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Announcements

Fellowship Application Deadline for SEASSI: Feb. 15

The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) offers intensive language and culture instruction from Beginning to Advanced level (enrollment numbers permitting) for Burmese, Filipino, Indonesian, Hmong, Khmer, Javanese, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese.  The program is open to both non-native and native speakers of these languages.  The following announcement concerns a special focus on Heritage language instruction at SEASSI, available for five of the above languages.

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SEASSI offers university-level instruction in Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese language and culture at multiple levels.  Instruction is specifically geared toward native-speakers of those languages who wish to learn to read or write and/or improve their formal speaking skills.  If you already possess basic or intermediate-level reading and writing skills in your language, there are several higher level classes available at SEASSI in all of these five languages. If you cannot speak or understand the language of your parents/grandparents at all, SEASSI also offers beginning level classes, for which no previous knowledge of the language is required.

This is a reminder that the deadline to apply for a Heritage Fellowship (which pays full tuition plus a living stipend), as well as Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships or FLAS (the latter is for graduate students) is February 15, 2008.  The deadline to apply for SEASSI tuition scholarships is April 4, 2008.

SEASSI will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from June 16 to August 8, 2008.  SEASSI is an intensive language program where students have an opportunity to study only Southeast Asian languages, five days a week, for two months.  Students receive one year (2 full semesters) of foreign language credit for the program.

To read more about applying for the program and receiving financial aid, see:

http://www.seassi.wisc.edu

For more information on the course content offered in Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese languages at SEASSI, see:

http://www.seassi.wisc.edu/heritage/index.html

Please forward this announcement to anyone whom you think might be interested in studying at SEASSI this year.  If you do forward this e-mail, however, please be sure to include the entire message, including the short header (above the line of asterisks) which begins the e-mail.

yours,

Frank Smith
SEASSI Heritage Language Facilitator