Presentation Title
Location
RCC 202
Start Date
12-10-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
12-10-2013 10:45 AM
Abstract
Middlesex Community College is strongly committed to the view that sharing the languages, philosophies, histories, literatures and arts of different peoples is the most profound basis for building bridges and creating respect and civility among cultures.
Our commitment to global education, and specifically our commitment to Asia, has been strengthened by our twenty-three year association with the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP). As its first regional center, MCC has collaborated with ASDP on a variety of projects, including multiple Title VI, Fulbright-Hays, NEH Institutes and Bridging Cultures grants, national conferences, and workshops.
Both ASDP and MCC promote a comparative approach to infusing Asian material into the undergraduate curriculum, especially core courses in the humanities and social sciences, believing that when students come to understand more about other cultures, they better understand their own. And in light of that mandate at this roundtable, Middlesex will share how it has leveraged multiple grants to facilitate interdepartmental collaboration to revise global focused curriculum according to LEAP rubrics, foster community-based experiential and service learning, and increase outreach to its regional and international partners, including the Deshpande Foundation and the new American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) in Cambodia.
ASDP and Middlesex believe that through the development of cultural literacy, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and institutional partnerships, new and diverse perspectives on Asia are brought into scholarship, curriculum development, teaching, and leadership.
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K-16 Education Outreach in Asian Studies: MCC and ASDP
RCC 202
Middlesex Community College is strongly committed to the view that sharing the languages, philosophies, histories, literatures and arts of different peoples is the most profound basis for building bridges and creating respect and civility among cultures.
Our commitment to global education, and specifically our commitment to Asia, has been strengthened by our twenty-three year association with the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP). As its first regional center, MCC has collaborated with ASDP on a variety of projects, including multiple Title VI, Fulbright-Hays, NEH Institutes and Bridging Cultures grants, national conferences, and workshops.
Both ASDP and MCC promote a comparative approach to infusing Asian material into the undergraduate curriculum, especially core courses in the humanities and social sciences, believing that when students come to understand more about other cultures, they better understand their own. And in light of that mandate at this roundtable, Middlesex will share how it has leveraged multiple grants to facilitate interdepartmental collaboration to revise global focused curriculum according to LEAP rubrics, foster community-based experiential and service learning, and increase outreach to its regional and international partners, including the Deshpande Foundation and the new American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) in Cambodia.
ASDP and Middlesex believe that through the development of cultural literacy, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and institutional partnerships, new and diverse perspectives on Asia are brought into scholarship, curriculum development, teaching, and leadership.
Comments
Presentation is included in Panel 13: Resources and Outreach in Asian Studies in New England (Roundtable)