This five week Intensive Summer Program in Amharic will be preceded by a threeday gratis seminar on Ethiopia, June 17-19. Lecturers will be drawn from across the nation and from Ethiopia, and will include more than 10 MSU faculty who have taught, worked, and conducted research in Ethiopia. Amharic Intensive Summer Program participants are expected to participate in this gratis workshop. The Summer program will be directed by Prof. Grover Hudson, Faculty, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University. This workshop aims to enhance social science, natural science, and humanities undergraduate courses that teach about the African environment, by encouraging the use of film and video images that are accurate representations of Africans and Africa and that challenge the conventional concept of the African environment.
Registration is free, however there is a small fee to cover materials, breaks and an African meal.
Through a series of eight sessions, questions on aging, and their developing contexts will be examined. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Arkansas at Montecello announce and invite application for NEH Summer Institute which will be held July 3 - August 6, 1999. This institute is designed for 30 educators in grades 7-12 who teach or supervise world history, American history, world geography, global studies and related social studies subjects. The institute will concentrate on the historical and contemporary role of Islam in West Africa. Application deadline is March 1, 1999.