Application forms are available from the African Studies Center. Lecturers will be drawn from across the nation and from Ethiopia, and will include more than 10 MSU faculty who have taught, worked, and conducted research in Ethiopia. Amharic Intensive Summer Program participants are expected to participate in this gratis workshop. The Summer program will be directed by Prof. Grover Hudson, Faculty, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University. This workshop aims to enhance social science, natural science, and humanities undergraduate courses that teach about the African environment, by encouraging the use of film and video images that are accurate representations of Africans and Africa and that challenge the conventional concept of the African environment.
Registration is free, however there is a small fee to cover materials, breaks and an African meal.
Through a series of eight sessions, questions on aging, and their developing contexts will be examined. Mother Tongue Editions is a non-profit publishing organization whose purpose is to attempt to broaden its inventory of publications. An attempt is being made to locate original African language texts which may have been included in theses, books, or other academic publications and which might now be recycled for the purpose of producing mononlingual reading material in a given African language. The Swahili Language Task Force Kiswahili on-line listening exercises are now available on the web. Students can do exercises and send them directly to their respective teachers for feedback.