STARTALK - Summer Language Program
Summer Language Program for High School Students!
STARTALK is a government initiative to increase the number of Americans learning critical need languages. The STARTALK program pays tuition for 74 high school students to learn Arabic or Mandarin Chinese in HCC’s World Languages Program during the summer months.
The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland has awarded the new STARTALK grant to select schools across the nation, including Stanford University. HCC is the only Maryland institution that received this grant.
High school students (including incoming 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders, as well as newly graduated high school students) learn communicative ability as well as cultural awareness from experienced native language teachers in HCC’s lively, task-based classes.
One of STARTALK’s benefits is that there is no cost other than the $50.00 application fee. (This fee is waived for students with demonstrated financial need.) Successful STARTALK students receive eight college credits from HCC and are prepared to enter intermediate-level language instruction during the fall semester. The admissions process is selective.
STARTALK is held on the HCC campus June 23 - August 7 (Summer 2 term) Monday - Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Star Talk Application
For additional information you may:
- Attend an information session on Wednesday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in RCF242, Transfer Center
- Call Cheryl Berman, World Language Professor, at 410-772-4861 or
- Contact the Office of Admissions & Advising ( hsinfo@howardcc.edu; 410-772-4599)
