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NCTA SEMINARS

SIGN UP FOR 2011-12 SEMINARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA!

Please see the South Carolina Center for Teaching about Asia website for information, or contact Becky Duckett at becky.duckett@furman.edu.

Teachers in South Carolina may also wish to participate in the on-line simulcast series offered at http://asiaforeducators.org. Eligibility to apply for NCTA-sponsored study tours to Asia may be earned on-line also

NCTA STUDY TOURS

The NCTA National Coordinating Site at Columbia University and Partner Sites will offer Summer 2012 Field Study Opportunities in East Asia for NCTA Alumni in the states of:

Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York (lower), North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South  Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas

Itineraries & Dates:
•    China - Korea:  June 8 -- June 24, 2012                                         
China: Beijing, Xian, Suzhou, Shanghai; Korea: Seoul, DMZ Kyongju, Haeinsa Temple, stay
•    China (the Silk Road):  July 1-- July 17,2012                                    
Beijing, Xi'an, Dunhuang, Turpan, Urumqi, Kashgar, Hotan, Shanghai

Only as an optional extension of the China-Silk Road Trip:

•    Japan:  July 18-22
Nara, Kyoto, Tokyo

                                                                                                
(Dates of the trips are tentative until final posting.)

Application Deadline will be  February 6, 2012
    ** Applicants for the summer 2012 trips must have completed their NCTA course requirements by February 1, 2012 in order to be considered for a trip. Participants must complete either a thirty-hour, face-to-face or on-line seminar in their local area or three of the on-line mini-courses offered to teachers in the states listed above. (Teachers who have not completed their requirement by February 1, 2012 will be eligible for study tours offered in summer 2013.)  Download application form here.


ONLINE DISCUSSIONS

To participate in discussions with teachers in South Carolina, please visit the South Carolina State Discussion Group section of the Asia in the Curriculum BULLETIN. Registration is required for posting messages to the Forum, though not to read messages already posted.

STATE STANDARDS & CURRICULUM GUIDELINES

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