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Sample Class Schedule

What will your days at Bard Academy look like?

Bard AcademyAfter breakfast, you’ll head off to classes until around 3:30, with a break for lunch. Library hour follows two days a week in the late afternoon, giving you time to do research and find resources with librarians. From 4 to 5:30, you’ll participate in your choice of activities (think: student clubs, sports, yoga or other fitness classes at the Kilpatrick). You’ll eat dinner (veg, vegan, or omnivorous—it’s all on the table), and then you can head back to your residence hall for some R&R. Study Hall is scheduled for 6:30 to 7:30, followed by optional music classes and then a couple hours to unwind and a recommended lights-out at 11.

A Week at Bard Academy

Here is a sample schedule. Like pretty much everything else at Bard Academy, once you’re here, you’ll make it your own.

 

Monday

8 - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 - 9:55 a.m. Algebra 1 with Geometry
10:05 - 11:00 a.m. Computer Science
11:10 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Chinese 1
12:05 - 12:55 p.m. Lunch
1:05 - 2:00 p.m. Global Slavery
2:10 - 4:10 p.m. Theater
4:20 - 5:20 p.m. Soccer Practice
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Study Hall
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Music Ensemble

Stream Ecology Class

Stuents taking a selfie at the Holi festival

Tuesday

8 - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 - 9:55 a.m. Algebra 1 with Geometry
10:05 - 11:00 a.m. Computer Science
11:10 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Chinese 1
12:05 - 12:55 p.m. Lunch
1:05 - 2:00 p.m. Literature of the Americas
2:10 - 3:35 p.m. Global Slavery
4:20 - 5:20 p.m. Soccer Practice
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Study Hall

Academy student studying in the library

Academy classroom

Wednesday

8 - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 - 9:55 a.m. Algebra 1 with Geometry
10:05 - 11:00 a.m. Computer Science
11:10 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Chinese 1
12:05 - 12:55 p.m. Lunch
1:05 - 2:00 p.m. Global Slavery
2:10 - 4:10 p.m. Theater
4:20 - 5:20 p.m. Soccer Practice
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Study Hall

Academy students in ceramics class

Academmy student writing for the writers' workshop

Thursday

8 - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 - 9:55 a.m. Algebra 1 with Geometry
10:05 - 11:00 a.m. Computer Science
11:10 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Chinese 1
12:05 - 12:55 p.m. Lunch
1:05 - 2:00 p.m. Literature of the Americas
2:10 - 3:35 p.m. Global Slavery
4:20 - 5:20 p.m. Soccer Practice
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Study Hall

Academy student on the climbing wall in the KAC

Student production in the Liebowitz Theater

Friday

8 - 9 a.m. Breakfast
9 - 9:55 a.m. Algebra 1 with Geometry
10:05 - 11:00 a.m. Computer Science
11:10 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Chinese 1
12:05 - 12:55 p.m. Lunch
1:05 - 2:05 p.m. Advisor Meeting
4:20 - 5:20 p.m. Soccer Practice
5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Dinner and trip to town
8:30 - 11 p.m. Downtime: open mic, bonfire, games, trivia 

Academy student in the residence hall

Jackson Liscombe with academy students

Bard Academy is an enriched liberal arts program for students who don’t want to wait to ask serious questions.