About FLAS Fellowships

FLAS Fellowships support graduate study in modern foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies, or international or area aspects of professional studies. The following languages, classified by Center, are approved by the U.S. Department of Education for FLAS fellowships at Illinois.

• Center for African Studies : Arabic, Bamana, Lingala, Swahili, Wolof, or Zulu
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies : Portuguese, Quechua or any other Amerindian Language, plus Spanish (third-year or above)
• Center for Global Studies : Arabic, Bamana, Bulgarian, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Lingala, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian or Croatian, Swahili, Turkish, Ukrainian or Wolof; or at the advanced level* (third-year or above) Chinese, Japanese, or Russian
• Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies : Advanced* Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
• European Union Center : Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek (modern), Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian or Turkish; or advanced* French, German, Italian or Spanish
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center : Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.
• Center for South Asian and Middle East Studies : Arabic, Hebrew, or Turkish.

FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Illinois Area Studies Centers and Programs and are awarded competitively through an annual competition. Students from all departments and professional schools are encouraged to apply. Priority is given to the study of less commonly taught languages and each Center has specific priorities. A standardized FLAS application is available on-line through this Web site. Applications are submitted by the student’s department and due February 15th, 2008. Please ask your department about its internal FLAS deadline.

Grant Amount

• Academic year FLAS recipients receive full tuition, mandatory fees, and a stipend ($15,000) during the academic year
• Summer awards cover full tuition for a summer language program as well as required Illinois fees and a $2,500 stipend. Combined tuition and UIUC fees can't exceed $4,000. In some cases, a travel award may also be made.
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