Critical Language Scholarship Info Session
October 14th
3:30-430pm
Mary Gates Hall 171
The CLS Program is a
program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs. It is a fully-funded overseas language program for
American undergraduate and graduate students. With
the goal of broadening the base of Americans studying and mastering
critical languages and to build relationships between the people of the
United States and other countries, CLS provides study opportunities to a
diverse range of students from across the United
States at every level of language learning.
The fourteen CLS languages are: Arabic,
Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean,
Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.
Please note that participants in the CLS Program
are not required to have any experience studying critical languages for
most of the fourteen languages. Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and
Japanese institutes have language prerequisites,
which can be found on the CLS website:
http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.
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.
There is no service requirement for CLS Alumni after the program.
However, participants are expected to continue their language study
beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language
skills in their professional careers. Participants are selected based
on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their
language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits.
Please note that CLS is an intensive group-based language program.
The application is now live and available online at: http://www.clscholarship.org
Applications will be due November 23, 2015 by 7:59 pm EST.
