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Due to the region's
linguistic diversity and variety of colonial experiences,
the promotion of scholarship in Southeast Asia is challenged
by extensive language training needs.
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YALE
LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
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resources, formal instruction at Yale is currently offered
from elementary to advanced levels in Indonesian
and Vietnamese.
(Detailed information on courses and syllabi can be found
at the site links above). The Council also endeavors to provide
support for other relevant language training or tutoring needed
by any serious student, including summer language study in
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The council has at various times sponsored study of Dutch,
Burmese (see >Burmese
Study Group), Khmer, Tagalog and Thai, both through
funding of private tutoring arrangements or through the
University's Directed
Independent Language Study Program (DILS), coordinated
through Yale's Center for Language Study..
The Yale Center
for Language Study (CLS), charged with improving the
coherence and excellence of language programs across the
University, was created by Yale in 1998, and is one of the
first of its kind in the country. CLS currently provides
extensive technical resources, programs and pedagogical
support to more than 50 languages, reflecting Yale's commitment
to international leadership in language education.
The Council also sponsors a variety
of lunchtime Language
Immersion Tables annually,
depending on interest and availability, and an annual spring
Cultural
Festival, organized and hosted by the Language Program
faculty and students, and open to the University and the
public.
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SUMMER
LANGUAGE PROGRAMS (click
on titles for links to program sites)
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The Council is a
contributing member of the
• Southeast
Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), an eight-week
intensive language program for undergraduates, graduate
students and professionals held at a U.S. University location
each summer. Instruction is generally offered for academic
credit in at least nine Southeast Asian languages at the
1st, 2nd and 3rd year levels.
The Council also maintains memberships
in a number of international language programs which support
summer studies abroad, and are included in the list
below:
- AFA
(Advanced
Filipino Abroad)
at the De La Salle University; administered by the University
of Hawaii at Manoa).
- ASK
(Advanced Study of Khmer),
at the Royal University
of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; administered by the University
of Hawaii at Manoa. (See also, Khmer
Online Courses available through UH)
- CAST
(Consortium for Advanced Study of Thai -
AST Program), Chiang Mai
University, Thailand.
- CET*
(Vietnam Immersion
- Summer Term in Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam); through CET Academic Programs*, Washington
DC.
- COTIM
(Consortium for Teaching Indonesian and Malay)
- Universitas Sam Ratulangi,
North Sulawesi at Manado, Indonesia.
- SAIL
(Study Abroad in Laos) at the Lao-American
College, Vientiane, Lao PDR; administered by the Center
for Lao Studies, a non-profit NGO in San Francisco,
CA
- USINDO
(United States-Indonesia Society) - Summer Studies
Program, Gadjah
Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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for summer language study, both in the U.S. or abroad,
may be sought through the Yale SEAS Council's Grants
to Students Program.
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*CET is a private, commercial
entity which provides intensive study abroad programs to
American students - a division of Academic Travel Abroad
(ATA)
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