Month: July 2020

Join us at the Virtual Coffee Hour with CLAC: 

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC): An Effective Approach to Internationalize the Curriculum  

August 12, 2020, 1-2pm EST

Register here and you will receive the zoom link soon.  

Brief description:

Join us for this 1-hour virtual coffee hour as we discuss ways in which you can enhance global learning in any course or program through languages and cultures. In this casual session (30-min presentation, followed by 30-min Q&A), three Executive Officers of the Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Consortium will briefly introduce what CLAC is and its different models on various campuses to further internationalize higher education. We will touch upon ways in which you can further your professional interests by building or incorporating CLAC on your own campus.

Hosts/Presenters: 

Bernd Estabrook, Professor of World Languages and Cultures – German, Illinois College 
William Pavlovich, Director of Global Learning Initiatives, Binghamton University
JY Zhou, Interim Director of Global Engagement and Senior International Officer, Stockton University 

Please contact JY.Zhou@stockton.edu for any questions.

In this report, Matt Hartman highlights the amazing work on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum taking place at Duke University, an institutional member of the Consortium:

“Cultures & Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC), founded in 2014, is a program that supplements Duke’s language departments by offering students the chance to take classes from other departments in their target language. Some classes, like Romance Studies’ Soccer Politics, are full classes that have English-language lectures and discussion sections that take place in different languages.

Other CLAC courses are half-credit tutorials graded on an S/U basis, planned in parallel with a class from a different discipline. Students are encouraged, but not required, to enroll in both. For instance, in fall 2020 students can choose to take the CLAC course Voices in the Environment in French, Chinese or Spanish; its partner class, Integrating Environmental Sciences and Policy; or both.”

Read the complete article in the following link:

https://trinity.duke.edu/practical-way-learn-language-and-new-perspective