Please be sure to read and follow the general
application instructions. However, when responding
to the following items on the application form,
use these special instructions.
| Item Number
in Application |
Special Instruction |
| Items 1-18 | |
Complete |
| Item 1| |
Select Fulbright-German Studies
Seminar |
| Item 3 | |
Select SE |
| Item 17 | |
Write Program Name, Fulbright German
Studies Seminar |
| Items 18 | |
Write "Participate in
seminar" |
| Item 19 | |
Fill out if claiming German
proficiency |
| Items 20 -
22 | |
Complete |
| Items 23 -
27 | |
OMIT |
| Item 29 - 33 | |
Complete |
| Items 35 -
37 | |
Complete |
| Items 36 | |
Enter three referees (no teaching
reference required) |
| Publicity Survey | |
Optional |
| Attachments | |
Attach project statement, curriculum
vitae and sample syllabus, if
appropriate |
| Language Proficiency | |
Submit to document German proficiency,
if seminar is offered in German
and German fluency is required |
Curriculum Vitae/Resume
Please attach to the application your curriculum
vitae, not to exceed six pages, and if you are
a teacher, a syllabus from a course that you teach
presently.
Project Statement
Address (1) the scope of your current teaching
and/or professional responsibilities, (2) how
the seminar will be useful to you in your teaching,
and/or professional activities (3) how the curricula
or activities/programs at your home institution
incorporate subjects related to the seminar topic,
(4) how subjects related to the seminar may be
incorporated into the curriculum or new programs
in the future and (5) how you would share the
impact of the seminar with a wider audience. If
you have had a Fulbright grant or other international
experiences in the past, describe the impact it
had on your professional life and on your institution.
Please note that the project statement is a critical
part of your application. The recommended length
of the statement is three or four single-spaced
pages.
Language Proficiency Report
Required from all applicants, except native speakers
and those with a Ph.D. in German language/literature.
Not required when seminar is conducted in English.
References
References should be sought from the three persons
you listed in item 28. They should include (1)
a colleague in your academic or professional field
with whom you are presently associated, (2) someone
outside your home institution who can judge your
experience and ability to benefit from the seminar
and (3) another person who fits (1) or (2).
Submit only three references. Make three photocopies
each of the Special Instructions for References
(below) and the Fulbright Reference Letter instructions.
(See Fulbright Scholar Prog. Application
form) Complete Part I of the latter form and
indicate in Part II to whom and by when the letter
should be returned. Advise referees to follow
these special instructions in place of the fourth
bulleted item of Part II of the general instructions.
Send both photocopied instructions to each
of the three persons you have asked to write a
reference for you. CIES also recommends that
you include a copy of your project statement.
If referees will be submitting their letters directly
to CIES, request that they inform you when they
have mailed their letter. If you use the online
application form, send a copy of the special instructions
below to each referee.
Review Process
Applications will be reviewed in the United States
by an advisory committee of persons in the subject
areas covered in the seminar; reviewers are, in
many instances, alumni of this or other Fulbright
programs. Papers of candidates recommended for
awards will also be reviewed by the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the German
Fulbright Commission in Berlin, which makes the
final selection of grantees.
Special Instructions
for References
Please address the following points:
Applicant's professional qualifications
Knowledge of his/her discipline, teaching ability,
professional background, and willingness to
learn about and discuss issues beyond his/her
discipline.
Applicant's personal qualifications
Ability to function well in a group; resiliency
and suitability for a program with a demanding
schedule
Applicant's institutional relationships
(if they are known to you)
Expected benefits to the home institution of
the applicant's participation; commitment of
the institution to German studies/seminar topic.
Application deadline for the 2010-2011 program
is November 1, 2009.
Please be sure to sign your letter and return
it to the applicant or CIES, as indicated. If
you submit the letter directly to CIES, please
inform the applicant when you have mailed the
letter.
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