Hospitals are in constant need of interpreters to connect patients to doctors. The U.S. Department of Justice revealed in 2004 that the FBI had accumulated 120,000 hours of untranslated recordings potentially related to terrorism. Multinational corporations are looking to increase market share in China and other countries. With employers in the private and public sectors […]
Author Archives: Charlotte Hsu
No joke ““ beneath it all, real learning takes place
I managed to avoid the dentist for four years, from freshman year to this past April. They discovered five holes in my teeth. That got me thinking. Here we are, at the end, and what have I really accomplished in college? I am still 5 feet, 3 inches tall. I live in a silver Ikea […]
New teachers overcome obstacles: Marjorie Clark
Marjorie Clark is a white teacher in a Washington, D.C. high school where more than 95 percent of the students are black. She grew up in Albany, Ore., in a rural, white, middle-class community before attending UCLA. Almost all her students live in poverty, qualifying for free lunches distributed by the urban district. Clark is […]
[Online Exclusive]: New intensive language program offered
UCLA will offer a new intensive language program this summer that will use Los Angeles’ language-rich community in teaching students to speak, read and write. The program, “Language Intensives in L.A.,” will feature classes in seven tongues: Spanish, Arabic and Russian, along with Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia, Catalan, spoken around Barcelona in Spain, and Swahili […]
A life of languages
Michael Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, took up French in 1956. It fulfilled a foreign language requirement at his Staten Island high school. Two years later, he began learning German. He studied Russian and Mandarin Chinese in college. Czech came next. Today Heim, a native speaker of only English, knows more than a […]
University launches a novel institution
Antiquarian booksellers and library staff in Southern California have been talking for years about starting up a rare book school on the West Coast. Now, the talk has ended. UCLA will open its classrooms in July and August to students interested in the newly founded California Rare Book School, a UCLA Department of Information Studies […]
Underground books record past
In the basement of Young Research Library, there is a place where books are pieces of history. A catalogue from the early 1900s touts masks depicting stereotypes of ethnic groups and races: Italians, Japanese, Jews. The pages of another text, faded to gray-gold tones, are filled with detailed drawings of what ancient Roman temples and […]