The Maes Scholarship is an exciting opportunity to travel abroad to improve your language skills and experience the cultures you have studied at Occidental College.
What is it?
Administered by the Language Departments at Occidental College, the Scholarship provides funds for one or two students to travel abroad for a cultural experience every summer.
The Scholarship does not fund formal study at language institutes or universities. It is also not intended for formal research projects. Instead, students submit a proposal for an international cultural experience of their own design with the goal of exploring language and culture in real-world settings.
Who should apply?
Students—including graduating seniors—who have taken a modern language course at Oxy, numbered 202 or higher, and received an A or A-.
In an effort to support language students who did not have an opportunity to study abroad under the auspices of an Oxy program, only students who have not previously studied abroad (semester or summer) will be considered.
Applications will be considered from students who have studied the following languages at Oxy: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish.
