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Programs in the U.S.
1. Middlebury Arabic Summer Language Session
Summer Term:
Session Dates Tuition Board Room Total 9-week June 15-August 17 $5,260 $2,025 $792 $8,077 7-week June 29-August 17 $3,945 $1,575 $616 $6,136 6-week July 2-August 17 $3,945 $1,463 $572 $5,980
The Arabic School offers you a unique experience that is virtually unmatched anywhere in the world. Middlebury is much more than textbooks and classrooms. The entire environment shapes your Arabic learning experience. The value of the experience cannot be calculated in terms of semesters and credit hours. You will eat, sleep, study, make friends, interact with professors, watch television and films, and attend lectures given by the faculty and distinguished guest speakers, all exclusively in Arabic. Arabic newspapers, magazines, television and websites will keep you up to date on current events around the world. Additionally, you can enjoy all of your favorite sports at Middlebury College’s state of the art sports facilities, all while learning to challenge your opponents in Arabic.
2. University of Michigan Summer Language Institute
Spring/Summer Class List - 2009
Summer Term: early June - mid-August 2009
Levels: Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I and II, Intensive Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I and II, Intensive Advanced Arabic Media I and II
Deadline: March 31, 2009
These intensive summer courses are intended to cover a full year of language during the 10-week program. The courses are offered on either a `for-credit (normal tuition rates apply) or non-credit (program fee, non-transcript) basis.
3. Georgetown University Summer Arabic Language Institute
2009 Summer Session Dates
Pre Session: May 18 - June 12
1st Session: June 1 - July 2
2nd Session: July 6 - August 7
Cross Session: June 1 - July 24
4. University of Chicago Summer Arabic Program
Summer Term: Various Dates
Levels: Elementary Literary Arabic 1, 2, and 3;
Intermediate Arabic 1, 2, and 3;
and High Intermeditate Arabic 1, 2, and 3
Regular Study and Immersion/ Residency options available.
Deadline: April 15, May 15
For more information, contact Farouk Mustafa, Professorial Lecturer in Arabic (773) 702-6033 or f-mustafa@uchicago.edu.
5. University of California Santa Barbara Summer Intensive Language Program
** Look under "listing of Courses" then under "Religious Studies," where Arabic courses are located.
Summer Term: Session A: June 25- August 3; Session B: August 6- Sept. 14
Levels: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced Modern Standard Arabic
6. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Arabic & Persian Immersion Program
Arrival: June 16, 2007
Last Day of Class: August 10, 2007
Application due: Rolling
FLAS Application due: Feb. 6, 2007These programs are open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students of Arabic and Persian at both the elementary and intermediate levels (first and second year). Participants will agree to use their language of study (be it Arabic or Persian) exclusively throughout the entire eight-week program.
Our programs feature a variety of out-of-class activities. Students take meals with their instructors, watch films and television programs in their language of study, take field trips to cultural sites, and participate in their choice of athletic and artistic activities coordinated by staff fluent in the language of study.
Admission to the program will be selective. Applicants will be accepted on a rolling basis until the program is filled. Apply early for the best chance of admission.
7. UCLA (University of California-Los Angeles)
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Intensive Summer Arabic Program
June 26-August 18, 2006 (not updated for 2007 yet)
Deadline: May 22, 2006
The Intensive Summer Arabic Program at UCLA offers the equivalent of one year of instruction in only eight weeks. Courses offered include beginning, intermediate, and advanced Standard (written) Arabic, and Egyptian Colloquial (spoken) Arabic. The program includes an Arabic film series, a lecture series, concerts, and field trips to places of cultural interest in the Los Angeles area, including Arab restaurants and bookstores.
Arabic Language Residential Option:
Students have the option of participating in the Residential Program which provides room and board for an additional fee. Residents will live in UCLA housing and have access to an Arabic-speaking tutor. Arabic satellite television will also be provided.
Programs Overseas
1. Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) American University in Cairo (Egypt)
Deadline Jan. 5, 2007
The Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) offers four programs: Summer-Only, Full-Year (summer, fall and spring), CASA II and CASA III.
- The Summer and Full-Year programs are designed for graduate and undergraduate students. [For acceptance on Summer and Full Year CASA Program, students must take an entrance examination, generally designed for those who have completed a minimum of two years of Arabic study].
- The CASA II program aims to provide further opportunities for CASA fellows, who have completed the CASA Full-Year program within the past five years, to continue to enhance their language skills and advance their Arabic-based research in Egypt.
- The CASA III program is designed to meet the linguistic and research needs of professors with specialization in Middle Eastern Studies.
2. Arabic Language Institute (ALI), American University in Cairo (Egypt)
Summer-study (June 7-July 26) or Fall and/or Spring Semesters (i.e., 1 semester or full year). See dates/deadlines below, and in greater detail on web-site.Since the inception of what is now the Arabic Language Institute in the 1970s, this program has attracted students from the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe, offering intensive courses in both modern standard and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Each year, more than one hundred students travel to Egypt from dozens of countries around the world to enroll in the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo. Their backgrounds and interests are as varied as the countries they represent. They, however, share one common desire – the desire to learn Arabic in the best possible setting from the best instructors anywhere as they discover the mystery of Cairo, "the Mother of the World.”
For admission into the Arabic Language Institute, please submit all application materials by the following dates for the desired semester:
Fall Semester: August 28
Spring Semester: January 22
Summer Session: June 3** NOTE: There is now an option for students to register for AUC programs through the U-M OIP (Office of International Programs), which allows transfer of credit and grades, and which also allows you to apply for regular financial aid arrangements. Students may also apply independently to AUC, for transfer credit only.
3. International Language Institute* (ILI) (Cairo, Egypt)
*Not a university program, but may in some instances be approved for transfer credit to U-M if contact hours and course material covered/syllabi are documented and presented to NES faculty for evaluation.The International Language Institute (ILI) was established in 1977, in the El-Sahafeyeen neighborhood in Cairo, and is affiliated with the UK-based International House Worldwide Organization of Language Schools. A modern lively approach to teaching Arabic is used, with teachers who are not only qualified but are also native speakers. The advantages of this program, in addition to its high quality of instruction, is that it has a diverse/international student body, and that it offers courses on a more flexible basis than some of the university/semester-based programs.
4. University of Virginia-Yarmouk University Summer Arabic Program (Jordan)
Summer Term: June 12 - August 11, 2007
Levels: Lower Intermediate, Upper Intermediate and Advanced Modern Standard, Islamic Arabic
Deadline: March 20, 2007
The University of Virginia-Yarmouk University Summer Arabic Program has been in operation since 1984, and is an intensive, eight-week Program in Modern Standard Arabic, designed for undergraduate and graduate students currently pursuing a degree program. The Program focuses on all language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition to the course in Modern Standard Arabic, all students will take a course in the Jordanian dialect. All courses will be taught in Arabic. Course instructors will be members of the Yarmouk University faculty. Four levels of skill-based instruction will be provided.
Contact Khaled Al-Masri for further information: kalmasr@umich.edu.
Summer Term: June 27 - Aug. 10, 2007
Levels: Introductory, High Introductory, Intermediate, High Intermediate and Advanced
Deadline: March 23, 2007The CAMES summer program in the Arabic language offers courses at five different levels: Introductory, High Introductory, Intermediate, High Intermediate and Advanced. Placement exams will be administered to all students at the beginning of the program in order to assess the level best suited to their Arabic language ability.
Each level provides a six 1/2-week total immersion into the Arabic language that consists of 25 hours a week of intensive classroom instruction. Colloquial Arabic in the Lebanese dialect is integrated in the program. The program combines classroom instruction with cultural field trips within Beirut and around Lebanon. The total of 160 hours is the equivalent of 8 credit hours at AUB, which may be transferred to other universities.
For further application information contact: vanet@aub.edu, or mills@aub.edu.Apply through New York Office.
New York Office Telephone/Fax Information:
Telephone: 1-212-583-7600
AUB Mailing Address in New York
American University of Beirut
3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,
8th Floor,
New York, NY 10017-2303
6. Tangier Summer Intensive Arabic Studies Program (Morocco)
Summer Term: June and July 2007
Levels: Intermediate and Advanced Modern Standard, Moroccan Colloquial Arabic
Deadline: March 1, 2007
Prior to entering the program, applicants must have a year of Modern Standard Arabic. The program is in Tangier, Morocco and is offered through the American Institute for Maghribi Studies at the American School of Tangier.
7. Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF) (Morocco)
The Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF) offers three and six-week courses in all levels of Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Moroccan Arabic throughout the year.
ALIF also has an excellent reputation as the preeminent institution in the Maghreb for the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. Housed in a large, shady villa, ALIF provides an ideal setting for studying in Morocco's “intellectual capital,” and for exploring the historic medina of Fez, one of the world's few remaining medieval cities.
ALIF's teachers are highly qualified native speakers with years of experience instructing both independent students and study abroad groups from major universities. Former students include translators, Fulbright, FLAS, NSEP, and SSRC grantees, company representatives, and graduate students from major universities in the US and Europe.
Intensive summer study program, see web-site for all details.
Semester-long and full-year study also offered.
Program focuses on Arabic language study (at all levels), as well as courses about North Africa and Islamic culture.
Summer Term: Various options May-August
Levels: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced
Deadline: Rolling
10. Institut Francais d'Etudes Arabes de Damas (IFEAD)/ (Syria)
Arabic Program
PO Box 344 Damascus, Syria
Telephone: 412272; Fax: 247887
Contact Institute for information on terms of instruction and fees. Modern Standard and Syrian Colloquial offered. Limited dormitory housing in the Institute itself. French is helpful. Longstanding program.*Forms for the yearly programme of 2007-2008, as well as for the summer programme 2007, can be requested by e-mail as soon as January 2007.
Contact:
Eric Gautier
IFPO-IFEAD
BP 344 DAMAS SYRIE
Tel : (963 11) 3 330 214
Fax : (963 11) 3 327 887
e-mail : e.gautier@ifporient.org
11. Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages (Tunisia)
University of Tunis
47 Avenue de la Liberte
Tunis 1002, Tunisia
Telephone: 282-418; 281-923
Deadlines: January-end of MaySix-week intensive summer program in Modern Standard, all levels. 100 dinars ($1 = 1.08 dinars). Dormitory housing available. Full and partial scholarships. Full year program in Modern Standard and Tunisian Colloquial also offered.
*An inexpensive program; better quality of instruction at more advanced levels; lots of French spoken in Tunisia; best for your Arabic if you either don't know French, or make a point of not using it much while there.
12. Arabic Language Center, Language Institute, Damascus University
Courses in Modern Standard Arabic (beginner, intermediate, high-intermediate and advanced), Syrian Colloquial Arabic, and Arabic Calligraphy.
13. Arabesk Studies in Damascus
Dates: three summer sessions, from June to August.•Travel Advisories for Americans; seek additional information on status of the following programs:
Deadline: June 30
Visit web-site for additional information.
14. University of Haifa/Department of Overseas Studies (Israel)
Arabic language offerings in summer, fall and winter semesters.
See additional information on their web-site.
15. Hebrew University Summer Arabic Session (Jerusalem, Israel)
Office of Academic Affairs
American Friends of the Hebrew University
11 East 69th St.; New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 472-2288
Seven-week intensive summer course. Students must have completed one year of study at an accredited college or university. Literary Arabic - Elementary and Intermediate; Spoken Jerusalem Arabic.
16. International Summer Program (ISP) (West Bank, Palestine)
Birzeit University
Continuing Education Department; PO Box 14
Birzeit, West Bank, via Israel
Telephone and Fax: 972-2-956229
Deadline: May 31, 2007
Dates: June 18-August 13, 2007
Six-week summer intensive program. Modern Standard and Palestinian Colloquial at all levels. Students must have completed one year of study at an accredited college or university. Housing available in dormitories, rented apartments and with families in Birzeit and Ramallah. Established in 1986, the program in “Palestine and Arabic Studies” was instituted in 1993.