Bard Bard In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Originally a specific, lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as "fili" in Ireland and Highland Scotland, with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period the term "bard" acquired generic meanings of an author or minstrel, especially a famous one. For example, William Shakespeare, and Rabindranath Tagore,
Bard College Berlin Bildung, Jugend und Wissenschaft"). Program accreditation for the BA program in Humanities, the Arts and Social Thought was granted by the accreditation agency ACQUIN in Fall 2013. The BA program in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought received accreditation in September 2015. Through its affiliation with Bard College, Annandale, Bard College Berlin and its degrees are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). Bard College Berlin is a residential college. The campus is located in the northern part of Berlin, in the residential area called Pankow-Niederschönhausen. Most buildings were designed in 1966 by Eckart Schmidt and built starting