664.14—What is an advanced overseas intensive language training project?
(a)
(1)
An advanced overseas intensive language project is designed to take advantage of the opportunities present in the foreign country that are not present in the United States when providing intensive advanced foreign language training.
(2)
Project activities may be carried out during a full year, an academic year, a semester, a trimester, a quarter, or a summer.
(3)
Generally, language training must be given at the advanced level, i.e., at the level equivalent to that provided to students who have successfully completed two academic years of language training.
(4)
The language to be studied must be indigenous to the host country and maximum use must be made of local institutions and personnel.
(b)
Generally, participants in projects under this program must have successfully completed at least two academic years of training in the language to be studied.