Middlebury currently offers 6,7, and 9-week summer programs in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Italian. The Russian, Italian, German, French and Spanish schools offer graduate degree programs as well. These are immersion programs, held on campus here at Middlebury. The course of study is centered around a language pledge signed by students, under which participants commit to speak only the language of study for the length of the program. Undergraduates take 4 50-minute classes a day Monday through Friday.
Graduates take three.
Arabic school students take 5. Students typically gain an academic year's worth of proficiency, and Middlebury awards 9-12 semester hours of credit for undergraduate programs, depending on the langauge and length of program. Middlebury would offer financial aid through its office to Stanford students for summer study. All programs are available for the year or the semester with the exception of Irkutsk and Paris, which are available for the year only. All schools have a minimum language requirement, ranging from 4 to 6 semesters of college study of the language or its equivalent.