Going Borderless and Bilingual – A unique bilingual M.F.A. program in many ways defined by its base on the Mexican border is, with the addition of a new distance education initiative, embarking on a “grand experiment” to become borderless. – University of Texas at El Paso
Tagged: bilingual, border, El Paso, Texas, university of texasPosted on: January 25th, 2007“A new online M.F.A. program at UT El Paso initiated this spring stands out not just for its embrace of Spanish and English ”” which to a lesser degree mirrors the bilingual approach of the university’s thriving residential program ”” but also its complete lack of a residency requirement, an uncommon development in a field that has been characterized of late by a proliferation of “low-residency” upstarts. Translating the residential program’s distinctive approach to fit within an online format is an experiment, observers say, worth watching.”
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