University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 17, 1977
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Foreign language courses experiencing popularity
By LINDA HINEMAN
Staff Writer
Enrollment in foreign languages courses at the University of Kansas is up 8 to 10 per cent from last fall, according to Ted Wilson, an man of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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KU's increased enrollment in foreign languages is not unique. The Chronicle of Higher Education magazine reports that foreign language enrollments have increased nationwide, although it stated that statistics were not yet available.
Wilson said recently that he thought the KU increases were higher than in other parts of the country. He said the increases came across both the board in foreign languages."
THE CHARIEMN of the various foreign language departments generally agreed that the increase was caused by increased student interest in foreign lanuages.
Barbara Craig, chairman of the department of French and Italian, said that she thought the higher enrollment showed "increased realization of the humanistic value of the languages," and that students were beginning to realize they were not properly educated if they knew only one language.
Enrollment in French rose 15.3 per cent, from 932 last fall to 1,075 this fall Enrollment in Italian rose from 54 to 85, or 57.4 per cent, Craig said.
GEORGE WOODYARD, chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, attributed 9.8 per cent enrollment increase in his department this fall to the realization that a marketable skill with commercial value that could be combined with other fields.
Woodyard said more students were going beyond the 18-hour language requirement in Spanish and Portuguese. Enrollment requirement rose by more than 10 per cent.
Helmut Huelserbergen, chairman of the department of Germanic languages and literatures, said he thought more students were combining study of a firefight language with a profession to get specialized jobs in various fields from business to government.
HOWEVER, ACCORDING to Michael Shaw, acting chairman of the department of classics, student concern about jobs has hurt his department, which includes Latin Greek. He said learning about Latin and Greek was not a high priority for students.
"This department is as directly influenced by vocationalism as is any other department in the University." Shaw said. "We do not teach people how to get jobs."
He said enrollment in the beginning levels of Latin and Greek had remained about the same.
He said he hoped that would mean an end to an ever-alive decline in enrollment in Latin America.
The greatest increase in enrollment in the Slavic languages was at the intermediate and advanced levels, according to Gerald Katz, an assistant department of Slavic languages and literatures.
"ENROLLMENT IN THE Germanic languages, in contrast to the at most the English and Belgian languages."
The four courses that make up the 16-hour sequence for German had an enrollment of 2,750 students in the year enrolment for the entire department, including the Scandinavian languages, the graduate program and the undergraduate program, rose 7.5 per cent, Huelserberg
He said that the enrollment in his department had been stable for the past three years and that he considered this year's increase normal.
MIKKELSON SAID the higher enrollment might show a shift back to a more traditional approach toward languages in theschoolsystem and away from a trend that started in the late 1960s, when languages wereconsidered by some to be irrelevant.
He said the number of foreign languages
Foreign students' needs studied
Restructuring the University Senate Committee on Foreign Students to make it more comfortable in needs of foreign students might be one of the communications between administrators and foreign students, David Ambler, vice president for student affairs, said yesterday.
Ambler told several members of the International Club that foreign students are being recruited.
Several members of the International Club have complained to administrators that foreign students were not consulted but that the university had foreign students at the University of Kansas.
Tare are now six faculty members and five students, appointed by the University Senate, on the committee. Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, and the president and vice president of the International Club are ex-officio members.
Ben Broneau, chairman of the foreign students committee, said the university members on the committee
Ambler said he would consult with William Westerbdeke, SenEx chairman, about appointing foreign student to the committee.
Foreign students were not appointed to the committee because no foreign students and teachers were employed.
"I don't think foreign students understand the function of the committee and what it
does," Brecon said. "That's why we ask the president and vice president of the Infrastructure Department to review."
"The KU Band has the run-in, so we'll probably use them," he said.
Victor Archibong, vice president of the International Club, said that the foreign students did not expect to have everything they wanted, but that a place to channel their grievances and requests was necessary.
Broome said another reason there were no foreign students on the committee might be that in the fall, when applications were ready, they would appointments, there was little advertisement.
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--taught was an indication of the amount of interest in languages. He said this is the first year his department has offered four courses in Czech and Croatian and Czech - at the same time.
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Don Jones, sanitariant with the Dougua County health department, said the FDA had manned and asked him to inspect the vending machine to ensure that sanitary conditions existed.
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The KU Marching Band will be featured in a 10-second segment of a half-hour film of 1977 Big Eight Conference football highlights, according to Steve Hatchell, service bureau director of the Big Eight Conference.
The two features this year will be on Terry Miller, Oklahoma State tailback and the conference's leading rusher, and on the Kansas State University Marching Band.
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G. Cameron Hurst, chairman of the department of East Asian languages and cultures, said enrollment in Oriental languages was up from 5 to 10 per cent.
He said his department was offering Korean again after having discontinued it the year before.
KU is one of 10 schools in the nation to offer Korean, he said.
Most students who take Oriental language
courses do not do so to fulfill a language requirement but because that are in-line with the course requirements.
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Wilson said that he did not know how to explain the enrollment increase in foreign languages but that it might show students were pursuing the B.A. degree rather than the B.S.G. degree, which does not require study of a foreign language.
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students. They all generally had trouble getting more money from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to hire additional staff members who would give their staff members extra teaching loads.
MIKKELSON SAID the Slavic departments solved the problem with more graduate assistants. Hucalbergen said his group had to add another section of German 104.
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