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TEACHER CURRICULUM PLANS from the 2006 NEH Institutes

“Cultures and Religions of the Himalayan Region” held at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

28 are available free online: http://college.holycross.edu/orgs/himalayan_cultures/

SAMPLE TOPICS:

  • Laurie Schmidt, A Study of Hindu and Buddhist Sculpture
  • John Baron and Sarah Swift, Asian Influences on Western Civilization
  • Amy Jane Priest, Himalayan Geography: Human Environment Interaction
  • Son-Mey Chiu, Buddhism Through Art
  • Tricia Lea, Karma
  • Susan Dyment, Autobiography: From the Two-Tongued Sea to the Pure Lhasa Air
  • Matthew Glenn, Music of the Himalayan Region
  • Megan Normandin, Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard: An Interdisciplinary Unit

Todd Lewis and Leonard van der Kuijp, co-Directors



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