His knowledge of China and skill in Chinese will contribute greatly to his ability to make determinations regarding U.S. His China studies coursework is focused on comparing Chinese law to other systems of law, and on the legal structure for human rights and security in China. Now in his final year of law school, he continues to participate in ROTC, where he learns leadership skills necessary to being an officer in the U.S. He started his Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) training this past summer at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. As an Air Force JAG, he will be posted at bases in the U.S. military and civilian personnel in civil and criminal cases. The JAG position will allow Darius to pursue international opportunities and a wide variety of casework-from examining the legality of specific military actions, to representing U.S. He decided to integrate his cultural and linguistic fluency in Chinese into a legal career, and d uring his second year of law school, was offered a position as a judge advocate general (JAG) in the U.S. Darius is a third-year law student at the University of Washington (UW) Law School, and a UW East Asia Center Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in Chinese. Air Forceĭarius Izad’s first college class was in Chinese language, and after nine years of university-level study, Chinese will very likely be his last college class. VOICES FROM THE FIELD Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow on His Path to Chinese Fluency and a Position as Future Judge Advocate General in the U.S. After completing the trip abroad, participants will incorporate what they have learned into their classrooms, schools, and school districts back home. Online platforms to facilitate the continued involvement of participants living hundreds of Workshops and follow-up curriculum creation activities will be conducted via Teachers will also receive 40 hours of language instruction, 30 in Russian and 10 in Kazakh. Teachers will learn about the literature, history, geography, culture, music, art, and architecture of Central Asia through seminars with local experts, and museum and site visits. While in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, participants will study the ways in which Central Asian countries have negotiated identities in the geographic and cultural space between Russia and the Middle East. That the district’s three schools have a total of 66 students. The seventh high school teacher selected is from House, New Mexico, an area so remote With roughly equal percentages of Hispanic, Native American, and white Twelve educators have been selected to participate in the program, including five college instructors who teach at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and six high school teachers who work at schools with a 50 percent or more minority population (three at mostly Hispanic schools, two at mostly Native American schools, and one at a school Located on urban university campuses vast distances from where they live and
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are oftenĭisadvantaged in attending professional development programs, which are usually Postsecondary and high school teaching professionals from Arizona and New Mexico living outside the large metropolitan areas of Phoenix, Tucson,Īlbuquerque, and Las Cruces. The project was designed to meet the needs of rural The program - Central Asia: Crossroads of Civilization - will take participants on aĬurriculum development project to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for four weeks in
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