Harvard University will soon offer a course on Tagalog, the fourth most spoken language in the United States, according to a report in the student paper Harvard Crimson. | janebautistaINQ /PDI
Through the Tagalog course, he said the Harvard department hoped to demonstrate the demand for Southeast Asian languages, and “hopefully we can also use this to convince the administration to further support Southeast Asian studies.”
Eleanor Wikstrom, copresident of the Harvard Philippine Forum and Crimson editorial chair, said getting the Tagalog language offered in the university had been one of the group’s goals. She criticized the lack of a dedicated formal department for Southeast Asia and how only one course on the Philippines was offered in the university, which was part of a survey course on the history of Southeast Asia.
“While this is the first Tagalog language course that’s ever been offered in Harvard’s history, I think there’s also this sense that we need to make sure we teach this right — not only Tagalog language, but Filipino culture as a whole,” he said.Harvard, one of the world’s top universities, is not the first American school to offer Tagalog to students.
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