/rebuildingtogether/

Faculty

Costs

Tuition: $6,720
Room and Board: $1,600
Total: $8,320

Scholarships are available on the basis of financial need.

For more information, contact: Bard New Orleans Initiative, neworleans@bard.edu, 504-940-4214