SWSEEL Activities
In addition to excellent language instruction the workshop offers a rich extracurricular program focused on language and culture.
To view some of the classroom and extracurricular activities in the Summer Workshop please click on the activities listed below:
- Classes
- Cooking Demonstrations
- Other SWSEEL Activities: Lunch Tables, Workshops
- Newspaper
- SWSEEL Pictures
The workshop presents a series lectures, which provide an opportunity for students and scholars to increase their knowledge of the politics, culture, and history of the regions they are studying. These include lectures by IU and SWSEEL faculty as well as outside experts. The Strategic Languages and Cultures Seminars bring in speakers who discuss the application of language skills in non-academic settings and careers. Russian speakers in any workshop class are welcome to attend weekly lectures and films in Russian. Other regular workshop film series are dedicated to specific languages and regions.
Students can also participate in a series of activities, which support involvement in specific languages and cultures, including linguistics, literature, and drama clubs. Additional weekly activities include hands-on workshops in cooking, handicrafts, and dance.
Students who have completed at least three years of Russian (including those studying other languages) may enroll in a "Contemporary Russia Through Media" seminar.
To help participants in the many Workshop languages to meet students of other languages outside of the rich calendar of cultural events, the Workshop organizes a Fourth of July picnic. At the end of the session students in the Workshop present a closing concert where they display their staggering linguistic, singing and acting skills.
