Does your college require a foreign language study component? Are you having trouble fitting it into your schedule, or is foreign language study foreign to you? Perhaps you might benefit from summer immersion studies offered by several accredited colleges and universities that give you an opportunity to engage in concentrated language study without any other coursework to distract you. These programs offer an opportunity to study full time for seven or eight weeks, and finish with credit for a full year of college language study (a total of eight credit hours in most cases), which can be transferred back to your home college according to their transfer credit policy. Here are a few with which I have had personal experience:Beloit College Center for Language Studies offers summer classes in Chinese, Japanese, Portugese & Russian. Portuguese is first year only; all other languages are offered first through fourth year studies. https://www.beloit.edu/summer-programs/center-for-language-studies/Indiana University offers summer classes in 25 languages with up to five levels of study. Languages offered include: Akan, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bosnian Croatian Serbian, Burmese, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian,Hakha Lai, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Monglian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, Ukranian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, and Wolof. https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/languages/index.htmlMiddlebury Language Schools offer summer immersion studies in Abenaki, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, & Spanish. https://www.middlebury.edu/language-schools/how-it-works/programs University of Chicago Summer Language Institute offers course in intermediate Spanish, French, Chinese, Turkish, Arabic, and Latin; and elementary Spanish, Latin, Korean, Japanese, German, Ancient Greek, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Ancient Greek. https://summer.uchicago.edu/programs/summer-language-institute In addition, your local community colleges may also provide interesting courses over the summer that fulfill your language or other educational requirements at your university.
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Knox College Summer Studies | This is the maiden summer for an academic summer term at Knox College. Classes meet two and a half hours a day, five days a week. from June 9 - July 2, 2021. Knox bills per class (equivalent to 3.3 credit hours), at $1600 per class, with discounts and some federal financial aid available to qualifying students. You should submit the appropriate registration forms by May 7, and payment is due on May 20. |
St Olaf College Summer Terms | St Olaf College operates two summer terms, the first running June 7 - July 15; the second running July 19 - August 25, 2021. Registration opened on March 8. Current students register through the SIS portal; all others fill out the guest registration form. To see courses offered during the summer term, run a search for all departments and all majors during each summer term. An illustration of what that search looks like for a Summer Session 2 search is included below: |
Beloit College Summer Courses | Beloit has a well developed summer study program, divided into three group: Virtual Summer Blocks meeting three weeks from May 31- June 18; Virtual Summer Mods that run seven weeks from June 21-August 6; and Center for Language Studies covering a full year of college language studies in two 3.5-week terms, from June 21 - August 6. Summer blocks and mods cost $2400 per course; language studies cost $4000 for the full seven weeks (billed $2000 at a time). Beloit also uniquely offers a summer course in collection care, for the future museum curators amongst us. |
How will you spend your summer? Please let me know of other programs that you think offer great opportunities for summer study and enrichment. And please let me know if you have other topics that you would like my to explore in the future post! | |
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