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Appendix F A PROPOSED FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AT_CAIRO In its statement on Nature: P urposes an ?yogi-am a year the University through its faculty: i ts administrative offices and its Board of TruE:tees adopted policies and approaches with implica-tions for the present as well as for the future. Many of the presertt implications, that is those falling within present budgetary possi-bility, have already been put into effect and others are planned fqr the near future The University must now begin to work out the practicalities of future implications in the light of new finaincial opportunity This paper reprenents an initial attempt t45 deal with the ac-demic aide of the new opportunity by making .14 five-yoar projea,ta of curriculum development, WhiLv, recogniming that a major portion of new academic programs will be on the gradtac level, the projectoY1 'aunt deal also wlth the undergraduate level in the der' e to offe)T' well-rounded reasonable picture of the future. No attempt will he made he to give a detailc:d deoc,riptIon the Middle Eastern context in which the University opertAtes and wAll ope?ate, A few comments are, howevw.-, order, 1. When making a five-yeav curriculum pro;jection, one must also make a projectiwa of the general situation of the U,AA/., ad the Middle Eat. Judging on the basic of the past teal yaars the social and economic adjustment will be marke& New ideAo ;Ind new conlaepts are commonplace and changes ara effected speediL, and wIth regularity, 2 The UnLversity must take into account these faeitorts in the humanities fields, the basic toils of intentulisuval la,Iderk.ttanding must be stressedl language, literature:, philosT)phy religion, die,, and art - to name a few. Within five years, in other w4rds, our present curriculum end its projections must be GO crwin:0d that war student product can play a significant part in the inevitable and imweasing cultural interpenotration of the yeays to colue The basic language problem deaiwrves special mention Cam-petence in the English language incr,triases only :;lowly, if at i:411, in the Middle East and the English Language Inatitute is 132-eaki,Jg new ground in its attempts to cope wAth tho situat-lon New programsv techniques and materials of all kind, will be needed witain the next five years. Competence in the Arabic language is ising - particular ly on the part of Middle Eastern. linguistic minvrities -• e.nd the University can lock forward to move significant cifferingc In th language of tho aro