Broader Horizons

With the addition of two foreign study programs, the first On either the Asian or African continent, Dartmouth students will come a giant step closer to girdling the earth in the course of their undergraduate curricula.

The faculty has approved the new programs to Kenya and to China, to be added to more than a score of Language Study Abroad and Foreign Study Programs already in place.

Environmental Studies will sponsor the program in Kenya, to commence winter term of next year. A group of 20 to 25 students will study land and water use, food supply, and population growth from the Kenyan perspective in courses to be taught by both Dartmouth and Kenyan professors. They will live with host families in Nairobi, and successful applicants will be instructed in basic Swahili.

Under the auspices of the Asian Studies Program, 15 or 20 Dartmouth students will study at Beijing (Peking) Normal University during summer terms, starting in 1983.

Four Chinese-speaking Dartmouth professors will alternate in leading the groups and in teaching a primarily culture-oriented course during the stay in China. The students, who must satisfy a prerequisite of three first-year Chinese courses to be admitted to the program, will also take two language courses taught by Chinese professors. The students will live in university dormitories arid faculty members in a nearby "friendship hotel."

Although exchange programs have previously been sponsored by other American institutions, Dartmouth's is reported to be the first college with its own foreign-study program in China.

The College has played host this year to three visitors from mainland China. Professor Arnold Jiang, a historian, was in

residence winter term as a Montgomery Fellow, and Drs. Chao-in Chin and LungShun Chen, both medical professors at home, are spending nine months at the Dartmouth Medical School observing American medical practices.