Target Language Experts at Carthage
Every year we welcome a dozen young university graduates from all over the world who take graduate courses at the College while they teach some of Carthage College students' first year language classes and more advanced language students Conversation courses.
Our Target Language Experts have come from China, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and Senegal.
During their first year, Target Language Experts
- Teach two classes of first- year language per semester plus a conversation weekly course one semester each year.
- Earn a stipend of US $5000 for the first year plus a $500 bonus, and an increase in the second year.
- Take classes (valued at about $25,000 per year) that may lead toward a Master�s degree in Education
- Are provided a private room and full board (food) (valued at $7,000).
- Live in a small international community with other young people from Germany, France, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, and Japan.
Carthage requires that Target Language Experts
- Have sufficient command of English, to allow each one to participate in university courses and write papers in English.
- Have a University diploma before beginning here.
- Be interested in sharing their language and culture with young Americans
- Be willing to spend two years in the US living in a small international community on campus
Target Language Experts the faculty of the College judges to have sufficient skills to write a master's thesis are permitted to pursue the diploma of Master of Education awarded by the College.
If you have questions about this program, please contact Professor Marian Rothstein, Director of Target Language Experts: mrothstein@carthage.edu.