International studies major wins State Department scholarship to study Punjabi in India
International studies major wins State Department scholarship to study Punjabi in India
- May 12, 2010
- One of 575 undergraduate and graduate students selected nationwide to receive award
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Natalie Goudarzian, a fourth-year UCI student majoring in both literary journalism
and international studies, has received a U.S. State Department Critical Language
Scholarship to study Punjabi in India over the summer. About 575 undergraduate and
graduate students nationwide have been selected by the federal agency to study Arabic,
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Persian, Russian, Indic and Turkic languages.
They will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive courses this summer in 15 countries
where these languages are spoken. The scholarship program got nearly 5,300 applications;
participants were selected based on merit. Launched in 2006 to increase opportunities
for American students to study critical-need languages overseas, the program is part
of a wider effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans mastering such languages.
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