What Difference does Difference Make? The ability to communicate across (cultural and other) differences is essential to our everyday interactions with people, stories, events, or issues. How do we arrive at our conclusions? How do our conclusions affect our interactions? When we engage in ‘Intercultural Communicative Practice’, we employ critical self-reflective analysis to our understanding of ‘culture,’ ‘truth’, ‘reality’ and ‘identity’ and to our own role in all meaning-making processes. In this course, we’ll practice how to achieve more than just an egocentric view of the matter at hand, so that thinking differently allows us to speak and act differently going forward.

Contemporary debates and approaches to feminist theory, gender studies and decoloniality in Latin America This introductory course approaches contemporary debates in Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, and Decoloniality in Latin America. From an intersectional and decolonial standpoint, theoretic materials and other discursivities such as cinema, literature, and art focus on the relationship between sex, sexuality, gender, race, and class, attending questions of sexism, racism, colonialism, capitalism, body, and power. The thematic units also address the history of feminist thought, black feminisms, and the articulations between gender, coloniality and decoloniality; current discussions between feminisms and indigenous movements; masculinities and the relationship between gender and violence; and recent debates in “fourth-wave” feminism, LGBTTTIQNB*, and human rights movements.

Hindi-Beginner Basic This course is meant for complete beginners who would like to achieve elementary proficiency in Hindi.  It will cover everything necessary for students to be able to make themselves understood in everyday contexts such as introducing themselves, asking for directions, giving and responding to commands, talking about the weather, and more. In addition to learning the structures necessary for basic conversation, students will also learn how to read and write Devanagari, the script used for Hindi.

Schools Abroad Internship A credit-bearing experiential learning remote course offered from Middlebury Schools Abroad.  Depending on location and placement, this would be in English or the host country language.  This course aims to help students gain in-depth knowledge and exposure to a foreign culture and its work environment, including culturally appropriate professional communication skills, and in the case of placements in a foreign language improve students’ foreign language skills. The experience will culminate in a formal academic paper under the supervision of the School Abroad Director. For spring 2021, a limited number of remote internships are available in Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China, France, Germany, Japan, and Morocco.  Students must have completed the prerequisite language course for study abroad.  Students can only receive one credit for internships at the Schools Abroad.  Students who have already participated in a Schools Abroad internship in a previous semester or plan on pursuing an internship at a School Abroad in the future are not allowed to enroll in this course.

Amy Tondu

Claudio Gonzalez-Chiaramonte

Heike Fahrenberg

Jeannette Ariane Ngabeu

Josefina Itoiz

Juan Pastene

Kai Zhang

Ludmila Scheinkman

Nana Tsikhelashvili

Neha Tiwari

Patricia Rodriguez

Samir Jaafar

Sanae Eda

Silvia Lorenso Castro

Vinita Tripathi

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