ABSTRACT
The language program at Yale-NUS College has managed to offer several languages since 2013, thanks to collaborations with local, regional, and international partners. Although language instruction had not been part of the original academic blueprint, given the institution's diverse student body and students’ academic and personal interests, the need for creative and sustainable solutions soon became evident. This chapter describes the various approaches taken to develop our language program, from working with local institutional partners to establishing relationships with other institutions around the world via teleconference. It explains the rationale and steps taken to ensure this model was successful in addition to the challenges it posed to keep it running.
