Summer Language Programs

  • The University of Wisconsin at Madison's South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) offers courses in fourteen languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Pashto, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, and Urdu. General information is available at: http://sasli.wisc.edu/
  • American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) will offer courses in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit at various Indian locations during the summer of 2009. For details and applications, see: http://www.indiastudies.org/AIIS.html. Note that the application deadline for these programs is January 31, 2009
  • Cornell University will offer Nepali language instruction during the summer of 2009. A description of the Nepali program is available at: http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/programs/summer/nepali.
  • Johns Hopkins University will offer four levels of Hindi-Urdu during the summer of 2009. For course listings and registration information, see: http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/non-degree/summer/language-institute.htm .
  • University of Virginia will offer Tibetan during the summer of 2009. For details, see: http://www.virginia.edu/summer/SLI/tibetan.html.
  • Indiana University Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages will offer Pashto during the summer of 2009. Details about this program are available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/languages/asia.shtml.
  • In Summer 2008, Harvard University offered beginning Hindi and beginning Sanskrit. Look for 2009 course listings and registration information at: http://www.summer.harvard.edu.
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) offers a Summer Program in Punjab Studies. Look for 2009 information at: http://www.global.ucsb.edu/punjab/summer.html.
  • University of California, Berkeley offers summer language programs in Hindi-Urdu. Look for 2009 course listings and registration information at: http://summer.berkeley.edu/mainsite/news.lasso#61/.
  • The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics will be held from 27 July - 7 August 2009 at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. The Summer School offers a number of courses on a wide range of subjects in the field of languages and linguistics. For more information and registration, visit: http://www.hum.leiden/edu/summerschool/