SWSEEL Activities

In addition to excellent language instruction each program in the workshop offers a rich extracurricular program focused on language and culture.

To view some of the classroom and extracurricular activities in the Summer Workshop please click on the activities listed below:

The East/Central European Program will present a series of films and lectures, which provide an opportunity for students and scholars to increase their knowledge of the culture and history of the East/Central European region.

The program in the Languages of Central Asia and the Caucasus presents videos from this region on Friday nights, as well as more than a dozen lectures dealing with the history, religion and politics of this area. Students of Central Asian languages in the workshop also look forward to the cooking demonstrations that are presented as part of this program. The yearly concert of Central Asian music, which has included such other events as lectures on caligraphy and music, is a cultural highlight of the summer!

The Russian program offers not only weekly lectures and films in Russian, it also makes available to its participants a series of activities which support involvement in the language. Each student in the program is encouraged to participate in at least one of the following activities: a poetry club, a Russian choir, or a Russian play. Students who have completed at least three years of Russian (including those studying other languages) may enroll in a "Contemporary Russia Through Media" seminar.

To help participants in the many Workshop languages to meet students of other languages, the Workshop organizes a Fourth of July picnic and a pool and pizza party. At the end of the session students in the Workshop present a closing concert where they display their staggering linguistic, singing and acting skills.