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College Course Scanner Facilitates Course Selection
The College is about to unveil an exciting new tool that will make it easier for students to explore the plethora of courses available to them at Penn. The College Course Scanner will provide students better access to information about College courses as they plan their programs for the next term or next year. With over 1,700 courses offered each year by the College, merely finding out what is available is a daunting task. Robert Rescorla, associate dean for undergraduate education and director of the College, explains that the College Course Scanner will encourage students to be adventurous in planning their programs by helping them to search quickly through the entire College curriculum to find courses on topics of specific interest to them. The scanner can identify courses by key topics supplied by the student and can identify courses related to an existing course.

African Studies Web Site Receives Accolades
The Library of Congress calls it the main source for information about Africa on the Internet. It's the African Studies Web site, run as an outreach service of the SAS African Studies Center. The first Web site for African Studies in the country, it includes country-specific information for all African countries, conference announcements, job opportunities, book reviews and book listings, country reports prepared by research institutions in Africa, K-12 information, multimedia archives that include maps, flags, and visual arts, etc. Monthly readership of the site is more than 250,000. African Studies at Penn recently received a grant from the NEH to enlarge the Web site to include a "Living Library" of resources and teaching materials for East Africa. The Library is one aspect of the NEH project, which also includes the teaching of an East African language (Swahili) to school children from 6th through 12th grades via interactive live Cable TV, the training of K-12 teachers in African Studies, and nationally televised model lessons on East Africa that complement language study. To check out the African Studies Web site, go to: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html.

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