summer

Latin experience gained from CWCTP Student Grant

"For seven days at the end of July, I spent an entire week in a mansion in West Virginia with thirty other people. For these seven days, only Latin was spoken within these walls. This weeklong intensive, immersive experience reanimated the life of a language whose favorite epithet is 鈥渄ead.鈥...

Bibliotheque National de France

CWCTP Student Grantee learns French in Paris

From the beginning of May until the end of June, I had the opportunity to go to a French language school in the northeast part of Paris. The institute I attended is called Campus Langues. The program there was primarily focused on exposure to the French language in a semiformal...

Inscription at Norlin Library

PhD Student finds inspiration at Norlin Library

A quotation of George Norlin鈥撯搕he professor of Greek and former university president, for whom the library was named鈥撯搃s inscribed on the lintel of Norlin Library: ENTER HERE THE TIMELESS FELLOWSHIP OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. I have passed under these words countless times in a rush to get a coffee or check out a book. Those times that I noticed it, I often thought to myself how the epigraph felt clich茅. But, over the summer, I found my eyes drawn again and again to those words.

Student receives grant to study in Chambery

"Back to Chamb茅ry" Student receives CWCTP Grant to advance French language skills

Thanks to a language-study grant from the Center for Western Civilization, I returned to Chamb茅ry, France for a second summer in a row to continue learning French at the Institut Savoisien d鈥橢tudes Fran莽aises pour Etrangers.

Laura Murray

Undergraduate Fellow Utilizes CWCTP Summer Grant to Deepen Cultural Understanding in Spain

"Through my involvement in the CWCTP and the Global Engineering Residential Academic Program, I decided that having a knowledge of another language increases a student鈥檚 basic understanding for culture, mental framework, and multi-cultural interactions. As an individual who has enjoyed traveling and discussing cultural variations through politics and philosophy, I...

Jacob

Student Learns Polish through CWCTP Grant

"Thanks to the Summer travel grant from the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP), I was able to travel to Poland and take part in a 7-week, intensive Polish language course. My dissertation project, for the Department of History, focuses on space, race, and memory as embodied in...

Germany

CWCTP Summer Grant Gives Student an Alternative Path to Learning German

"My program requires that I demonstrate a foreign language proficiency by the time I complete my exams and advance to candidacy. In my research I may actually need more than one foreign language, and this can end up very costly. With the grant from the Center for Western Civilization language...

German Studies

CWCTP Language Grant Benefits Student Focusing on the Germanic Language

"This summer I received a grant from the CWCTP to study German, which has been both edifying and rewarding. My discipline (Classics) has a strong place in German intellectual history, and many of the foundational works on the various sub-fields are bound to be in German. As an undergraduate, I...

German Script

Religious Studies Student Advances in German Studies through CWCTP Grant

"With the grant from the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy, I spent the beginning of the summer studying the German language for reading knowledge. This was my first foray into the German language and I found it fascinating. Having learned, in an academic sense, that English is a...

Romanian Village

Student studies Romanian, makes connection through CWCTP support

"I received a language study grant this summer towards the study of Romanian language. I completed a course of study with ROLAND School in Bucharest, Romania, and was able to achieve a level of Advanced...I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to study Romanian this summer as it was a...

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