Beginning at Barnard Virtual NSOP

Hello, Class of 2030!

The Barnard Orientation Team has announced mandatory online sessions. You can find available dates and times below!

There are three mandatory virtual orientation program sessions that students must attend before the start of the academic year:

Students are only required to attend one of each virtual session. You must attend:

•  one (1) Student Rights & Expectations @ Barnard session

• one (1) Bystander Intervention & Healthy Relationships session

• one (1) BCIT session 

Zoom Links will be provided via email the week of August 3rd. 

Friday, August 7th:

• 10 am EST: Student Rights & Expectations @ Barnard

• 4 pm EST: Bystander Intervention & Healthy Relationships

Monday, August 10th: 

• 10 am EST: Bystander Intervention & Healthy Relationships

• 4 pm EST: Barnard College IT (BCIT) 

• 7 pm EST:  Student Rights & Expectations @ Barnard

Tuesday, August 11th: 

• 10 am EST: Barnard College IT (BCIT) 

• 4 pm EST: Student Rights & Expectations @ Barnard

• 7 pm EST: Bystander Intervention & Healthy Relationships

Thursday, August 13th: 

• 7 pm EST: Barnard College IT (BCIT) 

Students unable to attend sessions should submit a formal exemption/justification for absence to orientation@barnard.edu.

Best,

The First-Year Team

The English Conference - Art and Artifact with Jennifer Egan (ENGL BC3098) available for Fall 2026!

Hello First-Years!

The English Department will be offering an upcoming course for this fall: The English Conference - Art and Artifact, featuring Jennifer Egan—an acclaimed American novelist and journalist! Please see the flyer and information down below!

Best,

The First-Year Team

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This is a 1-point course that will meet on Tuesdays from 2:10 to 4PM on October 6, October 13, October 20, and October 27.

In this course, you will explore the following: What is fiction, exactly, and why does it matter? In our screen-dominated era, these questions are worth asking and answering afresh. 

The course will examine the ways in which works of literature—likely to include short novels or novellas by Nella Larsen, Jean Rhys, Chester Himes and Philip Roth—offer portals into both the public mores and private experience of their eras. Each work will be examined through four lenses: 1. Technology; 2. Bodies and sexuality 3. Identity and exclusion, and 4. Notions of consciousness. The craft choices that enable their authors to achieve specific effects, with an eye toward physical description, point of view, and characterization will also be studied. The conference will include creative in-class handwritten exercises aimed at accessing the unconscious and generating fruitful material. No previous literary training is necessary, and students of every age and discipline are welcome.

If you're interested in taking this course, please find more information here.