The
United States Department of State is pleased to announce the scholarship
competition for the 2012 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for
overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign
languages. CLS institutes provide fully-funded group-based intensive language
instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten
weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students. Students may apply
for one language, and will be placed at institute sites based on language
evaluations after selection.
Languages
offered: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.
Interested
applicants should review the full eligibility and application information on the
CLS Program website: www.clscholarship.org/applicants. Arabic, Chinese, Persian,
Russian, and Japanese institutes have language prerequisites, which can be found
here:
http://www.clscholarship.org/applicants.htm#prerequisites.
Students
from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine,
sciences, and humanities are encouraged to apply. While there is no service
requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to
continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply
their critical language skills in their future professional
careers.
The
CLS Program has planned outreach events at universities across the U.S. in fall
2011. Check out the CLS webpage or our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship, as we may be coming to your
institution!
For
more information about the CLS Program and to access the on-line application,
please visit the CLS website:
http://www.clscholarship.org.