<p>I have heard good things about the Arabic Concordia Village – and the Andover Summer Session may be more what you are looking for. The U of Chicago is a great program – but very intense. While you can visit Chicago and have fun, you will have significant homework each night. A good estimate for the amount of homework for a college class (especially a math/language/science/writing class – the work intensive ones) is that for every hour you spend in the classroom you will spend 2-3 hours outside of class doing homework/assignments/studying/reading. </p>
<p>The University of Chicago program is fantastic – I heard that from several people – but it is intensive and you will not have alot of “fun time”. If you notice – the class meets all day (8:30am – 3:00pm) and then you have homework. I am not trying to dissuade you – but it is not what you originally wanted. Another consideration is what you are planning to do as far as studying Arabic next fall – does your school offer it? If they do, what levels do they offer? The U of Chicago Program will be equivalent to at least a year of Arabic in high school. </p>
<p>I will check and see who else offers Arabic in the summer. did I already mention that Stanford does? </p>
<p>in case these haven’t been mentioned: </p>
<p>Columbia <a href=“http://www.ce.columbia.edu/summer/courses_listing_detail.cfm?PID=1&DeptID=80[/url]”>http://www.ce.columbia.edu/summer/courses_listing_detail.cfm?PID=1&DeptID=80</a></p>
<p>Howard offered it last year and may again this year if the grant comes through <a href=“http://www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/2006/060406ForeignLanguageSummerInstituteStipend.htm[/url]”>http://www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/2006/060406ForeignLanguageSummerInstituteStipend.htm</a></p>
<p>also check out Beloit, Drew, Indiana University, University of Wisconsin/Madison University of Washington (all offered Arabic programs last summer)</p>
<p>Another great one to check out would be George Washington University. <a href=“http://www.gwu.edu/summer/scholars/2006.pdf[/url]”>http://www.gwu.edu/summer/scholars/2006.pdf</a></p>
<p>Several colleges offer Arabic – but are very competitive to get in to and only accept high school grads (Middlebury, Georgetown).</p>
<p>There are also some government grants that are in the process of approval – but there should be some summer programs in Arabic that haven’t been advertised yet: <a href=“http://www.nflc.org/projects/current_projects/startalk/[/url]”>http://www.nflc.org/projects/current_projects/startalk/</a></p>
<p>If you live in DC – this could be an option. <a href=“NAAP”>NAAP;
<p>Last year, the University of Iowa had a short program for high school kids. I don’t know if they are doing it again. <a href=“News | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences”>News | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences;
<p>There is really alot out there – this is just a few of the links that I collected for my son (I didn’t include any study abroad – there are tons)</p>