Harvard University in the United States will be offering Tagalog language courses for the school year 2023-2024.
Harvard’s college newspaper ‘The Harvard Crimson’ reported that Tagalog is the fourth most spoken language in the United States.
In a GMA News report, Eleanor V. Wikstrom, co-president of the Harvard Philippine Forum and a Crimson Editorial chairman previously wrote an opinion article criticizing the lack of a Tagalog language course at Harvard.
In another article in The Harvard Crimson student John Ficek said a Tagalog class would “help out a lot” for Filipino students who were born and raised in the United States but didn’t know the language.
The university aims to hire three instructors to teach Tagalog to be placed under the Department of South Asian Studies.
Asian languages such as Thai and Bahasa Indonesian are already being taught in Harvard.
The teaching positions will be on a three-year term per instructors. The job offer can be renewed for an additional five days.
