ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ! Welcome!
This program is part of the federally funded Strategic Language Initiative (SLI). SLI aims to bolster U.S. national security by expanding foreign language education in this country, especially in the critically needed languages of Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, and Russian. The Russian Language Immersion Program at CSUN is a component of the Southern California Consortium of California State Universities for the Strategic Language Initiative.
About the Russian Immersion Language Program
This program offers a unique opportunity to students wishing to acquire professional language capacity. This 13-month intensive program will be free of charge to students who meet the acceptance requirements. Students who are accepted into this highly competitive program will devote six weeks during Summer 2008 in a residential immersion program at CSUN. This learning experience will be followed in academic year 2008-09 with a set of individualized courses in Russian language with relevance to the student’s major. The program culminates with a 6-week study abroad in Russia.
2008 Summer Russian Language Immersion Residential Program
The program offers six weeks of language classes and conversation practice five days a week plus language and culture activities during the entire day. Since this is a residential program, language learning and culture building will occur throughout the week, including evening activities and excursions. Instruction, textbooks, room and board, and field trips are free to qualified students.
Level of Instruction:
Intermediate to Advanced
Location:
Campus of California State University, Northridge
Duration:
June 16 – July 25, 2008
Eligibility:
Must be a heritage or non-heritage non-native speaker. There will be a screening test before selecting the participants, who will be expected to achieve Intermediate fluency level at the end of the Summer Program. Priority is given to current CSU students followed by those from California community colleges and Universities of California. Selected participants must commit to fully apply themselves to the goals of the program and to follow it to completion.
Number of Students Accepted:
15
Application Deadline:
April 14, 2008
Download application: Word or PDF
For more information contact:
Professor Dina Mokhnatkina
e-mail: dina.mokhnatkin@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-3593
California State University Northridge
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8247
