The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Iceland, organizes every year an International Summer Course in Modern Icelandic and Icelandic Culture. The course is to be held in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. Classes take place at the University Campus at Suðurgata.

The course is primarily intended for university students of language and literature, but anyone interested in Icelandic and Icelandic culture is welcome to apply. Applicants must have completed at least one year of study on University level. The applicants' residence must not be in Iceland.

Approximately 45 students can be accepted in the course. They will be taught in two groups on the basis of their previous knowledge of Icelandic. Prerequisite for participation is to have finished the course Icelandic Online 1,  which is to be found free of charge on the web.

Language skills will be tested at the time of deadline for application with an online test, the test takes about 1 hour and the applicants have about 10 days to take it.