Goals and Objectives
Goal: To develop in students a facility and proficiency in a foreign language.
Objectives: Students will develop proficiency in listening and reading comprehension and in oral and written
expression at a level established by national norms.
Goal: To develop in students an awareness and obedient response to the target culture.
Objectives: Students will
(a) have a broad knowledge and appreciation of the target culture,
(b) be able to discern and evaluate the values of another culture, and
(c) demonstrate a cross-cultural sensitivity for people of different cultures.
Goal: To articulate and illustrate what makes up the creational structure and developmental dynamics of language.
Objectives: Students will be able to explain and illustrate in the target language
(a) the systemic meanings of semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology,
(b) how meaning is created by the interplay of these systems, and (c) how these systems change.