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From http://www.clsp.gatech.edu/Song_Project

The Critical Languages Song Project is a collection of advanced one-semester courses in culture and language tailored to the needs and concerns of the language and culture you are studying. Courses are available in Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

Access is provided at no charge to instructors and, through them, students for use in university-based courses. Access may be granted on a case-by-case basis to independent learners with a bonafide educational need.

Courses are structured around a carefully chosen, richly annotated corpus of songs and supplied with a full pedagogical apparatus and a broad range of contextual content in various media. They are presented in an innovative, specially designed computer interface. Materials are available to instructors for full-course adoption or integration into existing courses as self-standing modules. The model is also readily adaptable to other languages through a downloadable template and design tools.

Song/units include the following segments, with some variation based upon language

 Introduction
 Listening
 Text/Notes/Context
 Questions for understanding
 Grammar
 Topics for discussion and writing
 Suggestions for further listening

Each course is made up of between 14 and 21 songs. These courses are intended for use primarily by 4th-year university students.

For more information, go to http://www.clsp.gatech.edu/Song_Project