Middlebury College Language Schools

The Middlebury Language Schools, starting with the establishment of the School of German in 1915, offer intensive undergraduate and graduate-level instruction in 11 languages during six-, seven-, or eight-week summer sessions. The Schools enroll about 1,350 students every summer. The Schools all use an immersion-based approach to language instruction and acquisition. All students in the Language Schools must sign and abide by Middlebury College's "Language Pledge", a pledge to use their target language exclusively during the duration of their time at the School.

Undergraduate instruction, available both to undergraduate students as well as government employees and individuals from professional backgrounds, is offered in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Additionally, graduate-level instruction is offered in Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, and Spanish. The Language Schools also offer a Doctor of Modern Languages (D.M.L.) degree, currently unique to Middlebury.

In 1915, the School of German was established, becoming the first of Middlebury's Language Schools was founded. The most recent School, the Middlebury School of Hebrew, was established in the summer of 2008.

Middlebury's Language Schools have historically been conducted at the College's campus in Middlebury, Vermont. In the summer of 2009 the College opened a satellite campus at Mills College in Oakland, California, to accommodate growth in the enrollments in several of the schools. For the summer of 2017, Middlebury at Mills offers Arabic, Italian, and Korean instruction.