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| Naval Academy Adopts New Focus on Foreign Cultures |
 Monday May 15, 2006 6:55am
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Naval Academy is the first of the military academies to adopt new coursework that immerses future officers with foreign cultures.
The idea is to prepare Tuesday's military for operations that pacify, rather than alienate, people in hot zones. The curriculum includes an emphasis on language, history and politics.
The Naval Academy recently created a Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and is hiring instructors in Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Russian. And faculty members are now offering anthropology, literature and history courses that focus on specific regions.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press.
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