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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
Graduate Fellowships
Funding is available from UW-Madison
Area and International Studies Programs for
Summer Intensive Language Study (2009)
and
Academic Year Language/Area Studies (2009-10)
Application Deadline: February 16th
FLAS Fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education
to encourage area and international studies and to stimulate foreign language acquisition and fluency.
to encourage area and international studies and to stimulate foreign language acquisition and fluency.
Fellowship Details:
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• FLAS awards may
be used for either a domestic or overseas academic program of study.
Language training taken outside of the U.S. must be at an advanced
level and requires special approval.
• FLAS recipients must be full-time graduate students.
• Academic Year
FLAS recipients who are not dissertators must take at least one area
studies course and one language course each semester.
• Summer awards
can be used for intensive language study in programs that last for at
least 6 weeks and provide the equivalent of a full academic year of
language study.
• Applications from students in professional fields are encouraged.
• Fellowships cover the cost of tuition and provide a stipend.
Eligible Languages (note that some may only be offered in summer):
Akan/Twi, Arabic, Bashkir, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Chuvash, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Icelandic,
Indonesian/Malaysian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kazak, Khmer, Lao, Korean, Kyrgyz,
Malayalam, Marathi, Modern Greek, Modern Irish, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quichua,
Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil,
Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish (Azeri), Turkmen, Tuvan, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek,
Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yakut, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya
Fellowships are offered by the following
Programs and Centers:
The African Studies Program, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for European Studies,
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia,
Center for South Asia, Center for South East Asian Studies, and Global Studies
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia,
Center for South Asia, Center for South East Asian Studies, and Global Studies
Application Deadline: February 16, 2009*
*Specific requirements may vary depending on the
language. Please consult the relevant area studies program
or the following website for further details and application forms:
Submitted by UW Law School Newsletter Admin on December 1, 2008
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