Classes Complete four semesters of Spanish in nine weeks and earn 12 hours of college credit toward your foreign language requirement. The Summer Foreign Language Institute at the University of Virginia offers a unique program in which you can complete the beginning and intermediate levels of Spanish instruction in nine weeks.
Classes meet five days a week for six hours a day.
You meet three hours in the morning with one instructor and three hours in the afternoon with a second instructor. Class time is devoted to the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, conversation practice and activities, and work in the media center using language tapes, CD-ROM exercises, and videos. Students also live in the Spanish house where they participate in regular evening activities involving cultural topics, movies, games, discussion, guest speakers, and group meals. This intensive student-centered approach makes the Institute different from most language programs.