Oberlin College

Quebecois Slam Poet

Professors Isabelle Choquet (Denison University) and Adrianne Barbot (Oberlin College) collaborated in spring 2020 to teach an intermediate French course (Introduction to Reading) and invite the Quebecois artist MCJune to lead two creative writing workshops in two courses at Denison and one at Oberlin. Students wrote and presented their slam poetry to their classmates.  MCJune also gave a slam poetry performance on both campuses.  During his 5-day stay in Ohio, MCJune met with students and faculty during lunches and dinners.

Hiroshima Survivor Visit

Kai Xie, Assistant Professor of Japanese (Kenyon College); Yumiko Tashiro, Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese (Kenyon College); Sachiko Kondo, Lecturer in Japanese (Oberlin College); Miho Suzuki, Lecturer in Japanese (Oberlin College); and Ann Sherif, Professor of Japanese (Oberlin College) will collaborate to bring Shiegeko Sasamori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion, to Oberlin and Kenyon for public talks about her experience and peace-building activities.

Advanced Chinese Language Curricular Development

Professors of Chinese from Denison, Kenyon, Oberlin, and Wooster held a day-long seminar to present their materials and syllabi for teaching advanced Chinese language. They used this meeting to make plans for new initiatives and increased communication between the four departments. A second meeting and workshop in developing coursework and teaching strategies in advanced Chinese, including the initiation of the proposed 2018-19 collaborative distance language course, took place on January 27, 2018.

Expanding Ohio State's Quechua Learning Community to the Ohio

Professor Terrell Morgan (Ohio State University) and Lecturer Vannessa Peláez-Barrios (Oberlin College) created a pilot language instruction program in Quechua using real-time distance-learning technology to connect classrooms on both campuses. Interest at Oberlin’s campus has been maintained through a second semester and the proposers are seeking ways of making this collaboration sustainable, continuing the arrangement, and offering the course on other Ohio Five campuses.