Undergraduate FLAS Fellowships

Academic-Year FLAS: 2016-2017

What is the undergraduate Academic Year FLAS?
The European Studies undergraduate FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) is a Fellowship awarded to undergraduate students who are pursuing 1) coursework with a European focus and 2) an approved modern foreign language at UT at the intermediate or advanced level. The Fellowship is interdisciplinary and open to students from all departments and schools at UT. Students do not need to be European Studies majors to apply.

What does the Fellowship provide?
The FLAS AY Undergraduate Fellowship provides a nine-month stipend of $5,000 (paid monthly September-May) plustuition and required course-related fees up to $10,000 per academic year. Tuition and fees are covered up to 15 hours per semester. Students who are taking more that 15 hours should contact the Center to discuss whether the additional hours can be covered by the Fellowship.

What languages qualify as “approved” foreign languages?
Czech, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese*, Serbian/Croatian, Swedish, Turkish, and Yiddish. (English, French, German, and Spanish are not approved languages for this undergraduate fellowship.)

We also strongly encourage students studying non-European languages – such as Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Russian – to apply for FLAS fellowships when a contemporary application of those language skills will significantly enhance their work as distinctly European Studies scholars. For example, a student studying Russian must have a clearly defined reason why the study of Russian would help him/her in research/study about a country in Western or Central Europe such as Russian immigration to Germany.

Students may NOT be native speakers of the language nor possess fluency equivalent to educated native speakers in the language for which the award is sought.

*Please note that this Fellowship is not available for students studying Brazilian Portuguese.