In today's interconnected world, many career fields--such as diplomacy, national security, and business--need individuals with knowledge about world languages and cultures. To address these areas of needed expertise--both at the federal level as well as in the education, business, and nonprofit sectors--the Higher Education Act of 1965, as…

Existing studies of the internationalization of higher education have detailed the broad contours of change in the new "global" era, but they have told us much less about the individuals and processes underpinning these transformations. Moreover, they tend to treat internationalization as a recent or new phenomenon. There have been prior…

Area studies are calculated to restore a measure of cultural equilibrium to any American-based endeavor, to supply basic data from a rich variety of cultural contexts, and to add orderly descriptions, analyses, and interpretations of economic, political, and social systems other than American. This pamphlet details the interest of the Social…

Focuses on activities that took place in courses on contemporary French society. In these courses, students and instructor attempted to develop a series of analytical tools from a systematic body of visual, oral, and textual materials in order to increase cultural understanding and speech styles of French-speaking communities or social groups.…

Future teachers are not getting enough education in area studies nor in practical use of the foreign language. They should be able to converse fulently about the foreign country. This necessitates thorough revision of university curricula, including required language courses throughout the course of study. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A "German Semester" concentrates four or five simultaneous courses in German language; literature; art and music; science, philosophy and psychology; and social sciences, with faculty as well as outside lecturers from the various disciplines. (CHK)

Deals with "area study" aspects of the teaching of English in schools and colleges. Using as an example the British monarchy, it is shown how "area study" elements are handled in schoolbooks in use today. Suggestions relating to the subject are also offered. (IFS/WGA)

Area studies should form a part of the entire teacher-training curriculum. They should be contemporary in content. Order of presentation is discussed. A concept of beginning and advanced area study treatment is described, using certain specified teaching materials. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes the syllabi of parallel French- and English-language college courses in French civilization. (DB)

Describes a cultural unit centered on German wines. After a series of preparatory lessons showing how the topic touches on geography, history, and social customs, the unit culminated in a wine tasting. (EJS)

Lists a selection of books about the Pacific Rim area for social studies teachers who wish to add to their knowledge of the area. Includes selections on Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Describes and gives a brief critique of each book. (DK)

Every language teacher is automatically a teacher of culture. The language teacher is an instructor of culture in the same way that an instructor of history or anthropology teaches those disciplines. To prepare for teaching the culture, the training of language teachers should include pre-service and in-service activities and materials…

Isolation of language study from other disciplines in Australia, and the resulting decline in foreign language learning, are described. The desirability of integration of foreign language and social science study is discussed. (RM)

One hundred and eleven annotated bibliographic citations of books, including a few journals, on Japan published between 1941 and 1971 comprise this reading guide designed to meet the needs and adaptation of smaller libraries in schools, towns, and cities. Intended for serious beginning students or casual readers, it offers a broad scope of recent…

This article describes the value of Asian and Asian-American studies in American education and suggests an approach to accomodate them in American education. (Author/CFM)