What are the requirements for using a FLAS award?
FLAS fellowships are awarded for: • A formal domestic or overseas academic program of full-time study during the academic year. • Dissertation research abroad during the academic year. • A formal program of intensive language study during the summer. Only students who are at the advanced level of language proficiency can be approved to use a FLAS for dissertation research. The use of language in dissertation research must be extensive enough to be able to consider the foreign language improvement facilitated by the research equal to the improvement that would be obtained from a full academic year’s worth of formal classroom instruction. Given that the legislative intent of the FLAS fellowship program is language acquisition an that IEPS has a separate dissertation fellowship program (Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program) with an annual competition, IEPS does not encourage the use of the FLAS program for dissertation research. Students wishing to use an award to
