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. CDNDigital
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Teaching positions under a three-year term appointment and renewable for up to five additional years will be supported by a $1-million budget secured through fundraising initiatives, it added. Tagalog is one of the major languages in the Philippines, from which the national language, Filipino, is largely derived. Filipino and English are the country’s two official languages.
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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