Middle Eastern Studies at Bard College

Program highlights

All levels taught: beginning, intermediate, & advanced
Ten week program runs June 2 – August 8, 2014 (Arabic testing begins May 29)
Program includes over 150 contact hours, consisting of 3 – 4 contact hours per day
Qualifies for the Summer FLAS Fellowship
Earn 9 – 12 credits of foreign language in only 10 weeks
Priority application deadline: March 3, 2014
More information can be found here.

Who should apply?
Current UT students
Students at other colleges, universities, & high schools
Community members
Business professionals, military personnel, teachers
Anyone interested in the languages & cultures of the Middle East
Ready to apply?
To apply to the Persian Summer Institute, click here.
To apply to the Arabic Summer Institute, click here.

The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station
Austin, Texas 78713

The University of Maryland invites your students to participate in the UMD Summer Language Institute in Arabic and Persian this Summer 2014. We wanted to reach out to you directly about this opportunity, as fellow educators who strive to promote the teaching of critical languages and cultures.

With low flat rate tuition for both in and out-of-state students (just $6,000 for 9.5 weeks), small class sizes, and dedicated faculty, this is a great way for your students to get a head start on language learning, to maintain their language over the summer, or to take courses in a language or at a level that may not be possible at their home university.

UMD Summer Language Institute highlights:

·                 One full academic year (12 credits) of  language learnin in one intensive summer
·                 Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced instruction

·                 Language partners for additional support, one-on-one speaking practice, and tutoring

·                 Varied and interesting hands-on cultural events and field trips, making the most of our proximity to Washington, DC

·                 More than 35 hours of in-language coursework, language partners, and cultural activities per week

·                 Competitive scholarships available to help offset the cost of attendance

·                 FLAS funding eligible

Additional information about our Arabic and Persian Summer Institutes can be found at our website:

http://sllc.umd.edu/special-programs/summerinstitute.

I also encourage you to watch our short video about what makes our program unique.

Please contact us with any questions you may have at umdsi@umd.edu, and thank you for taking the time to learn more about our programs.

The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut will be holding an intensive summer program in Modern Standard Arabic from June 23 until August 8, 2014. The program offers intensive Arabic instruction at eight levels: Introductory, High Introductory, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced, Superior and High Superior. The typical daily workload includes five hours of MSA and one hour of Lebanese dialect, followed by lectures, field trips, clubs and movies which are integrated into the program. Students should also expect at least four hours of homework each day. The total of 186 classroom hours is equivalent to 9 credit hours at AUB, which may be transferred to other universities.

The program uses the Georgetown Arabic language textbooks by Brustad, al-Batal, and al-Tonsi and other supplementary materials.

The early application deadline is February 28, 2013. Students who apply before February 28 will receive a response by the second week of March. The regular application deadline will be April 15, 2014. Students who apply before April 15 will receive a response by the first week of May.

Applications may be downloaded from:

http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/sap_application.aspx

For further information about the program, please check this link:

http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/arabic_program.aspx or email cames@aub.edu.lb.

The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut will offer 6-credit classes in intensive colloquial Lebanese Arabic at the introductory and the intermediate level from June 23 until August 8, 2014.

The intermediate level is designed for students who already have some knowledge of Levantine dialect and wish to reach a higher level. Students who wish to apply to this level must have studied Modern Standard Arabic for at least two semesters.

The course will use teaching materials developed by CAMES. Lebanese films, songs, and other audiovisual materials will also be used.

The course consists of 120 contact hours, equivalent to 6 credit hours earned at AUB, which may be transferred to other universities.

The early application deadline is February 28, 2013. Students who apply before February 28 will receive a response by the second week of March. The regular application deadline will be April 15, 2014. Students who apply before April 15 will receive a response by the first week of May. Applications may be downloaded from:

http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/ColloquialLebaneseArabic.aspx

For further information about the program, please email cames@aub.edu.lb.

The Indiana University Summer Language Workshop (June 9 – August 1, 2014) is
accepting applications for intensive Arabic (begins June 2), Hindi-Urdu,
Persian, Tatar, Turkish, and Uzbek language study on the Bloomington campus.

The program features 20 contact hours weekly, twice-weekly language table,
films, food tastings and other culturally rich extracurricular programming.

* All participants pay in-state tuition

* Students earn 6-10 credits

* FLAS and ROTC Project GO funding available to qualified students in select
languages — Priority deadline for funding is February 1, 2014. Funding
requests received after this date will be reviewed contingent upon availability
of remaining funds.

In 2014, the Workshop will also offer intensive language courses in Hungarian,
Mongolian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Swahili.

See http://www.indiana.edu/~swseel/ for more information and to apply.

Questions? Please contact (swseel@indiana.edu or 812-855-2889).