March 20, 2001
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Contact: Sarah
Maxwell
Director of Media Relations
507.646.4183
Carleton College Receives National Endowment for the
Humanities Grant
Grant to Support Workshops on the Teaching of
European Studies
Northfield, Minn.-The National Endowment for
the Humanities (NEH) awarded Carleton College a $25,000 focus
grant to fund two week-long faculty seminars on the teaching
of European studies. The project, titled "European Studies:
Individual and Community," was created to help faculty members
reevaluate the place of European studies in Carleton's curriculum.
The seminars will encourage collaborative thinking by humanities
faculty currently teaching courses on collaborative thinking
and may lead to new interdisciplinary courses focused on Europe.
Dana Strand, professor of French, is directing the project.
The goal of the project is to give students
a productive approach to the study of European thought, culture
and history by developing courses that address European themes
and cut across national and chronological boundaries.
Twenty Carleton professors from several departments met in the
first week-long seminar during winter break, where they read
selected texts and discussed their current approaches to such
issues as nationhood and citizenship, the formation and interplay
of personal and group identities, and cultural continuity and
change within a European context. The purpose of this first seminar
was to assess how the seminar participants are currently addressing
Europe in the classroom, to share current disciplinary insights
on common issues and to reconsider unconscious assumptions about
Europe.
A second seminar will be held next summer,
during which participants will focus on the possibilities and
problems of developing European studies within the Carleton curriculum.
Faculty members will team up to present proposals for interdisciplinary
courses.
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