AIIS offers intensive, immersion-based training in modern and classical South Asian languages at multiple sites in India. Languages which may include: Bangla (Bengali), Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mughal Persian, Pali/Prakrit, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kashmiri, Oriya, Sindhi, and Tibetan.
Three types of programs are offered:
- Summer Programs: 8 weeks, from June to August
- Academic Year Programs: 9 months, from September to May
- One Semester Programs
Funding
AIIS awards full fellowships, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Group Projects Abroad program, to qualified academic-year and semester program students on a competitive basis. Fellowships are intended for students who have successfully completed the equivalent of two years of language training and who seek intensive immersion instruction within a target-language environment to work toward an advanced-to-superior level of proficiency.
Deadline
January 31
Fellowship Website:
https://www.indiastudies.org/language-programs/Fellowship Contact:
aiis@uchicago.edu