US: Colleges strive to make forgeign languages relevant

[Francis Hult]

USA Today

 

Colleges strive to make forgeign languages relevant

 

Timothy A. Bennett strives toward a new vision for the foreign language department. "You can think of a university as a little continent full of different kingdoms," said Bennett, chair of the foreign languages and literatures department at Wittenberg University, a Lutheran liberal arts college in Ohio. "I'd prefer that language departments suffused the curriculum rather than just be another kingdom among many kingdoms."

 

Full story:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-07-24-IHE_languages24_ST_N.htm

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