{"id":2225,"date":"2020-10-09T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/academics\/?page_id=2225"},"modified":"2022-11-22T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:40:55","slug":"experiential-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/college-of-sciences-and-humanities\/school-of-social-and-behavioral-sciences\/undergraduate-programs\/sociology-ba\/experiential-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad for Sociology Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sociology majors often take advantage of study abroad opportunities available at Marymount.\u00a0 We work closely with Marymount’s Center for Global Education (CGE) to offer a variety of study abroad experiences, including the Global Classroom Series\u00a0\u00a0and the Short Term Summer Programs.<\/p>\n
Some recent sociology study abroad courses include:<\/p>\n
The Sociology Department offers other exciting global learning experiences.\u00a0 Students have taken a globally networked class that connects faculty and students who are located in another country.\u00a0 In collaboration with partners at Hanze University of Applied Science, Dr. Janine DeWitt and her colleague, Loes Damhof, pioneered this form of global learning by offering The Global Village. This course was taken simultaneously by\u00a0 students at both universities.\u00a0 The professors and students met for presentations and guided discussions, sharing their observations of globalization in the communities where they live, work, and play.\u00a0 Through these exchanges students on both sides of the Atlantic gained a deeper understanding of globalization, identifying its different impacts on people within their communities, and building valuable career skills by working on intercultural teams.<\/p>\n
Dr. DeWitt\u2019s The Global Village course was designed as part of the Collaborative Online International Teaching project (COIL) at the Global Center of the State University of New York.\u00a0 In addition, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities recently mentioned this global networked classroom experience on its list of the \u201cTen ways that Catholic higher education lives the vision of Gaudium et Spes.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Following in Dr. DeWitt’s footsteps, Dr. Bakker and Dr. Lindsey have collaborated with partners in Mexico and Egypt, respectively, to make globally networked learning opportunities available for Marymount sociology students. Working with Terry Graham at the Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Estudios Superiores del Occidente (ITESO University) in Guadalajara, Mexico, Dr. Bakker has incorporated globally networked learning in two of his courses over recent years: Topics in Human Rights and The Global Village.<\/p>\n Graham and Bakker further innovated by incorporating both globally networked learning and a short-term study abroad component in their Topics in Human Rights course in the Spring 2019 semester. They took students from their respective courses to Lisbon, Portugal where they explored the connections between human rights and refugee law, met with various community organizations and service providers working with the refugee community, and compared refugee resettlement policies and practices in Portugal and the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n Dr. Lindsey brought global networked learning into the study of urban life in his course Cities in the 21st Century course by partnering with American University of Cairo (AUC). \u00a0\u00a0Working with Professor Gerda Heck from AUC\u2019s Department of Sociology, Egyptology, and Anthropology at AUC), he developed a collaborative experience focused on the theme of life in their respective global capital cities of Washington, D.C., and Cairo. \u00a0Students met twice listening to guest speakers. Ahmed Zaazaa presented on urban development and inequality in Cairo. Matt Bakker presented on displacement and community change in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sociology majors often take advantage of study abroad opportunities available at Marymount.\u00a0 We work closely with Marymount’s Center for Global Education (CGE) to offer a variety of study abroad experiences, including the Global Classroom Series\u00a0\u00a0and the Short Term Summer Programs. Some recent sociology study abroad courses include: Amsterdam: Through the Sociological Lens (Spring 2014) Kenya: […]<\/p>\n