{"id":5766,"date":"2013-05-06T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:50:17","slug":"prof-durnford-to-attend-cultural-seminar-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/05\/06\/prof-durnford-to-attend-cultural-seminar-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Durnford to Attend Cultural Seminar in Qu\u00e9bec"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Thomas Durnford, professor of modern languages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Thomas Durnford<\/strong>, professor of modern languages, recently received a grant from the Qu\u00e9bec Ministry of International Relations and Commerce<\/a> to attend a three-week seminar in July at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/a>. The Qu\u00e9bec Delegation in Boston, which oversees relations between the province and the New England states, recommended Dr. Durnford for this program. He was the only person in New England\u2014and one of only 12 in the US\u2014to receive the grant.<\/p>\n

The seminar’s primary focus is to develop curriculum and pedagogical applications in the teaching of Qu\u00e9bec culture, history, economics, the arts, and the place of the province within the Canadian confederation and the international community. The seminar program includes conference presentations, classroom observations, discussion groups, and guided excursions around the province.
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\n“We plan to integrate much of this material into all of the French course offerings here at KSC, beginning with the Fall semester,” Dr. Durnford said. “Qu\u00e9bec will be a major focus of the French program. An interdisciplinary approach to Qu\u00e9bec studies, with the support of the Qu\u00e9bec Delegation in Boston, has been an on-going discussion for several years on campus, so the seminar is an important catalyst towards us realizing this important step.”<\/p>\n

Why is the study of Qu\u00e9bec so important to KSC students? “Qu\u00e9bec is a major trading partner with the state of New Hampshire, which has a very strong cultural connection to the province,” Dr. Durnford explained. “Approximately one-third of the students at Keene State College are of French\/Qu\u00e9bec heritage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Thomas Durnford, professor of modern languages, recently received a grant from the Qu\u00e9bec Ministry of International Relations and Commerce to attend a three-week seminar in July at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. The Qu\u00e9bec Delegation in Boston, which oversees relations between the province and the New England states, recommended Dr. Durnford for this program. He … Continue reading Prof. Durnford to Attend Cultural Seminar in Qu\u00e9bec<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}