Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes Info Session

2011 Critical Language Scholarship Representative to Visit UM Campus

Monday, October 25 at 4 pm
Allen Hall, Room 101

CLS Program Representative, Malaika Serrano, will be on campus to answer questions about the program and talk about selection committees look for in a winning application. The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the upcoming scholarship competition for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2011.  Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks each summer. 

Application deadline is November 15, 2010.

Levels available for each language are as follows:

• Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, or Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
• Arabic or Persian: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
• Chinese, Japanese, or Russian: Intermediate or advanced level.

Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply critical language skills in future professional careers.

For more information visit http://www.CLScholarship.org or e-mail prestigiousawards@miami.edu.