| Show Mother English loses one more Language dept is out on its it's own Jack Foriska Associate Editor The foreign language department heretofore under the wing of the English and Humanities department just got nudged out of the nest The action completes a threeway threeway three threeway way split creating separate English Communications and Language departments The new department willbe will willbe willbe be under the direction of Jonathan Stowers the only full time professor and will have six adjunct French and Spanish instructors English instructor Allison Fearnley will also teach French The list of language instructors instructors instructors in in- includes udes three who have PhD credentials Dr Francoise Hibbs who is French born and was raised in France will teach at the Redwood Road campus during the day Margarite Yost will teach French at night Dr Diane Sacks is the daytime Spanish teacher along with Stowers and Donald Hill Dr David Catron will be pulling the night shift Brian Richards Spanish and the newest staff member Sou I French will be teaching at the Sandy campus Stowers told the Horizon that by setting up this department department department depart depart- ment the college has shown that they want languages here and they want them to grow He said Language isone isone is isone one of the most important parts of an Associate o of or Arts degree Its It's of real b benefit to the students He continued c In Europe and South America they know that being bilingual is a necessary skill We dont don't value language L I L r. r in our cuI culture ture We expect everyone to speak English What Im I'm the most excited excited excited ex ex- cited about is that for the first time we are offering level French and Spanish courses We are arc now able to offer the full 25 hour BA language language language lan lan- guage requirement In addition addition addition addi addi- tion the department will offer introduction to literature in both Spanish and French under the Title Three Grant German and Russian are arc are available through the department department department depart depart- ment of continuing tion The department now has tape programs that match the current text books in the library media center French and Spanish versions of wordperfect arc are also available in the English lab with games available in German Stowers is someday hoping to expand the program program program pro pro- gram to offer Russian Italian Portuguese and Japanese I This would not only benefit I Ithe the language dept but also the business school who would like to offer an international international international inter inter- national business degree Future Future Future Fu Fu- Fu- Fu ture plans also include a fully equipped language lab I I I I rh i j r Sr Y 4 I II t It I 1 d 4 s t r 4 3 ys I Lf I f af a- a I L L I 1 Linguist Jonathan Stowers heads I new language department C fl I I Ij I r r L p 4 r P 1 i i I |
