2011 Critical Language Scholarships, USA

Summer Language Programs at American Overseas Research Centers, USA
Study Subject: Foreign Languages
Employer: Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) institutes 
Level: Undergraduate, Master’s and Ph.D
Scholarship Description: Full funding including travel expenses for U.S. citizens to participate in summer language programs at American Overseas Research Centers and affiliated partners; the 2009 Russian programs will be held in Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Samara, and Tomsk and hosted by SUNY-Stony Brook. Participants will be expected later to apply their critical language skills in their professional careers.
A program of United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2011. The selection process will be administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) with awards approved by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The CLS Program will be administered by CAORC and American Councils for International Education. Critical Language Scholarship (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, Master’s and Ph.D. students.

• 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.

The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government 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. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Please visit 2011 CLS Institutes for more information.


Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 November 2011


Further Scholarship Information and Application