Psychology
Cultural Psychology of Urban Living
Psychology professor Jaan Valsiner uses a video bridge to co-teach this course with sociology professor Nikita Pokrovsky at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. Clark and Russian students are able to see and dialog with each other in real time.
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Government and International Relations
National Security Crisis Simulation
Government and international relations professors Brian Cook and Kristen Williams create a semester-long simulation
to help students gain an understanding of what it is like to be a decision maker in a U.S. government agency.
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Foreign Languages ad Literature/Comparative Literature
Islands in the Stream
Together Maria Acosta Cruz, associate professor of Spanish, and Odile Ferly, assistant professor of French, draw
on their research as Caribbeanists and their personal experiences growing up in the region to help students see the
Caribbean as an interconnected region rather than a set of separate islands. Their pan-Caribbean approach allows
students to understand the islands as part of a region that reflects processes such as globalization, migratory
patterns, cultural trends and diversity. Experience the course.
Communication and Culture
Communications and Culture in Main South
What makes Education Professor Michaels' first year seminar unique is that freshman don't just study the theories
behind communication and culture—they put communications theories into practice through a field work project.
In this seminar, students teamed up with neighborhood high school students to develop content for a community Web site
called www.mainsouthspeaks.com. Experience the course.
Theater Arts and English
Shakespeare: From Page to Stage
In professors Gino DiIorio's and Virginia "Ginger" Vaughan's course "Shakespeare From Page to Stage," theater and
English students have the opportunity to switch academic roles—theater students learn literary and historical
analysis of some of Shakespeare great plays while English majors learn to perform them.
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Biology
Breaking new ground: Somatic and Molecular Cell Genetics
Students in Biology professor Tim Lyerla's Somatic and Molecular Cell Genetics course work in the lab on research that
will eventually contribute new information to the Genome Project. Unlike a typical lab course, Lyerla and his students
don't know how their research will turn out—a process that Lyerla's students say makes the research "real."
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Foreign Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature
National Imagination
What images and icons help define cultural identity? In Clark's National Imagination course, team-taught by Clark
professors from several disciplines, students explore images of three different cultures through art, music, film and
national languages. Experience the course.
IDCE
Transforming High Schools: Field Research in Youth Development
Clark juniors, seniors and graduate students in Professor Laurie Ross's course get a hands-on look into how to
conduct research and how to help local high-school students become empowered in their own learning environments.
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Management
Doing Business with the Community: Business Ethics/Case Studies
What makes a company successful and what obligations do companies have to the communities in which they reside?
Management professor Mary-Ellen Boyle helps students answer these questions firsthand in her Business Ethics course.
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