Experiential Learning Opportunities

Recent experience has proven that Asian Studies majors and minors who have completed internships fare significantly better when applying for jobs or graduate school. The gold standard is spending a semester or summer interning in Asia.

If finances or life circumstances make it impossible to leave Provo, you can still have an outstanding internship experience through local providers. Visit the Internships page for more information

Other Opportunities

Cambodian Oral History Project

• Transcribe and translate interviews from Khmer to English to help preserve Cambodian family histories
• For questions, contact Dana Bourgerie dana_bourgerie@byu.edu or go to odh.byu.edu
  

Language Immersion Student Residence (LISR)

• Participate in a unique language immersion experience by studying and speaking the same language with native speakers and fellow language learners
• Application:https://housing.byu.edu/secure/services/c_housing_areas/FLSRInfo.aspx#section-7

Study Buddy Program through the English Language Center

• Become paired with a native speaker for your target language and participate in language exchanges weekly
• To apply, email elcmainoffice@byu.edu to ask for a language exchange study buddy

Present research in the Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Research Conference

• Gain experience and build your resume by presenting your research in a half-day poster conference

History Department’s Student Paper Awards

• Submit papers written within the last year to earn an award

Submit a paper to The Thetean

• Submit your research to the History Department’s student journal

Join Phi Alpha Theta

• Join the nationwide History Honor Society and gain experience, apply for scholarships, and enjoy social activities with students and professors

Obtain a Language Certificate

• Earn a BYU Language Certificate which will strengthen your resume as you seek employment or apply to graduate school
• For questions, reach out to: cls@byu.edu 3086 JFSB

Asian Studies Student Journal

• Become an editor for the Asian Studies Student Journal. Strengthen your resume and build skills in writing, editing, and academic publishing
• For applications and position availability email marc_yamada@byu.edu

Kennedy Center Photo Contest

• Submit photos from International Study Programs to earn an award

Grants and Financial Aid

For more information reach out to:

• Kennedy Center: James Mayo: 237 HRCB, (801)-422-3375
• Humanities: Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers liberalarts@byu.edu, 1049 JFSB

Kennedy Center:

• ISP Discount
  
  • Only currently enrolled, undergraduate BYU–Provo students with a minimum 3.0 GPA are eligible to apply for the ISP Program Discount
• Gilman Scholarship
  
  • U.S. undergraduate students who receive a Pell Grant have an opportunity to pursue academic study abroad for the purpose of preparing for significant roles in an ever-increasing global economy and interdependent world.
• Freeman-ASIA Scholarship
  
  • Scholarships for undergraduates are reserved for students with demonstrated financial need who have little or no experience in the Asian country they wish to study.
  • Application deadline: April
• Fund for Education Abroad
  
  • Applicants from groups underrepresented in study abroad and those destined for nontraditional locations are given preference
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program
  
  • Interested students should typically contact James Mayo, the Kennedy Center scholarship coordinator, during their Junior year, if interested in going abroad right after graduation.
  • Application deadline: 30 August
• Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant
  
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society study abroad grants are designed to help support undergraduates with a GPA of 3.75 or above to go abroad.
  • Application deadline: March
• Experiential Learning
  
  • Experiential learning grants are managed by each academic college, with most colleges allowing experiential learning money to be applied to an international educational experience.
• CLS: Critical Language Scholarship
  
  • The CLS Program provides fully funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks each summer for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students in twelve foreign languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.
  • Application deadline: November
• Boren Awards
  
  • The Boren Awards program aids language study abroad in countries that are critical to U.S. national interests. Emphasized world areas include: Africa, Asia, Central, and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
  • Application Deadline: January
    

Liberal Arts (Humanities):

• LISR Funding
  
  • Open to students living in the Language Immersion Student Residence.
• Professional Internship Funding
  
  • Open to Humanities majors or minors who are participating in an unpaid, professionally supervised internship.
• Alternative Professional Experience
  
  • Open to Humanities majors or minors who are seeking support for an unpaid experiential learning opportunity that is not a traditional internship or study abroad. See the application for more information.
• College of Humanities Study Abroad Funding
  
  • Open to Humanities majors or minors who are participating in a College of Humanities-sponsored Study Abroad program.
• Ashford/Taylor Scholarship
  
  • Open to Humanities majors who are participating in a study abroad program that is NOT sponsored by the College of Humanities.