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Here are some gleanings from the 1984-85 calendar of The University
College of Cape Breton , an undergraduate degree-granting institution
in Sydney Nova Scotia :
 
100 Introductory Gaelic
Designed for students who have little or no knowledge of Scottish
Gaelic . Elementary instruction in Gaelic conversation , grammar ,
phonetics and simple sentence construction . Emphasis will be on the
spoken language .

210 Celtic Language and Literature 

   Designed to give students who have elementary communication skills
in Scottish Gaelic an opportunity to study the historical development
of the Celtic languages and their literature .

299 Celtic Music

   This course is designed to examine the principles of Celtic Music .
It will establish the historical origins of the musical forms of the
Celts in Ireland and Scotland , and will look in detail at church
music , vocal music ( including labour songs ) and at the role of
instruments such as bagpipe , fiddle and harp .

330 Celtic History

   This course is designed to trace the origins of the Celtic people
in Europe and study their movement to Ireland , Wales , Scotland and
the New World ; to examine culture language and institutions.Special
emphasis will be placed on the Gaelic people in Scotland from the
development of the Kingdom of Dairiada ,through the Lordship of the
Isles and the Clan System to the dispersal of the Highlanders 
following the economic and social changes of the 18th century .The
course will finish with a study of the modern Gaelic community in
Scotland ,and the forces that created it.

331 The Modern Scottish Highlands

   This course deals with the Celtic Society of the Highlands of 
Scotland from the battle of Culloden to the Present Day . Special
emphasis will be put on the changes which the society underwent in
the 19th century , with particular reference to the Highland
Clearances . The course will finish with an examination of the
parallel development of Scottish Gaelic life and culture in Scotland
and in Cape Breton .

UCCB houses the Beaton Institute of Cape Breton Studies , a repository
of Cape Breton history . Its collection of many thousands of items is
open for research to students and the public .The oral history 
collection includes over one thousand tapes which have been collected
over the last 25 years . They include material relating to Cape
Breton social life , its ceilidhs ,songs and ballads ,accounts of 
weddings,funerals,frolics,ghost stories and sgeulachdan .....Perhaps
the most outstanding feature of the Archives is its special collection
of Gaelic and Scottish material ,consisting of original manuscripts ,
tapes and a library .The library consists of many rare books and
periodicals in the Gaelic language .Of course the largest number are
better known Gaelic books in poetry and prose . However a greater
source of pride is the quality of Gaelic material of Cape Breton or
Nova Scotia origin,and the complete file and index of the Gaelic
newspaper MacTalla published for many years in Cape Breton .

Cape Breton Island was settled in the 19th century by  Scottish
Highlanders , mainly crofters who were evicted from their homes
by the Enclosure Acts . The CBC outlet in the city of Sydney
(population ~50000) still broadcasts at least one weekly programme
in Gaelic . Unfortunately UCCB is not on the net (yet) . For more
information you may write:

	   The Registrar
	   University College of Cape Breton
	   P.O.Box 5300
	   Sydney,Cape Breton,Nova Scotia
	   Canada B1P 6L2

regards , barry