Will Supplement Three Oriental Units Further development of Princeton University's educational policy toward study of Far East affairs will occur next year, when another course will be added to three existing undergraduate courses on the Orient, Indicating future emphasis on languages as a fundamental basis of Far Eastern study, the new course in elementary Chinese will deal with the study of characters, grammar and correct pronunciation. Modern written Chinese texts will be used in the introductory subject.
Open to all members of the senior class and to selected juniors, the course will be offered to under-graduates by the Department of Oriental Languages, and marks another step in Princeton's policy of meeting student interest in the Orient. The policy. goes beyond all depart mental lines in offering Far Eastern courses, Nassau's politics history, art and languages sections each sponsoring one course.
Use of source materials in gaining real knowledge of the Far East was emphasized by Dr. David N. Rowe, who will conduct the new course, "No student can be expected to do distinguished advanced work without knowing the language of the country which he intends to study," Dr. Rowe declared today.
The addition of the elementary Chinese course is a response to high undergraduate interest in the Orient which has been increased in the past by the three existing courses, by the Princeton-Yenching Foundation, and by Princeton's ample facilities for Far Eastern study.
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