University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/University of Jordan
Country:
Jordan
Award Date:
2003
Award Amount:
$93,685.00
Cost Share:
$149,726.00
Other Partners:
This partnership is working to strengthen the M.A. program in American Studies at the University of Jordan (UJ) and to promote a global perspective in studies of U.S. history, culture, and society at both UJ and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). UNC/UJ faculty and student e-mail listservs have been set up to promote a sense of community between the partners and stimulate intellectual dialogue on study of the United States. Partners began work on a web page that will provide public information about the partnership and serve as an intellectual resource for UJ faculty and students researching the United States. Partners also conducted the first student-to-student linkage of the partnership. Two UNC courses, on African-American Islam and American culture, used video conferencing to enable students to participate in a transnational discussion of American Muslim women.