Scholarship for Summer Language Study: U.S. Dept. of State Critical Languages Scholarship

The U. S. Department of State is pleased to announce the scholarship
competition for the 2013 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
in thirteen critical need foreign languages. The CLS Program provides
fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured
cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S.
citizen undergraduate and graduate students.

Languages offered: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi,
Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and
Urdu.

The application is available online at http://www.clscholarship.org.
Applications will be due November 15, 2012. Prior to preparing their
application, interested students should review the full eligibility
and application information on the CLS Program website:
www.clscholarship.org/applicants. Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian,
and Japanese institutes have language prerequisites, which can also be
found at the link above.

Students from all academic disciplines, including business,
engineering, law, medicine, sciences, and humanities are encouraged to
apply. While there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program
awards, participants are expected to continue their language study
beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language
skills in their professional careers.

The CLS Program will be planning outreach events at universities
across the U.S. in fall 2012. Check out the CLS webpage or our
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship for updates!

For more information about the CLS Program, please visit the CLS
website: http://www.clscholarship.org.