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Monday, November 4, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Language requirement replacement draws criticism
A recently proposed foreign culture requirement that would replace the present language requirement drew opposition from a leading language department chairmen last week.
The proposal was submitted recently to the Educational Policy and Procedures Committee (EPPC) of the College of Education, where he is President Senate Academic Affairs Committee.
"I was disappointed in reading the proposal because it didn't propose
anything new since it was discussed a year and a half ago", said Helmut Hueblerberg.
Hulserberg said the proposal threatened to die up the EPPC and the College Association.
The present requirement is stated in terms of proficiency, said George Woodyard, chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese.
"The impact of this kind of move would mean that we couldn't bring students to a
level of proficiency," Woodyard said.
Woodyard said the present requirement brought the student to a minimum proficiency level in which he wasn't completely at ease in all situations, in which he had a good working knowledge of the language.
According to Hindu mythology, Rama, an Indian king, returned to his home town, after a 14-year banishment, and defeated the Lakhan. He then married a bornean-born in the town honorizing Rama's return.
Foreign language is an essential element in a liberal arts education, Woodyard said. The present system is sensitive to demands for culture, he said.
Diwali, classically known as Deepavali ("Deep" for lamp and "vall" for garland), is an Indian holiday that commemorates the loss of good over evil, light over darkness.
However, Kishan Khanna, faculty adviser to the KU India Club, said that through the network of friends and alumni,
Melancholic notes from a weeping sitar, displays of fine brocaded silks and typical dances and songs marked the celebration of Gandhi's 143rd anniversary yesterday at the University of Kansas.
Sitar, silks and singing commemorate Hindu fest
Most good universities require two, three,
even four years of a language in high school
or university.
"Culture is an indefinable thing," Woodward said.
"For the business community, Diwali represents the end of one year and the beginning of another."
The holiday also is associated with the autumn harvest and sets the turning point of the year.
"We have strict graduation requirements so that students get the tools they need to be good students, Dimeen said. He said they will be taken at the freshman-sophomore level.
also had different meanings for certain people in India.
Folk songs and traditional dances from folk songs and traditional dances from a-dish dance followed a-dish dance typified by
about a culture, he has to go through that language, he loses something," Gossip goes on. "Gossip gets gass."
Among the performers was 6-year-old Namita Khanna who presented two dances composed of complicated and sophisticated movements.
About 200 people participated in the "Festival of the Lights," as it also has been knitted by thousands.
At least, one chairman favored the proposed change. Robert A. Burton, chairman of the department of Oriental studies, said it was an enlightened proposal.
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All students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences would be required to complete 10 hours of study of that language, the proposal states. Students then would have the option of taking one 3-hour course on the foreign culture and conducted in that
language, or two 3-hour courses on the culture and conducted in English to fulfill the foreign language requirement. The three-hour courses would have to be in the foreign culture as the original 10 hours of foreign language, the proposal said.
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