“The Teaching of Africa” PIER-African Studies Summer Institute July 6-16, 2010

“The Teaching of Africa”
PIER-African Studies Summer Institute
July 6-16, 2010

Teaching about Africa is a challenge in the classroom today. Educators
and other professionals face a new and often daunting task of knowing
how to learn or teach about Africa. If you are an educator, curriculum
specialist, librarian, or a business or media professional, “The Teaching of
Africa” will transform your perspective and equip you with ideas and
practical approaches to the teaching and understanding of Africa. This
intensive introductory course in African Studies is designed to help
educators learn about Africa in a way that they can then teach
confidently about its peoples, civilizations, and cultures. The course is also
developed to enable participants to identify and access unique resources
about the continent. The program includes several hands-on cultural and
artistic projects complemented by a full-day field trip to cultural sites in
New York City. Participants are required to attend four Saturday followup
sessions during the fall and spring to transform the summer institute
content into viable classroom materials.

Registration Fee: $350 including texts, materials, and more. Housing, meals and
parking are extra. Fees may be required to cover meals on field trip and special
events. Limited financial assistance is available in the form of post-institute
reimbursement.

Please contact Maxwell Amoh, PIER Director, for more information at 203‐432‐3438;
maxwell.amoh@yale.edu
Sponsored by PIER, the Council on African Studies, the MacMillan Center, and the U.S.
Department of Education through a Title VI NRC grant; and co‐sponsored by the Connecticut
Geographic Alliance.

Housing Information: We encourage all participants, even in‐state participants, to stay in
residence at Yale or local hotel because the Institute is intensive, with daily reading
assignments and evening activities. The residential experience and the camaraderie it fosters
deepen the total Institute experience.

On‐campus Housing and Parking: Participants wishing to stay on campus should contact Yale
Conference Services directly to make their room reservations (and parking arrangements, if
needed) at https://www.regonline.com/pier. Payment must be made using a credit card.
Hotel Choices in New Haven: Participants wishing to stay in a hotel should contact the hotel
directly. For information on area hotels, please visit www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes

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