We would like to extend our congratulations to three UCSB graduate students who were selected to receive Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State:
- Silvia Ferreira, Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Translation Studies, for the study of Arabic in Morocco
- Corinne Kalota, Religious Studies, for the study of Persian in Tajikistan
- Elizabeth Weigler, Anthropology, for the study of Punjabi in India
These students are among the approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s CLS Program in 2012 to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu languages. Students will spend seven to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in countries where these languages are spoken. The CLS Program provides fully-funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.