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Wednesday, August 08, 2001
http://www.psu.edu/ur/2001/parisian.html Penn State Course On All Things Parisian To Educate By Virtual Tourism University Park, Pa.–To compare and contrast social climates and outlooks on moral issues, a typical 18th-century Parisian provides a better counterpart than a 21st-century one to contemporary Americans, says a Penn State cultural theorist who’s teaching a new class on the city of Paris this fall.... “We felt that for a general education course, focusing on a single city would be a different, exciting way of tackling broad, interdisciplinary topics without letting them get too broad to handle,” says Julia Simon, associate professor of French, who will teach the course. “And since we are not actually visiting Paris, we’ll be using CD-ROMs, DVDs and the Internet extensively to simulate the experience. For instance, one of our first exercises will be to pretend to take the Paris Metro subway system on a tour of the city by using a CD-ROM that highlights its neighborhoods.”...
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