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University of Montana Center Offers Summer Immersion Arabic Program For High School Students

May 10, 2012 /

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The University of Montana’s Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center will once again host an Arabic language and cultures summer immersion program for Montana high school students, thanks to a recent grant from the National Security Language Initiative.

The nearly $100,000 award from the initiative’s STARTALK program will allow UM Arabic Professors Samir Bitar and Khaled Huthaily to teach two levels of the language at the Montana Arabic Summer Institute.

The institute will offer one course for students who have no previous knowledge of Arabic (Level 1) and one for students who have studied the language before (Level 2). Students will develop both Arabic language skills and cultural knowledge and competence.

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/2012/05/050812arbc.aspx