The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the opening of the scholarship competition for the 2015 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program in thirteen critical foreign languages.
The CLS Program is a fully-funded overseas summer language program for American undergraduate and graduate students. Participants spend a summer overseas, engaged in intensive language studies.
The thirteen CLS languages are: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.
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. Thus, students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply.
To apply: http://www.clscholarship.org
Due: November 12, 2014 by 8:00 pm EST*
Full eligibility and application information: http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants
::: Interested? Contact Sheena Miller at sheena@uic.edu ::::
CLS Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship
Questions? Contact CLS at: cls@americancouncils.org
