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ANNOUNCING THE 2009-10
 HIGH SCHOOL COOPERATIVE LANGUAGE PROGRAM

 Sponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
and its Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) 

PIER and the MacMillan Center are happy to announce the High School Cooperative Language Program (HSCLP) for 2009-10.  Yale’s language resources will make it possible for us to offer high school exposure classes in any of the following languages:  Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Irish Gaelic, German, ancient and modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, KiSwahili, Polish, Portuguese, or Russian.   

Classes:
As in past years, classes will meet at Yale once a week for an hour and a half, the exact time and place to be arranged by the teacher.  Classes begin after 4:00 p.m. so that Yale classrooms are available and students have time to get here from their schools.  Students are assigned weekly homework.  The classes are small “group tutorials,” not for Yale credit, but will be substantial enough to justify granting high school credit, as schools have done in the past.

Schedule:
Sections will meet for the first time in early October, with exact times and places to be announced the week before.  HSCLP classes run till at least mid-May, some to the end of May. 

Enrollment:
There is no application form.  To register a student for the HSCLP, contact Lesley Kent at 203-432-6238 or at lesley.kent@yale.edu by October 5 with the student’s name, grade, and school, a contact phone number, and the language or languages the student wants to study.  We can only provide classes in languages for which there is sufficient interest, and the minimum number to start a class is six.  When we know which classes will run, we will contact participants with the time and place of the first class meeting.  To complete enrollment, the student simply shows up for that first class.  

Cost and Payment:
The program will cost $365 for the year, paid to this office either by the student or by their school.  In most classes, this fee includes the cost of texts and materials.  Students may attend the first two class sessions at no charge to see if the course is what they want.  If they decide to pursue the course, payment is due by the third class.  Payment is by check and is to be given to the teacher.  Beyond that third week of classes, fees are not refundable, in order to generate student commitment and to ensure that no course will have to be cancelled mid-year because of dropouts. 

Calendar: Sept. 5-Oct. 15  Application period

Oct. 5               Classes begin
Oct. 19-22         Fees due
Jan. 28             End of first grading period
Feb. 9               HSCLP Winter Festival
May 6               HSCLP Spring Festival
May 17-28         End of second grading period
June 7              Grades reported to schools and families

For further information, please contact Lesley Kent at 203-432-6238 or at lesley.kent@yale.edu or Dr. Brian Carter, Outreach Director for European Studies, at 432-3424 or brian.carter@yale.edu.

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