Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowship Program
USC graduate students are invited to apply for this award with the consent of their home departments or schools. The award is primarily intended to assist students as they strengthen their Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language skills.These awards are funded by the U.S. Department of Education through its Title VI grant to the East Asian Studies Center. The deadline for both summer and academic year applications is February 5, 2010.
Academic Year 2010-11 FLAS Application
Benefits
For Summer 2010 Awardees:
• $2,500 FLAS stipend
• $4,000 FLAS tuition for approved intensive summer language program in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean
For Academic Year 2010-2011 Awardees:
• $15,000 FLAS stipend plus College/Home Department top-off of up to $6,000 for College doctoral students
• $12,000 FLAS tuition with College tuition match of up to 12 units per semester for fall and spring
Note: Academic Year FLAS fellowships are contingent upon continued funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Eligibility
You are eligible for the fellowship if you:
• are a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.;
• are a full-time USC graduate student engaged in the study of East Asia in any discipline
Selection Criteria
• Your academic performance and potential as evidenced by your GRE scores, GPA, class and department ranking, three letters of recommendation (including a language reference), and statement of purpose.
• The extent to which your overall course of study focuses on East Asian studies and the extent to which your immediate study plan includes appropriate language training through formal study. Preference is given for language study in which letter grades are earned.
• The level of your planned language study. FLAS awards may not be used for first year language study and are not intended for native speakers of the target language.
Additional information
Academic year fellowships are awarded over a ten-month period. Past awardees may reapply, but in no case will students be granted more than four academic years of FLAS support.
Each awardee must enroll in regularly offered language or reading courses for the duration of the award. Awardees are required to complete an on-line performance report at the end of the award period.
Each awardee will also be required to participate in the Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPI) at the beginning and end of the award period. All costs associated with the OPI interviews will be covered by the USC East Asian Studies Center.
FLAS fellowships may be combined with supplementary funding from other funding agencies; however, in cases of parallel large grants (NSF's, Japan Foundation, Monbusho, multiple quarter TA-ships, etc.), recipients will have to decide which grant to accept and pairing will not be allowed. You are required to inform the Center of any awards (apart from graduate student fee waivers) that you may receive during the award period.
