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students in the intermediate Arabic
classes. She has taken Arabic since
fall term and said the casual atmos
phere and flexibility of the classes
are just some of the program’s high
lights.
“I love languages,” Barry said.
“And if I am ever in the Middle
East working, what I have learned
will be very helpful.”
The Self-Study Language Program
began in 1997 with the goal of teach
ing students less commonly taught
languages. The program emphasizes
developing communication skills,
and students learn both the language
and culture of a particular country.
The program offers language classes
including Shona, Thai, Swahili,
Turkish, Portuguese, Cantonese and
Nepali. The program also offers two
levels Hindi and Urdu, which are
taught together.
Tamada Language Center Direc
tor Jeff Magoto said enrollment in
the'1 entire self-study program is ap
proximately 70 students this term
— up from approximately 40 stu
dents in spring 2001. Portuguese
has the highest enrollment with
Hindi and Urdu qlasses following
in second.
The Hindi and Urdu courses
jumped between winter and spring
term with an increase from 7 to 11
students participating in the classes.
Urdu is the language of Pakistan and
Hindi is the language of India. The
two languages are taught in conjunc
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Instructor Chris Holman tests his students on recognizing spoken Arabic numbers, then on
translating them into written English and finally into written Arabic.
tion with each other because they
are spoken similarly, even though
they are written differently.
Magoto said the self-study program
is offered to University members as
well as to those outside of the Univer
sity community. With an emphasis on
self-instruction, self-motivation is key
to the success in the program.
“The people who do the best in self
study are students who have a real in
trinsic motivation,” Magoto said.
While self-motivation is impor
tant, classes have a tutor available
during each session to help stu
dents. The tutors are an extremely
important resource and students
take advantage of the tutor’s exten
sive knowledge and expertise of the
language. Based on student re
sponse, Magoto said the tutor is a
highly valued asset to the program.
“The tutor is always cited as the
No. 1 reason to the success of the
students who succeed and benefit
from the program,” he said. “The
tutor is a vital part of the program. ”
While it is difficult to predict
how many new students will enroll
and how many old students will re
turn, there are those who know
they will be in the program next
year. Barry said there is no doubt
she will continue to enroll in the
self-study program. The only ques
tion is what language she will take.
“It’s between Cantonese and Ara
bic,” she said. “But either way, I’ll
be back. It’s a wonderful program.”
E-mail reporter Katie Ellis
at katieellis@dailyemerald.com
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tracted to the project’s unorthodox
conception.
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ciety rejected and made them into
statements, inventions and vi
sions,” she said.
The history behind “Combus
tion” matches its conception be
cause the project was a replace
ment for an exhibit that was
canceled just two days before it was
to go up, Rasmussen said.
The circumstances surrounding
the creation separate “Combustion”
from other collections on campus,
bringing artists from disparate gen
res to form a collective vision with
in a specific time and place.
“Usually artists show work in
campus galleries that they have
been working on for a long time.
This exhibit was different in that
everyone came in at the same level,
without already-made art pieces,
making the installations purely
spontaneous,” said Rasmussen.
Geography Professor Peter Walker
said he couldn’t help but stop to check
out the collection as he walked past.
Walker believes “Combustion”
succeeds in challenging people to
reassess what they may assume is
art, and was struck by the collec
tion’s relevance for students.
“It’s dearly student-initiated,” he said.
Walker also said that the portion
depicting a mannequin wearing a
dress made of bank statements and
student loan papers seems “fixated
on how students get caught up in
money rackets and credit schemes.”
“Combustion” seems especially
alive in its gallery space, and accord
ing to Switzer, freedom is the point.
“It is much more like the works of
Jackson Pollack, where emotion comes
before cleanliness or perfection, and the
art becomes beautiful in its freedom. ’ ’
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