The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale invites applications to the Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) for modern language study. The FLAS fellowships are funded under Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of the FLAS fellowships is to enhance the international expertise of U.S. nationals. Summer FLAS fellowships are for undergraduate, graduate and professional school students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, whose academic programs include the study of a foreign language designated as high priority by the U.S. Department of Education and whose career plans include teaching, public service or business.
Current students who will be continuing their studies at Yale in the next academic year may apply. Students admitted for study at Yale beginning in the fall semester of the next academic year are also eligible to apply. Students from other universities may also apply for summer fellowships for language study at a FLAS granting institution’s programs.
The summer FLAS fellowship provides payment of program tuition and fees up to $5,000 and a stipend of $3,500. Yale students may apply the award to recognized intensive programs at other selected universities within or outside the U.S., as well as to Yale summer intensive language programs and other programs overseas.
For European Studies students must demonstrate interest or focus and/or experience in European Studies. Applications must be for intermediate and advanced level language study. Preference will be given to those students who have the most significant demonstrated financial need, as indicated by the student’s EFC (based on the FAFSA). All undergraduates must self-report their EFC in their applications; graduate students who wish to be considered for preference based on their financial need must also submit their self-reported EFC in applications.
Eligible languages for undergraduate study include: Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese (Europeanists only), Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian.
USDE reserves the right to approve or reject requests for any other less-commonly-taught modern European languages.