Speaking in Tongues: Language
Program Offers Array of Classes

April 2000  -  Deep in the heart of Texas, historians, economists, sociologists, and religion experts are teaching an array of innovative classes in Spanish, French, Chinese, German, and Russian.  It's all part of the Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) program at Trinity University.  Classes such as La Telenovela en America Latina (the Latin American soap opera), or La musica Popular Latinoamericana (Latin American popular music), or Teorii I Iskusstvo Russkogo Avananda (theories and art of the Russian avant-garde) are enormously popular with students across disciplines and across majors. The classes provide students with an opportunity to develop their language skills in areas not normally covered in university curricula.  It also gives them exposure to a broader cultural perspective and to those aspects of language which will enable them to communicate in the workplace.  With today's students highly concerned about career preparation and employability, and less interested in the traditional language major with its humanities bias, LAC courses fill a niche.  Other examples of classes include business in China, Germany, and the European Union, and Mexico-U.S. border relations. To find out more about this innovative step in internationalizing the curriculum, contact Carolyn Wheat at (210) 999-8406 or by e-mail at cwheat@trinity.edu.

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Last updated on June 7, 2000 by the Office of Public Relations