HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Amanda Whatley leaves June 15 to spend the summer studying in Turkey under a U.S. State Department scholarship. Ms. Whatley is a Dothan Alabama native is May 2011 Alabama A&M graduate with a political science degree.
She is among 575 college students to receive the U.S. State Department's Critical Language Scholarship. Students will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes. And the students are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply these critical skills in their professional careers. More than 5,200 students across the country applied for the scholarship.
Whatley asserted, she chose to study in Turkey after consulting with Dr. Ronald Slaughter, chair of the Department of Behavior Sciences and associate political science professor at A&M, and other advisers. Amanda's interest in Turkey grew from Turkey's evolving socioeconomic and political role in the developing middle east.
Whatley plans to pursue a graduate degree in global sustainability at the University of South Florida when she returns from Turkey. A focus of her study will be on the use of water. Whatley hopes to return to Turkey as part of a graduate study project, looking at the application of water in dynamic country in the middle east.
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Source: Turkey News and AL.com
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