The six-day Race and Place workshops are designed to be intellectually stimulating and academically challenging, while encouraging participants to engage in dialogue with project faculty and exchange ideas with fellow participants. A packet of required readings—a selection for each historical period—will be sent to each participant after their acceptance into the workshop. These readings have been selected to provide important context for the workshop topics, lectures, and field studies. Once they arrive at the workshop, Race and Place educators will receive more extensive materials on each topic.

Race and Place will offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to workshop participants at no cost. During registration, participants will complete CEU application forms. Certificates of completion will be prepared by the workshop staff and presented to each participant who completes the workshop. We are currently working to secure graduate credit for the workshop and will post details as they become available.

The Race and Place workshops also seek to provide participants with an opportunity to experience the unique and vibrant cultural life of the nation’s capital. Most workshop evenings have been left free to allow you to explore the city independently or take part in non-required workshop excursions, such as a "Monuments by Moonlight" tour.

Each day of the workshop will include:

• Lectures followed by a question and answer session.
• Field study to "off the beaten path" sites around the city
• Discussions on topics including who is qualified to teach African-American history, how the concepts of "Race and Place" are constructed, and approaching senstive subjects in the classroom.
• Daily curriculum projects designed to bring the workshop experience into the classroom including: primary source document analysis, using web-based resources, and examining a historic landscape.

FULL SCHEDULE

A detailed daily workshop schedule will be posted on the website in February 2008.