Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute
The Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad
(GUAVA) sponsors VASI (Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute), a summer
language program in collaboration with Hanoi Foreign Languages College.
GUAVA is a U.S. national consortium of Vietnamese language programs
at the Universities of Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, Michigan, and Wisconsin,
in cooperation with the programs at Arizona State, Cornell, and Harvard
Universities, as well as those at the University of California-Berkeley
and the University of California at San Diego.
VASI is an intensive eight-week advanced level Vietnamese language program taking place at Hanoi Foreign Languages College. VASI is funded by grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The VASI program in Hanoi will consist of several hours per day of intensive instruction in advanced level Vietnamese in small classroom settings, with instruction provided by Hanoi Foreign Languages College teachers in Vietnamese social science materials, advanced conversation in Vietnamese (Hanoi dialect), and in newspaper and media Vietnamese. There are several (optional) field trips on weekends. All participants (10 people for the first year 1996 and 12 people for this year) will be paid the major portion of their round-trip airfare, tuition, field trips, food and lodging expenses.
VASI participants will be selected through a national application process. (Applications are usually ready around late October and deadline is around late January.) Applicants must have had at least two years of instruction in Vietnamese or the equivalent to qualify. Oral and written exams will be components of the application.
Further contacts:
Rie Nakamura, Coordinator GUAVA/VASI
Southeast Asian Studies Program
University of Washington
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: (206)543-9606
Fax: (206) 685-0668
E-mail:guava@u.washington.