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Study Abroad Courses for January Term 2012
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must watch the Education Abroad Workshop before being able to apply to the program.
Study Abroad in January Term 2012
UVa January Term in Argentina
Argentina Program Brochure
COMM 4290/SYS 2054/SYS 3054:
System Case Studies [3]
Reid Bailey, Instructor
This course focuses on the application of engineering and business concepts, analysis and design methodologies, modeling techniques, and interdisciplinary teamwork to real world cases in Mendoza, Argentina. A primary area of emphasis will be developing deeper intercultural competence through the real world cases with Argentine clients. In addition, students will gain experience and skills with identifying system goals, formulating requirements and performance metrics, creating and evaluating alternative solutions, and presenting recommendations to clients.
UVa January Term in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Program Brochure
COMM 4825:
Development Practice: Social Enterprises
in Bangladesh [3]
R. Brad Brown, Associate Professor
The focus of this program will be on the key role that NGOs can play in economic development. Bangladesh has several of the largest and most successful NGOs in the world including Grameen Bank and BRAC. Their expertise and operations include micro-banking, health care, and poverty reduction through social enterprises and other job-creating initiatives. Today, BRAC is the world's largest southern NGO and employs more than 100,000, the majority of whom are women. It reaches more than 110 million people with development interventions in Asia and Africa. BRAC University, one of many BRAC institutions, will be the host institution for this program.
UVa January Term in Belize
Belize Program Brochure
BIOL 3665/EVSC 3665: Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Belize [3]
Fred Diehl, Associate Professor
David Smith, Professor
This January Term program introduces students to some of the varied organisms and ecosystems of Belize, including fresh water, marine and terrestrial examples. Special emphasis will be placed on the interactions of the components and on the conservation of the specific ecosystems. Study and field work will focus on 5 major sites in Belize; 3 chosen for their ecological uniqueness and 2 because of their cultural value as well as their ecological characteristics and conservation potential. We will integrate basic knowledge, underlying principles, major concepts, implications and applications at each site.
UVa January Term in Paris
Paris Program Brochure
FRTR 2553/FREN 3553:
Making Paris Modern: A Secret History of the City of Lights [3]
Ari Blatt, Assistant Professor
In this J-Term study abroad course, students will consider the ghosts of history that haunt, yet continue to shape, the spaces and places of France's majestic capital city. For Paris is like a massive palimpsest, made up of multiple layers of memories. Our itinerary will include a number of places that reveal traces of these layers and provide a deeper, more complete, and decidedly more panoramic understanding of the city. We will begin by learning why central Paris looks the way it does today. Over the course of two weeks we will study what made Paris a modern metropolis - what Walter Benjamin referred to as the "capital city of the 19th century" - how it flourished, at times struggled, and eventually evolved over the course of the 20th, and how it continues to renew itself at the dawn of the 21st.
UVa January Term in Germany
Germany Program Brochure
GETR 2559: A Tale of Two Cities: Berlin and Munich [3]
Gordon Stewart, Professor
This program introduces students to the rich, diverse, and problematic cultural history of Germany as centered in Berlin and Munich and reflected in German life today. The course's approach, in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary assessment of Berlin and Munich's past and present, weaves together art, literature, political and social history, architecture and city planning. Readings, both primary and secondary, are coordinated with the daily activities to provide background, context, and access to the numerous sites being visited.
UVa January Term in Guatemala
Guatemala Program Brochure
GDS 3559: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Public Health [3]
David Burt, Assistant Professor
Guatemala: a fascinating country with a complicated past and a challenging future. Participants in this course will explore the complex topic of Global Health from diverse angles and perspectives--with the people and cultures of Guatemala as our focal point of learning--and as our learning partners.
UVa January Term in India
India Program Brochure
SAST 2200: Colonial and Post-colonial India: Social and Cultural Dynamics [3]
Aminur Rahman, Lecturer
This course is designed as an introduction to politics and society in India and examines the diversity that is India from three perspectives. First it explores Indian religion and social organization, in particular the contemporary practice of its two largest religions - Hinduism and Islam - and their consequences for India's social organization. Second, it examines the Indian political system, with a study of its political institutions - parliament, executive, federalism - and its political parties. Third, students will examine the dynamics of the rapid social change that India has been experiencing over the last two decards. Issues that will be considered include: the political economy of economic liberalization - especially India's rapid economic growth and the growing economic and political power of Indian business; the impact of economic change on inequalities between rural and urban regions and between genders; and the role of NGOs in promoting rural development, combating corruption and alleviating povery and gender disparities.
UVa January Term in Italy
Italy Program Brochure
ITTR 3758: Love Affair with Tuscany: Utopias and Beyond [3]
Adrienne Ward, Associate Professor
Enrico Cesaretti, Associate Professor
People have been fantasizing about Tuscany for centuries. This program offers students the chance to investigate those fantasies, by reading travelers' accounts as well as texts by Italians themselves, in combination with a close-up view of Tuscany and its renowned capital Florence. We will explore "la bella Toscana" through many sets of eyes, starting with English visitors to Tuscany on the famous Grand Tour in the 18th century, and ending with American travelers today. We'll compare these views with visions of Tuscany by native Italians and Tuscans. Along the way, we'll explore intercultural issues such as national identity, otherness, travel, and tourism.
UVa January Term in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis Program Brochure
GNUR 5500/INST 1500/PHS 5810: Disaster Preparedness in the West Indies [3]
Marcus L. Martin, MD, Professor
The participants in this course held in the West Indies, will study the fundamentals of emergency care and disaster preparedness through exploration of existing preparedness infrastructures in St. Kitts and Nevis.
UVa January Term in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Program Brochure
COMM 4390: Market Insights in Southeast Asia [3]
James Maxham, Professor
Market Insights in Southeast Asia is a research-oriented course in the Commerce curriculum that blends relevant classroom discussions, executive presentations, company visits and marketing research to explore consumer markets, economics, business, culture and context in Southeast Asia.
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