Summer Program

The Medieval Institute is pleased to offer Summer courses in medieval languages and paleography to graduate students and to qualified undergraduates from Notre Dame and all across the country. Occasional offerings are also available in history, English, theology, languages, and other fields. While in summer residence, students have access to the bountiful resources of the Medieval Institute and its renowned library.

Most summer courses run from mid-June to the beginning of August, an ideal time to enjoy the luxury of uninterrupted study in the pastoral setting of the Notre Dame campus. Participants in the summer program benefit both from the expertise and commitment to their disciplines that our summer faculty members bring to their teaching, and from the smaller enrollments and shorter, concentrated duration of most summer classes, which also permit sustained and frequent contact between student and teacher. While graduate students, especially, find the summer program to be an ideal opportunity to acquire the skills they need for their programs, these classes also appeal to others imbued with a love of the Middle Ages.

Medieval Latin and Paleography, both seven-week courses taught by Frank A.C. Mantello, professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of America, regularly figure in our summer program. Several other language courses are also offered at Notre Dame by both the Medieval Institute and the University's Summer Language Institute (http://classics.nd.edu/summer-language/).

Fees and Costs

Costs for Summer 2008 are as follows:

General Fee: $50; Tuition: $722 per undergraduate credit hour, $348 per graduate credit hour.

Single room w/AC (graduate students only) $205 per week; Single room w/ no AC - $150 per week.

CARA Tuition Scholarships

Two students taking "Medieval Latin" or "Latin Paleography" for credit will be awarded full tuition scholarships, funded by the Medieval Academy through the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA). (Room and board, and all additional fees are the responsibility of the scholarship recipients.)

Scholarship applicants must be student members of the Medieval Academy. For information on joining the Medieval Academy and its very reasonable student dues, consult its website at http://www.medievalacademy.org/gradstudents/gradstudent_cara_scholarship.htm. To apply for one of these scholarships, please send a letter of intent, two letters of recommendation, and a transcript to the address below. The deadline for Summer 2008 is May 1, 2008.

CARA Summer Scholarships
Medieval Institute
715 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629

Other General Information

For other general information on the upcoming University of Notre Dame summer session as a whole, visit its website at http://www.nd.edu/~sumsess/. A University Summer Session Bulletin of Information is printed by mid-February and it, along with course-registration and housing-application forms, can be requested by calling or writing:

Summer Session Office
University of Notre Dame
Room 111 Earth Sciences Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602
tel: (574) 631-7282
fax: (574) 631-6630
email: sumsess.1@nd.edu.