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Due to the region's linguistic diversity and variety of colonial experiences, the promotion of scholarship in Southeast Asia is challenged by extensive language training needs.

Yale Language Programs

Through Council resources, formal instruction at Yale is currently offered from elementary to advanced levels in INDONESIAN and VIETNAMESE. (Detailed information on courses and syllabi can be found at the site links above). The Council also endeavors to support other relevant language training or tutoring needed by any serious student.

Current course schedules and locations can be found at the
Yale Online Course Information Web site
(click here)

The council has at various times funded study of Dutch, Burmese (see >Burmese Study Group), Khmer, Tagalog and Thai, both through private tutoring arrangements or through the University's Directed Independent Language Study Program (DILS), coordinated through Yale's Center for Language Study..

The Yale Center for Language Study (CLS), charged with improving the coherence and excellence of language programs across the University, was created by Yale in 1998, and is one of the first of its kind in the country. CLS currently provides extensive technical resources, programs and pedagogical support to more than 50 languages, reflecting Yale's commitment to international leadership in language education.

The Council also sponsors a variety of weekly lunchtime Language Immersion Tables annually, depending on interest and availability.

Summer Language Programs (click on titles for links to program sites)

The Council is a contributing member of the

> Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)

an eight-week intensive language program for undergraduates, graduate students and professionals held at a U.S. University location each summer. Instruction is generally offered for academic credit in at least nine Southeast Asian languages at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year levels.

The Council also maintains memberships in a number of international language programs which support summer studies abroad, such as:

AFA (Advanced Filipino Abroad at the De La Salle University; administered by the University of Hawaii at Manoa).
ASK (Advanced Study of Khmer, at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; administered by the University of Hawaii at Manoa).
CAST (Consortium for Advanced Study of Thai - AST Program, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
CET* (Vietnam Immersion - Summer Term in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; through CET Academic Programs*, Washington DC
COTIM (Consortium for Teaching Indonesian and Malay - Universitas Sam Ratulangi, North Sulawesi at Manado, Indonesia)
USINDO (United States-Indonesia Society) - Summer Studies Program, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

VASI / GUAVA(Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad - VASI Program in Ha Noi, Vietnam.

Funding for summer language study, both in the U.S. or abroad, may be sought through the Yale SEAS Council's Grants to Students Program.

*CET is a private, commercial entity which provides intensive study abroad programs to American students - a division of Academic Travel Abroad (ATA)