Summer Czech courses for FLAS recipients

[Cooper, David]

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to let you know that there are some promising new courses available to students who receive summer FLAS fellowships to study Czech or for those who are simply looking for something longer than the typical 4-week summer Czech course.

1) The University of Pittsburgh is offering intensive beginning Czech (in Pittsburgh and Prague), intermediate and advanced Czech (programs in Prague) in its Summer Language Institute (http://www.slavic.pitt.edu/sli/). This is sure to be a well-administered program with good support for students. For students who need the language study credits for their program, earning credit at Pitt will make the credit transfer easier to manage.

2) Charles University's Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies (UJOP) in Prague is offering a 6-week course aimed at FLAS recipients (http://ujop.cuni.cz/hloubetin/kurz38_en.php). UJOP prepares foreign students for study at Charles University, so its teachers are highly experienced and many are leaders in the field of Czech as a foreign language instruction. Unlike some other Prague courses that can be light on language and heavy on extracurriculars, this promises to be a good intensive language course.

3) The Ajoda language school is offering a 6-week course in Prague and Jihlava aimed at FLAS recipients (http://www.ajoda.eu/cz_2012_07-08-summer-course). The school formerly provided instruction for the Economic University in Prague's (now defunct) summer Czech courses. This course offers students a taste of both the capital and the wonderful Czech provinces, and home stays are an option in the 3-week Jihlava portion of the course.

All three of these are good options for FLAS students and it would be nice to see them enroll enough students to make them viable.

Of course, students can still make their own arrangements. The Summer Schools of Slavonic Studies at Palacky University in Olomouc (http://www.lsss.upol.cz/) and Masaryk University in Brno (http://www.phil.muni.cz/kabcest/en/summer-school.php) are willing to accommodate students looking for additional weeks of instruction beyond their 4-week programs. Students can also combine Summer Schools of Slavonic Studies at the Western Czech University in Plzen (http://www.isls.cz/en/courses) with Charles U in Prague (http://lsss.ff.cuni.cz/program.php) or Charles U in Podebrady (http://ujop.cuni.cz/podebrady/kurz38_en.php) with Prague.

Please let your students know about their many options! Thanks,

David

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David L. Cooper
Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Director of Undergraduate Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
707 S Mathews Ave
3070 Foreign Languages Building
Urbana, IL 61801
Ph: 217-244-4666


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