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1. Gaining Cultural Familiarity: Understanding Differences and Similarities

Students will be able to recognize differences and similarities between their own lives and the lives of other children living in a different country. Students will also be able to value the differences that may seem strange to them by allowing themselves to walk in the shoes of other children, and to think about similarities as well as differences.

2. Western Europe's World Court & Human Rights

Introduction to human rights and the world court.

3. Turkey: A Curriculum Guide for Secondary School Teachers

A description of the unique traits of Turkish culture. A description of the effects of political, economic, and cultural changes and how these changes shape present-day Turkey. Identification and explanation of the contributions of key historical individuals and groups in politics, science, the arts, and religion in Turkey. Examination of the evolving economic and political systems of Turkey, and

4. Conflict Resolution in South Ossetia

A debate exercise for older students focusing on conflict resolution in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia.

5. Iceland: The Energy-Culture Connection

Understanding of Iceland’s Land Formation, Geography, History, culture and how technological inventions affect people and cultures through the ages.

6. Journey for the 'Occidental Citizen': Learning about the Role of Islam in Germany & the European Community

Exploring Islam in Germany

7. Bosnia and Herzegovina

A curriculum guide for high school teachers on the history, politics, and culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also appropriate for introductory college-level use.

8. Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz

Professor Gross addresses the politics and memory of anti-Jewish violence in Poland after the Holocaust, including Polish-Jewish relations and the ways in which Polish society has attempted to confront and master its past.

9. Explorers, Traders & Immigrants: Tracking the Cultural and Social Effects of the Global Commodity Trade

A primary-source document based curriculum unit for grades 9-12

10. Using Film to Incorporate Culture: "Goodbye Lenin!"

Students demonstrate German language abilities using the film "Goodbye Lenin!" by Wolfgang Becker (2003)

11. Using Film to Incorporate Culture: "Diabolo menthe"

Formulating cultural comparisons using the film "Diabolo menthe" by Diane Kurys (1977) and the French vocabulary of 'amour et amitié'

12. Using Film to Incorporate Culture: "La flor de mi secreto"

Formulating cultural comparisons using the film "La flor de mi secrecto" by Pedro Almodóvar (1995)and Spanish vocabulary

13. Switzerland : The Heart of it All

Six themes investigate the unique character of Switzerland and its global relations

14. The Artistic Influence of Italy

Explore the legacy and impact of the art and architecture of historic Italy on contemporary society

15. Video: Breakdown of the Doha Round of WTO Trade Negotiations: The Roles of Agricultural Protectionism in the United States and the European Union

Robert L. Thompson has extensive experience in E.U. and U.S. agricultural policy. While at the World Bank, he worked extensively with the countries of Central Europe which were then acceding to E.U. membership. He closely follows the reforms now underway in the Common Agricultural Policy of the E.U., as well as the evolution of U.S. agricultural policy. He advised on agricultural policy and the Ur

16. The Euro: Money Changes Everything

Seven activities and alternative scenarios for to talk about the euro.

17. VIDEO: Open Doors and High Fences: Comparative and Historical: Perspectives on Immigration Policy

Immigrants are the breath of fresh life in the United States and in Europe even while the assimilated have labeled each new wave unassimilable. Immigrants are pawns of economic interests, objects of political manipulations, and victims of xenophobia and racism. We will consider the federalization of American and European Union immigration policies, and the historical, economic, cultural and social

18. Video: Was the Bronze Age Volcanic Eruption of Thira (Santorini) a Megacatastrophe? A Geological/Archeological Detective Story

Akrotiri was an island town located along the southern coast of Thira (Santorini), Greece. It was but one of many Minoan towns scattered across the Aegean that were part of a powerful kingdom centered on Crete. Life on the island and possibly across the Aegean was shattered in the 17th Century BCE by a large volcanic eruption. The eruption preserved evidence of the sophisticated lifestyle of the p

19. Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration

This resource contains a series of videos, Powerpoint presentations and papers discussing the issue of criminal trafficking and slavery on a global level. All resources were produced from 2006 Joint Area Centers Symposium sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's <a href="http://www.cgs.uiuc.edu/index.html">Center for Global Studies</a> and <a href=&quo

20. World Ecosystems Beyond Borders (WEBB)

A global environmental education curriculum

21. From Arizona to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Kathryn Mahady

22. From Texas to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Laura Barker, Kathleen Pferd

23. Historical Atlas of Islam

By Malise Ruthven and Azim Nanji (Harvard University Press, 2004)

24. The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss

Written and illustrated by Sally Schofer Mathews (Clarion Books, 1994)

25. Platero y Yo / Platero and I

By Juan Ramon Jimenez; selected, translated and adapted from the Spanish by Myra Cohn Livingston and Joseph F. Dominguez, illustrated by Antonio Frasconi (Clarion Books, 1994)

26. Jade and Iron: Latin American Tales from Two Cultures

Edited by Patricia Aldana, translated by Hugh Hazelton, illustrated by Luis Garay (Groundwood/Douglas and McIntyre Ltd, 1996)

27. I Love Saturdays y Domingos

By Alma Flor Ada, illustrated by Elivia Savadier (Atheneum, 2002)

28. Croatia

A Curriculum Guide for Secondary School Teachers

29. Romania

A Curriculum Guide for Secondary School Teachers

30. The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

A Curriculum Guide for Secondary School Teachers

31. Bulgaria

A Curriculum Guide for Secondary School Teachers

32. Bridge to the Future: Enlarging the European Union

As the EU grows, it faces an array of challenges that could reshape the world we live in.

33. From Michigan to Poland in 2002

Carol Ann Mohrlock, Susan Nash, Linda Prieskorn, Leslee Przygodski, Ellen Sapper, Maureen Schoenherr, Patricia Tarbet, Scott Thobe, Jennifer Zunk

34. From Pennsylvania to Poland in 2002

Laura Bourke Brodie

35. From New Jersey to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Cathleen Carroll, Robert Gangi

36. From Maryland to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Beth Shevitz

37. From New York to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Jennifer Wolfe

38. From Oregon to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Cathey Philbrick

39. From Utah to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Ann Till

40. From New Hampshire to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Claudia Michael

41. From Montana to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Barb McManus

42. From Washington to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Gladys Fox

43. From Indiana to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Maryann Foster, Carole Williams

44. From Washington, DC to Cyprus and Turkey in 2004

Dana Nerenberg

45. Philosophical Ideas and the French Revolution

The influence of philosophers on Western development

46. Poems of Tennyson and Noyes

Creating a vision by capturing & manipulating words & sounds

47. Alice in Wonderland

Exploring the vision of childhood created by Lewis Carroll

48. Hamlet Meets Chushingura

Sensitizing Hamlet with Japanese plays nature of revenge

49. Fairy Tales Around the World

The origins of Fairy Tales in stories and Oral Traditions

50. Aesop and Ananse

Animal Fables and Trickster Tales