The Center for Liberal Arts offers classes and workshops to K-12 foreign language teachers of French, German, and Spanish.

The Center for the Liberal Arts is founded around the notion that the University of Virginia has a responsibility to assist in improving the learning and teaching of academic disciplines in schools. The Center offers classes and workshops specifically for K-12 foreign language teachers of French, German, and Spanish. The mission of the French Project is to bring teachers closer to the reality of French language, literature, and contemporary society by offering opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences with other teachers, scholars, and performing artists. The French Project aims at answering French teachers' needs with lectures and discussions led by specialists in fields ranging from applied phonetics and experimental language methodology to all periods of literature and culture in France as well as in Francophone countries. With very few exceptions, all activities are led in French and many use audio- visual materials. The German Project aims to enhance language skills through the study of culture. Our intensive summer institutes are designed to provide opportunities for teachers to speak German, exchange information and teaching strategies, preview new German texts, and discuss topics of interest with visiting experts. The Spanish Project of the CLA offers a variety of programs designed for and by Spanish teachers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Since 1984 we have offered institutes, workshops, courses, and in-service days which focus on the content of Spanish and Latin American literature, language, and culture. In addition, we offer a summer course of study in Valencia, Spain along with scholarships to help defray the costs of that program.
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