Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum in Higher Education

This richly interdisciplinary volume explores the goals and benefits of the Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum (CLAC) programs by drawing together noteworthy insights from educators, administrators, researchers, and students who have been directly involved in the CLAC programs at colleges and universities in the US.

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India C. Plough is Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, United States. She teaches sociolinguistics and is Director of the RCAH Language Proficiency Program. Her research interests include second language teaching, learning, and assessment. Her current work focuses on the role of interactional competence and nonverbal behavior in defining the second language speaking construct.

Weloré Tamboura is Assistant Professor at the Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako (ULSHB), Mali. Her main areas of interest are community engagement and the mobilization of information communication techniques and technologies as a tool (key) for social change.

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1. Introduction

India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura

Section I Transformations

India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura

2. CLAC your campus: Institutionalizing a Program that Encourages Students to Put Language and Culture Skills to Use

Danielle Rocheleau Salaz

3. Developing a CLAC Program: Evolving Perspectives from Students, Faculty, and Administrators

Amanda Brown, Gail A. Bulman, Rania Habib, M. Emma Ticio Quesada, and Stefano Giannini

4. My Journey in Creating a CLAC Program: An Innovative and Inclusive Program in Curriculum Internationalization

Jiangyuan (JY) Zhou

5. Understanding Undegraduate Students' Experiences in a Project-Based Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Program: A Teaching and Learning Autoethnography

Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia

6 The American in Me: A Spiraling Reflection on My Identities

Erika Beth Kraus

7. "I'm a French Teacher, Not a Data Scientist!": Culture and Language Across My Professions

Spencer P. Greenhalgh

Section II Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity

India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura

8. Language Matters: Shifting Perspectives

Deborah S. Reisinger

9. CLAC at a SLAC: A Distinctive Model for Teaching Languages Across the Curriculum in the Context of a Small Liberal Arts College

Oscar A. Pérez and Viviana Rangil

10. Project-Based Language and Culture Immersion in Response to Learner Individuality

Xuehong (Stella) He

11. Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Programs as a Window to Russian-Speaking Communities: An Autoethnography

Dmitrii Pastushenkov

Section III Impact on Society

India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura

12. Reflecting on Learning and Teaching French as a Second Language: Personal Experiences and Insights from a CLAC Program

Weloré Tamboura

13. Interdisciplinarity and Translanguaging in a CLAC Program: Challenging and Changing Language Ideologies in Higher Education

Doaa Rashed

14. A Path Towards a Transformational Language Teaching and a Polydisciplinamorous Pedagogy: An Autoethnography

Romina S. Peña-Pincheira

15. Powers and Exponents: Countering the Culture of Control in Mathematics Teacher Education

José Martínez Hinestroza

16. Unifying Themes and Future Directions

India C. Plough and Weloré Tamboura