Chinese: Advisory Placement Test - December 7 (tentative)

The last advisory placement test for Chinese (Mandarin) for the Fall 2012 semester will be given (tentatively) on Friday, December 7 from 1:00-2:30 in the Arts Building, room to be announced.  Find out what this placement test is ... and what it isn't, by clicking here.  

Boren Scholarship Information Session: Tuesday, August 28, 12:00

• Are you interested in world cultures and languages?
• Would you like to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, or in the Middle East?
• Is your GPA 3.6 or higher?
• Are you a U.S. citizen?

If you answered yes to the questions above, then you should think about applying for a Boren Scholarship. Maximum scholarship awards are:

• $8,000 for a summer program (special initiative for STEM students only; 8 weeks minimum)
• $10,000 for a semester
• $20,000 for a full academic year 

Want to learn more?

A Boren Awards information session will be held on August 28, 2012 from 12 noon to 1:30 pm

In the Rosenberg Library, Room 301

For more information on the Boren Award, contact Sue Light, Boren Advisor, at laurasue12@sbcglobal.net or Jill Heffron, Study Abroad Coordinator, at jheffron@ccsf.edu or visit www.BorenAwards.org

The Language Center will Open on Thursday, August 16 at 10:30 a.m.

Students taking foreign language classes at CCSF will be glad to know that the Language Center will open at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 16.  The Language Center offers support materials for all credit foreign language classes at CCSF.  iMac computers with high-speed internet access are available for you to access your online language learning materials.  And there's much more, so come on in and check it out!

The Language Center - Summer 2012 Hours

The Language Center will be open limited hours during the summer session from July 2 through August 3 as follow: 

Monday - Thursday:  9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (noon) 

Staff members will be available to assist students with locating and using materials for their particular class.  Classes will fill up early, due to limited offerings, so sign up now!   Click here for a link to a listing of Summer Session foreign language classes. 

San Francisco International Film Festival - 4/19-5/3

If you're taking a foreign language at CCSF, try to check out the film offerings at the San Francisco International Film Festival, now presenting various world cinema films at different venues around San Francisco.

Here are some previews of a few selected entries:

From France comes The Intouchables:

 A paralyzed Parisian millionaire and his assistant, a Senegalese rowdy, strike up an anarchic friendship in this update of ’80s buddy movies like Trading Places, starring François Cluzet and “the French Eddie Murphy,” Omar Sy. A cultural sensation in France thanks to its raucous take on racial and class divides.  


And Japan offers I Wish (Kiseki): 

Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to themes from his 2004 Nobody Knows with this moving and insightful study of two brothers, divvied up by divorced parents, who dream of reuniting their family through a bullet-train line. A children’s film with a touch of adult supervision, I Wish miraculously holds a lifetime’s range of experience.




Germany weighs in with a three-part drama/mystery Dreileben: 

All three films of Dreileben’s character-driven crime drama trilogy are set in and around a small town by the Thuringian Forest. This opening entry taps into the Grimm nature of the setting. Two protagonists as green as the leaves face more romantic trouble than they can handle, while a murderer lurks nearby.

Chinese Language Advisory Placement Test: Arts 212 on May 11 from 1:30-3:30

The Chinese Advisory Placement Test will be given in Arts 212 on May 11 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.  What is the Chinese Language Advisory Placement Test?  The CPT is used by the Chinese Program to assess students’ Chinese language proficiency level so that they may be placed in the appropriate language classes in our program at the CCSF.   For more information on this placement test, click here.  

Foreign Language Class for Summer 2012

Due to budget constraints, the offerings for summer foreign language courses will be limited.  However, some classes will be available as follow:.  Register early as these classes will fill up quickly!

		50085	CHIN 1A		M-F	10:00-12:00	ART 308	TSAO
		50922	CHIN 14A		M-F	08:00-10:00	ART 308	WONG
		50070	FREN 1A		M-F	08:00-10:00	ART 315	NAVARRO
		50747	FREN 1A	591	TR	05:00-09:48	ART 309	MORABITO
		52106	ITAL 1A		M-F	10:00-12:00	HC 206	CONCIN
		50924	JAPA 1A	001	M-F	09:00-11:00	HC 205	WRIGHT
		50358	JAPA 1A	501	TR	05:00-09:48	ART 316	TAKAMATSU
		50247	SPAN 1A	001	M-F	08:00-10:00	ART 310	VASQUEZ
		51592	SPAN 1A	002	MTWR	11:00-01:32	HC 205	FELIU
		50765	SPAN 1A	501	TR	05:00-09:48	CLOU 266	BARTHOLOMEW

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