Thanks to a US-government funded grant through the National Security Education Program (NSEP) / National Flagship Language Program (NFLP) and in association with a consortium directed by American Councils that also includes Bryn Mawr College, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Maryland, the Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College offers fellowships to support a summer of study (tuition, room, and board) on the Middlebury College campus at the School of Russian that prepares students already at the intermediate high (IRL 1.9) or advanced low (IRL 2.0) level of proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and listening the opportunity to raise their proficiency to the advanced low or advanced-mid (IRL 2.5) level of proficiency in order to prepare them for further study on the NSEP/Flagship academic year program at St. Petersburg University.
Fellowships are available for study on either the 9-week language intensive or 6-week graduate-level program at the Davis School of Russian. Students are placed in the 9- or 6-week program at the discretion of the Director of the Davis School of Russian, in consultation with American Councils.
Students apply for this NSEP/Flagship funding through American Councils. In addition, they must submit an application and be accepted to the Middlebury College Davis School of Russian at the appropriate level.
Students selected for NSEP/Flagship-supported study in the 9-week program take an integrated series of language courses at the Advanced level: either Advanced Russian I (Level 6, Russian 3398-3401) or Advanced Russian II (Level 7, Russian 3402-3405), according to the results of placement tests administered by Middlebury College’s School of Russian. Students selected for NSEP/Flagship-supported study in the 6-week graduate program take three courses of their choice, in consultation with the School of Russian Director and Associate Director, relevant to their further course of study at St. Petersburg University. For course descriptions from summer 2007, click on “Academic Program” for either the Undergraduate or Graduate level. Summer 2008 course descriptions will be available in January 2008.
In addition to their regular coursework, NSEP/Flagship fellowship recipients work individually four hours a week with a tutor on areas of greatest need or interest.
Study at St. Petersburg University on the NSEP/Flagship program following the summer at the Middlebury School of Russian is supported and managed directly by American Councils.
For more information, please contact Davis School of Russian Director Karen Evans-Romaine (kevansro@middlebury.edu) or Coordinator John Stokes (jstokes@middlebury.edu), or call the Middlebury College School of Russian at (802) 443-5230. For applications to the NSEP/Flagship program, contact American Councils (www.americancouncils.org, telephone 202-833-7522). The on-line application for all Middlebury College Language Schools is available at: http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/applications/.