GSAS Summer Language Study Funding
The Graduate School offers a limited number of tuition grants for summer language study in Yale Summer Session for PhD students who are required to demonstrate a certain level of language proficiency as part of their degree requirements. If you are a PhD student and your degree requires demonstrated reading knowledge of French, German, Italian, or Spanish, you are eligible to apply for funding from the Graduate School to cover the tuition cost of enrollment in approved YSS courses.
Yale Summer Session language courses eligible for Graduate School tuition grants
The Graduate School sponsors online summer reading courses in French, German, Italian, and Spanish in Yale Summer Session for PhD students. Reading courses are open to students at all levels of language competency. Information about the individual courses can be found on the Yale Summer Session website.
Eligibility
If you are a PhD student and need to take one of these courses to satisfy your degree requirements and/or pursue dissertation research, the Graduate School will fund the tuition and technology fees, and Yale Summer Session will waive the application fee.
Application instructions
You must submit an application to enroll in the course online through the Yale Summer Session website by May 1 at 1pm (EST).
To secure the tuition, technology, and application fee waivers, please take the following steps in the “Education” section of the application:
1. respond to “Please select one” with “I am a Yale Graduate Student”
2. respond to “Please select one” by selecting “Graduate School”
Field of study
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