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 60 high school students to learn Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, or Hindi in HCC’s World Languages Program during the summer months.  Students may apply to take CHNS-101: Elementary Mandarin Chinese I, CHNS-102:  Elementary Mandarin Chinese II, ARAB-101: Elementary Arabic I, or HIND-101: Elementary Hindi I.

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.

High school students (including incoming 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th 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 four college credits from HCC and are prepared to enter the next level of language instruction during the fall semester. The admissions process is selective.

STARTALK is a grant-funded program.  Information for summer 2010 will be posted by March.

For additional information you may:

• Visit the STARTALK program page or
• Call Cheryl Berman, World Language Professor, at 410-772-4861 or
• Contact the Office of Admissions & Advising (hsinfo@howardcc.edu; 410-772-4599)