The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a fully funded summer overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students. With the goal of broadening the base of Americans studying and mastering critical languages and building relationships between the people of the United States and other countries, CLS provides opportunities to a wide range of students from across the United States at every level of language learning.

The CLS Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State. (Click here for more information).