Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC)
Three SGS centers have been selected as National Resource Centers (NRCs) by the U.S. Department of Education: the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Supported by Title VI of the Higher Education Act, NRCs strengthen access to training in the major languages of their respective regions, broaden area studies training across all disciplines, and pursue innovative collaborations with other educational organizations and local communities.
As part of the community engagement effort, the three NRCs in collaboration with other SGS centers, have established the Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC), which focuses on strengthening the internationalization of curricula and the professionalization of language instruction at community colleges and K-12 institutions.
Read further below for descriptions of the various programs offered through EPIC.
Community College Engagement
- Fellows Program
- Professional Development Training Workshops
- Foreign Language Professional Development Workshop
K-12 Engagement
Community College Engagement
Fellows Program
Open to faculty from Foothill College, De Anza College, and College of San Mateo in 2016-17
Fellowship Period: September 2016-June 2017
Call for Applications: January, 2016-April 18, 2016
This competitive fellowship program will bring together 8-10 community college faculty from Foothill College, De Anza College, and the College of San Mateo (with possible expansion to additional colleges in future years) to work collaboratively with colleagues at Stanford for one academic year on projects aimed at internationalizing course curricula and producing innovative curricular materials for use in community college classrooms. Fellows should represent a broad disciplinary cross-section, including the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and hard sciences.
Professional Development Workshops
Open to faculty from any California community college.
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Foreign Language Professional Development WorkshopLearn More >>
Open to faculty from any California Community College.
Dates to be announced
The Stanford Language Center will hold a two-day ACTFL Modified Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Assessment workshop on the Stanford campus. The workshop will offer foreign language instructors training in oral proficiency assessment and hands-on interview practice at the Novice and Intermediate levels according to ACTFL OPI guidelines. Participation in a Modified OPI Assessment Workshop is the first step toward becoming an ACTFL Certified OPI Tester with Limited Certification.
K-12 Engagement
Summer Teaching Institutes
2016 Dates to come
Designed for high school History and Social Science teachers
EPIC, in partnership with the Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET), offered a professional development opportunity for high school teachers wishing to internationalize their curriculum in the summer of 2015. During this 5-day seminar, teachers learned techniques for facilitating critical discourse, including comparative analysis, on a topic that spans history and the globe: Imperialism. Lessons that engage students in critical discourse were demonstrated by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Stanford scholars offered rich content knowledge on imperialism (broadly defined) in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia. Teachers drew upon this content to develop new lessons that encourage critical discourse to take back to their classrooms.
