A sequence of three courses focused on the past, present, and future of water in Central Asia for students in the social sciences, business, engineering, and the humanities.

The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES) and Asian Studies Center (ASC) propose a project to strengthen interdisciplinary connections among Pitt faculty and students across the humanities, social sciences, and pre-professional programs in business and engineering. Led by Dr. Nancy Condee (REES Director/Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Dr. Ruth Mostern (World History Center Director/ASC affiliate), the project faculty team will develop three new undergraduate courses on the theme of “Water in Central Asia.” This course sequence will incorporate high-impact experiential learning activities, including mentored research projects and virtual peer-to-peer exchanges with students at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. The courses will be taught in spring 2019 through spring 2020 and then incorporated into Pitt’s regular curriculum and into two existing student credential programs, as well as a planned new Central Asian Studies Certificate.

Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers on the Homestead Steel Strike.

The Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power is a one week workshop (offered twice) that will provide teachers with a full accounting of the circumstances that led to the Battle of Homestead and what its lasting impact has been in the United States. This program will provide a framework for participants to immerse themselves in the battle from both sides by examining primary sources, listening to lectures by leading historians and scholars, and visiting historic sites including the Original Homestead Works Pump House, the Bost Building, which served as headquarters for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, and The Carrie Furnace, which produced iron for the Homestead Works from 1907 to 1978.

Two week-long workshops for cohorts of 26 K-12 teachers each on the impact of the 1892 Homestead steel strike.

The Archives & Special Collections Department at the University of Pittsburgh Library System and Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area are pleased to submit this proposal for a Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop entitled The Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power. If funded, this will be the third time we have offered this program. As with the first and second iterations, the residential workshop will be offered to two different groups of 26 teachers, during the weeks of July 5-11 and July 12-18, 2026.

To offer broad courses reintegrating the Humanities into meaningful wholes. Humanities material will be used to illuminate such issues as conflict, death and ethnicity. Courses will draw on disciplines outside the humanities as well.

In consonance with a program of language training in Quecha and Aymara Indian languages to be supported by O.E., NEH will support the Area Studies component of Andean Studies. The theme is Cultural Conflict and Integration with special reference to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. A group of undergraduate and graduate students will attend an eight-week Institute, with local and vising professors.

To support a six-week institute for 25 college faculty members who will study the history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

A two-week institute for 25 higher education faculty that would bring a transnational perspective to Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx cultures in the United States.

The Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Institute will explore transregional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship and curricula addressing the African diaspora in Latin America and its diasporic populations in the U.S. Organized into three parts - Historical Dialogues, Cultural Dialogues, and Afrolatinidad Futurities - this two-week program is proposed for June 6-17, 2022. It will support 25 higher education faculty who seek a deeper scholarly engagement at the intersections of Africana, American, Latin American, and Latinx studies. Participants’ intellectual and pedagogical growth will be facilitated through presentations, discussions of texts and primary sources, mentoring opportunities, workshops, and excursions. All sessions will be available in a residential-hybrid format.

To present an undergraduate, non-professional course of study in architecture which constitutes a new academic major in the College of Arts and Sciences. Program will be conducted in the Fine Arts department, but the curriculum is formed from a consciously structured interdisciplinary list of offerings. These courses and others directly related to the program have been designed to function in two ways, as legitimate courses in their parent discipline and as courses serving the interdisciplinary program.

Meeting of Latin teachers and school administrators involved in new Latin instruction programs in inner city schools, grades 6, 7, and 8, to exchange ideas which have resulted from actual teaching experience. ABSTRACT: Meeting of Latin teachers and school administrators involved in new Latin programs in inner city schools, grades 6, 7, and 8. Programs have been established in Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit in past 2-3 years. Meetings designed for teachers involved to exchange ideas which have resulted from actual teaching experience. Sponsored by Dept. of Classics, Univ. of Pittsburgh, which wishes to become involved in the teaching of Latin to inner-city school children, particularly in the Pittsburgh Public School System. Meeting also designed as preparation for Teachers' Training Institute for inner-city schools, to be held at Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, summer, 1970. Teachers and administrators from school systems which do not have the program invited to attend as observers in hope that the program might be extended to other big city school systems. Need for classical studies in inner-city is expeically great. Relating Latin to English, exploring Latin roots for English words, increases vocabulary and usage. Inculcates interest in study of humanities, use of past to offer insights into problems of present. Funds for travel, per diem and general costs.

A five-week institute for twenty-five school teachers that would explore topics in American history, including American values and attitudes, through the lens of music.

A five-week institute for twenty-five school teachers on ways to explore American history through popular songs.

"Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song" is a five-week summer institute for 25 secondary school teachers to explore topics in American history through the lens of music. Participants will utilize popular songs as primary source documents to enrich discussions of American history, while field trips and authentic performances will offer a uniquely engaging evocation of an historical context. Aided by the perspectives of historians, musicologists, and teaching performers, participants will develop innovative strategies to integrate music into their teaching of American social studies and language arts. This proposal is for a fourth Institute; previous Institutes were held in 2004, 2006, and 2008.

A five-week institute for twenty-five school teachers linking American popular songs to significant periods and events in American history.

"Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song" is a five-week summer institute for 25 school teachers to explore topics in American history through the lens of iconic songs. Participants will utilize popular songs as primary source documents to enrich discussions of American history, while field trips and authentic performances will offer a uniquely engaging evocation of an historical context. Aided by the perspectives of historians, musicologists, and teaching performers, participants will develop innovative strategies to integrate music into their teaching of American social studies and language arts. This proposal is for a sixth Institute; previous Institutes were held in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2013.

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To determine the common elements of Anglo-French attitudes toward other races in the first half of the 19th century, and to identify what elements appeared in each country to retard or to expand the thrusts toward integration and disintegration for such groups.

To examine the importance of France and French culture on twentieth c. Japanese artists and intellectuals focusing on the attitudes and works of six important modern Japanese writers, poets, and painters whose impact on their own culture remains significant. These figures will be studied in terms of the contribution of France to the creation of a number of important Japanese cultural and aesthetic attitudes.

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