Vaqueros Programs Summer 2022
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Minimester Programs
Leuphana Germany Study Abroad - Lüneburg, Germany
- Professors: Reto Felix
- Start date: 5/16/2022
- End date: 5/28/2022
- Program Cost: ~$1,300 (estimate)
- Country: Germany
- City: Lüneburg
- Courses: Business, culture, and sustainability-focused course open to all majors [hosted by Marketing Department as MARK4370]
- Program Description: This two-week program exposes participants to business practices, culture, and sustainability in a German context. The course is open to all majors.
- Application Deadline: 3/15/22
Summer 1 Programs
Business and Society in Costa Rica-Turrialba: Costa Rica
- Professors: Maria Leonard
- Start date: 6/13/2022
- End date: 6/24/2022
- Program Cost: $2,340.79
- Country: Costa Rica
- City: Turrialba
- Courses: MGMT 4304 - Business and Society
- Program Description: This course examines the relationship between business and stakeholders such as employees, customers, investors, and the community, and considers the impact of external factors such as cultural trends, governmental regulations, and legal rulings. We will also analyze the ethical and social responsibilities of business using basic ethical principles, and we will identify point of intersection between the American and Costa-Rican cultures.
- Application Deadline: 4/08/22
Archeological School in Ecuador - Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Professors: Sarah Rowe, Guy Duke
- Start date: 6/12/2022
- End date: 7/16/2022
- Program Cost: $2,247.00
- Country: Ecuador
- City: Buen Suceso
- Courses: ANTH 4385/6385 -Ecuadorian Archaeology, ANTH 4395 – Fieldwork in Anthropology ANTH 6390 – Archaeological Methods
- Program Description: Learn about archaeological fieldwork with the local community while exploring the history, culture, cloud forests, and beaches of coastal Ecuador.
- Application Deadline: 3/01/22
Summer 2 Programs
A Tour of Cuzco, the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu and the Trail of Inca Resistance - Cusco, Peru
- Professors: Robert Bradley, Mark Andersen
- Start date: 7/18/2022
- End date: 8/07/2022
- Program Cost: $3,367
- Country: Peru
- City: Cusco
- Courses: ARTS 4352/6354 - HONR 4388 (Alpine Ecosystems of the Andes)
- Program Description: The study abroad Peru program is a three-week immersion in Peruvian culture, history, food, and biology. The trip is a collaboration between the School of Art and Honors College. Honors College Dean Mark Andersen is a biologist, and his course will cover the flora and fauna of three distinct Peruvian ecosystems: the desert coast and ocean, the cordillera, and the high jungle. Robert Bradley is a pre-Columbian Andean art historian who has focused on Peru for more than two decades. On this trip we will visit the oldest city in the Americas, Caral, which thrived on Peru’s coast five-thousand years ago. We will also travel to the North Coast towns of Lambayeque and Trujillo, which is Peru’s most famous gastronomic center. We will then go trekking in the Andean cloud forest and visit one of the world’s largest waterfalls, Gocta. In the high jungle near Tarapoto we will study spectacular birds like Peru’s national bird the fiery orange cock-of-the-rocks. Finally, and extension journey to Machu Picchu will close out the trip.
- Application Deadline: 5/01/22
Science and Culture in the City of London, United Kingdom
- Professors: Gregory Gilson, Caroline Miles
- Start date: 7/13/2022
- End date: 8/03/2022
- Program Cost: $2,676.00
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: London
- Courses: PHIl 3317, PHIL 1366, ENG 2314, ENG 4300, ENG 6316
- Program Description: Our program is 3 weeks (one of the longest programs and best value for money) in London led by Dr. Caroline Miles and Dr. Greg Gilson. Dr. Miles is a British citizen who grew up in London and who has intricate knowledge of London and surrounding England, and Dr. Gilson has studied in England and spent many summers there. This program is a wonderful opportunity to connect studying humanities and the history of science to a global location of significance to the development of both areas of study (and with somebody from London!). This interdisciplinary course will explore the nature of literature and science as well as the relationship between London’s history, culture, class divides, immigration policies, and multiculturalism. Core, lower-division, upper-division, and graduate courses in English, Humanities, and Philosophy can be taken (INDS 2390 (core requirement), ENGL 2341 (core requirement), ENGL 6316, 4300 ENGL, PHIL 1366 (core requirement), PHIL 3317). The professors are very hands-on and will provide instruction in the mornings and then lead tours of museums, sites of interest, and trips to other significant places in England outside of London in the afternoons (and on weekends for those interested). Walk in the footsteps of famous writers and scientists including J.K. Rowling, Charles Dickens, Issac Newton and Charles Darwin, see original manuscripts in the British Museum, and of course shop at Harrods, try to make the guards laugh at Buckingham palace, and eat some of the best food in the world!!!!
- Application Deadline: 4/07/22
Project Management - Seoul, South Korea
- Professors: Joo Jung
- Start date: 7/17/2022
- End date: 7/31/2022
- Program Cost: $625.00
- Country: South Korea
- City: Seoul
- Courses: MGMT 4300/MGMT 6332 - Topics in Management:Project Management at Korea
- Program Description: We will discuss international business project management. Topics include various issues that international managersfaceincluding assessing global environment, cultural context, and strategy for global operation. Fundamental international management concepts are discussed while application of these concepts into the course project is the main objective of the course. We will discuss and compare doing business in the U.S. and South Korea.The course will include interfacing withKorean universities, companies and cultural attractions.The opportunity to study business in Koreawill help students to expand their perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of international business and economics.
- Application Deadline: 4/15/22