UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) offers at least 20 UCLA students an opportunity to study a foreign language for 6 weeks up to 1 academic year. Summer awards are for intensive language study only and can be used for summer study in the US or abroad (at intermediate or advanced level only). The fellowship requires that students take on language and one related area studies course for a letter grade each term during the academic year. Currently approved area programs are East Asia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Currently approved languages include, for East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean; for Latin America: Portuguese, Quechua, Nahuatl, and Advanced Spanish; for Middle East: Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish; and for Southeast Asia: Indonesian, Filipino/Tagalog, Khmer, Thai and Vietnamese.