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:
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:
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.
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 Master in Italian 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 Master in Italian in one of the following ways:
Master’s specialization options include: General Studies in Italian; Literary Studies; Language and Linguistics; Pedagogy, Methodology, and Curriculum Development; Culture; Mass Media, Communications, and Cinema; Italian American Studies (available only to students studying four summers in Vermont); Mediterranean Studies.
The key to it all is the Language Pledge—an agreement you make to communicate only in Russian for the duration of the program.
Reading, writing, speaking, and thinking in Russian, you will challenge yourself as never before and push your language skills to a higher level than you imagined possible. You’ll also take part in cocurricular activities ranging from art and cooking to music and sports—all conducted in Russian.
And while abroad, experience the culture first-hand—studying at a local university, exploring urban oases and historic sites, and building relationships with the people who call this deeply traditional and rapidly evolving nation home.
The Master of Arts in Russian 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 one of the following ways:
Middlebury’s master’s in Spanish allows you to prepare for admission into doctoral programs or follow careers in academia, government, business, or the nonprofit sector.
If you pursue a Master of Arts in Spanish, you will choose one of the four specializations available: Literature, Teaching Methodology, Linguistics, Generalist, Creative Writing, and Social Justice.
This program can be completed in 4 summers in Vermont, 3 summers in Vermont and 1 summer in Buenos Aires, 1 summer in Vermont and 1 academic year in Madrid and another summer in Vermont or Buenos Aires, or 1 summer in Vermont and 1 accelerated academic year in Madrid.