National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Foreign Service Institute, 4000 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA 22204-1500

U -- COURSE COORDINATOR FOR FERTILE CRESCENT SOL SFSIAQ-98-Q-0194 DUE 071798 POC Point of Contact -- Donald A. Holmes, 703/302-6804/Contracting Officer, Earnest Williams, 703/302-6803 Professional services are requested as Course Coordinator for the Fertile Crescent Advanced Area Studies course. Courses are held at the Foreign Service Institute, 4000 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22204. The Fertile Crescent Advanced Studies course is organized and conducted by the Course Coordinator who also brings in area experts from Universities, Government and Private organizations. The seminar combines lectures, discussions, participatory activities by class members, readings, and audio-visual materials in order to highlight the key historical, political, economic, and socio-cultural themes for the region as well as American interests interests and policy issues in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. The Advanced Area Studies courses within the Foreign Service Institute's School of Professional and Area Studies offer country-specificity and are closely related to concurrent language training. Generally meeting for the duration of the language course, area studies are designed to teach people how to communicate in the countries and cultures to which they are assigned. (AC0609019-01) (0160)

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