The geographical area covered by the Indonesian and Malay languages - over 3,000 miles from east to west is much larger than commonly realized. Within this area there exists a stunning variety of cultures and ethnic groups of great interest to the researcher, social scientist, or student of culture. At the same time, the growing economic dynamism of Southeast Asia makes this an ideal area for work in development or business-related fields. Southeast Asian 304 is the second half of a sequence designed to provide the student with a basic working knowledge of the Indonesian language. The text used is keyed to a set of tapes for use in the language lab and concentrates on practical knowledge of the language.
Evaluation is based on a series of short quizzes, a midterm and a final exam.
Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines. Elementary Tagalog is a two-term sequence designed to give the student who has little or no knowledge of Tagalog the necessary basis for learning to speak it and to have a functional acquaintance with the cultural context in which it functions. Tagalog is particularly interesting in the way it has integrated the broad influences of both Spanish and English into its own syntactic and semantic systems. The oral approach is greatly emphasized in the classroom, using questions and answers and short dialogues to develop active use of the language in the most natural way possible. This is complemented by the use of taped lessons in the Language Laboratory.