Thursday, Sept. 17, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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New East Asian Program Features Chinese
Teaching of Chinese is included in the new East Asian Language and Area Program established at KU this summer.
Chinese will be taught beginning this semester.
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Dr. George M. Beckmann, associate professor of history and chairman of the interdepartment program, indicated that the 5-hour elementary course will be followed by at least three successive courses.
Foreign Student Orientation Here
Sixty students from 19 countries attended a 6-week foreign student orientation program at the University last summer.
The KU Foreign Student Orientation Center was one of six in the United States set up by the State Department. The students who attended the session are now enrolling in universities and colleges over the United States for study in various fields.
The State Department originated the program to: (1) help the foreign students adjust to the social environment of the United States; (2) introduce them to American culture; (3) prepare them for academic and administrative procedures in American colleges and universities and (4) give the students confidence and facility in the English language.
"The idea of the entire program," Prof. Beckmann said, "is to allow students of the undergraduate level to prepare themselves adequately in Chinese, Chinese history and political theory in order to compete with students from other institutions for fellowships in such leading schools in Asian studies as Harvard or UCLA."
The program was made possible under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education which provides $9,315 for the first year to supplement the University teaching budget.
Benjamin Wallacker, instructor of Chinese, will teach Chinese and will work with the aid of a "Chinese informant" who will aid in the speaking area of the language.
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with the interdepartment program.
with the interdepartment program. Dean George R. Waggoner of the College termed the program unusual among the few East Asian programs in that it is aimed at the undergraduate student, although enlargement to a graduate level center may come soon.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.—George C. Marshall.
All courses within the new program, except for Chinese, are administered by their local department heads and are offered in cooperation
Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, will teach a political science course this semester which is included in the program. Dr. Wallacker will teach one history course in addition to teaching Chinese and Charles A. Valentine, assistant professor of sociology, will teach an anthropology course also listed under the program.
Prof. Beckman has been teaching at the University for several years and is a specialist in East Asian history and culture. He will teach three courses under the new program.
The Chinese dialect which will be taught will be the Mandarin dialect, which historically speaking is the language of the Chinese emperors and Peking. This dialect is understood by millions of Chinese in northern China and most of the learned men throughout all of China.
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