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Programs

In the past decade and a half, more than 230 UVa faculty (along with faculty from other institutions, as well as writers, artists, ambassadors, and museum personnel) have offered programs for more than 9,000 Virginia teachers.

A sampling of these programs, organized by discipline, is contained below, with the various types of programs indicated by the following key:

  • (s) = seminars and residential institutes
  • (l/d) = lecture/discussion series
  • (w) = workshop
  • (sa) = study abroad fellowships and programs
  • (sp) = special program

The Arts

  • American Art: Themes and Approaches (s)
  • Art History: Practice and Interpretation (s)
  • Tour to Washington DC National Art Gallery (l/d)
  • Using Art in the English and Social Studies Classroom (l/d)
  • Visual Literacy for English and Social Studies Teachers (l/d)
  • Are the Arts Important? (w)
  • Coalition Conference on the Arts in Education (w)
  • Artist-in-Residence (sp)

Chemistry

  • The Chemical Web of Life on Planet Earth (Satellite TV Course) (l/d)

Classics

  • Ancient Athens: Its Life, Literature, and Culture (s)
  • Ancient Literature and the Modern World (s)
  • Athenian and American Democracy: The Ideals and Realities (s)
  • Classical Archaelogy: Rome and Roman Italy (s)
  • Classical Mythology in Literature, Art, and Film (s)
  • Selected Readings of Augustan Poets (s)
  • Seven Greek Tragedies in Translation (s)
  • The Augustan Age (l/d)
  • Classics for English Teachers (l/d)
  • Mythology and the Emergence of Greek Gods (l/d)
  • The Romans and Their World (l/d)
  • Understanding the Greeks and the Romans through Their Literature (l/d)
  • Preparation and Training for Teachers of Latin (w)
  • Teaching the Ancient World (w)
  • Homer’s Odyssey (w)
  • Fellowships to study the ancient world in Greece or Italy at the American Academy in Rome, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and the Vergilian Society’s Villa Vergiliana in Naples (sa)

English

  • American Literature: 1912-1930 (s)
  • The American West: Fact, Symbol, Myth (s)
  • Contemporary American Poetry (s)
  • The Doom of Romance (s)
  • Faulkner (s)
  • Film Theory (s)
  • Forms and Practices of Fiction (s)
  • The Harlem Renaissance (s)
  • Hawthorne and Faulkner (s)
  • Major Works of Southern Literature (s)
  • Modern American Poetry (s)
  • Modernism and the Novel in the Twentieth Century (s)
  • Reading, Understanding, and Teaching Poetry (s)
  • Studies in Contemporary Fiction (s)
  • American and British Romanticism (l/d)
  • American Autobiography (l/d)
  • American Humor (l/d)
  • The Arthurian Tradition and Shakespeare (l/d)
  • Beowulf (l/d)
  • Black Writers in the 20th Century (l/d)
  • Brer Rabbit in the Elementary School Curriculum (l/d)
  • Canterbury Tales: Prologue (l/d)
  • Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus (l/d)
  • Contemporary Southern Literature (l/d)
  • Daniel Boone as Man and Myth (l/d)
  • Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples (l/d)
  • Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter (l/d)
  • Folklore and Fakelore (l/d)
  • Foundations of the Modern in Literature and Art (l/d)
  • The Great Gatsby (l/d)
  • Literary Foundations: Shakespeare, Homer, and The Bible (l/d)
  • Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Gabriel García Márquez (l/d)
  • Puritan History and The Scarlet Letter (l/d)
  • Recasting the Canon (l/d)
  • Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (l/d)
  • Shakespearean Comedy, Romantic Poetry, and Contemporary Fiction (l/d)
  • Ten American Women Writers from 1897 to 1987 (l/d)
  • Texts and Contexts of Early American Culture (l/d)
  • What Every High School Teacher Needs to Know about Literary Theory (l/d)
  • The Writing Process in Slow Motion (l/d)
  • World Literature and Culture (l/d)
  • American Literature: What Should our Citizens Know? (w)
  • Designing American Studies Programs (w)
  • Fellowships to participat in the British Universities Summer Programs at the University of London, University of Oxford, and the University of Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon (sa)

French

  • Contemporary French Language, Culture, and Literature (s)
  • France Today: What Every French Teacher Should Know (s)
  • The French Connection: From Classical France to Contemporary Africa (s)
  • The Meaning of Culture in the Study of French (s)
  • Teaching French (s)
  • Telling the Tale: Narrative and the Novel in France (s)
  • Advertisements: Reflections of Contemporary French Society and Culture (l/d)
  • Claude Beauclair (l/d)
  • French Literature and Journalism (l/d)
  • Teaching Effective Reading Strategies in French (l/d)
  • Teaching the History of French Civilization: Strategies and Suggestions (l/d)
  • Using Technology in the Language Classroom (l/d)
  • Aspects Sociaux et Culturels de Deux Mondes Francophones: Images et Textes le Québec et la Suisse (w)
  • Civilization: France in the Sixties (w)
  • Francoscopie Les Français: Qui sont-ils? Où vont-ils? (w)
  • French 1, 2, and 3: Creating a Solid Base for Communication (w)
  • French Advanced Placement Workshop (w)
  • French Speaking Cultures Today—In Multimedia (w)
  • Langues et Cultures du Monde Francophone (Afrique, Antilles, Maghreb) (w)
  • Le Cinéma Français: Langue, Littérature, Culture, Civilisation (w)
  • Raymond Jean (w)
  • Fellowships to study at Centre International d’Études Française d’Angers, Centre Audio-Visuel De Langues Modernes (CAVILAM) at the Unviersity of Clermont-Ferrand in Vichy, and the Institut d’Études Françaises d’Avignon at the Centre Universitaire d’Avignon (sa)

German

  • Attaining Proficiency in German (s)
  • Post-War Germany (s)
  • German Culture in Multimedia (w)
  • Innovations in Teaching German (w)
  • Oral Proficiency in German (w)
  • Secondary and Postsecondary German Instruction: The Articulation Issue (w)
  • The Study and Teaching of German in Virginia (w)
  • What German Teachers Should Know (w)
  • Fellowships to study current European affairs at the Bonn Transatlantic Summer Academy (sa)

History

  • The Bill of Rights in American History (s)
  • Civil War Studies (s)
  • Creating On-Line Materials for Teaching United States History (s)
  • Establishing Democracy (s)
  • Exploration and Contact: The Atlantic Basin in the 16th-18th Centuries (s)
  • History of Richmond (s)
  • New Approaches to American History (s)
  • African American History and Culture (l/d)
  • America’s Changing Place in the 20th Century World (l/d)
  • Contemporary Studies: Issues and Authors (l/d)
  • Families and Schooling in Central Virginia (l/d)
  • Global Awareness: New Perspectives (l/d)
  • The History and Culture of the Islamic World (l/d)
  • Understanding Diversity: Issues and Ideas (l/d)
  • United States History 1800-1980 (l/d)
  • The Bill of Rights in American History: Follow-up Workshop (w)
  • First Freedoms: America and Religious Freedom (w)
  • History of Richmond: Follow-up Workshop (w)

Humanities

  • Charlottesville Schools Colloquium: New Knowledge, New Formats (l/d)
  • Charlottesville Schools Colloquium: Teaching Writing: What Works, What Doesn’t (l/d)
  • Fellowships to study current European affairs at the Bonn Transatlantic Summer Academy (sa)
  • Fellowships to participate in the Weedon Asian Studies Program in China (sa)

Japanese

  • Japanese Pedagogy Workshop (w)

Linguistics

  • Between Two Cultures, Between Two Languages (s, w)

Mathematics

  • Algebra for Elementary and Middle School Teachers (s)
  • Calculus Revisited (s)
  • Exploring Data and Chance for Elementary Teachers (s)
  • Geometry for Elementary and Middle School Teachers (s)
  • Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics (s)
  • Mathematical Modeling (s)
  • The Mathematics of Manipulatives (s)
  • Physics Institute for Mathematics Teachers (s)
  • Probability and Statistics (s)
  • Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms (l/d)
  • The Emergence of Modern Mathematics (l/d)
  • Mathematics and Science (l/d)
  • Number Systems and Number Theory for Elementary and Middle School Teachers (l/d)
  • Virginia Mathematics Coalition: Regional Workshop (w)

Physics

  • High School Physics Teachers’ Institute (s)
  • Physics Institute for Mathematics Teachers (s)
  • Physical Science: The Threshold of Scientific Literacy (Satellite TV Course) (l/d)
  • Topics in Classical and Modern Physics (Satellite TV Course) (l/d)
  • Physics Design Workshop (w)

Russian

  • Beyond the Curtain Lies a New Time of Troubles (w)

Spanish

  • El Caribe: Literature, Culture, and Politics of the Caribbean (s)
  • Latin America Today: History and Politics in Literature (s)
  • Latin American Literature: Comparative Perspectives (s)
  • Spain Today and Toward the 21st Century (s)
  • Spanish Film (s)
  • Teaching the Authors on the AP Spanish List (s)
  • Chile: Literature and Culture (l/d)
  • Reading and Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom (l/d)
  • Spain after Franco: Cultural Movements (l/d)
  • Spanish Language and Culture (l/d)
  • Spanish Oral Proficiency (l/d)
  • Argentina: Literature and Culture (w)
  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Spanish Linguistics (w)
  • Isabel Allende (w)
  • La España Actual (w)
  • La Lingüística en la escuela Secundaria (w)
  • The Latin American Historical Novel: Tradition and Innovation (w)
  • Mexican Literature and Culture (w)
  • Oral Proficiency in Spanish: Theory and Practice (w)
  • Spanish Teaching in the High School: Where Does the University Fit In? (w)
  • Why Study Spanish? (w)
  • Hispanic Studies Program in Valencia, Spain (sa)

Theatre

  • Folger Shakespeare Institute (s)
  • Performing Culture: Masks, Myths, and Folk Tales (s)
  • Virginia Institute for Theatre Arts (s)
  • Drama Symposium: The Trojan Women (w)
  • Drama Workshop for Teachers: Heritage Repertory Theatre (w)
  • North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (w, sp)
  • Shakespeare Live! Performance (w)

Women’s Studies

  • Women in History, Literature, Science, and Art (w)
  • Gender and Race for Virginia School Professionals (w)