International Summer Programs Going Strong

 

Each of Bryn Mawr College's four international summer programs continues to provide students with exceptional learning opportunities through challenging times.



Avignon

Following a virtual course in 2021, the Institut d'Avignon will return to Avignon, France, from June 11 to July 21, to celebrate its 60th anniversary. During the six-week internship, 52 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 20 U.S. universities will participate in a group of 52 undergraduate and graduate students from Bowdoin, Colby, Haverford, Princeton, Reims College of Science, Scripps, UC Two courses offered by invited faculty at UCLA and Montpellier III University. 16 Bryn Mawr students and three Haverford students will participate.

Speakers include Olivier Py, Director of the Avignon Theatre Festival, Aurélia Michel from the University of Paris Diderot, whose research focuses on black people and Latin America, and Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth (UK), whose research focuses on the Algerian Revolution and the French novelist and playwright Olivia Rosenthal. The Institut d'Avignon is a six-week intensive and comprehensive summer program for undergraduate and graduate students in Advanced French and Francophone Studies and Theatre Studies. Avignon, a medieval city in Provence, southern France. Founded in 1962, it is one of the oldest and longest-running study abroad programs.

Russian academy

The 2022 Summer Course at the Russian Language Institute is scheduled to take place from June 8 to August 3, 2022. Russian classes will resume in-person at the start, which have not been offered since summer 2019 due to the pandemic. The program retains the remote format of intermediate and advanced Russian courses and assesses its value to students at these levels. The program is expected to have 20 participants, six of them from Bryn Mawr. Mentors this summer are returning RLI mentors from Bryn Mawr College, Farabi Kazakh State University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Rutgers University and Stetson University. In addition to the faculty and co-director, the RLI staff includes a student activities coordinator and a mentor who has just completed the Bryn Mawr Russian Flagship Program in Russia and will be entering the Russian Flagship Program abroad in the fall of 2022.This summer the program participants can look forward to a cultural program that contains both remote and in-person elements for those students on campus.

The Russian Academy offers a highly focused curriculum and learning environment conducive to the rapid development of the four language skills (speaking, listening, writing, reading) as well as cultural competence. The range of courses is designed to cover a wide range of language learners, from beginner to advanced (three levels). Through a high-intensity program and a culturally rich immersion environment, students receive the equivalent of one academic year of college-level intensive Russian language courses in eight weeks. The program attracts participants from various academic backgrounds, majors, ages and interests. The program is open to students of all genders over the age of 16 at the high school, undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate level. Most students complete the entire eight-week program, but four-week programs are also available.

Arabic and Interdisciplinary Study Programs

Since 2018, the Bi-Co Arabic Program and Global Bryn Mawr have been working with Sijal College in Amman to develop summer learning experiences for students to expand their global knowledge. The model grows each year as the partnership shifts from a focus on language learning and cultural immersion to a broader Middle East studies concept that includes content courses taught by Bryn Mawr faculty and linking language learning to five-week links. Combined opportunities, including internships.


Sijal is an Arabic language and culture institute founded by scholars of Arabic culture, history and sociology. They offer intensive courses at all levels for students who want to study Arabic in Jordan. The Institute also serves as a hub for intellectual and cultural activities, bringing together scholars, artists and experts from a wide range of fields and disciplines to host seminars, workshops and special projects.

This summer, eight college students will be participating (seven per person and one remotely) including five from BMC (four undergraduates and one graduate) and three from Haverford. students enter different Arabic classes and Sijal teachers meet them on their own. This year, 4 out of 8 students may also participate in Amman-based foreign affairs and organizations with the help of Bryn Mawr's Professional & Civic Engagement Center and the Haverford Peace and Citizenship Center. The content guide, Archeology of Jordan and the Middle East, may be trained in the form of a Bryn Mawr college run by Professor Matthew Jameson.


LTT-ask for summer summer software in Ghana Celebrates ten years

This summer season, l. a.ɣim Tehi Tuma / co-thinker, Bryn Mawr, a Movement study partner, will celebrate ten years with special activities and new partnerships.


Laɣim Tehi Tuma (or LTT) empowers the global threshold of all tertiary institutions and small businesses in the northern part of Ghana to re-introduce black liberation education around the world. working with college partners including Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, University of Development Studies, and Lincoln College, LTT supports a questionnaire by collaborating on research courses, key language and cultural arts engagement, and internships within community-sponsored businesses, and engaging students' courses. about interventions within the colonial frameworks of higher education systems and to promote movement closer to a simpler and more prosperous future.


This summer, as academics are young, computer literate, and community radio, they may join the work in language and cultural knowledge as they carry out their academic activities. those questions can be published in the 10th anniversary book as college students also interact with LTT students in the house with a wide audience. The new partnership with the University of Philadelphia application network in Black research and international training will create a collaborative relationship between college students in what is developing as a Philadelphia-based black education organization. Six Ghanaian-based college students will participate in LTT male or female, while US students, four from Bryn Mawr and 3 from Lincoln college, will participate remotely, using a mix of media in what has been a successful model. last summer. hopefully, next summer a man or woman job across the board is ahead.


 As part of the tenth anniversary celebrations, LTT has been incorporating a program alum, now in its eighties, with a visual image on its way and on its way forward. This summer season, that understanding will end, as application alum students visit current college students and application management thinking and intelligence to save the job. It is noteworthy that the alum group is an international group, able to meet similar goals throughout Ghana, the United States, and a number of international destinations Bi-Co alum students come here from colleges such as, Togo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Kenya, China, Indian, and Pakistan.


LTT grew out of one of the first 360 ° groups, gaining knowledge and Talking to Children, in 2012, in partnership with schools in Titagya, Ghana. The original 360 ° collection allowed the seeds of the program to grow in the way of providing multi-racial and international strategies for the training and development of infants, as well as their foundations in language, literacy, and culture. The program explores the facts that underpin these hobbies, which serve to balance academic studies and ideas as well as the acquisition of knowledge and experience.


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