FLAS Fellowships for 2021-2022: Student Funding for Languages!
Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships in African, Asian, and International studies are now being accepted for summer 2021 and academic year 2021-2022! Applications are due Tuesday, February 2, 2021.
The competition is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students to study a modern less-commonly-taught language (LCTL) in combination with area studies courses. Fellowships are available for the following modern foreign languages:
African Studies: Arabic, Somali, Swahili, Portuguese
Asian Studies: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Urdu
International Studies: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Swahili, Swedish, Urdu
In addition to the languages listed above, a variety of modern languages received through CourseShare are available for funding with approval. Please email the Language Center at elsie@umn.edu to discuss options before submitting an application for a language not offered locally.
For more information on FLAS and application instructions visit z.umn.edu/flas. The Institute of Global Studies will host three information sessions in the coming weeks. Please join online. Registration not required, and the same link is used for all sessions:
- Thursday, November 5, 2020, 1:00 pm
- Wednesday, November 12, 2020, 10:00 am
- Thursday, December 1, 2020, 3:00 pm
