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Renovation of The Barbara Ann Ward Language Center was recently completed. The renovation was largely supported by a grant from the office of the Provost with supplemental funding provided by the College of Humanities. The"new" center is now divided into three rooms: an instructional "smart" classroom with 30 work stations, a drop-in lab with wireless access, and a small video viewing room. The Center’s innovative design allows for both library style use by all patrons as well as use by faculty as a fully equipped smart classroom with access to audio/video/mutli region DVD/data projection. Faculty, staff and students have access to all media materials and equipment housed in the BAWLC.
The Center, located in Jerome Richfield Hall 316 provides audio, video and language specific software in Armenian, Chinese, Classics, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and is also equipped with a full range of assistive technology for students with varying disabilities. The Center also provides training for faculty, staff and students in electronic mail usage, HTML and web page creation, internet use targeted to language acquisition, curriculum specific software, and word processing with emphasis on diacritical characters. A further function of the Center is the organization of hands-on workshops or local community colleges and high schools. |