Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed out that a quarter of Africa speaks Swahili - over 50 million people - and that many students unconnected with Project Tanganyika have expressed interest in the course for purely academic reasons...
...Faculty Committee on Educational Policy has turned down a student proposal that the University offer a half course in Swahili this Spring for Credit...
Goldmark, who was leader of last year's Project Tanganyika which sent 20 students to teach English in Africa, began to work toward installing Swahili in the catalogue in November. Goldmark said he had "guaranteed" 25-30 students, and had found an instructor, a Tanganyikan graduate student at Boston College who agreed to give the course...
Goldmark remarked that next summer's project Tanganyika, which has already enlisted 16 volunteers, will not suffer much from the decision. A private course in Swahili will be arranged again this year, as it was last, with funds collected for the project. Even so, "it's a pretty crucial question - the scope of a liberal education...
However, Monro said there is a possibility that the University will finance a non-credit course in Swahili this Spring depending on the cost of such a project...