Critical Language Scholarship
The Critical Language Scholarship Program (CLS) is an intensive group based overseas language study program. For 8 to 10 weeks each summer, students from across the U.S. live and study at over twenty sites abroad, covering the equivalent of a full year of university-level language study in thirteen critical languages.
The fourteen CLS languages are: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Swahili (new in 2016), Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.
New for the 2016 CLS Program: CLS will offer specialized courses at some institutes, focusing on topics such as health, climate and energy, business and entrepreneurship. Courses will incorporate language learning with field-specific opportunities.
CLS is part of a U.S. government effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, from a wide variety of fields of study, backgrounds and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of professional, regional, cultural and academic backgrounds in the United States.
Eligibility:
All applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants must be enrolled in a U.S. degree granting program at the undergraduate or graduate level. All candidates must have completed at least their first year of university-level study by the beginning of the summer institute.
The application is now live and available online at: http://www.clscholarship.org
Applications will be due November 23, 2015.
For guidance and application advice please contact Baruch’s Fellowships Advisor, Valeria Hymas at [email protected]
