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| Title | Opinion Piece: An End to Foreign Languages, an End to the Liberal Arts |
| Body | From http://chronicle.com An End to Foreign Languages, an End to the Liberal Arts By WILL H. CORRAL and DAPHNE PATAI June 6, 2008 The business model is the larger context for understanding the recent closure of the German department at the private University of Southern California and the proposal to end German at the public Humboldt State University. In fact, what is happening to German can happen to any language — and has. From a disciplinary point of view, the abandonment of German is another sign of the sway held at present by cultural studies, which implies that art and literature do not matter unless they can be turned into surrogate politics. "Relevance" these days is understood in an extremely narrow sense. If departments of French, another endangered language, or German studied, say, minority groups in France and Germany, it is unlikely that administrators would have the courage to disperse them. Read the entire article at http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=349pwfjq0ghw7j80sv7vj7gbbt3h8tzc . |
| Source | Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Inputdate | 2008-06-23 12:08:07 |
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