Reform and Continuity: Graduate Education Toward a Foreign Cultural Literacy.

Berman, Russell A.

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ERIC Number: EJ526199

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Publication Date: 1996

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Reform and Continuity: Graduate Education Toward a Foreign Cultural Literacy.

Berman, Russell A.

ADFL Bulletin, v27 n3 p40-46 Spr 1996

Examines challenges facing scholarship in cultural fields at the university level. These challenges include economic concerns, political hostility, and a change in the status of foreign literatures. Departments of foreign languages and literatures must redefine their goal as foreign cultural literacy in order to remain viable. (nine references) (CK)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Economic Change, Educational Objectives, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Literature, Political Attitudes, Scholarship, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Graduate Education and Undergraduate Teaching: Juncture and Disjuncture.