Curriculum - Stretching the Campus around the Globe

For students who want a taste of the outside world before graduation, BB&N offers many options – urban and rural, foreign and domestic. Without leaving New England, students can experience the coast of Maine or a working farm in Vermont. One step farther leads to New York City. And the world beyond beckons from points around the compass. You might spend your spring vacation in an exchange program at Moscow School #27 or the Lycee Victor Duray in Paris. Or you might devote half a year to the Swiss Semester or at St. Stephen's School in Rome. Spring and summer vacations often see faculty leading student trips to places as diverse as Kyoto and Katmandu. Exchange programs to France and Russia and the trips to China, Greece or Italy, and Spain take place during the school's two-week March vacation.

BB&N offers its students many opportunities to travel abroad and to make contacts with countries on four continents of the world. Only through frequent and direct contact with other cultures, languages and individuals can our students gain a better understanding of today's complex world.

The Mountain School: Interested sophomores follow a highly selective application process and, after acceptance, spend one semester during junior year on a working far in Vermont while at the same time pursuing a rigorous academic program, coordinated with ours.

The Maine Coast Semester: Following a competitive application process, juniors are able to spend a semester at Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset, Maine. The academic program is challenging and offers a small and informal community of 35 students in which to explore the relationship between people and the environment.

Rocky Mountain Semester (RMS): A semester long academic and wilderness program that focuses on students' connections to the natural world, community and leadership skills, and rigorous academics. The semester is divided between the HMI campus in Leadville , Colorado and six weeks of wilderness expeditions in Colorado and Utah .

St. Stephen's School, Rome: Located in the oldest part of Rome, St. Stephen's is a day and boarding secondary school with a graduate program. Selected juniors study a curriculum similar to that of a demanding American preparatory school with the addition of the International Baccalaureate.

City Term: Sponsored by the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, this program offers juniors a semester studying and investigating New York City.

Swiss Semester: High in the Alps, Swiss Semester enables sophomores to spend their fall term studying in Zermatt, Switzerland. The program combines a high caliber of academics with a vigorous outdoor experience which includes downhill skiing and ice climbing.