Loann Crane Advanced Language Institute Professionalization Language Courses

A. The Advanced Language Institute (ALI) will fund the development of a total of four courses at the 3000-level from four different departments or programs. 

The goal of the ALI courses is to provide career training, either focused on a particular career or more generally on culture-specific leadership/professionalization training in the target language, to undergraduate students. The course should be a prerequisite for a 4000/5000-level ALI professionalization course (see B below), but it can also be a stand-alone high-intermediate course with the goal of bringing students to an advanced language level in a targeted profession.

In order to receive ALI funding, the following requirements must be met:

Student eligibility:

1. Undergraduates must have at least a 3.0 GPA in their language major/minor courses;
2. Undergraduates should be of at least sophomore status. If a student is a freshman, they must demonstrate the language skills, conceptual maturity, and the ability to rise to the expected level of rigor.

The course must:

• include ‘ALI’ in the catalogue title
• be taught in the target language
• include at least three visits from one or more native career professionals from a country where the language is spoken (see below for funding);
• include a significant final project with a career focus; 
• include minimum three conversation lessons with native speakers, preferably in a country where the language is spoken (e.g. TalkAbroad, Mixxer). These lessons must be structured in relation to the course content.

Funding from the CLLC includes the following:

• $4000 to develop the course;
• $6000 to teach the first iteration of the course, the enrollment max of which is 12-15 students;
• $2000 to pay the visiting professionals;
• After the first iteration of the course, the CLLC will continue to pay the $1000 for the visiting professionals in the future offerings of this course. 

First iteration must be taught by Fall 2025. If this is a new course, it can be taught the first time as a group studies course, but in future must be a catalogued course.

B. The Advanced Language Institute (ALI) will fund the development of a total of two courses at the 4000-5000 level to two different departments/programs. 

The goal of the ALI courses is to provide career training, either focused on a particular career or more generally on culture-specific leadership/professionalization training in the target language, to undergraduate students and/or graduate students interested in alternative careers. 

In order to receive ALI funding, the following requirements must be met:

Student eligibility:

• Undergraduates must have at least a 3.0 GPA in their language major/minor courses;
• Undergraduates must be of at least sophomore status

The course must:

• include ‘ALI’ in the title
• be taught in the target language
• include at least three visits from one or more native career professionals from a country where the language is spoken (see below for funding);
• include a significant final project with a career focus; 
• include minimum three conversation lessons with native speakers, preferably in a country where the language is spoken (e.g. TalkAbroad, Mixxer). These lessons must be structured in relation to the course content.

Funding from the CLLC includes the following:

• $4000 to develop the course
• $6000 to teach the first iteration of the course, the enrollment max of which is 12-15 students;
• $2000 to pay the visiting professionals
• Enrollment limited max 12 students for the first iteration.
• After the first iteration of the course, the CLLC will continue to pay the $1000 for the visiting professionals in the future offerings of this course. 

First iteration must be taught by Fall 2025. If this is a new course, it can be taught the first time as a group studies course, but in future must be a catalogued course.