--- Forwarded Message from christopher jones <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:53:58 -0400 >From: christopher jones <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7128 online Spanish question >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Originator-Info: login-token=Mulberry:01xyOcySqNCzf+getAEnkdRRKAIOgrQhIBVTSYyi79gw==; [log in to unmask] ------------------ Bob: We have a 4 hour hybrid Spanish course at CMU in the Language Online format, which is for the moment only available through us (ie expensive and probably impossible for a single working mother). Info is at http://mlonline.hss.cmu.edu if you want to take a look. -Chris --On Tuesday, April 22, 2003 3:03 PM -0400 LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > --- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- > >> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:02:55 -0700 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: online Spanish question > > ------------------ > Here at UTMartin, our first 3 semesters of language study are 4-hour > courses (3 hours of class and 2 hours of lab...structured like a > science course). We have received a request from a single working > mother who cannot come to campus. She is on track for everything > (good grades, etc.) except the language requirement. We offer > nothing at night or online. She is requesting to take an online > course and substitute it for ours. I have very serious doubts about > online lower-level courses, even though it is possible to give oral > practice to students. I think there will be some pressure on us for > this one, but I note that the TN Regents course suggested is only > 3-hours. This poses some extra administrative problems. Can anyone > recommend or point me to some 4-hour courses covering each of the > first two semesters of college Spanish? > > TBob > -- > ========================================================== > Look it up in the Andy Holt Virtual Library > http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml > ========================================================== > Robert D. Peckham, PhD > Director, the Globe-Gate Project > Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center > Department of Modern Foreign Languages > Univ. of Tennessee-Martin > http://globegate.org/french/globe.html > Christopher M. Jones, PhD. Principal Lecturer in French, Director, Modern Language Resource Center Baker Hall 160, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213 tel: 412-268-5065 fax: 412-2681328 [log in to unmask] http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/facpages/cjones