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Texan News
J-TAC
September 15,1995
German native teaches Spanish
By Justin Beam
Staff Writer
The newest addition to the lan-
guage department Dr. Maria Bohm
is a native of Germany but she
doesn't teach German.
She teaches Spanish. Dr. Bohm
is Tarleton's new Spanish language
coordinator.
Dr. Bohm came to America in
the 1960s out of curiosity sfie said.
First she stayed in the East Coast
with her brother, then she moved to
San Francisco. Dr. Bohm says she
has lived in many places. Oregon,
Texas and Mexico are a few exam-
ples.
Dr. Bohm is not the only one
who has visited far off places. Her
husband, Norman Maucher, is a
retired sea captain; Captain
Maucher has sailed all over the
world, from places as near as the
Gulf of Mexico to as far as the
Mediterranean Sea.
Dr. Bohm received her B.A. at
Linfield College in McMinnville, a
town near Portland, when she lived
in Oregon.
She earned her M.A. at the
Instituto de Filolojia Hispanica in
Saltillo, Mexico.
"I just went there for summer
school and ended up staying 15
years," said Dr. Bohm Most
recently Dr. Bohm earned her Ph.D
at the University of Texas in
Austin.
Dr. Bohm has taught all her life,
and says she greatly enjoys it.
During her stay in Mexico she
instructed North American students
at a language school. For the last
seven years, while she was working
toward her Ph,D at University of
Texas, Dr. -Bohm taught at
Southwestern University in
Georgetown.
"I want Tarleton's Spanish
' Dr. Maria Bohm (Photo by Rob Macchietto)
department to grow and thrive," Dr.
Bohm said. Already plans have
been made to expand the language
lab and set up Spanish tutorials.
To make her classes more inter-
esting Dr. Bohm teaches the culture
and music along with the language.
"Getting away from the books,
to learn music and customs, helps
students learn more and it keeps
them interested in the subject," said
Dr. Bohm.
Right now Dr. Bohm is helping
form a Spanish club, this club will
, be for anyone who has an interest
in the Spanish language. The club
will be a conversation group that
meets twice monthly. The club will
feature guest speakers and perfor-
mances.
The members will also have
opportunities to attend perfor-
mances and musical activities.
Anyone interested in joining the
club should look for flyers around
campus.
Spanish class enrollments skyrocket
on college campuses nationwide
NEW YORK (CPS) — Habla
Espanol?
If you do, you're part of the lat-
est college classroom trend, as
school officials across the country
say they're witnessing dramatic
increases in the number of students
enrolled in Spanish classes.
As the number of Spanish
speaking people continue to grow
in the United States, many students
want to capitalize on the increasing
number of career opportunities for
bilingual speakers.
* At Harvard University, a
record-high 589 students signed up
for courses in Spanish, 25 percent
more than last year.
* At University of Texas, more
than half of the credit hours earned
in foreign languages last year were
from students taking courses in
Spanish. Enrollment in Spanish
classes at the Arlington campus
reached 4,502 students last fall, a
200-plus increase from last year.
* Spanish majors at Trinity
University in Texas have increased
so much in the past five years that
they now outnumber students tak-
ing French and German by a three-
to-one ratio.
According to the Modern
Language Association, nearly half
of the 1.2 million students enrolled
in college foreign language courses
are taking Spanish. In 1990, last
year's numbers are available for
(Comparison, 534,000 students took
Spanish classes, up 29 percent from
1986.
Spanish is the world's third most
popular language; an estimated-
300 million, people speak some
form of the language.
According to the 1990 U.S..
Census, more than 17 million resi-
dents of the United States speak
Spanish in their homes. Spanish-
speaking people made up 7.5 per-
cent of the United States in 1990,
up from 5.3 percent in 1980.
Barbara Euresti, director of the
Liberal Arts Career Center at the
University of Texas-Austin, says
that the passage of NAFTA brought
an onslaught of phone calls from
recraiters. "Companies that are
% looking into going into Mexico to
begin a branch of their business
need graduates who can speak
Spanish fluently," she said. "Even
"Even companies
with contracts in
Latin America,
like food brokers,
need students
who speak
Spanish to help
them deal with
their foreign
accounts"
companies with contacts in Latin
America, like food brokers, need
students who speak Spanish to help
them deal with their foreign
accounts."
Students who plan to stay in the
Southwest, West, or Midwest or
anywhere near a large, urban area
are especially likely to enroll in
Spanish where it is extremely help-
ful in finding employment.
In a recent survey, forty percent
of 936 corporate executives sur-
veyed by KPMG Pete Marwick
said their firms are looking for new
employees fluent in Spanish to help
establish and maintain any new
relationships that result from
NAFTA.
According to the U.S.
Department of Labor and Bureau
Statistics, students with Spanish
language skills can easily be
employed in most of the fastest-
growing occupations, which
include human services workers,
health care professionals, parale-
gals, teachers, correction officers,
child care workers, psychologists,
nurses and insurance investigators.
Many college students who
major or minor in Spanish already
have a familiarity with the lan-
guage.
In fact, many high school stu-
dents are taking at least two years
of a foreign language as a result of
increased academic requirements
from state governments. And while
these students take a variety of Ian?
guages, ranging from French to
Russian to Latin, enrollment in
Spanish classes tops all others.
According to the MLA report,
students studying French outnum-
bered those studying Spanish
229,000 to 179,000 in 1960. The
language pendulum swung toward
Spanish by 1970 and took off in the
1980s.
By 1990, 534,000 college stu-
dents were enrolled in Spanish
while 272,000 took classes in
French. In 1960, 146,000 students
studied German.
That number increased to
202,000 by 1970 and leveled off to
133,000 in 1990.
Acknowledging that NAFTA
"definitely enhanced the increase"
in students' interest in Spanish
classes, she said.
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