The faculty going to Spain will participate in an intense, four-week language course at the University of Salamanca, two hours northwest of Madrid. They will also study Spanish culture, history and politics, and meet with scholars in corresponding or related fields at Salamanca. Karen Stolley, the Spanish professor who arranged the trip, said eight faculty members from six departments will go this year. The Emory Faculty Language and Culture Program in Spain is designed to allow faculty to study in Spain at very little personal cost. The program was designed to help faculty gain the linguistic and cultural competency to undertake research projects in Spanish-speaking countries and to help them incorporate international themes into their pedagogy.
Participants are able to learn Spanish quickly and achieve a high level of cultural literacy.
In addition to those trips, plans are under way for a faculty trip to India next year, which the Halle Institute would sponsor for 15 professors who are not India experts. They will be selected through a competitive process and be drawn from several schools.