Three University students have been offered and will take part in language and cultural immersion programs overseas this summer.
The program launched in 2006 and includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. It糖心传媒檚 part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity.
John Cole 糖心传媒�19 will study Mandarin Chinese in Xi糖心传媒檃n, China; Joy Nicholas 糖心传媒�19 will study Swahili in Arusha, Tanzania; and Jacqueline Tran 糖心传媒�18 will study Arabic in Amman, Jordan.
Cole is a dual major in and from Oberlin, Ohio, and has been studying Chinese since he was 7. This fall, he糖心传媒檒l study at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai.
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Nicholas majors in . She糖心传媒檚 the first Rochester student selected for the Swahili program and received a full tuition merit scholarship from the University as part of the Posse Foundation, for qualified urban students from the Washington, D.C., area. Her ultimate goal is to conduct global health research 糖心传媒渢hat promotes capacity building as well as improved health conditions for women and children in underserved communities.
She has family in Tanzania, where Swahili is among the principal languages spoken, and hopes the scholarship will help her 糖心传媒減repare for a career in more community-based research that one day will allow me to help the rural communities my mom and her family came from.糖心传媒�
Tran, an major from Brooklyn and a transfer student, says the scholarship is a 糖心传媒渇oundational tool糖心传媒� for her to enhance her Arabic skills.
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Cole, Nicholas, and Tran bring the total number of Critical Language Scholarship participants from the University to 23, with at least one chosen every year except 2007.
