Soon, not only Filipinos in the U.S. can speak Tagalog as Ivy League school Harvard University will be offering a course on Tagalog, the fourth most spoken language in the United States.
One of the key individuals behind this new milestone is Eleanor V. Wikstrom, co-president of the Harvard Philippine Forum and a Crimson Editorial chair. She said in a Harvard Crimson report that getting Tagalog offered has been one of the goals for “as long as HPF has been in existence.”
But what exactly does this mean for the Filipino, Filipino-American, and even Southeast Asian students at Harvard?
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Harvard, one of the world’s top universities, is not the first American school to offer Tagalog to students.
Other institutions like the University of Washington in Seattle are also offering a Tagalog course under its American Ethnic Studies program. The course starts with TAGLG 101 Basic Tagalog, which introduces the Filipino language and culture to students at the novice level, up to TAGLG 303 Advanced Tagalog, which includes readings of contemporary Filipino prose, poetry and drama, and advanced conversation and composition.
Filipino or Tagalog courses are also offered at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California; Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Furthermore, at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in Honolulu, students may earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philippine Language and Culture.
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