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Professors Rich and Wendy Allen Next Study Travel program: From the Beaches of Normandy to the Ports of Brittany Recent Study Travel program: Morocco: African Explorations from the Imperial Cities to the Sahara Desert |
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Richard, a native New Englander, was an undergraduate at Boston College and earned advanced degrees at Indiana University before coming to St. Olaf in 1975. He established the computer science program here and has been involved with it ever since. For the past 25 years, Rich has conducted research on French artificial intelligence teams in Rennes and Grenoble. He has spent three successive sabbatical leaves in France working on these teams. He teaches a course on Islamic geometric patterns as a result of his Middle East work and has led with Wendy three 5-month study abroad programs for students. Wendy did her undergraduate work at Connecticut College and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University. At St. Olaf since 1977, Wendy has taught courses in French language, culture and literature, and has led numerous January Interim courses for students in France. Her particular areas of research include 17th-century French literature, contemporary France, second language acquisition and pedagogy. She has also been deeply involved with St. Olaf’s Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum program. Rich and Wendy have also led two successful Study Travel programs in Paris and led a Study Travel program in Morocco in 2010. |
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