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Each year, the US Department of Education awards Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) funding to Area Studies Centers at the University of Kansas. FLAS funds are awarded in a competitive process open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students to pursue foreign language and area studies for professional purposes. FLAS funds are intended to support high-level second language acquisition among US professionals.

KU offers FLAS from the following centers

CEAS

Center for East Asian Studies

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Uyghur, Tibetan

CGIS

Center for Global and International Studies

Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi, Mongolian, Turkish, Uyghur

CREES

Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies

Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Yiddish

KASC

Kansas African Studies Center

Amharic, Arabic, Hausa, KiSwahili, Wolof, and other languages on demand.
NOTE: KASC FLAS funding for Arabic is for programs that are held in Africa or in an African Studies related domestic programs only.

LAS

Center of Latin American Studies

Hatian Creole, Kaqchikel Maya, Portugese, Quichua, Spanish, and other languages on demand.
NOTE: LAS FLAS funding for Spanish is for advanced graduate level only.