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Tidewater-North Africa Cultural Exchange Program (TiNA)
ChristopherNewport University – Summer 2006
Phase I
CNU/ECA Undergraduate Institute on Leadership Studies
Tidewater- North Africa Exchange Program (TiNA)
Class Schedule and Syllabus for
American Democracy; American Diversity
Welcome to Christopher Newport University and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Over four weeks, you will attend a program designed to introduce you to the development and practice of American democracy and to the diversity of people, cultures and natural environments found in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. In addition to many excursions and site visits, you will spend a good portion of your time here learning, in a classroom setting, about American history and government, American culture and Virginia’s ecology. You will also learn about leadership and volunteerism and have opportunities to strengthen your English-language speaking and writing skills.
Writing Assignments
All program participants are required to submit three essays in the form of journal entries. The first assignment is due on Wednesday, July 12; the second on Wednesday, July 19; and the third on Wednesday, July 26. Each one of these assignments should be 300-500 words in length and should discuss and analyze the previous week’s courses, travel and other experiences. In these journal entries, you should discuss what you found interesting or strange and explain why you found it so. You should also discuss how the experiences of the previous week may have changed your thinking about people and places and challenged or confirmed some of your preconceived notions about America and Americans or North Africa and North Africans.
Program participants who are CNU students enrolled in the TiNA Exchange as part of AMST 295 will also have to prepare a 10-15 page research paper that will be due the Wednesday following fall break 2006. The details of this assignment will be explained in detail to CNU students over the summer.
Readings
Most readings for this course will come from the following books, which will be given to program participants at the start of the program:
“Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States” by Jones, Wood, Borstelmann, May, and Ruiz
“The Sierra Club Naturalist’s Guide to the Middle Atlantic Coast”
“Complete Digital Photography” by Ben Long
“Not Quite American: The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States” by Haddad.
*All reading assignments should be completed before class so that they can be discussed.*
Class Meetings, Topics, and Readings
| Monday, July 3 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
Welcome session |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Colonial American History (Professor Philip Hamilton)
Reading: “Created Equal,” pp. 41-53; 65-75 |
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| Tuesday, July 4 |
All-day excursion to the Jamestown Settlement and Colonial Williamsburg |
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| Wednesday, July 5 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
English Language Study |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Introduction to American Journalism (Professor Terry Lee) |
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| Thursday, July 6 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
The U.S. Constitution (Professor Michelle Barnello)
Readings: “Created Equal,” Appendix 9 and pp. 206-214 |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Visit Yorktown Battlefield |
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| Friday, July 7 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
English Language Study |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Documentary Journalism (Professor Terry Lee)
Readings: “Complete Digital Photography,” pp. TBD |
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| Saturday, July 8 |
Travel to Charlottesville, University of Virginia, and home of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello |
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| Monday, July 10 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
Modern American History (Professor Andrew Falk)
Readings: “Created Equal,” pp. TBD |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Modern American Government (Professor John Camobreco)
Readings: “Created Equal,” pp. TBD |
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| Tuesday July 11 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
English Language Study |
| 1-6 p.m.: |
Excursion to the U.S.S. Wisconsin battleship and NASA Langley |
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| Wednesday, July 12 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
Leadership, the Western Perspective (Professor Robert Colvin) |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Journalism Project (Prof. Lee)
**First Journal Essay Due** |
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| Thursday, July 13 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
English Language Study |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
The Early American Republic (Professor Philip Hamilton)
Readings: “Created Equal,” pp. 218-221; 235-237 |
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| Friday, July 14 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
History, Culture and Leadership
(Professor J. Thomas Wren, University of Richmond) |
| 2-4 p.m.: |
Islam in the U.S. (Professor Hussam Timani)
Readings: “Not Quite American,” pp. TBA |
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| Monday, July 17 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
American Women’s History (Professor Beth Kreydatus)
Readings: “Created Equal,” pp. TBA |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Women and Leadership (Professor Elizabaeth Faier, Zayed University) |
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| Tuesday, July 18 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
Hollywood (Professor Michaela Meyer)
Readings: “Americans in the Dark?: Recent Hollywood Representations of the Nation’s History” (distributed in class) |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Excursion to Tidewater Community College |
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| Wednesday, July 19 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
English Language Study |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Meeting with Academic Directors – Evaluation/Assessment/Mentoring
**Second Journal Essay Due** |
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| Thursday, July 20 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon:: |
Religious Culture in America (Professor Kip Redick)
Readings: Selections from “Making Nature Sacred” (distributed in class) |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Visits to local religious sites |
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| Friday, July 21 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
What is Science? (Professor Lisa Webb) |
| 2 p.m.-5 p.m.: |
Local Flora and Fauna – Fieldwork (Professor Barbara Savitsky)
Readings: “Sierra Club Naturalist’s Guide,” pp. TBA |
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| Saturday, July 22 |
All Day Fieldwork at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Professor Linda Johnson)
Readings: Sierra Club Naturalist’s Guide, pp. TBA |
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| Monday July 24 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
Religion in America (Professor John Thompson)
Readings: “Diversity and Tolerance: Religion and American Pluralism” (distributed in class) |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
NARO Film screening (Professor Hussan Timani) |
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| Tuesday July 25 |
All-Day Dolphin Observation (Professor Jim Reed) |
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| Wednesday, July 26 |
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| 9 a.m.-noon: |
Journalism Project (Professor Terry Lee)
**Third Journal Essay Due** |
| 1-4 p.m.: |
Program Evaluation and Participant Roundtable
Evening – Farewell Dinner |
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| Thursday, July 27; Friday, July 28; Saturday, July 29 |
Travel to Washington, D.C. |
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| Sunday, July 30 |
Depart for Home |
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