Pre-Registration for Fall 2012

The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages offers courses in less-commonly studied languages for students at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Course sessions meet on all five campuses. Mentored courses focus on all four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) using one-on-one tutorials, small group conversation sessions, and guided individual study. Supervised Independent language courses emphasize speaking and listening skills through a combination of independent study and weekly conversation sessions.

News

Review of applications for Fall 2012 starts April 2. See below for application instructions.

Recently added: Amharic, Filipino, Georgian, Haitian Creole, Icelandic, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali

Newly added in mentored format: Mentored Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian

Check out the Charles Mark Scholarships for study abroad

Mentored Language Courses for Fall 2012        How to Apply and Register

Course Descriptions and Schedules:

• Arabic: Formal Spoken and Colloquial Levantine Arabic (possibly other dialects)
• Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
  
• Hindi
• Indonesian
• Persian
• Swahili
• Turkish
• Urdu
• Yoruba
• Other languages may appear in the catalog or be available intermittently. If you do not see your language of interest, please e-mail fclrc@hfa.umass.edu for more information.
  
  
  

Supervised Independent Courses for Fall 2012

Description of the Program       How to Apply and Register

Languages Offered:

• African Languages: Afrikaans (South Africa), Shona (Zimbabwe), Twi (Ghana), Wolof (Senegal), Xhosa (South Africa), Zulu (South Africa)     NEWLY ADDED: Amharic (Ethiopia)
  
  
• European Languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Modern Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Ukrainian     NEWLY ADDED: Georgian, Icelandic
  
  
• Asian Languages: Pashto, Thai, Vietnamese,     NEWLY ADDED: Filipino, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali
  
  
• Languages of the Americas:     NEWLY ADDED: Haitian Creole
  
  
• Other languages may appear in the catalog or be available intermittently. If you do not see your language of interest, please e-mail fclrc@hfa.umass.edu for more information.
  
  
  

Employment for Native Speakers

Student Employment Opportunities for Native Speakers

We are interested in applications from native speakers of African, Middle Eastern, Eurasian, South and Southeast Asian languages, as well as less-commonly studied languages of Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere in the world. Applicants must be students at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, or Smith College or the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Work for the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages counts as on campus employment for international students from all five schools.