The Doctor of Modern Languages (DML) in Hebrew prepares excellent language educators who want to advance the field of teaching and learning Hebrew as leading educators and researchers.
Each DML student spends at least one semester or two summers residing in Israel in order to gain greater familiarity with the target culture. If students are unable to visit Israel, they can opt to fulfill the residency abroad requirement through a cultural residency.
The Doctor of Modern Languages degree, established in 1927, is unique to Middlebury and differs from the more traditional Ph.D. The Doctor of Modern Languages (DML) prepares teacher-scholars in two modern foreign languages.
Before formal admission to the DML program, an accepted applicant completes a summer of candidacy at the L1 School on the Middlebury or Bennington, Vermont campus.
This program is made up of a series of six-week summer sessions over seven years. It can take up to 10 years to complete, and requries 4 years of studying before you can progress to writing the prospectus. Please contact The School of Hebrew with any questions about this program.
The Doctor of Modern Languages (DML) in Japanese language and culture prepares leading Japanese language educators who will advance the field of teaching and learning Japanese language and culture as leading educators and researchers. This program builds upon the School of Japanese’s Master’s program and offers students the opportunity to further develop advanced research skills in order to deeply engage with the field of Japanese as a Second Language.
The DML program for Japanese includes graduate-level courses in the principal (L1) only. Students fulfill the second language (L2) requirement by completing a summer as a full-time student in a non-degree Middlebury Language School (beginner or advanced beginner level) other than Hebrew or Japanese.
Each DML student spends at least one semester or two summers residing in Japan in order to gain greater familiarity with the target culture.
Before formal admission to the DML program, an accepted applicant completes a summer of candidacy at the L1 School on the Middlebury or Bennington, Vermont campus.
This program is made up of a series of six-week summer sessions over seven years.
Acquire specific skills, knowledge, and experience applicable to an individual career path with our one-year Master in Applied Languages in French.
Master’s students spend a 6-week summer in Middlebury at the School of French followed by an Academic Year in Paris where they complete a hands-on practicum combined with academic coursework in specialized disciplines.
Specializations include:
- Migration Studies
- Development Studies
- Cultural Heritage Studies
- Tourism Studies
Acquire specific skills, knowledge, and experience applicable to an individual career path with our one-year Master in Applied Languages in Italian.
Master’s students spend a 6-week summer in Bennington at the Italian School followed by an Academic Year in Florence where they complete a hands-on internship combined with academic coursework in traditional subjects, interdisciplinary areas, and preprofessional disciplines. Students choose a specialization.
Specializations:
- Language Teaching
- Migration and Development Studies
- Cultural Heritage Studies
Acquire specific skills, knowledge, and experience applicable to an individual career path with our one-year Master in Applied Languages.
Students spend a summer in Vermont at the German School followed by an Academic Year in Mainz or Potsdam, Germany. Students complete a hands-on internship in Germany combined with academic coursework in traditional subjects, interdisciplinary areas, and pre-professional disciplines. Students can only specialize in language teaching.
Work alongside some of the most focused and directed students of Arabic and Arab culture, with a dedicated faculty from leading institutions around the world. Middlebury’s faculty bring with them years of experience in Arabic language instruction and rich cultural backgrounds as diverse as their geographic and linguistic communities of origin.
Students can complete their degree over four 6-week summers in Bennington, Vermont. The four summer sessions in Bennington do not need to be consecutive. Graduate students can complete their master’s degree in up to 10 years.
The Master in Chinese focuses specifically on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language and is designed for current teachers of Chinese or those who wish to teach Chinese as a foreign language. All courses are taught in Chinese.
Master’s students complete their course requirements entirely in four 6-week summers in Vermont. Course requirements must be completed within ten years. Graduate summer sessions do not need to be consecutive.
Middlebury offers many different specializations for French MA students: a Literature focus, a Civilization, Culture and Society focus, a Pedagogy and Linguistics focus and a Generalist focus. We have have different specializations for the MA in Applied Languages in French.
There are four different ways you can complete this program. Option 1 is four summers (6 weeks each) in Vermont; option 2 is three summers in Vermont and one summer in Paris, France (6 weeks each); option 3 is two summers in Vermont and one academic year in Paris, France; and option 4 is one summer in Vermont and one accelerated academic year in Paris, France.
The Master of Arts (MA) in German is designed as a broadly based program of study in itself, rather than as the first stage of a doctoral program. You may choose to earn your MA in a single year, by combining one summer in Vermont with an academic year in Mainz or Potsdam, or by studying for four summers on the Middlebury campus in Vermont.
The Middlebury Master of Arts in Teaching Hebrew as a Second Language gives educators the skills to support learners in becoming proficient in Hebrew.
Students must complete an initial 6-week graduate summer session on the Middlebury, Vermont campus before establishing their candidacy for the MA degree. The second and third semester are completed online during the academic year in English through Middlebury Institute Online, followed by a 6-week summer on the Middlebury, Vermont campus and final online semester.
Please contact The School of Hebrew with any questions about this program.