Language Study in India – Summer 2018 · • Others who can demonstrate how intensive language...
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Eligibility • Graduate and undergraduate students at U.S. colleges and universities • Others who can demonstrate how intensive language study will further their professional goals Prerequisite Language Training • Sanskrit: at least two years of prior classroom instruction. • Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, and Urdu: one year. Applicants for Urdu should have one year of Hindi or Urdu. • Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, and Malayalam: none required. Students interested in Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu should also apply to the U.S. State Department’s Critical Languages Scholarship program (www.clscholarship.org), which is also operated by AIIS; AIIS offers beginning level Bengali, Hindi and Urdu to CLS students only. Apply All applications must include a check for the $25 processing fee. Visit www.indiastudies.org for applications. The application deadline is December 31, 2017. Language Program Participants will spend four hours a day in the classroom increasing proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. In the afternoons and on weekends, students have individual tutorials with regular out-of-class assignments requiring interaction with community members. Attendance is mandatory for all program activities. AIIS language programs emphasize interaction with the local community and self-management of learning. Participants identify and prioritize their language learning needs and keep track of their language development. Students are encouraged to stay with host families to enhance their language learning. Note: this is an intensive immersive language program that will not permit the conducting of research. Others not enrolled in the program may not accompany students. Fees and Financial Aid Apply to your home institution for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships or other support to pay for travel, maintenance and the $3,000 program fee. The AIIS will be able to support a limited number of admitted students who cannot obtain other funding. Languages Offered: BENGALI (Kolkata) GUJARATI (Ahmedabad) HINDI (Jaipur) KANNADA (Mysore) MARATHI (Pune) MALAYALAM (Thiruvananthapuram) MUGHAL PERSIAN (Lucknow) PALI/PRAKRIT (Pune) PUNJABI (Chandigarh) SANSKRIT (Pune) TAMIL (Madurai) TELUGU (Hyderabad) URDU (Lucknow) The American Institute of Indian Studies is a cooperative, non-profit organization, whose members are American colleges and universities whose faculty have a special interest in Indian studies. AIIS | www.indiastudies.org | [email protected] | 773-702-8638 Find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES Interested in another Indic language? Ask us! We may be able to arrange a program for you. Language Study in India – Summer 2018
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Eligibility • Graduate and undergraduate students at U.S.
colleges and universities • Others who can demonstrate how intensive language
study will further their professional goals Prerequisite Language Training • Sanskrit: at least two years of prior classroom
instruction. • Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, and Urdu: one year. Applicants
for Urdu should have one year of Hindi or Urdu. • Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, and
Malayalam: none required. Students interested in Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu should also apply to the U.S. State Department’s Critical Languages Scholarship program (www.clscholarship.org), which is also operated by AIIS; AIIS offers beginning level Bengali, Hindi and Urdu to CLS students only. Apply All applications must include a check for the $25 processing fee. Visit www.indiastudies.org for applications. The application deadline is December 31, 2017.
Language Program Participants will spend four hours a day in the classroom increasing proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. In the afternoons and on weekends, students have individual tutorials with regular out-of-class assignments requiring interaction with community members. Attendance is mandatory for all program activities. AIIS language programs emphasize interaction with the local community and self-management of learning. Participants identify and prioritize their language learning needs and keep track of their language development. Students are encouraged to stay with host families to enhance their language learning. Note: this is an intensive immersive language program that will not permit the conducting of research. Others not enrolled in the program may not accompany students. Fees and Financial Aid Apply to your home institution for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships or other support to pay for travel, maintenance and the $3,000 program fee. The AIIS will be able to support a limited number of admitted students who cannot obtain other funding.
Languages Offered: BENGALI (Kolkata)
GUJARATI (Ahmedabad) HINDI (Jaipur)
KANNADA (Mysore) MARATHI (Pune)
MALAYALAM (Thiruvananthapuram)
MUGHAL PERSIAN (Lucknow)
PALI/PRAKRIT (Pune) PUNJABI (Chandigarh)
SANSKRIT (Pune) TAMIL (Madurai)
TELUGU (Hyderabad) URDU (Lucknow)
The American Institute of Indian Studies is a cooperative, non-profit organization, whose members are American colleges and universities whose faculty have a special interest in Indian studies.
AIIS | www.indiastudies.org | [email protected] | 773-702-8638 Find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES
Interested in another Indic language? Ask us! We may be able to arrange a program for you.
Language Study in India – Summer 2018
