These programs offer intensive instruction in Southeast Asian Languages from elementary to advanced skill levels. Courses at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels offered in Burmese, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese.
Participants meet for intensive classwork five days a week in small groups.
The host institution, Universitas Sam Ratulangi in Indonesia, is located in the town of Manado in North Sulawesi. It is anticipated that participants will be placed with families living near campus. All applicants should have achieved by May 2001, at minimum, an intermediate level of proficiency in Malay or Indonesian equivalent to the proficiency normally acquired upon completion of a fourth-semester course. Citizens or nationals of the United States as well as permanent residents may apply for stipends providing a per diem allowance. Applications are due by January 31, 2001.