Students who are relative beginners in the Romance languages might look at the Eurocentre programs that are located in various cities in France, Spain, and Italy, or at the language and culture programs offered for foreigners at various European universities in the summer. The Summer Institute for Hispanic Studies in Leon, Spain, has accommodated students after one or two years of Spanish language at Princeton. For students of German, the Goethe Institutes, which are located throughout Germany, provide excellent language instruction on all levels. The Munich Summer Program, sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, offers an exciting way to complete German 107 while living and studying in Germany. Summer and academic year courses in Greek language and area studies can be found in a booklet entitled Study in Greece and Other Mediterranean Countries, which is published annually by the Program in Hellenic Studies.
Some students go abroad in the summer to take area studies courses that are taught in English.
These summer courses are organized either by a foreign university or program or by an American university. The courses at foreign institutions are normally set up exclusively for overseas visitors and are not attended by students from the host country or institution. This means that you will not have the opportunity to interact with students from the host country in the way that you would during the academic year. Summer programs are plentiful, but many are little more than opportunities to pick up a bit of knowledge while vacationing abroad. This may be exactly the kind of thing that you want, but you should not expect to receive credit from Princeton for such programs.