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At Macalester, we have three contact hours with the instructor and one 
required hour with a native speaker.  Additional out-of-class work is 
assigned and some of it must be done in the lab.  We don't track student 
use but they know they will be tested on the information and are good about 
coming in and doing their work.  We try to put as much on-line as possible 
to allow students to work from their dorm rooms at three in the morning if 
they choose.

I don't think overall use of the facility has changed much.  Both the 
facility and staff are an integral part of the language programs and are 
not going to disappear soon.

Tom Browne

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>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:05:16 -0400
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>  Do other disciplines in your institution require lab time - Biology or
> Chemistry, say? How does "credit" work for them? How about Studio Arts? W
> do ont have a lab "requirement," but I do assign lab work - and I hold
> students accountable for it, which is, of course, the key.
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>> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:59:07 -0600
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> Dear fellow LLTI listserv members:
>
> The University of Regina is considering the fate of its
> Language Department and consequently its Language Lab.
>
> Currently we enjoy a statis that I have lead to believe is
> becoming increasingly unique in a (Canadian?) University. At
> the moment, all students when registered in a language
> course, are required to attend 3 hours of class contact
> hours and one hour of lab where they work with Student
> Assistants.  Though the one hour of lab is not a credit
> hour, it is a mandatory hour of study.
>
> Members of the University have a proposal forward to the
> administration requesting that the mandatory lab hour be
> abolished and that instead the lab becomes used as an
> individual study resource room instead.
>
> My question is directed more to those members
> of Institutions where changes such as these (or similar
> ones) have already taken place.  Would you mind please
> sharing your thoughts on the effects of such a transition.
> What in your mind has changed (if anything)?  Have you seen
> a change in the approach that faculty have to the lab?
> that students have?  that administration have?  Has it
> changed your jobs?  Has it changed the level of importance
> that the lab has within your Institution?   Has it affected
> the reputation of your Institution?
>
> If anyone has collected any statistics for their Academic
> Institution in regards to this sort of change, those would
> be most welcome (and helpful, I'm sure).  But I am also
> really looking for those personal comments too.
>
> Please feel free to email me off list.
>
> I appreciate any help that you can give me.
>
> Deanne Cobb



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Thomas Browne
Humanities Resource Center
Macalester College
651-696-6336