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.
Applications will be due November 12,
2014 by 8:00 pm EST.
For news, updates and more information about the
CLS Program, check out the CLS website or our Facebook page
for updates!
CLS Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship
For questions, please contact us at:
cls@americancouncils.org