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Tere Hogan/The Chart Jeremy Goins scrubs up for surgery at Freeman Health System. He works as an anesthesia technician. |
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Goins
pursues French fluency International
Editor Focused
on becoming fluent in French, Jeremy Goins, senior pre-med major,
decided to spend fall 2002 in France. Goins
leaves Sept. 21 to spend the semester taking French at Sorbonne, a
branch of the University of Paris. Dr. Maryann Weber, professor of
communications, said Goins worked out the arrangements for his
study-abroad program. "I'm
really impressed with his initiative in finding a study-abroad program
that met his interests," Weber said. Goins
will be taking an independent study course from Weber while he's in
Paris, along with an Internet course. He said the Southern hours
combined with the number of credits he will receive from taking French
five hours a day amounts to about 30 credit hours this semester. Goins
has been to France before with Missouri Southern's summer Orleans
program and was able to spend five days in Paris. He said that's when he
decided he wanted to spend a whole semester there. "That's
where all the excitement is," Goins said. He
plans to stay at an apartment he found near the university. He will
share the apartment with other international students. Weber
said Goins received a grant from the Institute of International Studies
to help pay for airfare and other costs, but he will have to pay for
most of his expenses himself. Goins
believes getting involved with campus life makes college more fun. He
has held many offices at Southern. Among other things, he's been
treasurer and president of Student Senate, served two years on the
Academic Affairs Policy Committee, and been Webmaster for the Campus
Activities Board. Now,
Goins said he wants to concentrate on increasing his language abilities
in French. "I
really am just insecure and not very confident in my level of
conversation," he said. He
hopes spending a few months in France will make him feel comfortable
speaking French and also help him to learn about the culture. Weber
said Goins will have spent enough hours learning French to make it one
of his majors. "He
is a very serious student, and he is also a student with great
leadership potential," she said. "I wish him great luck."
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Tere Hogan/The Chart Jeremy Goins scrubs up for surgery at Freeman Health System. He works as an anesthesia technician. |