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D ecem ber 14, 2011
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Interest Grows in Chinese Culture, Language
PCC expands
Asia studies
at Cascade,
SE Center
A growing interest in Chinese
culture and its languages has been
met with new course offerings at
Portland Community College’s Cas
cade Campus at 705 N. Killingsworth
St. and Southeast Center at 2305
S.E. 82nd Ave.
"It's hard to ignore China and it's
logical for us to do this," said Nancy
Wessel, the Cascade Campus divi
sion dean of Liberal Arts and Pre-
College Education.
Wessell said there is growing
interest in Asian studies with in
co m in g stu d e n ts. L ocal high
schools also have Chinese language
programs that the PCC program can
tap into.
"We are starting to try to reach
out to the high schools that have
the Chinese language classes so
they can move smoothly over here
into the second-year level," Wessel
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added.
Portland Community College Chinese culture and language instructor Hsiao-Yun Shotwell with her class at the Cascade Campus in
The PCC program's only instruc north Portland.
tor Hsiao-Yun Shotwell said the science work because of the signifi- cuss their homework and provide a ing Mandarin, he said it pulls every-
"It's difficult because you need
credits from her courses can be trans cance - of f China
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needed support structure. Because one together into a tight-knit group to study every day," he said. "But
ferred to universities.
"I heard some good things about of the challenging nature of learn- of students.
it's a really engaging community."
Shotwell started teaching Chi the program so I wanted to start
nese language classes at Portland here," Patton said. "It's a very di
State University before joining PCC verse group of students and half of
several years ago. Her courses fill them are non-traditional. There are
up quickly and contain between 25 high school students, a girl that is 15
F uneral
and 30 students per class for a total years old and Asian American stu
H ome
of almost 60 first-year language stu dents that want to speak the lan
dents.
guage and learn their own culture.
Eli Patton, 28, of northwest Port There are a lot of students in their
land is one of those students. A web 30s, 40s and 50s, too."
development major, he wants to
Patton is involved with the new
transfer to PSU with a degree in PCC Chinese Club where 26 stu
Mandarin to accent his computer dents can meet off campus to dis-
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The analysis of new data on 2008-
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