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 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 thirteen CLS languages are:
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean,
Persian, Punjabi, Russian, 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 thirteen languages. Arabic, Chinese, Persian,
Russian, and Japanese institutes have language prerequisites, which can be
found on the CLS website: http://www.clscholarship.org.
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 12, 2014 by 8:00 pm EST.
Prior to preparing their
application, interested students should review the full eligibility and
application information on the CLS Program website: http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.
For news, updates and more
information about the CLS Program, check out the CLS website or our Facebook
page for updates!
CLS Website: http://www.clscholarship.org.
CLS
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship
For questions, please contact us at: cls@americancouncils.org
For questions, please contact us at: cls@americancouncils.org
Best wishes,
Eric Christensen
Senior Program Officer, Critical
Language Scholarship Program
American Councils for
International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20036
T 202-833-7522
F 202-833-7523
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