The two workshops titled Conflict Resolution and Communication Disorder run by two Fulbright Senior Specialists, Dr. Thomas Kuster and Dr. Judith Kuster, have been in progress and are welcomed by students.

Tom and Judy showed satisfactions about UIC students' active participations. Both of them enjoyed the climate of interdependent learning between students and teachers and expressed a strong desire for learning Chinese culture. Tom stated that, one of the reasons for running his course was to figure out differences of conflict management between Chinese and Americans. Judy said, she aimed her course at raising more public concerns for aphasia and encouraging more Chinese students to help people who suffered from aphasia.

The courses have generated positive response from the students. Interesting topics, heuristic information and realistic significance are considered by the students as the three main characteristics of the two courses. One student named Liuchan from TESL said, she was highly impressed by the practicability of Judy's course because communication disorder has a lot of bearing on her current specialized course titled Phonetics. With cleft lip that related to dysphonia as example, she said, Judy has expanded on contributory factors, optimal treatment time, methods of pronunciation correction, organizations to which one can resort, cost and other aspects which born much relation to real life.

Another student named Jin Xianqian from Social Work & Social Administration stated that, Tom's course exposed students to social conflicts from a perspective that conflicts could create either crisis or opportunities based on handling strategies. She regarded the course as a double-loop learning that gave Tom an insight into Chinese culture apart from an instructional theory developed from life experience.