Learn Arabic at Puget Sound

From: Michel H Rocchi <rocchi@pugetsound.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Subject: Arabic Course

Dear Colleagues,
As some of you know by now, for the last few years, students have been clamoring for a course in Arabic. They started a Facebook page and have been asking the Administration to institute such a course which I’m sure will eventually happen with the further development of the Middle-East Studies Program.

Many of these students were and are part of the Language House Program and the Freshmen Language & Culture House (FLAC). So I have worked with them for over a year now on this matter. I also approached Kris, and I’m pleased to report that she agreed to provide funds to do what was done several years ago in the FLAC program: Offer a non-credit introduction to Arabic course.

It turns out that the spouse of our new colleague in Religion (Matthew Ingalls) is a native from Egypt and has taught such a course in the summer session at Yale. Yasmine Khattab will be teaching this non-credit course in the spring on Tue/Thu from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Please refer any student who might be interested to me.

PLEASE: Froward this message to any colleague or student who might be interested. Thanks.

A couple more Language House Program initiatives are being discussed for the future;
1. An Italian House
2. An International Students House.

Best wishes for the spring semester,
Michel


Michel Rocchi, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages & Literature
Director, Language & Culture Programs
University of Puget Sound
253-879-3969 W