Modern Languages is pleased to announce that 11 Atlanta Public Schools teachers and Dr. Michael Wiedorn are currently studying the Wolof language and Senegalese culture in Dakar, thanks to a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad project grant obtained by Dr. Michael Wiedorn, Principal Investigator, and Dr. Christophe Ippolito, co-Principal Investigator, French, Modern Languages.

“Senegalese Curriculum Development for Georgia” is a June 2014 four-week group project that brings eleven Atlanta public school teachers, one Georgia Tech ML faculty member as Program Director, and the Georgia Tech Associate Director for Teacher Education Partnerships to the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal. There they study the Wolof language and Senegalese culture, neither of which is available for study in the Atlanta area, a city hosting the country’s second-largest Senegalese population. The project’s central objectives are curriculum development at the high school and university level, in addition to creating exchanges and collaborations among educators and their surrounding communities in Senegal and Atlanta. This project uses the Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) program for pre-departure and follow-up programs as well as the connections already in place thanks to the School of Modern Languages study abroad program in French in Dakar and Georgia Tech’s relationship with Atlanta Public Schools, and MSIs in particular. This project is supported by Modern Languages and the IAC Dean’s Office. 

Dollar amount of federal funds for this project was $55,000; the percentage of the total cost of the project that will be financed with federal funds is 68%; the percentage and dollar amount of the total cost of the project that will be financed by non-governmental sources is 32%. 

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