Applications Being Accepted for STARTALK Program at Wofford College

Chinese is the newest language to be offered to pre-college students in a summer immersion program at Wofford College.

The program, made possible by a $76,000 grant from the National Security Language Initiative’s STARTALK, is  designed to expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the United States.

STARTALK @ Wofford will offer, free of charge, a three-week program of intensive beginning Chinese language and culture courses for 45 rising 9th graders through just graduated 12th graders from Spartanburg and Greenville counties. The day program will run from June 17 through July 5 on Wofford’s campus.

STARTALK @ Wofford will run parallel to the Language Academy @ Wofford, a summer language immersion program that offers French, Spanish and German to pre-college students.(www.wofford.edu/languageacademy/)

Transportation will be provided to and from Greenville.

The deadline for applications is April 15, 2013. For information on how to apply, go to www.wofford.edu/startalk/.