East Asia For All is a podcast hosted by Melissa Brzycki (Chinese 2013) and Stephanie Montgomery (Chinese 2013) focused on discussing East Asian pop cultural products and their relevance to understanding different aspects of East Asian life and culture. In this episode they interview CLS Alumna Professor Fang Yu Hu (Japanese 2010) and explore the legacy of Japanese occupation in Taiwan.
CLS in the Press — August 23, 2021
The CLS Program is pleased to announce CLS Refresh, a new language learning opportunity for CLS alumni. To support alumni in their continued commitment to critical languages, individualized virtual language instruction will be offered for approximately 220 CLS alumni beginning in October 2021, at n…
CLS Program News — August 18, 2021
Raavi Asdar’s Critical Language Scholarship not only helped him explore his own sense of self but exposed him to other cultures, all of which play a key factor as he ponders a career abroad after graduation.
CLS in the Press — August 18, 2021
Four students were awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships for intensive study of Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.
CLS in the Press — August 16, 2021
Three Middlebury Institute students, one currently enrolled and two who recently graduated, have been awarded highly competitive scholarships to advance their study of languages considered critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity.
CLS in the Press — August 16, 2021
A Vanderbilt University student who is a 2019 graduate of Henry County High School, is in the midst of completing a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) summer program that has him studying his fifth different language. Jaret Rushing, a rising junior studying philosophy and classical studies at Vanderbilt, was awarded the scholarship to study Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan.
CLS in the Press — August 16, 2021
Sofia Pesantez ’24 is one of 685 college students from across the nation to receive the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Mandarin — one of 15 languages considered critical to American security and economy.
CLS in the Press — August 16, 2021
Alexandra Dionisi (Indonesian 2021) is one of nearly 700 American students to receive the U.S. Department of State's prestigious Critical Language Scholarship.
CLS in the Press — August 11, 2021
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the CLS Program, we are pleased to invite alumni from all program years to enter the 2021 CLS Alumni Photo Contest. Submissions will be accepted through Friday, September 10, 2021 and each entry should fall into one of four categories: Mutual Understanding: ph…
CLS Program News — August 10, 2021
What Do We Call This? is a podcast created and produced by the CLS Alumni Society. This episode explores the experiences of Jessica (Russian 2018) and Jordan (Arabic 2019), both former Community College students involved in Global Community College Transfers (GCCT), a network that promotes and organizes opportunities for current and former community college students to engage with the world.
CLS in the Press — August 09, 2021
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