Persian (Farsi) and Modern Standard Arabic Language Programs
Two-year Language Programs in Persian (Farsi) and Modern Standard Arabic are under development and housed in the Department of Linguistics under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Lipp, Chair of the department. The Department of Linguistics is one of nine departments within the College of Arts and Humanities.
Elementary Persian is being offered for the first time in Fall 2007 under the course title: Linguistics 40T, schedule no. 82859, and meets MWF 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m., MCL 281.
The first offering of Arabic is being planned for Spring 2008.
A measure of the project’s effectiveness is the success of students’ ability to
achieve a beginning level of communicative competence in Persian and Modern Standard
Arabic. Student learning outcomes based on a combination of American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the U.S. Interagency Language Roundtable
Language Skill Level Descriptions will be developed over the course of the grant period to
identify listening, speaking, reading and writing criteria in each of the two languages. This will provide direct and indirect measures of student learning in achieving this level of communicative competence.
A sample of likely course objectives and student learning outcomes is provided here.