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2009 Summer FLAS for Graduate Students

Deadline: March 16, 2009

Application instructions
Please consult CREEES Associate Director Rob Wessling with questions about summer FLAS eligibility and applications.
A complete Summer 2009 FLAS Application includes:

1) Summer 2009 FLAS Application Form (available for download to the right)
2) Unofficial Transcript (available on Axess)
3) Statement of Purpose (instructions below)
4) One Letter of Recommendation from Faculty Advisor (may be in the form of an email sent to Karen Haley.

Submit all of these materials electronically by March 16, 2009 to Karen Haley. Applicants who prefer to use the the US Postal system should send materials to CREEES, attn FLAS administrator, Encina West, Room 217, Stanford University, MC 6045, Stanford, CA 94305.

Summer FLAS fellowships
The summer Foreign Language Areas Studies (FLAS) fellowships, sponsored by the US Department of Education, for the study of Russian, East European and Eurasian languages are administered at Stanford by CREEES. The summer FLAS fellowships are intended for graduate students' advanced, intensive study in the US or abroad of one of the languages of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. A summer FLAS Fellowship pays for the language program's tuition and provides a stipend for living expenses of $2,500. CREEES offers FLAS fellowships to graduate students for summer language study in the following languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Uzbek, Tajik, Azeri, Kazakh, Georgian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Armenian, Romanian, and others. Contact Rob Wessling with questions about eligible languages and summer language programs.

Eligibility
A candidate must:
* be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States
* be a matriculated graduate student at Stanford in a program that includes international studies and modern foreign language training, or a student in a professional school whose studies and research necessitate the study of a foreign language.

Summer Language Programs must:
* attempt to offer in one summer the equivalent of a full academic year of language study
* be a minimum of 6 weeks in duration, preferably longer
* offer a minimum of 140 contact hours of instruction at the beginning or intermediate levels, and a minimum of 120 contact hours of instruction at advanced levels.

Please note that The US Department of Education does not publish a list of eligible language programs. The applicant should look for programs that meet the above criteria and should consult Rob Wessling with questions about eligible programs.

Priority is given to language study at the intermediate or advanced levels, although in some circumstances beginning level is permitted for study in the US. A FLAS Fellowship may not be used for beginning language study abroad unless there is no program in that language in the US. A fellowship holder may receive additional outside support for travel and living expenses, but FLAS support of tuition will be reduced by the amount of any outside funding support of tuition.

Tips for an Effective Application
The applicant should submit the following materials:
* The accompanying one-page "Summer 2009 FLAS Application Form" (available for download at right)
* An unofficial Stanford transcript (download from AXESS)
* A Statement of Purpose in which you: describe the language program(s) for which you are seeking a FLAS Fellowship; state the status of your application with each program ; explain how studying the proposed language fits into your academic program and research needs; and give exact tuition cost figures for your proposed program(s). (Please note: If the proposed language instruction program does not publish tuition cost separate from room and board expenses, you must contact the program for a breakdown of cost figures. We cannot grant a summer FLAS Fellowship until we have exact tuition costs.)
* A letter of recommendation (e-mail or paper copy) from your faculty advisor sent to Karen Haley.

Submit the above application materials electronically by March 16, 2009 to Karen Haley

Or by US mail to: CREEES, attn FLAS Administrator, Encina West, Room 217, Stanford University, MC 6045, Stanford, CA 94305.

 

Summer 2009 FLAS Application Form