All declared Undergraduate Linguistics Majors are invited to apply for a Departmental Scholarship. To be eligible, a student must be a resident of Utah and registered for at least 12 credit hours each semester in the year of the award.

The scholarship consists of a tuition waiver (not including fees) for full-time undergraduate study for the academic year. To apply, please submit to the Linguistics Department Scholarships and Awards Committee:

a) Department of Linguistics Scholarship Application Form

b) Transcripts from all institutions of higher learning which you have attended. These must be provided with your scholarship application, even if we have them on file for some other purpose. They must also be up to date through the Fall semester just prior to the application deadline.

c) A statement of purpose letter that is approximately one page in length and outlines your proposed schedule of courses for the academic year. It also includes other information such as your background in linguistics, how you became interested in linguistics, why you think you deserve the scholarship, and your future plans after graduation, to the extent you now know them.You may include other information that you believe is relevant to the selection committee’s appraisal of your candidacy.

Please send your application to the following address:

Department of Linguistics

Attn:  Chair, Scholarships Committee

255 South Central Campus Drive, Rm 2328

Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0492

(801) 581-8047

IMPORTANT:

Application deadline: January 28, 2008

Notification will be by the first week in April and awardees will be recognized at the Linguistics Department Student Conference.

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