How will my donation be used?
Gifts to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will be used to fund scholarships for students to participate in summer abroad intensives with the Summer Language Institute.
Summer Language Institute
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is home to one of the nation’s premier destinations for summer intensive language study, Pitt’s Summer Language Institute (SLI). Our SLI has been offering topnotch summer intensives in several critical and less-commonly-taught languages such as Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian. A number of these programs have study-abroad components that take students to Poland, Slovakia, Montenegro, the Czech Republic and Latvia (for Russian study).
We are raising funds to make SLI affordable for Pitt undergraduates who wish to participate in one of our summer abroad intensives. Studying abroad can be academically and personally transformative, and we want to give that experience to as many students as possible.
Check out the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures' website to learn more about what our students and faculty are up to!