U.S. EMBASSY DONATES AMERICAN STUDIES TEXTBOOKS
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04:07 pm | April 22, 2009 | society
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce that on April 22, 2009,
U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch and representatives of Yerevan
State Linguistic University named after Brusov, Russian-Armenian
Slavonic University, and Yerevan State University participated in a
book donation ceremony at the U.S. Embassy’s Information Resource
Center. The U.S. Embassy, through its American Corner program,
is donating almost $50,000 (18 million dram) in American Studies
textbooks for area studies programs at the three schools.
The U.S. Embassy provides American Studies seminars, trainings, and
exchange opportunities to university faculty throughout Armenia. This
is the first large scale donation of American Studies textbooks,
which cover themes in American government, history, culture, and
literature. The books present a diverse view of America and will
strengthen American Studies curricula in Armenia. Multiple copies of
five different titles are being donated to each university so that
students are able to work with the texts during class as well as
outside the classroom.
In her remarks, Ambassador Yovanovitch noted that, "Learning about
other cultures is the key to ensuring mutual understanding between
nations," and expressed a hope that the English-language books will
be a valuable contribution to the efforts of university faculty
and administrators, who are actively incorporating American Studies
content into their classes.