GW University won't count foreign language toward Gen Eds

[Francis Hult]

USA Today

 

GW University won't count foreign language toward Gen Eds

 

When colleges and universities revamp curricular requirements, disciplines can become winners or losers. Those fields that are required (or that have many courses that meet requirements) enjoy assured enrollments. So when a college votes down a foreign language requirement, as faculty members did last year in the arts and sciences college of George Washington University, that can be a blow to those who teach languages.

 

Full story:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-19-IHE-foreign-college_N.htm

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