<p>More than half of each Middlebury class studies abroad in the junior year, and some 65 percent of these students take courses in their discipline in the language of the host country and/or engage in advanced language study. Middlebury has programs in Bordeaux, Paris, and Poitiers.</p>
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<p>Funny you should mention Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Middlebury maintains exchange programs with several colleges, including Berea College and St. Mary’s College of California during winter term and Spelman College and Swarthmore College during fall and spring semesters. One-to-one exchanges may be arranged with other colleges during winter term as authorized by the Office of Off-Campus Study.</p>
<p>Selected students each year spend one semester in the national Washington Semester Program administered by American University.</p>
<p>As many as six Middlebury students a year may spend a semester studying the human relationship with the sea at the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Program in American Maritime Studies.</p>
<p>Students of biology and/or environmental studies with a science focus may elect to spend the fall semester at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.</p>