UNC-Chapel Hill International Visitors and
Collaborative Activities
The International Agreements
and Linkages Directory is an online resource designed to
provide information on international collaborative
activities, partnerships and research projects to the UNC
community and external visitors.
Over 230 international visitors were hosted during the
2004 Academic Year. A new website dedicated to our
international guests is under construction at:
Our
Visitors
North Carolina Teaching Asia Network (NCTAN)
The purpose of the NCTAN is to enhance instruction on Asia in the K-12 curriculum, especially most often required world history, social studies and geography courses.
NCTAN will conduct a series of 30 hour intensive workshops on East Asia for middle and high school teachers who are teaching about East Asia in the context of; Arts, Social Studies, World History, Geography, World Literatures and Cultures. The 2007 NCTAN Seminars will be held at the North Carolina School of Sciences and Mathematics and the University of North Carolina at Charlottee.
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NCTAN
Alumni Outreach Program
aims to engage NCTAN Semianr Alumni in providing presentations on East Asia at conferences, schools
and school district workshops. The program is free of cost to
schools and pays a small speaker steipend to participating NCTAN alumni teachers.
NCTAN Seminars
NCTAN completed the 2005-06 Seminars which were held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Western Carolina University.
NCTAN 2005 Seminar at North Carolina State University (25 teachers completed all requirements for graduation certeficate)
NCTAN 2003-04 Seminar was held at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina and is dedicated in memory of Donald Spence.
NCTAN 2002-03
Received funding from the Freeman Foundation and held
seminars at UNC-Wilmington and Furman University, Greenville South Carolina. NCTAN also received support to develop a new Alumni Outreach Program.
NCTAN 2001-02
Thirty three North Carolina teachers completed the
seminar at UNC-Chapel Hill and 18 traveled to China and
Japan for three weeks. Thanks to the the Freeman Foundation.
Great Success!!
Asia related conferences:
Korea 2003 Conference, April 23rd
and 24th. "Korean
Peninsula: Time for Diplomacy and
Development"
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