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Summer Language Studies

4/25/2021

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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:

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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/

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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.html

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Middlebury 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 ​

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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.  
In general, to transfer credit from other colleges and universities, you should earn at least a grade of C for your efforts.  The grade itself often does not transfer back, but the credit will. Many schools have paperwork for you to complete before you take the classes, and all have paperwork to complete after you complete the class.  You will also need to order a transcript to be sent to your school’s registrar to confirm the information on the paperwork requesting credit for the class.
Good luck and may your summer be fruitful and satisfying!
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