The next semester in Malta will be lead by English professor Bill Snyder. These duties rotate between Concordia and Luther College and there has been a long-standing linkage between the two colleges and Malta since the late 1960s. Dr. Peter Hovde, director of Concordia's World Discovery Programs, helped launch the Malta semester after both studying there himself and leading May Seminar trips to the island. Only nine miles wide by 17 miles long, Malta has a population of 370,000. Adding to the congestion is the fact that nearly everyone has a car, which are imported at a rate of 11,000 a year, and driving is a lively, Disneyesque, left-sided adventure that stresses personal initiative.
Road signs are merely advisory.
Maltese is a difficult and distinct language related to North African Arabic but draws much of its vocabulary, syntax and idiom from Sicilian and Italian. Because of 160 years of British rule, English is taught in schools and spoken by 95 percent of the residents. For More information on the Malta program, contact International Education Office .