University students will be allowed to enroll in a teleconference course to study Creole at Duke University starting next fall. The partnership will also allow Duke students to enroll in the University’s Tibetan language course.
Students will use Cisco’s TelePresence, a videoconferencing technology, to engage actively with the professors and they will receive full credit at their respective universities.
“We’re protecting languages that are very much a part of our global culture, but aren’t necessarily the first you would take in a western academic curriculum,” Laurie Patton, dean of Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, said in a University press release. “We aren’t replacing the face-to-face teaching of more commonly taught languages. We are protecting these languages that, in this economic climate, might not be sustained.”
The University is still in the process of confirming the details of the program.
—compiled by Abby Meredith
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