The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a fully-funded overseas language and cultural immersion summer program for American undergraduate and graduate students. With the goal of broadening the base of Americans studying and mastering critical languages and building relationships between the people of the United States and other countries, CLS provides study opportunities to a diverse range of students from across the United States at every level of language learning. Most languages offered by the CLS Program do not require applicants to have any experience studying critical languages. CLS计划寻求具有不同兴趣的参与者, 并从广泛的研究领域和职业道路, 以代表专业的多样性为宗旨, regional, 美国的文化和学术背景. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits. CLS计划是美国的一个计划.S. 国务院教育和文化事务局. It is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. 太平洋学生可以继续学习普通话, Japanese, Russian, or Arabic, 或者开始学习该项目提供的其他13种语言中的一种, 前提是他们能提出强有力的学术和专业理由.
National Deadline: mid-November.