CIEE International Programs for Students & Faculty

Glory in Africa and the Middle East: ritual masks, Arabic scholars, modern values

There’s nowhere more critical to current world events than the Middle East or more central to U.S. history than Africa.

But which? Botswana, with its diamond-strong pula and lush Okavango oasis. Ghana, the namesake of West Africa’s first great empire. East Africa’s mythical, magical Tanzania. South Africa, rife with opportunities to learn and serve. Senegal, land of teranga (hospitality). Jordan, both moderate in modernity and part of humanity’s most ancient history. Morocco, an exotic mix of French, Arab, and Western influences. Multicultural Turkey—locked between three continents and criss-crossed by five empires.

•  Istanbul, Turkey 
• Amman, Jordan - Arabic Language
• Amman, Jordan - Language & Culture
• Rabat, Morocco
• Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

CIEE International Faculty Development Seminars are in-depth encounters with the people, places, and issues that shape our world. Expect one to two intensive weeks of lectures by local faculty and experts from prestigious institutions, site visits that illuminate ideas explored in those lectures, and opportunities to contribute to lively discussions with international colleagues.

  

Interdisciplinary by design, all CIEE faculty seminars examine contemporary issues, globalization, and local perspectives. Across our many seminars, topics cover a wide range of issues; see below for just a few of the many lecture and site visit topics faculty are exploring as part of their IFDS experience:

• Development & Urbanization
• Human Rights
• Comparative Cultural Societies
• Environment & Resource Management
• Religious Diversity
• The Arts
• Women's Studies

CIEE International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS) are in-depth encounters with the people, places, and issues that shape our world. Open to faculty and administrators from institutions of higher education, CIEE faculty seminars are programs with an interdisciplinary focus that offer a contemporary, global perspective.

Choose from 20 topics in 23 countries in 2010

The seminars consist of one to two intensive weeks of lectures by local faculty and experts from prestigious institutions, site visits that illuminate ideas explored in those lectures, and opportunities for lively discussions with international colleagues.

Adept in the local language and culture, our international staff of experts guide participants through an academic experience that participants have described as both professionally and personally “life-changing.”

Participants can count on:

• Introductions to scholarly communities overseas
• Opportunities to reexamine their own teaching and discipline in an international context
• Resources and information that apply to their curriculum
• An interdisciplinary group of fellow participants from a variety of institutions
• Opportunities to contribute their perspective and expertise to a scholarly dialogue
• Participants return to campus energized and motivated to incorporate an international dimension into course design, teaching, research, and advising.

Choose from these programs in the Middle East:

• Jordan & Jerusalem - Middle East Conflict & Cooperation
• Jordan - Middle Eastern Women
• Turkey - Identity, Communication & Culture