Cornell Seeks to Teach Foreign Languages Across Disciplines

[Francis Hult]

The Cornell Daily Sun

 

Univ. Seeks to Teach Foreign Languages Across Disciplines

 

Foreign Language Across Curriculum, a program formally founded within the past year, seeks to expand foreign language competence across various disciplines within Cornell. Currently, an FLAC section aims to prepare students from the Wind Ensemble for a trip to Costa Rica that integrates language, music and service. 

 

Foreign language across disciplines has had a long history at Cornell, although it has functioned "ad hoc for the past 15 years," said Cecilia Lawless, director of FLAC. The program attained its formalized status last year when Prof. Elvira Sanchez-Blake, romance studies, used grant funding for graduate student training by implementing a Spanish section for the base course "Experience Latin America."

 

Full story:

http://www.cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2009/12/04/univ-seeks-teach-foreign-languages-across-disciplines

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