The Spring 2012 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing post-secondary CLAC programs. The conference theme will address the practical issues related to developing successful pedagogical models for the CLAC classroom.

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum

The CLAC movement intends to make global competence a reality for students and to create alliances among educators to share practices and methods for incorporating an international dimension in curricula, and, more generally, to achieve internationalization goals.

General principles of CLAC include:

• A focus on communication and content;
• An emphasis on developing meaningful content-focused language use outside traditional language classes;
• An approach to language use and cross-cultural skills as a means for the achievement of global intellectual synthesis, in which students learn to combine and interpret knowledge produced in other languages and in other cultures.

Within this large framework, CLAC can take many forms, depending on specific content and curricular goals within a discipline. For more information on CLAC, visit:

• http://clacconsortium.org/

A specific focus of the 6th annual conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum will be on presenting and discussing a variety of models and points of focus for CLAC programs at the post-secondary level.

We aim to engage seasoned CLAC practitioners, those in the process of implementing programs, and prospective CLAC program developers in a dialogue to share ideas and best practices in our evolving and unique field of education for global citizens. CLAC attendees generally come to the conference eager to learn more about how CLAC programs are implemented at other institutions. CLAC 2012 will provide an opportunity for more extended discussions examining design and delivery of a CLAC curriculum.

• Call for Papers - Deadline is September 30, 2011

For full conference details, including instructions for submitting a paper, panel or poster proposal, see:

• http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/clac/index.html