Awards and Scholarships

(Current Japanese specialization)

Up to $1500 for tuition. For students of Korean and/or Japanese, preference given to students with a focus on the linguistic history or structure of these languages.

First preference for a student studying Comparative Historical Linguistics of Korean and/or Japanese.

Second preference for a student studying Comparative Cultural Studies of Korean and/or Japanese.

Final preference is for a student studying the languages of Korean and/or Japanese.

(Preference is given to incoming freshmen, incoming transfer students, and first year students)

$1000.00 is awarded to support two undergraduate students pursuing a foreign language or a Languages, Cultures, and International Studies major at SIUC. The award is open to all full-time undergraduate students with a current foreign language or students with the intention to specialize in a foreign language. The award is renewable for up to two years during undergraduate study, provided all requirements are met. 

Requirements:

• Full-time undergraduate student attending SIUC in the fall and spring of the award year. Preference is given to incoming freshmen, incoming transfer students, and first year students
• Have an incoming or overall GPA of 3.0 and a major GPA of at least 3.25
• Declare and maintain as a first major any specialization offered by the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade, such as Classics, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Foreign Language and International Trade (FLIT), French, German, International Studies, and Spanish

Deadline: January 31 - no applications will be accepted past deadline

(Current students)

Approximately $2,000.00 per year will be awarded to Languages, Cultures, and International Studies majors for student travel (e.g., study abroad). Award will be divided between eligible students upon application.

Requirements:

• Attend SIUC in the fall and spring of the award year unless graduation occurs mid-year. (Study abroad programs which are pre-approved by the LCIS advisor will be considered as fulfillment of this criteria)
• Maintain as their primary (first) major any majors/specializations offered by the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade within the College of Liberal Arts
• Maintain full-time enrollment (12 credit hours) during each fall and each spring semester unless graduation occurs mid-year
• Maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 (“B”) and a major GPA of 3.25 or better

Deadline: January 31 - no applications will be accepted past deadline

(This award is available to incoming freshman and community college transfer students. Currently enrolled SIU students may be eligible for the award; subject to availability.)

"Dr. Helmut Liedloff was born in 1930 in Bremen, Germany. He received his Doctorate in German and English at Philipps Universität in Marburg before accepting a teaching assistantship at Southern Illinois University in 1957 where he completed a master’s degree in English (with a specialization in American literature) in 1962. After teaching German at Milwaukee’s Downer College for a year, he was hired as Assistant Professor of German at SIU, where he remained as a very dynamic and much beloved teacher of German from 1964 until 1991 when he retired as full professor, having also served two terms as Department Chair.

During his years at SIU, Dr. Liedloff published six German textbooks, one of which, Deutsch heute, co-authored with Jack Moeller in 1974, was one of the most revolutionary and popular textbooks ever written. Now in its tenth edition, Deutsch heute in the 1980s was used at over 500 universities. Dr. Liedloff’s fields of greatest interest are second language acquisition, comparative cultures, and translation. In these fields he published monographs on: Steinbeck in German Translation: A Study in Translational Practices and, most recently, Briefe zwischen Deutschland und Amerika, a memoir about his experiences growing up during the Third Reich and a New World perspective on post-war Germany.

In 1989 Dr. Liedloff received the Illinois Council on Foreign Languages Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Contributions to the Profession. And in 1986, together with his wife Mary Liedloff, he generously established the Liedloff Scholarships, nine full-tuition awards for students pursing degrees in German Studies at SIU."   
— Anne Winston-Allen, Professor Emerita of German

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is pleased to invite applications for the 2025-2026 Liedloff Scholarships:

Each award covers a full tuition scholarship for students of German for fall and spring semesters, renewable for up to two years with a minimum 3.0 GPA. This award is available to incoming freshman and community college transfer students. Currently enrolled SIU students may be eligible for the award; subject to availability.

Teachers, please advertise the scholarship opportunity to your students! If you have students who you believe are particularly strong candidates, please email Mary Bricker, mbricker@siu.edu, so that German can contact them directly with more information and invite them to apply.

Liedloff Scholarship Flyer (pdf)

Deadline: November 30

(Incoming and current Classics specialization)

Annual scholarships of up to $1,000 for incoming and current Classics majors

Mrs. Wilma Hughes Ochs (1917 - 2012) received her Bachelor of Science in Latin in 1941 and a Master of Science in Education in 1949, both from SIUC. By the time of her retirement in 1976, she had been an educator for 39 years, including as a Latin teacher at Belleville East and Belleville West High Schools in Belleville, Illinois and at Collinsville High School in Collinsville, Illinois. 

REQUIREMENTS:

The Wilma Hughes Ochs Classics Scholarship will be open to all applicants with the following qualifications, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or veteran status:

1. The Scholarship will be available to students who are currently enrolled or have been admitted to Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2. The award shall be given to a student enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts, Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade, with a specialization in Classics
3. The recipient will be selected on the basis of the student's outstanding performance and potential in Classics

Deadline: January 31

(Current students)

Approximately $300.00 will be awarded to current foreign language majors in the spring semester.

Requirements:

• Be a foreign language major currently enrolled in any foreign language course offered by the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade
• Have completed at least two semesters of a foreign language at SIU
• Show outstanding achievement in foreign language study, usually beyond intermediate level.  In the event that students’ applications seem equally meritorious, preference will be given to students who show evidence of hardship or financial need
• Minimum GPA 3.0

Students may nominate themselves, or faculty may nominate students. Students applying for this award must ask a Languages, Cultures, and International Trade faculty member to submit a recommendation on their behalf.

Application deadline is January 31 - no applications will be accepted past deadline

(Current FLIT students)

The Timpe Award provides Foreign Language and International Trade majors with an additional source of financial assistance during their required internship. Dr. Eugene F. Timpe founded the FLIT program in 1986. The Eugene F. Timpe Award was created in his honor and it is awarded every year to assist students with internship expenses.

Up to $1000.00 will be awarded to provide financial assistance for an internship abroad to undergraduate student(s) majoring/specializing in the Foreign Language and International Trade (FLIT) Program.

Requirements:

• Recipient(s) must be a FLIT major with a minimum 2.75 GPA.
• Recipient(s) must be currently serving or planning to serve the FL 495 internship in the calendar year of the award.
• It is important that the recipient(s) be active members of the FLIT club. Active participation includes fundraising activities as well as volunteering in University/community sponsored events with the club. To apply students should submit a list of FLIT Club activities in which the student has participated, an itemized report of forecasted expenses, and a description of the planned internship which includes the proposed beginning and end dates (Internship Sponsor Verification form suffices).

Deadline: January 31