Arabic-L:PEDA:Enrollment Bump responses

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Enrollment Bump response
2) Subject: Enrollment Bump response
3) Subject: Enrollment Bump response; 'boutique majors'  query

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Date:  02 Oct 2001
From: Raji Rammuny <raram at umich.edu>
Subject: Enrollment Bump response

Dear Kirk:
Slamat;

We have 2 students who wanted to add Arabic, but at this late date we
discouraged them to enroll. However, we allowed 2 journalists and 1
professor of Archeology and 1 graduate student of Anthropoloy to
audit Arabic classes at their levels. Best.

Raji

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Date:  02 Oct 2001
From: John Nawas <John.Nawas at arts.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Enrollment Bump response

Dear Kirk,
A European perspective:
Here at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium -- classes have just
started -- the enrollment is exactly the same as it was last year: 14 new
majors for Arabic and Islamic Studies. During the week of the tragedy the
pre-registration remained the same. Some of us thought more would want to
study Arabic and Islam while others thought that the events would have the
exact opposite effect: stay away.
(On the other hand, I have been told that the enrollment for Japanese has
surprisingly jumped this year to 28 new majors -- wasn't there a recession
in Japan?)
In other words, I, too, share your interest but I cannot explain ..... All
the best, John Nawas.

John Nawas, PhD
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Date:  02 Oct 2001
From: dwilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Enrollment Bump response; 'boutique majors'  query

Apropos of bumps in enrollment, I have just seen an unfamiliar term in an
article about low enrollments in Arabic and Middle East studies programs (I
can't remember where, I am reading a lot of forwarded articles lately).  The
article described these programs as "boutique majors".  Any idea what that is
supposed to mean?

David Wilmsen
Director, Arabic and Translation Studies
The American University in Cairo
28 Falaki Street
Bab El-Louk
Cairo, Egypt
tel:  2 02 7976872
fax:  2 02 7957565

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