Outreach
The UCLA International Institute promotes a wide variety of programs to connect with and serve varied constituencies in metropolitan Los Angeles and well beyond. Our mission is to help meet a national need for knowledge and expertise about our complex world and the U.S. role within it, and to promote global citizenship and life-long learning.
News
Coming Soon! Con Mis Manos: A History of Labor in Latin America
K-12 Summer Teacher Training Workshop: July 8th through July 18, 2008
North Africa And Its Neighbors: A Dynamic Global Crossroad
Summer Workshop for Precollegiate Educators. This interdisciplinary seminar, held July 19- July 29, 2008, will underscore the connections between the ongoing, dramatic historical transformations of North Africa from antiquity to the present and the region's interactions with its European, Sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern neighbors.
2008 Summer Institute for World History Teachers - Monks, Merchants and Millworkers: Connecting Europe and Asia
July 28th - August 8th. This two-week institute for 6th, 7th, and 10th grade World History teachers, hosted by the UCLA History and Geography Project, is being held in cooperation with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the Asia Institute, and Anderson School's CIBER program.
Language Intensives in L.A.
The 2008 summer program will feature classes in seventeen languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Chinese, Estonian, Hebrew, Igbo, Iranian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian/Moldavian, Russian, Swahili, Tigrinya, Turkish, Yoruba, Xhosa, and Zulu.
CNES Launches North African Outreach Initiative
Lecture by renowned Algerian cartoonist Slim, films on Islam inaugurate year-long program
African Stories in Online Curriculum Give Meaning to 'Globalization'
16 short tales, and warring commentaries on them, form the core of GlobaLink-Africa, a free, year-long, multimedia curriculum designed for grades 9-12. The polished, feature-rich web site is not only for high schoolers. Others can raid it for music, country data, or a crash course on Africa and the contemporary world.
