Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute (SIPI)

Applications for SIPI 2025 are closed

Interested applicants should email SIPI for more information

SIPI Summer 2025 Program Dates: June 16 – August 8

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Welcome to SIPI!

8-Week Summer Session

Monday, June 16-Friday, Aug 8, 2025

Pre-Service Orientation Week for WISLI Instructors

Monday, June 9-Friday, June 13, 2025

The Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute (SIPI) is a special eight-week program optimized for those who wish to study beginning Brazilian Portuguese. While optimized for learners who have studied a Romance language, all undergraduate students, graduate students, and adult learners are eligible to apply. Students learn speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills though classroom instruction and a full range of co-curricular activities. 

SIPI is one of six Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI). It is sponsored by the Language Program Office; the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), a Title VI National Resource Center; Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC); and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Applications for SIPI Summer 2025 are closed. Interested applicants should email sipi@lpo.wisc.edu for more information.  

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