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Hindi (Jaipur) Bengali (Kolkata)

Tamil (Madurai) Telugu (Vizag)

Marathi (Pune) Urdu (Lucknow)

Malayalam (Trivendrum) Sanskrit (Pune)

Pali/Prakrit (Pune)

DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2005

Eligibility

This is an intensive immersion-type language program for graduate and highly motivated undergraduate students at U.S. colleges and universities. Students applying for Hindi and Sanskrit should have the equivalent of at least two years of prior classroom instruction; one year is required for applicants in Bengali and Tamil. Applicants for Urdu should have one year of prior Hindi or Urdu. Applicants for Telugu, Marathi and Malayalam may apply at all levels, including beginning. Applications for other languages will be considered.

Language Program

Participants are expected to devote their energies to activities that will increase their proficiency in all skills--speaking, listening, reading, and writing. For ten weeks at each AIIS language center, there will be at least four hours a day of classroom instruction and individual tutorials with regular out-of-class assignments requiring interaction with community members. Attendance is mandatory in class as well as at other activities such as cultural visits, films, and plays. There is special emphasis on connecting with the local speech community and self-management of learning. Participants are encouraged to identify and prioritize their language learning needs and keep track of their language development. Students are encouraged to stay with host families. Note that this is not a research program. Participants are expected to devote all their energies to learning fine shades of the target language. Dependents or friends not enrolled in the program may not accompany students.

Fees and financial Aid

Applicants should apply to their home institutions for Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, which are sufficient for travel, maintenance and the $2,200 program fee. The AIIS will be able to support a limited number of admitted students with no FLAS fellowship.

Applications

All applications must include a check for the $25 processing fee. Applications may be downloaded from the Web, or else obtained from member institutions, or from AIIS headquarters. Completed applications should be mailed to:

American Institute of Indian Studies, 1130 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 Tel. (773) 702-8638. <aiis@uchicago.edu >

http://www.indiastudies.org

The American Institute of Indian Studies is a cooperative, non-profit organization, whose members are American colleges and universities with a special interest in Indian studies.