Area High School Students Showcase Language Skills in Spring Language Festival at Yale Center for International and Area Studies
For Immediate Release
Contact: Marilyn Wilkes (203) 432-3413
Area High School Students Showcase Language Skills in Spring Language Festival at Yale Center for International and Area Studies
April 23, 2002. New Haven, CT - Area high school students and their families will gather in the auditorium of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, on Thursday, April 25, at 6:30pm to celebrate their year of accomplishment in the High School Cooperative Language Program (HSCLP).
Students will perform skits, declaim poetry or sing songs in the languages they have spent the year studying. Students from public schools in the following cities will participate: New Haven, Branford, Ansonia, Cheshire, Clinton, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, Naugatuck, North Branford, North Haven, Seymour, Shelton, Stratford, Wallingford, West Haven, Amity Region 5, Pomperaug Region 15, and Woodland Hills, Region 16. Private schools participating include Sacred Heart in Hamden and Hopkins in New Haven.
An outreach program of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies since 1985, the HSCLP provided language instruction and cultural exposure in Arabic, Chinese, German, Modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, KiSwahili, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Spanish to 250-plus students from 22 area public school districts and from several private schools this year. Students meet on campus for once-a-week, after-school courses organized by Brian Carter, PIER/European Studies Coordinator, and taught by Yale graduate and undergraduate students and staff.
For the past six years, the HSCLP has been supported by a Connecticut State Department of Education Interdistrict Cooperative Grant to a new Southern Connecticut Language and Culture Exposure Program, which pays all fees and expenses for public school students. The SCLCEP, a joint effort of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Branford and New Haven Public Schools, is directed by Mr. Carter and by Mrs. Mary Lou Radovich of Branford High School. The Spring Language Festival is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the lot next to the building.
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) is Yale University’s principal agency for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies and cultures around the world. YCIAS seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the U.S., and America’s role in the world, an integral part of the liberal education and professional training at Yale University.
YCIAS includes twenty research and educational programs, specializing in interdisciplinary and problem-oriented comparative studies.
Contact Information:
Marilyn Wilkes
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
(203) 432-3413