The Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Consortium
call for proposals
"CLAC in Practice: Evolving Pedagogies for Teaching Cultures and
Languages Across the Curriculum"
Keynote speaker: Nina Garrett
September 24-25, 2010
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
Deadline: May 1st, 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 needs for your paper or session (Internet access and on-
site computers may be limited. Come prepared.)
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.
CLAC website: http://clacconsortium.wordpress.com/
CLAC 2010 Conference website: http://clac2010.wordpress.com/
Cindy Evans, Ph.D.
Director, Foreign Language Resource Center
Lecturer in French
Skidmore College
518-580-5205
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