Friday, March 31, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Aqua 'Hawks
Dan Livingston, Northbrook, Ill., sophomore, and Kyle Lange, Crystal Lake, Ill., junior, try to recruit new members for the KU Water Ski Club on campus yesterday. The club will compete in two tournaments this May. Photo by Justin Schmidt/KANSAN
Tunisia added to study abroad mix
By Karen Lucas Special to the Kansan
The KU Office of Study Abroad added a new item to the menu of July programs
the mother of the program
— the Bourguiba Institute in
Tunis, Tunisia.
"Tunisia is a great addition to the diversity of the programs we offer here," said Margareta O'Connell, director of study abroad.
Lotfi Bennour, lecturer in African and African-American Studies, will direct the program. He is a native of Tunisia and studied
The program will offer students a complete immersion in the language and culture of Arabs, with emphasis on North Africa. Instructors will teach students the Arabic language throughout the immersion, he said.
at the Institute for four years.
Jennifer Fecke, Burnsville, Minn., senior, said she applied to the program because she thought a knowledge of Arabic would be useful for professional purposes.
"I wanted to learn some Arabic because it's becoming such a big part of the business world." she said.
Participants also can take an Arabic culture course or a history course — dealing with the thought and identity of the Arabic people — both of which will be taught in English. The second course meets the University of Kansas' non-Western culture course requirement.
Students will learn about Tunisian life and culture in other ways as well by eating at Tunisian restaurants and attending workshops on cultural topics from music to calligraphy.
KU Germanic groups to hold symposium
By Karen Lucas Special to the Kansan
Graduate students from the University of Kansas and three other universities will share the fruits of their research in German studies this weekend.
The fourth annual Graduate Student Symposium on German Language, Literature and Culture will be today and tomorrow at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies in Sudler House. The center, the Graduate Association of German Students and the department of Germanic languages and literatures are sponsoring the symposium, during which graduate students will read papers they have written.
Glenn Hudspeth, Lawrence graduate student and president of the student association, said the symposium would not only provide a way for students to present their research and get critical feedback, but it also would help them in the academic job market.
"Just to get a job interview with a university, graduate students generally are expected to have already published and presented research at a conference," he said. "This symposium offers the grad students a wonderful opportunity to fulfill one of these expectations."
Although most of the 15 papers will deal with literature, some will cover topics in linguistics and German-American history, Hudspeth said. The papers will be given in German as well as English. Sean Henry, Lawrence graduate student, will present a paper titled "Faseist or Homosexual? The Reception of August von Platen during the Weimar Republic." He said the paper, which was part of his dissertation, looked at how a group of conservative and liberal readers had interpreted the work of Platen, a 19th-century homosexual German poet.
Although it will be a student symposium, some faculty members will participate. As in the past, they will respond to the students' presentations, Hudspeth said.
"It is a good idea because it gives students a perspective they might not have thought of," said Leonie Marx, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and faculty adviser to the student association.
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