Summer Language Learning Opportunities

Critical Language Scholarship Program (CLS)  (Administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and the American Councils for international Education) - Application deadline:  November 15, 2011

A program of United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program will offer intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2012.

Consortium for Advanced Study of Thai (CAST) (Administered by the University of Washington, Seattle) - Application deadline:  February 1, 2012 

The Advanced Study of Thai Program (AST) is an intensive eight-week course of instruction in advanced Thai language to be conducted in Thailand with instruction provided by members of the faculty of Chiang Mai University (CMU), Chiang Mai, Thailand. AST is sponsored by the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Thai. Note that AST is contingent upon receipt of funding from the US Department of Education under the Title VI/Fulbright-Hays legislation.

Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian (COTI) (Administered by University of California – Los Angeles) - Application deadline: February 13, 2012 

This Eight-week intensive language program for advanced students of Indonesian focuses on advanced-level language acquisition and consists of a structured academic program of four hours of language instruction fourmornings/week and two-three hours of task-based activities one afternoon per week plus a group field trip on Friday.  One weekend will feature an excursion to a cultural site in Java outside Salatiga.

Balinese International Program on Asian Studies (BIPAS) (Administered by Bali Exchange, Washington, DC) - Application deadline: March 1, 2012  

Bali Exchange partners with Udayana University to offer you the BIPAS study abroad program. The program begins with orientation days that allow students to find accommodation and get adjusted to living in Indonesia. Then, students attend eight weeks of intensive academic coursework, taking either a course load of classes taught in English on various Asian studies topics or intensive Indonesian language study.