Some day I hope to be able to visit all the countries in Southeast Asia. Each student selected a master's or Ph.D. thesis from the collection to analyze in a short paper. Students discussed their artifact in presentations to the class as well as in a short paper. It is not too late to sign up for the intensive Vietnamese language classes being offered this summer through UCI Extension. The course is intended for students with little or no knowledge of the Vietnamese language.
Emphasis is on mastery of the basic language skills of understanding, speaking, reading and writing.
The instructor is Tin Pham. Together the two courses complete the first year of Vietnamese. It presents eye-witness accounts by fifty Hmong and American present at the May 1975 evacuation of more than 2500 Hmong officers, soldiers and their families from the Long Cheng air base. In addition, it contains 50 rare and unpublished photos and four maps. The first issue of Lao Vision was published in Spring 1997 with the purpose of creating a forum that would raise awareness of issues important to the Lao community, highlight accomplishments of Lao individuals, and in general bring Lao people together.