Apply today for a fully funded scholarship to study Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Khmer or Burmese with the Blakemore Freeman Fellowship. Applications for Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for the 2021/2022 academic year will open July 1, 2020 and close December 30, 2020.
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for one academic year of full-time, intensive language study of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Khmer or Burmese at the advanced level in approved language programs in East or Southeast Asia.
Superior candidates pursuing careers in fields such as academia, STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), environmental studies, international business, accounting, law, medicine, journalism, architecture, teaching, social or NGO work, and government service are encouraged to apply.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for a grant, an applicant must:
• Be pursuing a professional, business, technical or academic career that involves the regular use of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Khmer or Burmese.
• By the start of the grant, have (at minimum) a college undergraduate degree.
• Be at or near an advanced level in the language. By the start of the grant, applicants must have completed (at minimum) the equivalent of the third year of languages classes at the college level, either through classes taken in the U.S. or through a combination of study at the college level in the U.S. and intensive language study abroad programs.
• Be able to devote oneself exclusively to full-time intensive language study during the term of the grant; grants are not made for part-time study or research.
Eligible Language Programs
For Japanese, we fund study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. We do not award fellowships for any other Japanese language program.
For Chinese, we fund study at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, or the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. We do not award fellowships for any other Chinese language program.
For Korean, we fund study at Seoul National University, Sogang University and the Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies at Sungkyukwan University in Seoul, South Korea. We will consider study at other language programs in South Korea on a case-by-case basis during the application review process.
Approval of language programs for study of Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese will be considered on an individual basis as part of the application review process.
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