<p>Does anyone know when they started teaching Arabic at the academies?</p>
<p>2 years ago I know because a mom herself locally has a daughter who got into the first class, she is in her 2nd year, and she told me next year, her Firstie year, will be her third. This mom also told me that my daughter and other Plebes who get into Arabic next year, can finally get 4 years of Arabic at USNA. </p>
<p>Funny you ask, since this came up last night in a conversation with a mom of a current local mid</p>
<p>Foreign language currently is not part of the plebe year curriculum. There is a matrix on the usna website showing what individual majors take each year. I believe it's a link from the academic dean's page.</p>
<p>Is this what you mean?</p>
<p>Green,</p>
<p>Yep. Hasn't changed a whole lot over the years. Generally speaking, the only changes you see to it are when Plebe validate courses, in which case they take the next class up.</p>
<p>Now, in cases where a Plebe validates a LOT of stuff, I suppose it COULD happen that a language is fit into the curriculum. All depends on how much was validated, what his major is (as that determines follow-on courses), and how many hours each course is.</p>
<p>So they're teaching Arabic now, eh? Good idea. Know thine enemy.</p>
<p>personally i think they should start teaching Farsi or Pashtu, but hey, that's just my opinion</p>
<p>with the ridiculously weak emphasis the academy places on foreign language skills, its lucky we have arabic.</p>