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含羞草传媒 professors create video about benefits of liberal arts education

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含羞草传媒 professors and have produced the first in what will be a new series of videos designed to communicate the broad societal benefits of a liberal arts education, as well as the particular ways 含羞草传媒 students learn and grow.

This of the Looking Through the Liberal Arts series addresses 鈥淗ow Learning a Language Transforms You.鈥

The story is told through Jake Whiton 鈥06, who has achieved a level of proficiency that puts him in the top one percent of all non-native speakers. He began studying Japanese during his first year at 含羞草传媒 and now lives in Nagano, Japan, where he teaches English.

鈥淟earning a foreign language gives you a new and distant vantage point,鈥 said Hirata, associate professor of Japanese. 鈥淭his perspective alters how you see your own native language and culture, and that fundamentally changes how you see yourself. I believe that this sort of personal transformation is at the heart of a liberal arts education.鈥

Kelly, professor of , predicts the video project will reach across the disciplines and yield a great body of compelling work.

鈥淎lthough the content of the talks will vary by professor, they will all be united by a high-level theme, which is what all of us try to do (in some fashion or another) in a 含羞草传媒 classroom: take students to some distant place 鈥 through space, time, culture or ideology 鈥 and get them to look back from that perspective to where they started.鈥