U.S. Embassy donates American studies textbooks
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce that on April 22, 2009, U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch and representatives of Yerevan State Linguistic University named after Brusov, Russian-Armenian Slavonic University, and Yerevan State University participated in a book donation ceremony at the U.S. Embassy's Information Resource Center. The U.S. Embassy, through its American Corner program, is donating almost $50,000 (18 million dram) in American Studies textbooks for area studies programs at the three schools.
The U.S. Embassy provides American Studies seminars, trainings, and exchange opportunities to university faculty throughout Armenia. This is the first large scale donation of American Studies textbooks, which cover themes in American government, history, culture, and literature. The books present a diverse view of America and will strengthen American Studies curricula in Armenia. Multiple copies of five different titles are being donated to each university so that students are able to work with the texts during class as well as outside the classroom.
In her remarks, Ambassador Yovanovitch noted that, "Learning about other cultures is the key to ensuring mutual understanding between nations," and expressed a hope that the English-language books will be a valuable contribution to the efforts of university faculty and administrators, who are actively incorporating American Studies content into their classes.
