Summer Programs
Summer Programs
Some Rules:
· Study at one of the non-accredited language institutes will NOT be eligible for Carleton credit. However, many students find it useful when seeking to improve their language skills. When choosing one of these institutes, look for:
- small classes
- number of classroom interaction per day (minimum 4-5 hours/day)
- daily practice with instructors and students
- instruction in cultural context
- language assistants/tutors
- out-of-classroom activities with native speakers using target language
- homestays or dorm arrangements with native speakers
- prices (to compare: a six-week program in American language schools, such as Monterey, Middlebury, or Beloit costs around $5000, including room and board)
- check the language institute survey web site here
Useful Websites
Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS)
School for International Training (SIT)
Montery Institute of International Studies
Beloit Summer Language Program
Language and Culture Programs
Six to eight-week programs, language, civilization/culture seminar, and sometimes an elective course in humanities or social sciences.
Spanish
IES in Spain: beginning to advanced; internships
Universidad de Léon (Spain) Summer Institute of Hispanic Studies: intermediate and advanced
NYU in Madrid: multi-level
U of M in Toledo (Spain): one-year college Spanish required
U of M in Mérida (Venezuela): multi-level plus courses available in literature, history, ecology, and botany
Lexia in Buenos Aires (Argentina): multi-level
COPA Butler in Argentina: advanced Spanish, contemporary Latin American literature, Argentine social history
CIEE in Spain, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Mexico: multi level
French
Georgetown in Tours: multi-level
NYU in Paris: multi-level
U of North Carolina in Montpellier: intermediate
The American University in Paris: multi-level
Lexia in Paris: multi-level
IES Paris: intermediate to advanced plus cultural studies
German
Freie Universität in Berlin: intermediate plus courses in variety of disciplines
IES Berlin: beginning to intermediate plus modern German-Jewish history and German art and architecture
Rutgers in Constance: intermediate and advanced
Lexia in Berlin: multi-level
Russian
American Council of Teachers of Russian in Moscow: intermediate and advanced
The International University of Moscow: multi-level
State University of New York at Buffalo in Tver: survival Russian plus literature and intercultural communication
CIEE in St. Petersburg: intermediate and advanced
Chinese
CET in Beijing and Harbin: multi-level
Duke in Beijing: intermediate and advanced
IES Beijing: beginning
Lexia in Shanghai: multi-level
CIEE in Beijing: intermediate and advanced; Shanghai: beginning and intermediate; Hong Kong internship
Japanese
Oregon at Waseda in Tokyo: beginning to intermediate
IES Tokyo: beginning to advanced plus culture
Hebrew
www.tau.ac.il/overseas
www.bgu.ac.il/osp
Arabic
American University in Beirut (Lebanon) and Cairo (Egypt): multi-level
SIT Intensive Arabic Language and Moroccan Culture, Morocco: beginning to advanced
Other
- Czech
NYU in Prague: elementary
Lexia in Prague: multi-level
CIEE Prague: survival
- Greek
College Year in Athens: intensive Modern Greek, multi-level
NYU in Athens: elementary and intermediate Modern Greek; elementary ancient Greek
- Hungarian
Lexia in Budapest: multi-level
- Italian
U of Georgia in Cortona: beginning
NYU in Florence: elementary and intermediate
Lexia in Rome and Venice: multi-level
IES Milan: beginning to advanced plus area studies
- Norwegian
U of Oslo International Summer School in Norway: multi-level language plus Norwegian and Scandinavian history, literature, and culture
- Polish
Lexia in Krakow: multi-level
- Portuguese
CIEE in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil): Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, one year of Spanish required
- Thai
Lexia in Chiang Mai: multi-level
- Korean
Yonsei University summer session: Language, culture, courses in English
- Multi-language
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London: courses in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Guajarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Shona, Swahili, and Tamil
Also, although not for Carleton credit:
Beloit Center for Language Studies: summer intensive language and culture program in Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Portuguese, and ESL
Goethe Institut, Berlin: German, multi-level
Middlebury Language Schools: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish
Monterey International Institute: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Environmental Studies/Ecology/Biology/Public Health
SEA summer session
DIS in Copenhagen HIV/AIDS in Western Europe; Medical Practice and Policy
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel
OTS Duke (Costa Rica): Introduction to Field Ethnobiology
CIEE in Monteverde (Costa Rica): tropical biology and ecology of the rainforest
Shoals Marine Laboratory in the Gulf of Maine: marine biology, sub tidal ecology
SIT in China: public health and traditional Chinese medicine plus Mandarin language beginning to advanced
SIT Panama: marine ecology and conservation
SIT Iceland: renewable energy, technology and resource economics
SIT Jordan: appropriate technology and sustainable development
Art/Art History/Architecture/Music
DIS in Copenhagen: architectural and interior design studios, Scandinavian textile and furniture design, and Scandinavian glass design
U of Georgia in Cortona (Italy): art history, ceramics, drawing, interior design, jewelry and metalwork, landscape architecture, painting, printmaking, watercolor, sculpture, photography, papermaking and book arts
The Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence (France): painting, drawing, art history
Burren College of Art, Ireland: painting, photography, mixed media
NYU in London: urban design
SIT Ghana: urban ethnomusicology
SIT India: Himalayan Buddhist art and architecture
Archaeology
Tel Aviv University in Old Jaffa
SACI, Elba, Italy: archeological restoration, Etruscology, scuba diving
Rutgers in Kenya (Koobi Fora Summer Field School): paleoanthropology
SIT East Africa: coastal archeology
College Year in Athens: field archeology in Greece
Political Science/International Relations
Carleton Economics Seminar in Cambridge
London School of Economics and Political Science: economics, European Institute, international relations, law
DIS in Copenhagen: international business and economics; European politics and society; prostitution and human trafficking
Caux Scholars Program in Switzerland: conflict resolution, peace studies, and related issues
Duke in Geneva: globalization, international business, international relations
SIT Switzerland: international studies, organizations, and social justice
SIT Netherlands: Islam and Diaspora communities in Europe
SIT Uganda and Rwanda: peace and conflict studies in the Lake Victoria Basin
SIT Cambodia: reconstruction, reconciliation, and civil society
CIEE in Santiago (Chile): gender issues, international relations, cultural change; two years of college Spanish requiredCIEE in Khon Kaen (Thailand)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Carleton English Seminar in Ireland DIS in Copenhagen: European culture and history; psychology and child development
College Year in Athens: Greek tragedy, mythology, academic study travel, modern Greece, intensive Modern Greek
The American University in Paris: courses in European studies, art and art history, economics, communications, comparative literature, history, music, political science, philosophy, psychology, and science
SIT Montserrat: disaster, identity and reconstruction
SIT Chile: education, policy and social change; advanced field research in Chile and Argentina
SIT South Africa: education and social change
SIT Bolivia: lens on Latin America
SIT Senegal: lens on West Africa
CIEE Transylvania, Hungary, and Romania: field seminar, multiethnic studies, anthropology
Theater
Tish School of the Arts (NYU) in Amsterdam: international theater workshop in Dublin: theater and cinema in London: theater In Florence: film directing in Paris: screenwriting and cinema in Tel Aviv: documentary workshop
BADA (British American Drama Association) in London: acting
Georgetownin Leicester, England: Shakespeare: text and performance
Programs in England, Ireland, South Africa, and Australia
U of Cambridge International Summer School: science, art history, history, English literature
Oxford British Studies Summer School IES in London Butler IFSA programs in London (Middlesex U, U of Westminster), Brighton (O of Sussex), Ireland (Galway and Cork), and Scotland (Stirling)
IES: London, Dublin, and Melbourne
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford
U of New Hampshire in Cambridge U of Massachusetts at Oxford Lexia in Oxford (England), Cape Town (South Africa)
NYU in Dublin and London
The Academy for Irish Studies: arts, literature, archeology, history, and contemporary issues
Trinity College Irish Studies in Dublin: literature, drama, history, and Gaelic culture
Latin and Greek Summer School at University College, Cork (Ireland)
Georgetown U in Sydney: Australian literature and culture, environmental management and conservation
Temple University, London: British mass media
