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Cal State Fullerton students soon will be able to choose to major in Vietnamese language and culture, thanks to a $238,000 U.S. Department of Education grant to create the program.

Trang Le, hired this fall as a lecturer in modern languages and literatures, is developing the bachelor’s degree program, as well as a minor and an international sequence in Vietnamese.

“We are developing the curriculum for the courses that would lead to a minor in Vietnamese language and culture first, and eventually lead to a major,” said Le, the program’s coordinator. “We expect students to be able to choose to major or minor in Vietnamese language and culture as early as [Fall 2012 or Spring 2012].”

She said the program is being designed to prepare students “to take advantage of the rapidly growing business and professional opportunities resulting from trade between the U.S. and Vietnam, as well as to serve ‘Little Saigon’ (a predominantly Vietnamese American community in Westminster) and other Vietnamese American communities with a need for teachers and medical, law enforcement and other professionals fluent in the Vietnamese language and culture.”

(Source: calstate.fullerton.edu)

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