Each year the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program, funded through the US Department of Education, provides almost $1 million in funding to UT undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to study foreign languages and cultures at UT and elsewhere in the US and abroad. Applications for the 2022-23 academic year and 2023 summer fellowships will open in early to mid-November and close in early to mid-February.
INFORMATION SESSIONS
In-person
Thursday, October 20 • 4:00 – 5:30pm
RLP 1.302B West Conference Room
Virtual
Monday, October 24 • 4:00 – 5:30pm
FLAS Languages Approved for Study
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Yiddish*, Persian/Tajik*, and other pre-approved contemporary Russian/East European languages
*Must be studied in a context relevant to Eastern Europe/Former Soviet states. CREEES FLAS are not intended for students studying these languages in a West European or Middle Eastern Studies context.
Center for European Studies
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese*, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish*, Ukrainian, Yiddish
Graduate FLAS also available in French*, Spanish*, & German (intermediate & advanced levels only)
*CES FLAS awards in Portuguese are not intended for students studying Brazil or South America, nor the study of Spanish in relation to Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. CES FLAS awards must be used for study in a European context
South Asia Institute
Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Persian*, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and other pre-approved contemporary South Asian languages
*Must be studied in a context relevant to South Asia.
Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies
Portuguese*, K’iche’, Nahuatl, Kaqchikel, Quechua, Haitian Creole, Chatino, and other Latin American modern languages
*Must be studied in a context relevant to Latin America.