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MATC GLOBAL HORIZONS
SERIES PRESENTS GERMANY: HISTORY, ECONOMICS AND EXCHANGE
In a continuing effort to provide learning experiences that provide a
global view of today's world to its students, Madison Area Technical College
(MATC) is presenting a Global Horizons Series on Germany, focusing specifically
on its history, economics, and exchange opportunities. The series will
include lectures and panel discussion and will be held from October 6-13.
Twenty-three visitors
from Hesse, Germany will be in Wisconsin from October 6 through the 15th
and in Madison for a portion of that time. Exchange visitors include the
head of the education authority in Frankfurt; chairman of the joint venture
of technical colleges in Hessen; along with college administrators and
teachers. Multiple technical colleges from the Wisconsin Technical College
System (WTCS) are hosting the group
throughout the week and MATC is the welcoming host for the delegation.
The delegation will travel throughout the state, studying and observing
at various technical colleges.
All of the workshops
and discussion are free to the public and are held either at the MATC
Truax Campus, 3550 Anderson
Street or the MATC Downtown
Education Center, 211 North Carroll Street. Events include:
Friday, October
6; 10:30 Ð 11:30 am and 1:30 Ð 2:30 pm
Lecture/Slide Presentation: Lessons from History: To the Nazi Camp
and Beyond with Robert Frisch, Holocaust survivor and professor of
pediatrics at the University of Minnesota
MATC Truax Campus, Mitby Theater
Tuesday, October
10; 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Lecture: Wisconsin's German Heritage with Jack Holzhueter, Wisconsin
historian
MATC Truax Campus, Room 142C
Wednesday, October
11; 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Lecture: A Country and Continent Adrift? Germany, the European Union,
and the Challenges of Unification with Crister S. Garrett, Ph.D.,
associate director, Center for German and European Studies, UW-Madison
MATC Truax Campus, Room 142AB
The Global Horizons
Lecture Series is dedicated to putting individual students, employees,
and community members in contact with global figures who are making a
difference in the world through their commitment, involvement, and local
action. The goal of the series is to provide new levels of global awareness
and new perspectives on issues of diversity and multiculturalism. By placing
a human face on the actors of human history, the college hopes these face-to-face
interchanges will inspire new levels of understanding and involvement.
The MATC Global Horizons
Lecture Series is a joint effort of the MATC Student Life Office, Staff
Development, and MATC Foundation, the Multicultural Initiative Fund, and
sponsorships from the greater Madison community.
MATC is one of the
largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System's 16 colleges. It provides
a comprehensive curriculum of technical, liberal arts and science, adult
basic education and life enrichment studies and activities, as well as
customized employee training. MATC provides training in more than 100
career programs. It awards associate degrees, vocational diplomas and
certificates, and offers non-degree courses. The college serves all or
parts of 12 counties located in southcentral Wisconsin and offers instruction
through five campuses and various other locations throughout the district.
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