2005 PIER Summer Institutes
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies' PIER Summer Institutes
have been providing continuing education and professional development
for educators for more than twenty years.
The PIER institutes are intensive, interdisciplinary programs. Each institute includes lectures
and seminars by leading scholars and experts from Yale and other institutions;
films; workshops; field trips and site visits; hands-on cultural activities;
teaching resource and strategy sessions; and sessions on technological
resources for teaching about these world areas.
PIER 2005 Summer Institutes Keynote Speaker - Humphrey Tonkin
"Global Readiness"
10:30am • Monday, July 11, 2005
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
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Humphrey Tonkin, President Emeritus and University Professor of the
Humanities at the University of Hartford, is an advocate and world leader
in international cooperation and education. An acclaimed scholar, he
co-authored, some twenty years ago, The World in the Curriculum, widely
regarded as a standard guide to internationalizing the college
curriculum. Most recently, he published Service-Learning Across
Cultures, on the impact of international service-learning. Over the
years he has chaired such bodies as the Council for International
Exchange of Scholars and the Canadian Fulbright Commission. He continues
to promote the internationalization of education as a board member of
such organizations as the American Forum for Global Education, the
International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership, and World
Learning, the organization that operates the School for International
Training.
2005 PIER Institutes
July 6-14 - Tracing
Los Andes: The Heights and Chasms of Andean Societies
July 6-15 - The European Experiment
July 6-15 - The Teaching of Africa
July 11-16 - Understanding Globalization
- Focus on South Asia
July 11-16 - Arts in Action in the Middle East
2004 PIER Institutes
Eligibility
Institutes are open to educators, executives and media.
CEU
Credits
All institutes are
designed in accordance with nationwide Continuing Education Units standards.
Yale is an authorized CEU provider (No. 716). Up to 8 CEU’s will
be awarded upon successful completion of any of the institutes.
Tuition and Fees
Tuition for the institutes vary depending upon length of the program, and includes the cost of books
and materials. (See course listings for individual tuition/fee schedules).
Meals and parking are extra. Limited scholarship aid in the form of tuition
waivers may be available. Additional fees may be required to cover the
cost of group meals on field trips or special events.
Housing
A variety of housing plans at local hotels or in Yale campus housing and
meal plans at Yale are available.
Location
The institutes are held on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
Most activities take place in Luce Hall, the home of the Yale Center for
International & Area Studies, though other activities may take place
in the various libraries & galleries on campus as well as in other
locations. Most institutes include at least one off-campus field trip.
