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Languages and Linguistics

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no_hypocrisy

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Sun May 6, 2012, 09:29 AM May 2012

Sweet Briar College (Virginia, independent, women's college) cutting its German program. [View all]

Since its inception, German has always been taught and offered as a major both as a language and literature. Three years ago, Italian was cut.

It's a troubling trend to see arts, humanities, and languages as dispensable.

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