UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) offers young Armenians to take this summer a kind language program which envisages heritage language courses for high school age students who grew up with a home language but are not necessarily educated in that language.
Armenian youth will receive the opportunity to study the Armenian language and culture with a curriculum specifically designed for their needs. All of this will take place at the prestigious campus of UCLA where students will get to experience the atmosphere of a university setting.
The Center for World Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles is offering Heritage and Foreign Language classes for High School students this summer 2011. The classes will be held from June 28- July 28, 2011on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9:00am- 12:30pm along with after lunch tutorials at the UCLA campus. The enrollment fee is $150 and students may earn up to one year of High School foreign language credit.
The languages currently being offered are Amharic, Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Persian and Russian. The language classes are specifically designed for heritage language students. This typically means that the student heard the language at home throughout their childhood, but was educated primarily in English. In addition to our heritage language classes, the center is now offering beginning Italian and Russian for any interested high school students, Asbarez reported.
