Summer Programs

In this course, students will gain an overview of the contexts of English language teaching internationally and of the issues relating to English as an International language. Context-based teaching methods and curricula and issues of culture in language will also be addressed. Students will explore key aspects of teaching English as an International language such as the role of world Englishes, the concepts of “native” and “standard” English, and the way that local contexts must shape a principled approach to English teaching internationally.

This three-week, three-credit program will explore the diversity of theatrical offerings in London and vicinity, providing a wide-ranging and historically rich understanding of British theater as it is practiced today in both traditional and experimental venues. This program provides students with multiple opportunities for experiencing world-class theater as we attend performances of works ranging from Shakespeare to classic and contemporary plays. The class will meet for one week in New York and two weeks in London.

Hone your news literacy through on-the-ground visits to news outlets in London!

This special summer session version of MEDIA 211: News Literacy in a Digital Age will help you become a more literate news consumer and your own fact-checker through an in-depth exploration of the British news media. During this 3-credit course, you’ll get the chance to visit news media outlets in London and gain a better understanding of news literacy firsthand. Spend a month in this vibrant European capital and soak in its culture – all while fulfilling a Hunter core course requirement.

Spend a summer on the Greek island of Lesvos, studying “The Great Books” from the ancient world and writing poetry! This three-and-a-half-week program will explore how the Aegean landscape was vital to the world’s most influential and enduring literary works, including the lyric poetry of Sappho, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Euripides’ Bacchae, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the Poetry Workshop course, students will discuss the lyric’s enduring influence on contemporary poetry and produce their own creative writing, inspired by the history of the lyric, as well as the island’s beautiful setting. 

In the Poetry Workshop course, students will produce their own creative writing, inspired by the history of the lyric, as well as the island’s beautiful setting.

Hunter College joins forces with the International Center for Development Studies (ICDS) to offer two exciting summer opportunities! Details below:

• Spanish and Health in Latin America: This program offers the opportunity to explore health care in a developing country while improving Spanish speaking skills. Clinical rotations for advanced Spanish speakers or community service in social welfare services for lower to intermediate level Spanish speakers are experiential learning components of the program.
  
  
• Spanish and Sustainability Practices in Latin America: This is a service-learning program with strong Spanish language and cultural immersion components divided in urban and rural experiences. The program starts in San José, the country’s capital city and then participants immerse themselves in the culture of rural Costa Rica by living on site at a local Finca.
  
  
• Learn more about the International Center for Development Studies (ICDS) programs offered!

Join us in Riga, Latvia as we explore the first publications of clandestine manuscripts from behind the Iron Curtain. The course will consist of lectures and seminars each devoted to an author or a work of literature written at home but first published abroad, with or without the author’s knowledge or consent (e.g., Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna, Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Stories, Andrei Sinyavsky’s “Pkhentz”).

Join us in the summer for an unforgettable faculty-led study abroad experience that takes you from the vibrant streets of Barcelona to the historic town of Arles. The program features two courses, one exploring the transmission and translation of chivalric tales in the Iberian Peninsula during the Medieval and Early Modern periods, and the other focusing on key moments in French history and how they shaped the diversity and interconnectedness of languages, literatures, and cultures in modern-day France.

Experience one of the liveliest cities in the world — Madrid! The program encompasses college-level undergraduate programs for six credits each in June or July, or one Intensive Program for twelve credits — June and July combined.

Courses are offered in Spanish language (all levels above SPAN 101), literature, history, and culture.