One version of the future of teaching... >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:58:44 +0200 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (International Sociological Association) >Subject: Travelling Faculty in Urban Studies >Apparently-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: > > >To: Members of the International Sociological Association > >Travelling Faculty in Urban Studies >Cities of the 21st Century: People, Planning, and Politics >15 January- 6 May 2002 > >The International Honors program in cooperation with Bard >College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA) offers a series of >independent study abroad programs. We are currently seeking 3-4 >individuals to join an interdisciplinary team of faculty and >host city coordinators for "Cities in the 21st Century", a four >month long course that will take 30 students from upper tier >liberal arts colleges and University to Mumbai, Johannesburg, >Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. > >The 2002 program begins in New York on January 15, 2002 and ends >in Washington, DC on May 6, 2002. The mission of the course is >to provide students with first hand familiarity with the >challenges of urbanization in the cities of the developing world >through a series of formal courses, home-stays, guest lectures >by local academics, politicians, and policy makers, site visits >and meetings with NGOs, neighbourhood organizations and >community activists. > >The ideal candidate should: >a) have a MA or PhD in an urban social science and teaching >experience at the college level > >b) be able to teach an introductory course in urban planning, >urban anthropology, or urban ecology, and contribute to a >collaboratively-taught course on urban politics; > >c) have research/consulting experience with urban issues in some >part of the developing world (specific experience in India, >south Africa, Brazil desired, but not required); > >d) possess not only the appropriate technical skill sets, but >the sensibilities (flexibility, adaptability, collegiality, >cultural sensitivity, etc.) necessary for such an endeavour. > >More information about IHP is available at http://www.ihp.edu >Electronic versions of all application materials are preferred. >Please send a letter of interest, along with vita and names of 3 >academic references to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
