Educational
and Cultural Exchange Programs, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thai and Local Culture
Study Program
A one month
integrated study program of Thai and local culture offered by
Educational
and Cultural Exchange Programs, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The
course starts on the first Monday of each month and lasts for
four weeks finishing on a Saturday.
For more information please
visit http://www.chiangmaihandicrafts.com/thaiculture
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Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand
Thammasat
University in Bangkok, Thailand has recently opened a
one-year
Thai Studies program in which all the courses are taught in English
by (mostly) Thai professors who are graduates of the top American
and British universities.
The curriculum is a mix
of Humanities and Social Science courses, and Thai language study
is required. The calendar is the same as in the U.S., with the
program beginning in August. The cost is about $5,000-6,000 includes
tuition and all living expenses. It does not include the cost of
airfare.
Information is available
on the Thammasat website: http://thaistudies.tu.ac.th/, and
at http://interaffairs.tu.ac.th/.
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University
of London
School of Oriental
and African Studies
Easter and Summer
School
April 2-April 13 and July 8August 2, 2002
Each course concentrates
on giving participants with no previous knowledge of the language,
ability to communicate within a range of everyday situations. Attention
also be given to the cultural context and socially appropriate
forms of communication. The accent is on fluency, accuracy and
building confidence in language use.
For more information,
contact:
SOAS Language Centre,
School of Oriental & African Studies,
University of London, Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square, London WC1H OXG
Tel: +44 (0) 20-7898-4888
Fax: +44 (0) 20-7898-4889
E-mail: languages@soas.ac.uk
Website: www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre
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University
of Washington
Consortium for Advanced
Study of Thai (CAST): AST 2002 program at Chiang Mai University
The Consortium
for Advanced Study of Thai (CAST) announces the AST 2002 program,
an intensive, eight-week language course at Chiang Mai University
in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The program availability is contingent
upon receipt of funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
AST '02 will provide instruction at the advanced level in standard
Thai; instructional staff are drawn from the Faculty of Humanities
of CMU.
Fellowship applicants
must be an educator or education administrator or must be students
who are enrolled in or admitted to a U.S. college or university
and, at the time of their participation in AST, have standing as
a junior, senior or graduate student. Applicants must be U.S. citizens
or permanent residents. Student applicants must be planning a teaching
career related to language or area studies. Applicants should be
completing at least their second year of study of Thai. Students
from CAST institutions and non-CAST institutions are invited to
apply.
Program Dates: June
15-August 9, 2002
Application deadline:
January 28, 2002
Program fees:
The program fee is $1,000. However, qualified students
will receive AST fellowships that cover round-trip airfare to
Chiang Mai and
help defray housing and tuition expenses.
Contact
information:
AST
Southeast Asian Studies/JSIS
University of Washington
Box 353650 Seattle WA 98195
Tel: 206.543.9606
Website: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~caps/ast/
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University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Southeast Asian Studies Summer
Institute
The Southeast Asian Studies Summer
Institute (SEASSI) is an eight-week intensive language training
program for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals.
For the summers 2002 through 2004, SEASSI will be held on the
campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instruction is
offered in the following languages at the first, second and third
year levels: Burmese, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao,
Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese. Scheduling of classes is contingent
on sufficient enrollment, especially at the upper levels.
Each language course is equivalent
to two semesters of study, with full academic year credit. Instruction
is given in small individualized groups taught by a team consisting
of a coordinator (usually a linguist specializing in Southeast
Asian language pedagogy) and teachers who are native speakers
of that language.
Dates: June 17-August 9, 2002
Deadlines
to remember:
February
1, 2002: FLAS Fellowship Application Deadline
March
1, 2002: Heritage Language Fellowship Application Deadline
April
1, 2002: Tuition Fellowship Application Deadline
May
1, 2002: Final SEASSI Application Deadline
Contact
information:
Mary
Jo Studenberg, SEASSI Program Coordinator
Room
207, 1155 Observatory Dr.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608)
263-1755
Fax: (608) 263-3735
E-mail: mjstuden@facstaff.wisc.edu
Website: www.wisc.edu/seassi
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updated:
1/28/2004