The United States Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the availability of overseas scholarships for intensive summer language institutes in eleven critical need foreign languages for summer 2009.
Languages offered: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi,Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.
Countries may include: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Russia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, or others where the target languages are spoken.
Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide seven to ten week group-based intensive language instruction and extensive cultural enrichment experiences
Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (beginning not offered for Azerbaijani, Russian, Chinese or Persian).
Full program details and the on-line application are available online. http://www.clscholarship.org/
Benefits of the scholarship include:
- Travel to and from the student's U.S. home city and program location,
- Mandatory Washington, D.C. pre-departure orientation,
- Applicable visa fees,
- Room & board,
- Group-based intensive language instruction,
- Program-sponsored travel within country, and
- All entrance fees for CLS Program cultural enhancement activities.
The CLS Program is part of the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI), a U.S. government interagency effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical need foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply, including those with and without disabilities.
Deadline to Apply: Friday, November 14, 2008
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