Critical Language Scholarship Deadline: 15 November

Each summer, American undergraduate and graduate students can spend eight to ten weeks learning one of fourteen languages at an intensive study abroad institute through the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program. The CLS Program is a fully funded study abroad program, designed to promote rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency in regions that are critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity.  These languages include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian, Swahili, Russian, Arabic, among others. 

Applications for the Summer 2023 CLS Institutes are due November 15, 2022. For more information, check out the CLS website at <clscholarship.org>. Dr. Brian Souders, Associate Director of the UMBC Center for Global Engagement, is happy to advise any UMBC student wishing to apply, including review of your application essays. Please contact him at <souders@umbc.edu>.