Education and Culture

Catalog description

Offers students the opportunity to become immersed in educational, cultural, and historical contexts while exploring contemporary issues relevant to various countries or regions. Students will be introduced to cross-cultural issues within that country. They will expand their understanding of the focus country; especially its educational practices, as they gain an immersive experience related to education, history, culture, art, and literature through travel and through participating in volunteer work in a school setting. Students in this course examine another culture in order to gain experience which may transform not only their understanding of that culture, but the way in which they understand culture in general. Not open to freshmen. This course may be repeated once for credit. A minimum G.P.A. of 3.00 is required to take this course.