This five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for School Teachers, directed by Dr. Gerard M. Koot, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, will investigate how a region of northwest Europe, centered on the North Sea, acquired the characteristics that historians have labeled modern. We will study how the economy of the Dutch Republic rose to preeminence in the new European world economy of the seventeenth century, how Britain acquired this supremacy in the eighteenth century, and how it transformed itself to become an industrial nation.
The seminar will meet at the Institute for Historical Research in London for the first week and then at Webster University, Leiden, The Netherlands, for four weeks. NEH will provide a stipend of $3900 toward expenses. Applications are due on March 4, 2013.
For an application and a full explanation of the seminar, go to: http://www1.umassd.edu/euro/ For a mailed copy, contact Sue Foley, sfoley@umassd.edu or call 508-999-8301. For further information, write Gerard Kootgkoot@umassd.edu or call 508 994 3145.
AP Summer Institutes provide Advanced Placement course training to middle and high school educators who teach or are interested in teaching Pre-AP or AP courses. UT Austin is offering 30 four-day institutes over a 6 week period this summer at the Thompson Conference Center on UT’s main campus as well as holding one institute – AP Studio Art for Experienced AP Teachers – in conjunction with the College of Fine Arts in Costa Rica.
