Several institutions in Vietnam and the United States are to pilot their use of IC3 materials. In Vietnam and the United States, experimental and control classes at the university and high school levels will test the effectiveness of this approach to inter-cultural, language, and development studies. The home base for introducing these materials and maintaining the website is Eastern Mennonite University (www.emu.edu/ic3). In addition, the Vietnamese base is An Giang University (http://www.agu.edu.vn).

In addition, an international education non-governmental organization, Future Generations (www.future.org), is to test the usefulness of this curriculum for its incoming Master’s degree students in Applied Community Change and Conservation. As Future Generations convenes its next class of thirty leader/scholars from all corners of the planet to study concepts, methods, and best practices in development, it will use IC3 as a means for language equity and skill-building.

Other possible participating institutions in September include universities, high schools, and NGOs in Iran, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

Foreign Film poster

For the second year running, EMU will be the host institution among several international partners in co-screening a foreign film series and online forum concerning the inter-cultural questions and themes of the films. Participants enter the online forum through the IC3 Blackboard portal. For the second year running, EMU will be the host institution among several international partners in co-screening a foreign film series and online forum concerning the inter-cultural questions and themes of the films. Participants enter the online forum through the IC3 Blackboard portal.

The www.emu.edu/ic3 website is to be updated with an instructional manual for teachers using the IC3 course materials for the Fall semester. All 20 chapters and 60 lessons for the initial two of five levels – Level I and Level II – are ready for use.