Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes

Deadline: 2012-11-20 (National)

This program offers intensive overseas study in critical foreign languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, HIndi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu. Recipients participate in beginning, intermediate, or advanced level summer language programs overseas for a period of 7 to 10 weeks. Languages taught are: Arabic, Persian (Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level); Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, Urdu (Beginning, intermediate or advanced level); Chinese, Japanese, Russian: (Intermediate or advanced level).

Eligibility

Open to U.S. citizens who are undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates. Students in all disciplines, including business, engineering, science, the social sciences, and humanities are encouraged to apply.

Term

7 to 10 weeks

Support

All program costs are covered for participants. This includes travel between the student's home city and program location, pre-departure orientation costs, applicable visa fees, room, board, group-based intensive language instruction, program-sponsored travel within country, and all entrance fees for program activities.

Application Process

Apply online at program website.

Learn More

Please see above web site. CLS Ambassador Ben Bissell is holding a drop-in information session on November 8 from 6 to 7:30, 16 East Lawn.