Directed Independent Language Study Program Endowment

$ 5,000,000   1 opportunity

The Directed Language Study Program (DILS) was established in spring 2000 to allow students to study languages not offered in Yale’s regular curriculum. By 2006, the program had enabled 210 students, about half undergraduates, to study 44 different languages. A gift of $5,000,000 will endow this special program and support its activities in perpetuity.

DILS typically runs twenty not-for-credit programs per semester. Successful applicants work independently with textbooks and audio materials, meet twice weekly with native-speaker language partners, and are tested at semester’s end by an instructor of the language from another institution to certify their proficiency level. DILS students have used their languages to win fellowships, internationalize their majors, carry out field research, and work with volunteer programs abroad.

A part of the Promote the Quality of Undergraduate Language Teaching opportunity

Schools and units supported by this opportunity:

• Yale College

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