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This is a reminder that the deadline for proposals for CLAC 2010 is  
MAY 31st:

CLAC in Practice:   Evolving Pedagogies for Teaching Cultures and  
Languages Across the Curriculum

September 24-25, 2010

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY

Deadline: May 31st, 2010

The Fall 2010 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the  
Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate  
instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and  
managing post-secondary CLAC programs.   The conference theme will  
address the practical issues related to developing successful  
pedagogical models for the CLAC classroom.

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum

The CLAC movement intends to make global competence a reality for  
students and to create alliances among educators to share practices  
and methods for incorporating an international dimension in curricula,  
and, more generally, to achieve internationalization goals. General  
principles of CLAC include:
A focus on communication and content;
An emphasis on developing meaningful content-focused language use  
outside traditional language classes;
An approach to language use and cross-cultural skills as a means for  
the achievement of global intellectual synthesis, in which students  
learn to combine and interpret knowledge produced in other languages  
and in other cultures.
Within this large framework, CLAC can take many forms, depending on  
specific content and curricular goals within a discipline.

Conference Theme

A specific focus of the 5th annual conference on Cultures and  
Languages Across the Curriculum will be on supporting CLAC programs  
through effective pedagogical practices and useful applications of  
technology.  We aim to engage seasoned CLAC practitioners, those in  
the process of implementing programs, and prospective CLAC program  
developers in a dialogue to share ideas and best practices in our  
evolving and unique field of education for global citizens.   CLAC  
attendees generally come to the conference eager to learn more about  
how CLAC programs are implemented at other institutions.  CLAC 2010  
will provide an opportunity for more extended discussions of the  
practical matter of how to design and deliver the CLAC curriculum.

We invite proposals for 30-minute papers or 90-minute panels on any  
issue relating to CLAC, although the following topics are of  
particular interest:

CLAC course design (syllabi, classroom activities, lesson plans).
Evaluation and assessment.
Incorporating technology in CLAC.
Theoretical frameworks for the successful CLAC program.
PROPOSAL  FORMAT

To offer a (30-minute) paper or (90-minute) panel , please provide the  
following, in the form of MS Word documents attached to an email  
message to Dr. Cindy Evans ([log in to unmask]):

1. A cover sheet including:

Type: Presentation (30 minutes, including 10 minutes for open  
discussion) or Panel (90 minutes, including at least two separate  
papers and at least 30 minutes for questionsand comments from the  
audience)
Title (of your paper or panel)
Brief Description (75-100 words)
Names of Presenter(s) (including, as appropriate, specification of  
their roles, contact information for each; titles and affiliations,  
email addresses, telephone and fax numbers
Brief biographical sketch (50-75 words) for each participant
Relationship to Conference Themes
Target Audience(s) (including what the audience(s) can expect to "take  
away" from your paper presentation)
2. A one-page abstract (500 words) of your paper or panel, clearly

Indicating what each presenter, if more than one, will contribute.

3. A list of technical needs for your paper or session

4. Note: The conference organizers also welcome and encourage  
proposals for posters and for creative presentations that do not take  
the form of a traditional paper or panel. This might include videos,  
examples of CLAC assignments and exercises, or testimonials from  
student and faculty CLAC participants. For proposals of this variety,  
please submit the same information listed above.


Cindy Evans, Ph.D.
Director, Foreign Language Resource Center
Lecturer in French
Skidmore College
518-580-5205


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