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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowships

Through Grants from the US department of Education (US/ED), CSA offers Summer and Academic Year FLAS fellowships to promote the study of modern foreign languages supporting Asian studies within graduate and professional schools. Priorities will be given to those studying modern less-commonly-taught languages (LCTLs). Students studying other languages are also encouraged to apply.

Funding available:

  • Summer: $2,500 living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees
  • Academic Year: Undergraduates: support levels still to be determined by the US Department of Education; Graduate students: living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees

Informational Meetings:

To facilitate the application process, we will be holding three informational meetings for students and nominating departments.

  • Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 205 Humphrey Institute, 3:30-4:30 p.m. with special emphasis on professional school applicants;
  • Thursday, November 19, 2009, 246 Social Sciences Tower, 3:30-4:30 p.m.with special emphasis on undergraduate student applicants; and
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 246 Social Sciences Tower, 3:30-4:30 p.m.with special emphasis on graduate student applicants.

During these meetings we will discuss such things as eligibility and priorities and strategies for successful applications.

Nominations:

ALL ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS to nominate up to three:

  • undergraduate students for summer
  • undergraduate students for Academic Year FLAS Fellowships;
  • graduate students for a summer and
  • graduate students for Academic Year FLAS Fellowships.

Application Deadline:

Monday, March 12, 2010, 4:30 P.M.

Eligibility:

New and returning students are eligible for awards.FLAS fellowship nominees must be degree-seeking students in good academic standing enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Foreign students are NOT eligible. In principle it is possible to receive another fellowship, scholarship, or award providing any form of stipend, living allowance, subsistence allowance, etc. while receiving a FLAS stipend. However, certain ‘double-dipping’ restrictions apply.

  • Undergraduate students are eligible for FLAS fellowships to study intermediate (2nd-year) or advanced (3rd-year and beyond) levels of a less-commonly-taught language (LCTL.) Undergraduate students are NOT eligible for FLAS funding for 1st-year LCTL instruction or for more-commonly-taught language instruction (i.e. French, German and Spainsh).
  • Graduate students in all programs are eligible, although fellowships will not be awarded to graduate students who major in French, German, or Spanish to study the language of their major. They are eligible to study another language.
  • All graduate students are eligible, although fellowships will not be awarded to graduate students who major in French, German, or Spanish to study the language of their major. They are eligible to study another language.

    Currently we have approval to offer FLAS fellowships in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese.

US/ED Funding Priorities

  • Fellowships to students in the least-commonly taught languages who are pursuing advanced level language proficiency.
  • Fellowships to talented students pursuing master's degrees who may be more likely to pursue government service.

    Please be advised that proposals to study beginning Spanish, French, or German are rarely funded.

    Students wishing to find funding for dissertation research abroad should apply to the Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program.

Application Information

Information for the 2008-09 award cycle will be posted when available
  • Application information (RTF) (PDF)
  • Nominee application (RTF) (PDF)
  • Departmental nomination form (RTF) (PDF)

Information and Inquiries

All inquiries and completed applications should be sent to:

Anne Jin Soo Preston
Consortium for the Study of the Asias
214 Social Science Tower
267-19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612/625-6103
612/626-2242 (fax)
E-mail: asias@umn.edu

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