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Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) available to undergraduate, graduate and professional students

Submitted by Caterina Rost on November 10, 2015 - 10:29am

FLAS fellowships award tuition and a living stipend as follows:

  • Academic Year Graduate: $18,000 tuition, $15,000 living stipend
  • Academic Year Undergraduate: $10,000 tuition, $5,000 living stipend
  • Summer Graduate/Undergraduate: $5,000 tuition, $2,500 living stipend

The FLAS Fellowship is available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. FLAS Fellowships support study of the following languages and their world regions:

  • Arabic
  • Bangla
  • Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Canadian First Nations
  • Chinese
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Estonian
  • Filipino/Tagalog
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian/Malay
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Tajik
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Uighur
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese

FLAS Information Sessions, covering FLAS benefits and requirements, the application process, and the use of FLAS awards abroad, will be held at the following dates and times:

  • Tuesday, November 10, 10-2 UW Study Abroad Fair, HUB North Ballroom, Funding Info Session, 12:30-1:30 HUB 214
  • Thursday, November 12, 2-3 PST Web Chat*
  • Wednesday, November 18, 3:30-4:30 in Thomson Hall 317
  • Tuesday, December 1, 2;30-3:30 in Thomson Hall 317
  • Tuesday, December 8, 3:30-4:20, Smith 309
  • Wednesday, December 16, 3:30-4:30 PST Web Chat*
  • Tuesday, January 5, 1:30-2:30, Thomson Hall 317
  • Thursday, January 14, 2:30-3:30 Virtual Office Hour

*see FLAS website (link below) for access instructions for web chhat sessions
and virtual office 

Applications due January 29, 2016. Questions: email rldavis@uw.edu

For more information, visit http://www.jsis.washington.edu/advise/flas/

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