(NAME-MCE) Yale Fulbright-Hays GPA will go to Russia, July 2009

[Bill Howe]

Yale Fulbright-Hays GPA will go to Russia, July 2009
Deadline Extended to April 29

PIER/European Studies at Yale’s MacMillan Center has received a
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) grant to lead 14 high school
teachers of social studies, history, world languages, humanities, and area
studies from New England, New York, and New Jersey on a study
tour/curriculum development project, “Understanding Medvedev’s Russia in
Historical Context,” in Russia this summer.

The upcoming GPA will offer a rich and diverse range of experiences during a
four-week study tour in Russia (July 5-August 3, 2009) that will provide an
in-depth view of its people and culture, constituting a unique opportunity
to develop resource materials for teaching and for professional and
curriculum development through classroom instruction, individual research,
field visits, and home-stays in contemporary Moscow and historic Vladimir.
Among the topics to be covered are:  privatization and the making of the new
elite;  daily life in the USSR and today;  Russian public opinion;  the
media today;  the rebirth of Russian Orthodoxy;  education at the
crossroads;  the business world;  individual initiative and
entrepreneurship;  and art and theater in the New Russia.

There will be an orientation conference at Yale July 2-4 and a series of
five Saturday follow-up sessions, Sept. ’09 through Oct. ’10, to complete
curriculum modules and to organize the dissemination of what participants
have learned, including presentations at professional workshops and
conferences over the next several years.  Each participant will be required
to pay a $1,000 fee toward the cost of the program.

The new deadline for application is April 29, 2009.

Information and applications are at
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes.htm.  For more information
contact Brian Carter, PIER/Outreach Director, Yale European Studies, at
203-432-3424 or at brian.carter at yale.edu.

Sponsored by Yale’s European Studies Council, the Whitney and Betty
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, and the U.S.
Department of Education through a Fulbright-Hays grant.  This GPA is planned
in accordance with nationwide Continuing Education Units standards, and Yale
is a CEU provider.  Upon completion of the program, Yale will grant teachers
up to 24 CEUs.



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