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Since the 1980s, universities throughout the country have integrated Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) programs into their wider undergraduate curricula in order to foster international literacy and intercultural competence skills for domestic students and to empower international students to use their cultural and linguistic knowledge from their countries of origin.

CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Center for Asian Studies (CAS) is celebrating CLAC Week on campus April 10鈥�13.

CLAC Week guest

Programming begins Tuesday, April 10, with the arrival of Suronda Gonzalez from the University of Rochester. Gonzalez will be meeting and consulting with current CU faculty, students听and staff associated with CLAC听and will offer a keynote address听titled 鈥淓ngaging International Students with CLAC,鈥� free and open to the public.听On Wednesday, she will conduct a CLAC general faculty workshop designed for faculty who teach about Asia or want to use Asian languages in their courses. Email cas@colorado.edu听to register for the faculty workshop.

She also听will attend the annual Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, April 14, at the University of Denver, where CU faculty and students involved in CAS鈥� CLAC pilot project will present on two panels.

Gonzalez spent 15 years as director of Binghamton University鈥檚 nationally acclaimed Languages across the Curriculum Program. In the role, she worked with Binghamton鈥檚 faculty and led pedagogical training seminars to support the internationalization of the curriculum. Her work focused heavily on integrating international elements of students鈥� undergraduate experiences (including language and study abroad) into their studies in meaningful ways.

CLAC at CU

Through a CLAC pilot program this academic year, CAS hired a CLAC coordinator and created one-credit CLAC courses linked to Asian languages and civilizations, religious studies and history. In these CLAC classes, undergraduate students have met weekly with student facilitators and professors to study foreign texts in translation or in the original in order to enhance their studies in linked parent courses through exposure to additional background and supporting materials.

For more information on the CAS pilot program or integrating CLAC into your classes, contact Danielle Rocheleau Salaz, executive director of the Center for Asian Studies, at salaz@colorado.edu.