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"I am currently studying in Beijing, and even though I only studied Chinese for one month at CLS I have been placed in a class with students who have been studying Chinese for one or two years.
I thought that CLS would be a nice crash-course before my year abroad, but it turned out to be much more than that." - Jane Hayashi, Summer 2007 Participant
If you are serious about learning a language, come to one of the nation's finest summer intensive language programs, the Center for Language Studies at Beloit College. Our program aims to expand your understanding of a fascinating world culture as you move toward mastering the language it envelops: language and culture go hand in hand. Success in the program better positions you to assume confident, active citizenship in a thoroughly interdependent world. It prepares you to engage a part of that world on its own terms, in its own language, through its own cultural sensitivities.
Your study of language and culture at Beloit is carried out in partnership with devoted, excellent teachers. It takes place in a glorious Wisconsin summer, on a beautiful campus, among people assembled because they love to learn and teach. Our program's distinctive features include:
- Flexibility of eight week or four week sessions
- 26 hours of classroom instruction per week
- Twelve semester hours of academic credit for the eight week course
- Small classes ranging from five to twelve students
- Superb language teachers
- A seamless environment of teacher-student interaction in the language, inside and outside the classroom
- Language conversation tables at lunch and dinner
- Comfortable housing with others studying the same language
- A friendly, inviting setting conducive to concentrated study
- A rare opportunity to focus on one thing: the study of language
The Program
What we offer. The Center offers four and eight week programs
in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. At the successful conclusion of each eight week summer language
program, students will have completed at least one year of language
study and are prepared to enter the next year of study at most colleges
and universities. Students successfully completing the four week session
will earn the equivalent of a semester of language study.
Who can attend. Programs are open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students; advanced high school students (17 minimum age limit); educators; business persons; and adults interested in language study for academic purposes, career and personal enrichment. The Center for Language Studies is ideal for people preparing to work or study abroad.
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