Dates: June 21 through August 13
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June 21 1999 - Opening Day of the Institute!

Registration:
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Registration for the Summer Institute can be done via the world wide web or by printing out the registration form and mailing it in. You can register by filling out the SCALI Registration Form.

Registration in the Summer Institute is open to anyone. You need not be a student at any institution of higher learning or at any particular level. Participants from any and all fields of employment or study are encouraged to participate if the Institute is of interest.

Cost:
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The program fee for the Summer Institute is $2,600.

Registrants must pay a non-refundable deposit of an amount that will soon be decided. If participants receive financial assistance for all or part of the tuition amount, any overpayment will be paid to the student when s/he arrives on campus to register for the Institute.

Fellowships/Financial Aid:
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Students are encouraged to seek financial assistance from their home institutions and other sources that might be available. The following programs are listed for participants' information and are not meant to be an exhaustive listing.

Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS). Information on general application procedures and link to contact at the various Title VI/FLAS-granting institutions.

Accommodations:
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SCALI's group Accommodation / Residence:

On / Off campus housing is available. Applications are available for Yale housing by request from the SCALI Coordinator, Wiebe Boer: cal44@pantheon.yale.edu.

Activities and Other Opportunities at Yale:
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• These activities will be described in later updates.

Links of Interest:
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Language Study Offered at Other Institutions (non-SCALI):

• 1999 Intensive Summer Institute in Amharic at Michigan State University

• UCLA: Swahili I, June 28 - August 29, 1999. Not FLAS eligible. www.summer.ucla.edu/CourseListing/index.htm

• Indiana: Swahili II, May 12 - June 16, 1999. Twi I, May 12 - June 17. Contact Ani Hawkinson. E-mail: akhawkin@indiana.edu; telephone: (812) 855-7666.

• Penn: Swahili I, May 18 - June 25. Contact Lynette Loose (lloose@sas.upenn.edu, (215) 898-3883) or Alwiya Omar (asomar@babel.ling.upenn.edu, (215) 898-4299).

• Penn: Kiswahili GPA: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/afl/gpa.html

• Penn: Summer 99 at Penn (Kiswahili): http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/afl/summer99.html

• Columbia: Wolof, May 24 - July 2. www.columbia.edu/cu/ssp.summer.

• Florida: Yoruba Summer Group Projects Abroad, June 12 - August 10; AND Twi I, May 10 - June 18, June 18 - August 6. For information on either program, contact Paul Kotey (pkotey@aall.ufl.edu, (352) 392-7015). www.africa.ufl.edu

• Yale: Zulu Summer Group Projects Abroad

• University of Illinois: Intermediate Lingala and Intermediate Swahili. FLAS fellowships can be used for the Lingala, but not the Swahili. http://wsi.cso.uiuc.edu/CAS/

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: African and Afro-American Studies, 966-5496
  401 Alumni Bldg., CB# 3395
  SWAH 1-2 Intensive Kiswahili 1-2 (6). The 1-2 course covers the material in the SWAH I and SWAH II sequence in a single session.
  http://www.unc.edu/depts/summer/#courses
  http://www.unc.edu/depts/summer/file_1.html

Other:

• African Studies at Yale University

• African and African-American Studies Department at Yale University

• The Program in African Languages at the African and African-American Studies Department web site.

• The African Collection at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library

For further information, please contact:

Kabiri Ngeta
Coordinator, SCALI
Yale University
493 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
e-mail: cal44@pantheon.yale.edu
phone: (203) 787-0696
fax: (203) 432-5963 (attention: African Studies)

Prof. Frank O. Arasanyin
Program Director, SCALI
African-American Studies Program
Yale University
493 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
e-mail: cal44@pantheon.yale.edu
phone: (203) 432-1166
fax1: (203) 432-2102 (Attn: African-American Studies)
fax2: (203) 432-5963 (Attn: African Studies)

The Institute recognizes that not everyone has access to Internet service. We will be making every effort to reach all potential participants through the Internet, by mail and by word of mouth. If you know of someone or an institution or organization that might need materials sent by mail please help us and them by passing along their address to the SCALI Coordinator. We will be more than happy to mail any and all materials along by post. Thank you.