Tuition waivers are often available. Host institutions generally offer three credit hours for completion of the institute. Limited to 25 high school and middle school teachers per institute. Project directors handle registration for their respective institutes. For additional information, contact the institute director at the number or email address listed below.
Many institutes fill quickly, and some offer a waiting list.
Designed to broaden the contextual understanding of early American literature, culture, and history, this seminar will provide a deeper understanding of the American past by revealing conversations about the major 19th century reform issues such as slavery, temperance and women rights. One week of the seminar will include a trip to New England for site visits to the homes of important 19th century authors such as Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The historical, social, and literary sources of Russian nationalism will be the focus of this seminar for high school teachers. Nationalism during the tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet periods will illuminate ways of understanding nationalism in all countries, including the United States, since the French revolution. Contemporary issues such as the implications of nationalism for the foreign policy of the United States since the end of the Cold War will be considered.