Welcome to SEASSI!
Summer 2025 session dates: June 16 – August 8
The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and non-traditional students. Students learn speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills through classroom instruction and a full range of co-curricular activities.
Languages offered through SEASSI include:
- Burmese
- Filipino
- Hmong
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Khmer
- Lao
- Thai
- Vietnamese
We are thrilled that you are interested in studying a Southeast Asian Language!
Please review our website for program details, and feel free to call (608-265-2652) or email (seassi@lpo.wisc.edu) for more information.
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SEASSI Partners
Wish to sponsor & collaborate with SEASSI? Contact us: seassi@lpo.wisc.edu
SEASSI is sponsored and supported by the following centers, national resource centers, and institutional partners. Our SEASSI community includes:
UW-Madison Affiliated
Stakeholder Network
- Arizona State University
- Cornell University
- Michigan State University
- Northern Illinois University
- Ohio University
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- University of Michigan
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Washington
- Yale University