Study Abroad Courses for January Term 2009
UVA in Ghana:
AAS 403Z: Community as a Classroom: Urban Studies and Service Learning in Cape Coast, Ghana [3]
UVa in Ghana Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
Scot French, Associate Professor and
Director of the Center for Digital History
This January Term course targets advanced undergraduates whose research interests focus on discerning cultural patterns and deciphering expressions of change in the built, natural, and social environments.
Through a unique combination of traditional classroom and field learning experience, students will gain insight into the complexities of the Cape Coast community, develop skills needed to read the cultural landscape, and produce a tangible project of value to the community.
UVA in Jamaica:
ANTH 391Z: The Archaeology of Sugar and Slavery in Colonial Jamaica [3]
This course has been cancelled.
UVA in Italy
ARTH 335Z: Renaissance Art on Site [3]
UVa in Italy Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
Francesca Fiorani, Associate Professor
Lisa Reilly, Associate Professor
Course Prerequisite: At least one class in any of the following fields:
Art History, Architectural History, European History, Italian Literature.
Language of Instruction: English
This course provides firsthand, direct knowledge of Renaissance Art through an intensive program of site visits in Florence, Siena, and the Tuscan countryside. The scope of this course is to provide students with a deeper understanding of the specificity of images, that is, their materials, texture, scale, size, proportions, colors, and volumes, all elements that are almost completely lost in classroom teaching, which is entirely based on slides and digital images.
Second, it provides students with a full sense of the importance of the original location for the understanding and interpretation of Renaissance art. Unlike modern art, Renaissance art was originally tied to a defined location and made to serve a specific purpose, be it devotional, civic, or celebratory.
UVA in Nicaragua
COMM 380A: Managing Sustainability and Health Services in Developing Countries [3]
UVa in Nicaragua Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
R. Brad Brown, Associate Professor and Principal, International Residential College
Globalization has had a major impact on the products and services we use. It is widely agreed that consumers all over the world have greater choices and lower costs, and many companies now successfully compete globally. But as in all major societal changes, there are “winners” and “losers” in the new global economy. People in the United States often worry about the outsourcing of jobs to countries with lower labor costs and the assumption seems to be that developing countries must be “winners” under globalization. However, billions of people in less developed countries are mired in poverty and lack the basic services and resources needed enable them to climb the ladder of success.
This course will examine the impacts of globalization—both positive and negative—on people living in those emerging economies. The study tour to Nicaragua in January will provide first hand experience in one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. Particular attention will be focused on important health issues from a lack of clean drinking water and sanitation services to visits to the local hospital and various clinics and pharmacies. Students will have lectures from government officials, directors of NGOs, and business and labor leaders. Students will be teamed with students from a local university to create mock grant proposals for development projects aimed at addressing one or more of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals.
UVA in Guatemala
ENGR 295/NURS 295/INST 295Z: An Exploration of the Natural and Built Environment and Public Health [3]
UVa in Guatemala Program Brochure.
David R. Burt, MD, Assistant Professor
Dana Elzey, Associate Professor
Doris Greiner, Associate Professor
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
Guatemala: the land of eternal spring and heart of the former Mayan empire. Fascinating peoples, a complicated history and complex social situations combine to make Guatemala a living classroom of culture and the environment. This course will serve as an integrated introduction to the people and environment of the Guatemalan Highlands. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the social, environmental, and cultural challenges faced by the indigenous Mayan peoples of this region as they attempt to address current inequalities and problems. It will provide a broadly inclusive, yet in-depth exposure (via lecture, demonstration, student immersion and travel, etc.) to the entire spectrum of their challenges ranging from deforestation to income inequality and political discrimination. A focus will be placed on health care delivery, education and the natural and built environment.
UVA in Ireland
ENSP 220Z: Literature in Ireland [3]
UVa in Ireland Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
Elizabeth Fowler, Associate Professor
Victor Luftig, Associate Professor and
Director, Center for the Liberal Arts
“That is no country for old men,” wrote W. B. Yeats in the 1920s. Galway, where this course will begin, has the youngest population of any city in Europe; Dublin, where this course will conclude, is the vibrant home of much important new music, media, and film. But the best way to observe all this newness may paradoxically lie in old art: if Ireland is alternately or simultaneously Celtic, European, global, or even knit to the other-worldly places of faerie land or a Christian heaven, the imagining of these places has a long and distinguished literary history. This course will bind a series of Irish texts to their original settings or places of composition; our readings will span from the medieval to the contemporary, and we will visit the places we read about. We will ask, at and of places that have great literary importance, how language can imagine, and even create, a sense of place.
UVA in Berlin
GETR 275Z: Berlin: Geography of a Modern Metropolis [3]
UVa in Berlin Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
Chad Wellmon, Assistant Professor
In this program, we will experience Berlin as a geographical and spatial prism of the long, troubled and exciting history of Germany. Instead of proceeding through this history and culture chronologically, we will allow specific urban sites and places to guide us through Germany’s past, present and future. Our walking tours, readings and discussions will take us through the architectural, cultural and urban history of Berlin and modern Europe. Loaded with our own maps, cultural histories, plays, pod-casts and architectural guides, we won’t just read about German cultural history, we’ll walk through it and touch it. While reading about the Soviet take-over of Berlin, we’ll walk through the re-constructed Reichstag. While reading Primo Levi’s If This is a Man, his account of Auschwitz, we’ll walk the ruins of the Buchenwald concentration camp. After reading Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, we’ll tour the theater he founded and watch a performance. We’ll discuss the 1936 Olympics and the rise of Nazi Germany, while visiting Olympiastadion and walking through the ruins of the SS and Gestapo Headquarters.
UVA in St. Kitts and Nevis
INST 211Z: Disaster Preparedness in the West Indies [3]
UVa in St. Kitts and Nevis Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
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.
This course may be of interest to any UVA undergraduate student (all majors including premed and nursing students) and is an unparalleled opportunity to learn from distinguished UVA faculty, and St. Kitts Nursing and Medical School faculty and healthcare providers. The course integrates UVA students in a non-traditional learning environment with health professions students in St. Kitts and Nevis. The course will include assessment of planning, prevention, mitigation, response and recovery relating to all types of hazards. Students will also learn elements of basic life support, some elements of advanced cardiac and trauma life support, and personal safety and disaster preparedness tips. Upon completion of this course, students will be eligible for CPR and first aid certification. Participants will interact with high ranking health system officials from St. Kitts and Nevis.
UVA in Argentina
SYS 481: Case Study of Agricultural Production, Manufacture, and Distribution [3]
UVa in Argentina Program Brochure.
Any student planning to participate in a January Term study abroad course must attend a General Information Session on study abroad before applying to the program or registering for the course.
Reid Bailey, Lecturer
This course will focus on cultural differences in engineering and business through the application of systems engineering methodology, modeling, and analysis to the real world cases in Mendoza, Argentina. Students will work in teams on projects with Argentine clients; work could include the identification of system goals, requirements and performance measures, the creation of alternative solutions, and the evaluation of alternative solutions through analysis and modeling.
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