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Show SUSC Instructors attend Language Confab Faculty members from the Southern Utah State College Department of Languages recently attended at-tended conferences dealing with German and Spanish studies, two of the three foreign languages taught at SUSC. Professors Terry Blodgett and James Harrison traveled to Tempe, Ariz., to attend the first conference of the Western Association for German Studies, and Professors Dick Carlson and Leon Chidester participated in a three-day International Symposium on Hispanic Literature at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. In Tempe, Blodgett and Harrison attended sessions dealing with some of the current politcal problems of the German-speaking countries, and programs dealing with contemporary German literature and cultural history. They also visited the campus of the American Graduate School of International In-ternational Management in Glendale, Ariz. Carlson and Chidester were among the 150 western university teachers and scholars who attended the symposium on Hispanic Literature which was held to evaluate the most recent development in Spanish and Spanish American Literatures, and to propose new models for the description of contemporary reality in Hispanic poetry and narrative. "Within the last decade US businesses have rapidly expanded operations into Europe, Latin America and . Africa. A foreign language is a necessity for students desiring to work with international in-ternational operations," Chidester, chairman of the SUSC Language Department Depart-ment said. |
