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This is an audio lecture by Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University) at University of Kansas.

Collegiate foreign language programs are challenged to assure that their learners acquire sophisticated literary-cultural knowledge regarding their cultural areas; they are asked to assure that learners acquire non-native languages to professional levels of ability; they are encouraged to make room in their language teaching and learning for the hybridity and multiple literacies of a globalized world. … and they are expected to do all of this in a remarkably short period of time!

Professor Byrnes considers comprehensive curricular thinking that integrates language and content in a principled fashion a viable response to these imperatives of college foreign language education. An added benefit of this approach is that the creation of genre-based, well articulated curricula can recover foreign language study for the humanistic educational goals of higher education, thus assuring the intellectual viability of collegiate language study.

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