ARIT SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS FOR INTENSIVE ADVANCED TURKISH LANGUAGE STUDY AT BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL

Application deadline is February 5, 2015

PROGRAM: For summer 2015, the American Research Institute in Turkey will offer full travel and fellowships for approximately 15 advanced students and scholars for participation in the summer program in advanced Turkish language at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. This intensive program offers the equivalent of one full academic year of study in Turkish at the college level. The fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend. Full-time students and scholars affiliated at academic institutions are eligible to apply.


APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Use the application form and procedures that are accessible on the web at the ARIT program webpage: 
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/ARITSummerLanguageProgram.html

The application includes:

1. Application form and statement of purpose
2. Three letters of reference, including one that addresses your abilities as a language learner
3. Application fee in the amount of $25 may be made through PayPal via the ARIT website.


ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: Full-time students and scholars affiliated at academic institutions are eligible to apply. 

To be a fellowship applicant, you must:
 1. Be a citizen, national, or permanent resident of the United States
 2. Be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate level academic program, or be faculty
 3. Have a minimum B average in current program of study; and
 4. Perform at the high-intermediate level on a proficiency-based admissions examination.


For further information, contact:

Director, Dr. Sylvia Önder
Division of Eastern Mediterranean Languages
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University
210 North Poulton Hall
1437 - 37th Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20007
E-mail: aritfellowship@georgetown.edu

Nancy Leinwand
American Research Institute in Turkey
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street

Philadelphia PA 19104-6324
Telephone: (215) 898-3474

E-mail: leinwand@sas.upenn.edu

This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Post-Secondary Education, together with the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages and Georgetown University.

PLEASE NOTE: Boğaziçi University offers intensive Turkish language courses at all levels independent of the ARIT-AATT-Georgetown program. Students of Turkish language may also apply directly to the Boğaziçi University Summer School and seek outside funding through their university department or other source.

For further information about courses in Turkish language (all levels) and culture offered at Boğaziçi University, contact:

Turkish Language and Culture Program
The Language Center
Boğaziçi University
34342 Bebek
Istanbul, Turkey

Telephone: (90-212) 359-7678
Fax: (90-212) 265-7131

E-mail: tlcp@boun.edu.tr
http://turkishlanguage.wix.com/tlcp