GRANT - Fellowships for Language Study in Eurasia, ACTR/ACCELS

Application deadlines

Summer Program: March 1
Fall Semester/Academic Year Program: April 1
Spring Semester: October 1

American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is pleased toannounce fellowship opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduatestudents to participate in the Summer 2009 Eurasian Regional LanguageProgram for language study in Central Asia, the Southern Caucasus,Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova.

Applications for the Summer 2009 program are due March 1st. Applicationsare now available for download from the American Councils website: http://www.americancouncils.org.

Fellowships are available through American Councils from U.S. Departmentof State (Title VIII) and U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays)grant support. Recent program participants have also receivedsubstantial fellowship support from the Institute of InternationalEducation (IIE), the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, andthe U.S. Department of Education Title VI (FLAS).

Recent Eurasian Regional Language Program participants have studied:

Azeri in Baku;
Georgian and Chechen in Tbilisi;
Kazakh in Almaty;
Kyrgyz in Bishkek;
Persian (Dari/Farsi/Tajiki) and Uzbek in Dushanbe; and
Ukrainian in Kyiv

Programs also available for the study of Armenian, Buryat, Chechen,Pashto, Romanian, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, and Yakut. Please note thatsome languages are offered in more than one country.

The Eurasian Regional Language Program provides graduate students,advanced undergraduates, scholars, and working professionals intensiveinstruction in the languages of Eurasia. Participants may enroll insemester, academic year, or summer programs. All courses are conductedby expert faculty from leading local universities and educationalinstitutions. Students with at least two years of college-levelinstruction in the target language, Russian, or a language related tothe target language are eligible to apply to the program.

Courses are designed to strengthen participants' oral, listening,reading and writing proficiency in the language of study. Participantsreceive approximately fifteen hours per week of in-class instruction inthe target language. Courses in history, literature, and politics arealso available for advanced speakers. Other program features includepeer tutoring, housing with local host families, and graduate- orundergraduate-level academic credit through Bryn Mawr College.

For more information, please contact:

Russian and Eurasian Outbound Programs
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: (202) 833-7522
Email: outbound@americancouncils.org
Website: www.americancouncils.org