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New in June 2008: Summer Intensive Arabic language courses in Advanced Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Levantine Arabic. More information...
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in Spring 2005, the American Sign Language Service-Learning
course (LANG 291) offers students the opportunity to
work in partnership with Farm Hill Elementary School
in Middletown, CT. Wesleyan students introduce ASL to
young children and study the impacts and benefits of
developing this language skill.
In the video segment, Wesleyan students Daniel Heller
and Carly Neidorf are shown both rehearsing and performing
for a school assembly a song designed to raise awareness
on the topic of bullying.
Note: this video is in Quicktime
format.
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On Nov. 15 2004, Yasir Hamed invited Professor Bassam
Frangieh of Yale University to introduce his new book
entitled "anthology of Arabic literature, culture
and thought from pre-islamic times to the present".
The event took place at the Broad Street bookstore.
This book is the first comprehensive reader of Arabic
literature and is designed for advanced students of
Arabic. Among the works included are: pre-Islamic poetry
and prose, selections from the Qu'ran, writings from
the Golden Age of the Arabs in prose, poetry, philosophy
and mysticism. Professor Frangieh's book includes and
audio CD and is published by Yale University Press.
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