Dr. Paul McNamara (ACES) will be teaching an international nutrition and food security course at Njala University in Sierra Leone, West Africa in early January 2010.  Please find attached a brief description of the course and a link for students to register for the course.  Don't miss out!

For more information, please view the course description and visit the link, ACES in Sierra Leone.

ISLAM, ENGLISH, AND THE WEST
CI 499 SAM, Spring, 2010
Mark Dressman, Ph.D. Instructor

This short-term study abroad course focuses on the religious and language politics of Morocco, through the perspectives of university and secondary school teachers and students. The course will be transcultural in that most learning will take place through direct dialogue and interaction with Moroccan teachers and students. The trip is for 15 days, from the end of the spring semester to early June.

For more information, contact the instructor, Mark Dressman, at mdressma@illinois.edu or go to the course website.

To adequately prepare todays students for tomorrows global economy, teacher education expert Mark Dressman favors transcultural education, which he defines as an experience that goes beyond the traditional rite-of-passage trip to western Europe. For more information, please visit the on-line resource

Carbon isotope analyses conducted by University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose indicated that Ardipithecus ramidus was a woodland creature whose diet resembled those of modern baboons and chimpanzees. Please go to the link for more information.

On-screen Gobal Intimacy Exhibition curated by Tumelo Mosaka. The exhibition will take place from August 28, 2009 - January 2, 2010 at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. ON-SCREEN: GLOBAL INTIMACY brings together ten artists from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the United States whose works investigate the transnational reach of globalization.