Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education

FLARE stands for Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education. It is the name of the interdisciplinary program at The University of Iowa that sponsors the PhD in Second Language Acquisition. In other words, FLARE is not the name of the degree that students achieve; rather, it is the program within which students study to obtain the PhD in Second Language Acquisition.

The FLARE program at The University of Iowa began with its first class of students in the fall semester of 2000 after undergoing a rigorous review and approval process by The Graduate College the previous year. That first cohort of FLARE students numbered just four. To date, FLARE has graduated nine students and currently has over 20 full-time students in its program. In addition, FLARE students are able to take a variety of courses taught by the 20+ affiliated faculty members from a number of departments and programs here at Iowa