Ohio 2020: Rural imaginations and city lights

During these three weeks, you will participate in rural and urban city cultures in order to increase your awareness of local cultures in a variety of environments. You will interact with Amish persons for whom English is a second language. In this community, you will experience living, learning and negotiating in English-not as a mono-linguistic and dominant language, but as a language that is negotiated in social contexts, and you will learn how to do this in diverse communication situations.

You will also interact with the largely African-American and Hispanic Mennonite community in Cleveland, Ohio, long the gateway to the world for Ohio Amish youth. Here, the Lee Heights Mennonite Church is alive in ways that are not traditional, and you will interact with community members, seeing first-hand the church at work in a multi-cultural way. Lee Heights has a long history of working for African-American and immigrants' rights, and was deeply involved in desegregation during the American Civil Rights era. The church remains current with these issues, often advising the Mennonite Church USA.

Other issues we will explore are Cleveland's environmental issues, music and art culture.

Information

Seminar Leaders: Vi Dutcher, Language & Literature, with
Marlin Yoder and Sara King

Dates: May 26 – June 16, 2020

Estimated Cost: $3,500

Coursework
CCSSC 201 Cross-Cultural Social Science: Ohio 3 SH

Immunizations

Routine – MMR, DPT series with last booster within 10 years, IPV or OPV, Hep B and Hepatitis A as required for EMU enrollment.