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Childhood and Youth in French and Francophone Cultures, Spring 2013
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This course studies the transformation of childhood and youth since the 18th century in France, as well as the development of sentimentality within the family in a francophone context. Students will examine the personification of children, both as a source of inspiration for artistic creation and a political ideal aimed at protecting future generations, and consider various representations of childhood and youth in literature (e.g., Pagnol, Proust, Sarraute, Lave, Morgievre), movies (e.g., Truffaut), and songs (e.g., Brel, Barbara). This course is taught entirely in French.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Bruno Perreau
Date Added:
01/01/2013
City Icons
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Variety of cultural city icons for multiple countries

To download and access the icons, click on view resource.
This will open the resource in a new google drive tab.
In the top right corner there should be a download button.
The folder will download as a ZIP file.
Once the ZIP file is downloaded, double click on it to open it, and it will create a new folder with all the icons!
The icons are PNG files, which means they have a transparent background, so they can easily be placed on top of other materials.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Languages
World Cultures
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Diagram/Illustration
Author:
Chloe Pampush
Date Added:
09/25/2020
City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans, Spring 2011
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City to City, as a class, will jump into the complexity of planning in New Orleans, a post-disaster city. City-to-City will ask how a post-disaster city grapple with its ideas of identity, what it is, who it represents, and how it projects its sense of self to residences, businesses, tourists, and to the outside world. In considering its people, how do city planners think about who lives where and why? At the same time, how can city planners celebrate a city's history and its culture and how can these elements be woven into reconstruction? Students will travel from Cambridge to New Orleans over Spring Break to meet and consult with their alumni clients, and continue to work on projects.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Abbanat, Cherie Miot
Date Added:
01/01/2011
Communicating Across Cultures, Spring 2005
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In an increasingly interconnected world, communicating across cultures is a crucial skill in the international networks of business, science, and technology. Subject examines a range of communication styles and techniques resulting from different cultural norms and traditions. It begins with a general theoretical framework and then moves into case studies. Topics include understanding the relationship between communication and culture, differences in verbal and non-verbal communication styles, barriers to intercultural communication, modes of specific cross-cultural communication activities (e.g. argumentation, negotiation, conflict resolution) and intercultural adjustment. Case studies explore specific ways of communicating in Asian and European cultures. Graduate students are expected to complete additional assignments. Taught in English.It has become commonplace knowledge that globalization is one of the major forces shaping our world. If we look at the spread of information, ideas, capital, media, cultural artifacts--or for that matter, people--we can see the boundaries and borders that have historically separated one country or one group from another are becoming more and more permeable. For proof of this close to home, you need only to look at the composition of the MIT student body: 8 percent of the undergraduates and 37 percent of the graduate students are from 109 different countries. "Communicating Across Cultures" is designed to help you meet the challenges of living in a world in which, increasingly, you will be asked to interact with people who may not be like you in fundamental ways. Its primary goals are to help you become more sensitive to intercultural communication differences, and to provide you with the knowledge and skills that will help you interact successfully with people from cultures other than your own. We hope the course will accomplish those goals by exposing you to some of the best writers and scholars on the subject of intercultural communication, and by giving you a variety of opportunities to practice intercultural communication yourself. As you read the syllabus for this course, we hope you get a sense of our commitment to making this course a rewarding experience for you.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Bernd Breslow
Lori
Widdig
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Compare/Contrast (Open Up Resources - bookworms - Grade 2 ELA Lesson Plans)
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Week 32, Day 1---Day 5
Compare/Contrast
"This week we are going to write three different compare and contrast pieces. We are going to structure our compare and contrast pieces as descriptive writing. We are going to tell about how two things are the same and how two things are different.
Over the last few days we have read different versions of Cinderella. We read one from France, one from Egypt, and one from the Algonquin."
visuals:
Compare/Contrast Graphic Organizer 1
Compare/Contrast Graphic Organizer 2
Compare/Contrast Linking Words
Descriptive Checklist Sample
Second Grade Editing Checklist

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/11/2021
Cross-Cultural Investigations: Technology and Development, Fall 2012
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This course enhances cross-cultural understanding through the discussion of practical, ethical, and epistemological issues in conducting social science and applied research in foreign countries or unfamiliar communities. It includes a research practicum to help students develop interviewing, participant-observation, and other qualitative research skills, as well as critical discussion of case studies. The course is open to all interested students, but intended particularly for those planning to undertake exploratory research or applied work abroad. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Heather Paxson
Date Added:
01/01/2012
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary French Society, Fall 2011
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This course is an intermediate subject designed to help students gradually build an in-depth understanding of France. The course focuses on French attitudes and values regarding education, work, family and institutions, and deals with the differing notions that underlie interpersonal interactions and communication styles, such as politeness, friendship and formality. Using a Web comparative, cross-cultural approach, students explore a variety of French and American materials, then analyze and compare them using questionnaires, opinion polls, news reports (in different media), as well as a variety of historical, anthropological and literary texts. Throughout the course, attention is given to the development of relevant linguistics skills. This course is recommended for students planning to study and work in France and is taught in French.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Sabine Levet
Date Added:
01/01/2011
Cultural History of Technology, Spring 2005
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The subject of this course is the historical process by which the meaning of "technology" has been constructed. Although the word itself is traceable to the ancient Greek root teckhne (meaning art), it did not enter the English language until the 17th century, and did not acquire its current meaning until after World War I. The aim of the course, then, is to explore various sectors of industrializing 19th and 20th century Western society and culture with a view to explaining and assessing the emergence of technology as a pivotal word (and concept) in contemporary (especially Anglo-American) thought and expression.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Engineering
Manufacturing
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Marx, Leo
Williams, Rosalind
Date Added:
01/01/2005
Cultural Representation in the Media
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 Advertisements can present a biased cultural representation that can affect our perceptions of others.  For example, a television show may show commercials with some groups of people more than others. A magazine may have advertisements and articles representing a certain type of people in a way that reinforces stereotypes.  Students need to be taught to recognize the culture that is being represented in the media they consume as well as the cultures that are absent from the same media.This is Part 5 of a 5 Part Unit: Media Manipulation: What Are They Really Saying?

Subject:
Cultural Geography
Electronic Technology
English Language Arts
Film and Music Production
Information Science
Marketing
Visual Arts
World Cultures
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Patricia Denton
Date Added:
08/05/2019
Digital Meijis
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The 2017-2018 academic year saw the 150th anniversary of Japan’s 1868 Meiji Restoration, an epochal political revolution that sparked Japan’s remarkable modernization, dramatic cultural transformation, and rapid emergence onto the global stage. To mark this historic date, colleagues across the University of British Columbia in the Centre for Japanese Research, the Department of History, the Department of Asian Studies, the Asian Library, and the Museum of Anthropology partnered to present the UBC Meiji at 150 Project. Over the course of the year, the Meiji at 150 project convened over 60 scholars of Japanese studies from around North America, Japan, and Europe to situate Japan in global history and to interrogate the place of the Meiji Restoration in Japanese history, historical pedagogy, and cultural studies. All told, the Meiji at 150 Project reached thousands of individuals around the globe through its various events and initiatives, centering the study of Japanese history in the UBC university community and solidifying UBC’s position as the premier institution for Japanese studies outside of Japan.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
World Cultures
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Provider Set:
BCcampus Open Textbooks
Author:
Meiji at 150 Project
Date Added:
01/22/2020
Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics, Spring 2012
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This course examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Students analyze medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also considered is how people in different cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind.

Subject:
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Social Science
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Jean Jackson
Date Added:
01/01/2012
ELA G2:M1:U2:L1 SPEAKING AND LISTENING: SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD
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This lesson kicks off the focus for Unit 2: problems in communities that keep students from going to school and how communities work together to solve those problems. Students spend most of the unit exploring this topic through a close read-aloud of the text Off to Class, which closely examines three schools around the world.

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Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/08/2021
ELA G2:M1:U2:L2 CLOSE READ-ALOUD, SESSION 1: OFF TO CLASS, PAGES 12–13
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This lesson is the first in a series of six in which students engage in a close read-aloud of Off to Class. In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of learning about a school in a new part of the world that has a problem to overcome. Students practice listening to the text for important details to write as notes in their Off to Class notebook.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
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Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/08/2021
ELA G2:M1:U2:L3 CLOSE READ-ALOUD, SESSION 2: OFF TO CLASS, PAGES 12–13
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This is the second of six close read-aloud sessions of Off to Class. In this session, students explore the solution to the problem the school faced and the benefits the school provides its community. Students continue listening for important details and practicing taking notes.

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Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
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Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/10/2021
ELA G2:M1:U2:L4 CLOSE READ-ALOUD, SESSION 3: “OUT OF THE RUBBLE” FROM OFF TO CLASS, PAGES 18–19
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This is the third of six close read-aloud sessions of Off to Class. In this session, students read the first few paragraphs of "Out of the Rubble" and learn about the problem this community faces in sending students to school. Similar to Sessions 1 and 2, students continue listening for important details and practicing taking notes

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Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/10/2021
ELA G2:M1:U2:L5 CLOSE READ-ALOUD, SESSION 4: “OUT OF THE RUBBLE” FROM OFF TO CLASS, PAGES 18–19
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This is the fourth of six close read-aloud sessions of Off to Class. In this session, students continue reading the section of text they began reading yesterday: "Out of the Rubble "(pages 18-19). Students learn about how this community solves its problem in sending students to school. They also continue listening for important details and practicing taking notes.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/10/2021
ELA G2:M1:U2:L6 UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT, PART I: CLOSE READ-ALOUD, SESSION 5: “WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE” FROM OFF TO CLASS, PAGES 8–9
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This lesson follows a similar pattern to Lessons 4-5. In Work Time A, students participate in Session 5 of the close read-aloud. Similar to Lessons 4-5, students listen closely to sections of the text read aloud and turn and talk to an elbow partner to discuss answers to text-dependent questions. Unlike Lessons 4-5, students' discussions in today's close reading session will serve as Part I of the Unit 2 Assessment and provide formative assessment data on their progress toward RI.2.1, RI.2.2, and L.2.4.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
World Cultures
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
04/10/2021