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Summer Institute
Landscapes of Food, Culture, and Environment
in England
STUDY ABROAD -- Summer Session II
July 8 - 23 2008
Travel and Study in England
The Virginia Geographic Alliance and Virginia Tech's Department of Geography are offering the Summer Institute "Landscapes of Food, Culture, and Environment in England" for
Virginia K-12 teachers of Geography, Social Studies, History, Earth Sciences, and Environmental Sciences under continuing education credit. This Institute will be offered in conjunction with a study abroad program for Virginia Tech undergraduate and graduate students.
The Institute experience will be aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning for World Geography and World History and is also appropriate and valuable for teachers of Advanced Placement Human Geography.
This course will enhance your knowledge and appreciation of the significance of food, culture, and the environment as reflected in English landscapes throughout history and in the contemporary era. The course will focus on both domestic and international issues.
Most importantly, you will gain a valuable geographic perspective on the world around you that will help you interpret both the past and the present, the local and the global, and the cultural and the environmental in exciting and enriching new ways that will benefit your teaching.
This Institute is a two-week program, from July 8 - 23, 2008.
The first part of the program will be based in London and the second part in the Lake District, which is located in the far northwest of England (see map).
The focus will be on conducting a wide range of field activities in a variety of urban and rural settings.
Both teachers who have and have not attended previous Virginia Geographic Alliance Institutes are encouraged to apply.
Each participant will receive Virginia Tech Continuing Education Units applicable to re-certification requirements.
The program will be led by a Virginia teacher-consultant who will help you develop your ideas and materials for presentations and lesson plans and by Larry Grossman and Jim Campbell, professors in the Department of Geography who have extensive research experience in England.
We will also have numerous guest speakers in England. Two additional geography faculty from the University of Nottingham, UK, will join the program during the Lake District portion of the course.
To download a brochure, click here.
