| Established | 1915 |
|---|---|
Parent institution | Middlebury College |
| Location | , Vermont , United States |
| Website | www |
The Middlebury Language Schools are language schools administered by Middlebury College. The programs comprise undergraduate and graduate instruction in 13 languages during two-, six-, seven-, or eight-week summer sessions. The Schools enroll approximately 1,500 students every summer. The pedagogical approach of the programs relies on immersion-based instruction and acquisition. All students in the Language Schools must sign and abide by Middlebury College's "Language Pledge", a pledge to use exclusively their target language during their time at the School.
Undergraduate instruction is offered in Abenaki, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Additionally, graduate-level instruction is offered in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. The Language Schools also offer a Doctor of Modern Languages (D.M.L.) degree, currently unique to Middlebury. Middlebury announced that it will launch a pilot School of Abenaki in 2020; the first accredited session occurred Summer 2021. Students are ages 18 to 80+ from all parts of the world. Enrolled students should be high school graduates.
Founding and expansion
In 1915, the School of German was founded as the first of Middlebury Language Schools by a German professor from Vassar College.[1] The most recent School, the English Language School, will be established in 2022.
Middlebury Language Schools have historically all been conducted at the College's campus in Middlebury, Vermont. In Summer 2009 the College opened a satellite campus at Mills College in Oakland, California, to accommodate growth in the enrollments in several of the schools. Since Summer 2020, Middlebury no longer operates at Mills College but instead at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont; in 2023 Arabic, Italian, and Portuguese were held in Bennington.[2] The English Language School is located in Monterey, California at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Graduate study
Ten of Middlebury's summer schools – Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish – offer graduate programs in addition to the undergraduate component. These are completed over four six-week summer sessions (over a ten-year period) or with an option of combining the summer sessions with an academic year abroad (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, or Russia) or online, depending on the language. The graduate degree most often conferred is the Master of Arts, but Middlebury also has a Master of Arts in Applied Languages. The MA in French, German, Italian, and Spanish require one summer on the Middlebury campus. A second summer is required for the MA in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.[3]
Doctor of Modern Languages (D.M.L.)
Middlebury offers a Doctor of Modern Languages (D.M.L.) degree. Unique to Middlebury, the D.M.L. prepares teacher-scholars in two modern foreign languages, helping them develop as teachers of second-language acquisition, literature, linguistics, and language pedagogy.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "Bread Loaf's History - Middlebury". middlebury.edu.
- ↑ "Middlebury Language Schools to begin 109th Summer". Middlebury. Middlebury College Office of Communications. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- 1 2 "Graduate Programs in Language Instruction - Middlebury - Middlebury". middlebury.edu.