| Language
Telecommunications, Resource, and Learning Center
The Language Telecommunications, Resource, and
Learning Center-located on the first and second floors of Moore Hall-
features a 42 station language laboratory, two class labs with
capabilities for showing slides and video including PAL and SECAM, and
three language media classrooms with direct Ethernet connections to the
Internet. The center has an extensive tape collection with entries in
more than 40 languages. The facilities include a professional recording
studio complex, a broadcast-standard video studio, and a satellite
station consisting of a C and Ku-band tracking dish and a Ku-band
broadcast facility. Via satellite the center receives daily programming
in some 28 languages on the International Channel. Programming is
available to students, faculty, and staff members in a designated
viewing room. The center’s Multimedia Computer Labs include a
Macintosh lab with networked Power Macs and a PC lab with networked
Windows 95 Pentium computers. Both labs are equipped with a printer,
scanner, and LCD projection system. The computers feature a direct
Ethernet connection to the Internet and a host of software for
multimedia language use and learning in a wide variety of languages
including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other non-Roman script
languages. The computer labs are available for drop-in use by students,
for class sessions and for training workshops for faculty and staff. A
separate Faculty Development Lab is available for faculty and staff for
materials development and software design. In addition, the center
provides a variety of audiovisual equipment and resources for the
classroom. The service scope of the center extends beyond the University
to include the state, the continental United States, and the
international community.
Manoa Writing Program
The Manoa Writing Program was created by the UH Board
of Regents in 1987 to handle all aspects of the written communication
General Education Core requirements. Its efforts are guided by a board
of nine professors, each from a different department. The faculty board
reviews requests to designate classes as “writing-intensive,” offers
faculty workshops on teaching with writing, and surveys students in
writing-intensive classes. The program publishes material on teaching
with writing. It also administers the Manoa Writing Placement
Examination, a full-day placement test given to all incoming students
who have not met the University’s entry-level writing course
requirement. The program’s ultimate goal is to help ensure that all
Manoa graduates are ready to meet the different writing tasks that society and
their professions will present to them.
Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center
The Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center was
established in 1988 with the broad mission of improving language
instruction in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature and
facilitating cooperative efforts among departments. The center
coordinates professional development programs; provides curriculum and
materials development services to departments; supports faculty research
and development projects, especially in obtaining grants and contracts;
and conducts outreach activities to support Hawai‘i’s
language-teaching community.
National Foreign Language Resource Center
Under the Language Resource Centers program, the U.S.
Department of Education awards grants to a small number of institutions
of higher education for the purpose of establishing, strengthening, and
operating centers that serve as resources to improve the nation’s
capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. In 1989, the
University of Hawai‘i was first granted funds to develop a National
Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), one of three such centers at
the time-the number since has grown to seven.
NFLRC engages in research and materials development
projects, conducts summer institutes for language professionals, and
makes available a wide variety of publications on center projects and
programs. Drawing on the abundance of Asian and Pacific resources
afforded by its locale, NFLRC focuses its efforts on the less commonly
taught languages, particularly those of Asia and the Pacific,
recognizing that competence in these languages is increasingly vital to
the nation’s future. The projects and educational programs that the
center under-takes have broader implications for the teaching of all
languages.
American Studies
College of Arts and Humanities
Moore 324
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8570
Fax: (808) 956-4733
E-mail: amstuh@hawaii.edu
Web: www.hawaii.edu/amst/
Faculty
*P. Hooper, PhD (Chair)--regional and international
studies
*D. Bertelson, PhD--literature and social thought
*W. Chapman, PhD--historic preservation
*M. Helbling, PhD--literature, ethnicity, and cultural theory
*J. Hughes, PhD--politics and women’s studies
*F. Matson, PhD--politics and social science
*J. McCutcheon, PhD--social, cultural, and urban history
*D. Ogawa, PhD--Asian American and communication studies
*D. Stannard, PhD--social problems
*K. Tehranian, PhD--culture, arts, environment, and society
*M. Yoshihara, PhD--cultural history, race and gender, United
States-Asian relations
Cooperating Graduate Faculty
J. Stanton, PhD--culture and arts
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
S. Armitage, PhD--folklore and regional studies
H. Kato, PhD--popular culture
W. Murtagh, PhD--historic preservation
B. Riznik, PhD--historic preservation
P. Spickard, PhD--multicultural studies
F. Tang, MA--Asian American relations
*Graduate Faculty
Degrees and Certificates Offered: BA (including
minor) in American studies, MA in American studies (including dual AMST/
MLISc MA), PhD in American studies, graduate Certificate in Historic
Preservation
The Academic Program
Since its inception in the 1930s, American studies (AMST)
has offered an integrated multidisciplinary exploration of the
historical and contemporary American experience. This involves the study
of American popular and high culture; environmental issues;
institutional structures, including political and economic institutions;
systems of thought and belief; and gender, ethnic, racial, and
cross-cultural relationships. A combination of historical, literary,
social-scientific, and other methodological approaches is used. In
addition to such traditional aims, American studies at the University of
Hawai‘i at Manoa also explores the role of Hawai‘i, the Pacific,
Asia, and, to a lesser extent, other parts of the world within the
American experience, an objective that imparts a cross-cultural
dimension to its program and differentiates it significantly from most
other programs in the field.
At the undergraduate level, American studies offers a
balanced general education experience, as well as excellent preparation
for both advanced study in the field and professional studies ranging
from law to travel industry management. Advanced degrees are intended
primarily as preparation for college and university-level teaching, but
recipients are also engaged in such activities as journalism, library
management, business administration, and government service. A dual MA
can be taken in cooperation with the Library and Information Science
Program. In addition to regular degrees, the graduate Certificate in
Historic Preservation is offered as preparation for professional
employment in the preservation field. |