LAII Hosts Info Session for Foreign Language Fellowships

The Latin Amer­i­can and Iber­ian Insti­tute hosts an infor­ma­tion and appli­ca­tion ses­sion for the For­eign Lan­guage and Area Stud­ies Fel­low­ship on Wednes­day, Dec. 5 from noon to 1 p.m. at the LAII Read­ing Room, 801 Yale NE.

The call for appli­ca­tions is for U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion aca­d­e­mic year and sum­mer FLAS fel­low­ships, which the FLAS Aca­d­e­mic Year fel­low­ship sup­port train­ing in Por­tuguese, K’iche’ Maya and Quechua, and pro­vides tuition and fees (12 cred­its for grad­u­ate stu­dents; 12 cred­its for under­grad­u­ate stu­dents) for the fall and spring semes­ters, plus a stipend of $15,000 for grad­u­ate stu­dents or $5,000 for under­grad­u­ates. Fel­low­ships are awarded on a one-year basis.

The FLAS Sum­mer fel­low­ship pro­vides the major­ity of pro­gram fees for inten­sive study of a less-commonly-taught Latin Amer­i­can lan­guage at a FLAS-eligible pro­gram in the U.S. or Latin Amer­ica. Such lan­guages include Brazil­ian Por­tuguese, K’iche’ Maya, Quechua as well as other indige­nous languages.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Ash­ley Valenzuela-Ruesgen.