Critical Language Scholarships

[Josh Wilson]

For those interested in encouraging your students to apply, here's the
website: http://www.clscholarship.org/home.php 

Josh Wilson
Asst. Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor-in-Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org
jwilson at sras.org


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[mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:20 AM
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Subject: [SEELANGS]

Here's part of an internal university memo. The one I have has the  
State Dept seal, but the listserv treats it as attachment, so you  
would have to take my word for it: it's there.



The Department of State's Critical Language Scholarships provide  
funding for intensive overseas summer study of "critical need"  
languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Indic (Bangla, Bengali, Hindi,  
Punjabi, Urdu), Korean, Persian, Russian, and Turkish. Programs range  
from 7 weeks to 11 weeks, beginning in early to mid-June with a pre- 
departure orientation.

Benefits

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, travel within  
country and all entrance fees for program activities. University  
level credit may be available.

Requirements (subject to change)

All applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants must be either  
currently enrolled in a degree-granting program at the undergraduate  
or graduate level or have graduated from an undergraduate or graduate  
program no more than 2 years ago. Students in all disciplines are  
encouraged to apply. Current undergraduate students must have  
completed at least one year of general college course-work by program  
start date. Recipients are expected to continue their language study  
beyond the scholarship period and later apply their critical language  
skills in their professional careers.



Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC. 20016
(202) 885-2387 	
fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu




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