Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes

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. The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)
Program will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in
thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2010.

ELIGIBILITY
All applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants must be currently
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 summer of 2010. Students
in all disciplines including business, engineering, sciences, social
sciences and humanities are encouraged to apply. Only graduate
students and graduating seniors are eligible to apply to the summer
2010 Persian program.

FUNDING
All program costs are covered for participants. This includes travel between the student’s US home city and program location, pre-departure orientation costs, applicable visa fees, room, board, group-based intensive language instruction, program-sponsored travel within country, and all entrance fees for program activities.

Deadline: 12/18/2009

Program URL: http://www.clscholarship.org/home.php

Tel: 202-633-1599

Fax: 202-786-2430