Summer 2024 Program Dates:
June 17-August 9, 2024
Information and application instructions for summer language study and funding opportunities coming soon!
Each summer undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and other non-traditional students from across the country come to UW-Madison to study a language at the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI). WISLI provides high-quality instruction of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs). WISLI courses are intensive, condensing an entire year of language study in the 8-week summer session. The institutions combine classroom learning with a variety of co-curricular activities.
WISLI is home to seven summer language institutes which offer high-quality courses in over 30 less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) and a self-directed multilanguage seminar. Learn more about each respective institute below.
Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI)
Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, Uzbek
Supported by: CREECA and CESSI Consortium (13 members)
Middle Eastern & Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI)
Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish
Supported by: IRIS NRC, European Studies, African Studies, Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, and Asian Languages and Cultures at UW-Madison
Intensive Summer Multilanguage Seminar (MULTI)
A program that allows students to engage in online, performance-based self-instructional the study of a less commonly taught African, Southeast Asian, or South Asian language.
Supported by IRIS NRC and the African Studies Program at UW-Madison.
South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)
Bengali, Dari, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Pashto, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Urdu
Supported by: CSA and SASLI Consortium (10 member institutions, 1 contributing institution)
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese
Supported by: CSEAS and SEASSI Consortium (11 member institutions)
Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute (SIPI)
Brazilian Portuguese
Supported by: LACIS
Scandinavian Summer Language Institute (NORD)
Norwegian, Swedish
Supported by: GNS+and European Studies