Harvard Summer School Institute of English Language Programs

  United States

Cambridge

Dates: June 22-August 7

Description: Students in the Institute for English Language Programs (IEL) at Harvard enjoy the unparalleled opportunity to study English intensively with classmates from around the world in a stimulating academic and cultural setting. While at Harvard, students enjoy access to the largest library system in the world, excellent computer and language study facilities, interesting cultural attractions, and the charms of a location steeped in both history and twenty-first-century innovation.

Representing the liberal arts spectrum, IEL's content-based and student-centered curriculum includes a number of unique features. All students begin the summer with a common reading that unites the IEL student body in examining an important topic. While providing the theme for the entire session, the common reading also serves as the springboard for oral and written activities that examine issues in education, politics, and the environment.

IEL students also read novels and nonfiction texts that present exceptional writing, exhibit language variation, and illustrate the connection between mainstream American culture and others. Students maintain a global perspective by following current events in the media and relating them to their class texts, their professional and academic interests, and their personal and national identities.

There are two ways to study English language at Harvard Summer School: in intensive daytime programs or in evening courses. Several Intensive Programs prepare students for specialized graduate study. Information about choosing a program is listed in this section. Students are placed at one of five levels of proficiency according to their performance on the English language placement test.

Cost in US$: TBA

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to United States Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 15 students per class

Application Process Involves:

• Other

Harvard Summer School Study Abroad Programs's Mission Statement: The Harvard Summer School makes Harvards academic resourcesa distinguished faculty, well-equipped laboratories, fine museums, and a world-class university library available to men and women of many ages, backgrounds, and nationalities through an intensive summer session of liberal arts courses in Cambridge and overseas. Our international student body includes Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, visitors from other colleges and universities, highly qualified secondary school students, adult learners, and nonnative English speakers seeking to refine their language skills. Students take courses to challenge themselves academically, meet degree requirements, prepare for graduate school, gain college experience, advance their careers, and pursue personal enrichment. Students who study at Harvard Summer School may reside in a supportive residential environment, commute to campus, complete courses via distance education, or participate in one of the faculty-led programs based abroad. Many come to experience the extraordinary environment of Harvard College academics, resources, and residential life. Harvard Summer School serves the University community by providing faculty with teaching opportunities that allow them to experiment with new materials and teaching methods. Students from many Harvard schools take advantage of the breadth of summer course offerings to meet requirements for concentrations and degree programs, and to create more flexibility within their term-time academic program. Harvard graduate students from abroad can work on refining their English language skills, and Harvard College students take advantage of the summer session to expand their cultural, social, and intellectual horizons by studying abroad.