The National Resource Centers (NRCs) at the University of Illinois are funded in part through the Title VI program for Area Studies of the U.S. Department of Education. NRCs at Illinois are jointly affiliated with International Programs and Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Whether individually, or in collaboration with consortium partners or affiliated departments, NRCs at Illinois offer a broad range of educational resources covering all areas of the world.

 

NRCs work within the university to enhance campus teaching through support for research, course offerings, instruction in less commonly taught languages, and degree programs; build the collections of library and multimedia resources; develop international learning opportunities and faculty exchanges; and support extracurricular programming, including seminars and conferences.

 

Outreach programming for K-12 educators and  students, and for the general public includes dynamic and varied lectures, workshops, and programs covering art, music, literature, history, languages, cultures, current events, developed by subject-area specialists and based on solid, contemporary research methods. Each summer, the NRCs join forces to offer the Intensive Summer Institute, a one-week professional development workshop for high school teachers.

 

National Resource Centers

• Center for African Studies
• Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
• European Union Center
• Russian and East European and Eurasian Center
• Center for International Business Research and Education

Initiatives

• International Summer Institute
• Outreach World. NRCs across the country contribute lessons and instructional aids, searchable by global region, country, subject, time period, and grade level, to this comprehensive resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the pre-collegiate classroom.

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