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Summer Institutes
FACDIS International Studies Summer Institute for Teachers
Summer Institute Topics:
2017: From "Backyard" to Front-and Center: Teaching Latin American Studies in the 21st Century
2016: Teaching East Asia: Classroom Ideas for a Dynamic Region
2015: The Middle East: Where to start? How to teach?
2014: Earth, Water, and Air: Energy and the Environment in Today’s World
2013: Cuba in the 21st Century
2012: The Battlefield and Beyond: The Many Dimensions of War
2011: Violence and Injustice: Tough Topics in Today's Classroom
2010: China: Yesterday's Memories, Today's Challenges
2009: Now You See It! International Sources and Resources for WV Classrooms
2008: Venezuela: Behind the Headlines
2007: The Developing World: What do we know? What do we teach?
2006: West Virginia and the World: Globalization, Then and Now
2005: The Italian Roots of Western Culture with two week study-tour in Italy
2004: U.S. and the World: New Times, New Challenges
2003: Religion and the World
2002: International Year of the Mountains
2001: Comparing the New Russia to the Old Russia: Cruising Russia's Waterways with two week study-tour in Russia
2000: Two-week study tour to Cuernavaca, Mexico
1999: Fitting North America into the Curriculum
1998: Advanced Training in Using the Internet to Teach International Topics
Fitting the Middle East into the Classroom
1997:Using the Internet to Teach International Topics
1996: Peer Mediation in the Schools
Modern China and Modern Japan
Two-day conference on Perspectives on Conflict Resolution
1995: Cultural Diversity in Our Schools
Conflict Resolution in Our Schools
1994: Africa
Human Rights
1993: Teaching the New Social Studies Course: The United States and the World: the Twentieth Century
1992: Europe Today
1991: Latin America: Past and Present
1989: Five-week study/travel tour of Japan
1988: Arab Middle East
1987: Modern China and Modern Japan