Winter Session Study Abroad
This winter session, students will be studying in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Poland and the University’s Wroxton College in England.
Costa Rica
Rosemarie Twomey, business law (Flor), and Daniel Twomey, management and director, Center for Human Resource Management Studies (Flor), are again taking students to Costa Rica for two weeks in January for the Silberman College of Business course Experience the Pure Life, which has two main focal points — an academic study of the banana industry and perspectives on sustainable tourism. Students will experience field study in a Caribbean coast wildlife refuge and visits to Instituto Centroamericano Administracíon de Empresas (INCAE Business School) and EARTH University. Two new activities have been added to last year’s agenda. Students will visit the U.N.-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) where they will hear lectures and meet with the UPEACE students. Also, they will have two programs presented by the Costa Rican field staff of E+Co, a New Jersey firm that creates local energy sources for those who have no electricity — with offices and projects around the world.
Dominican Republic
Samuel Raphalides, political science (Metro), and Naomi Weinberger, political science (Flor), are taking a group of global scholars to Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, as part of the travel-abroad component of the global scholars program. Field study, lectures and cultural aspects were arranged through the University’s partner in the country, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM). FDU’s International School of Hospitality and Tourism Management made the hotel reservations. The trip will include visits to museums and historical sites, lectures on Dominican history, culture, political system, social and economic development and the relationship among the country and its Caribbean and Latin American neighbors and the United States.
Peru
The department of modern languages and literature, College at Florham, is running its 10th short study-abroad program, this time in Peru. The 25 participants and two faculty leaders, Patricia Bazán-Figueras, languages and chair, languages/literature (Flor), and Delicia Koeneke, languages (Flor), will leave on January 6 and return January 21. They will visit Lima, the city of Viceroys; Cuzco, the archeological capital of the Americas; and Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon Basin. Two spring courses are offered as part of this program: Latin American Culture and Civilization and The Latin American Essay. An orientation session was held December 12.
Poland
The School of Natural Sciences’ course Health Issues in Global Society, open to students majoring in any science, will be offered in Poland. Taught by Mihaela Leonida, biological sciences (Metro), the course presents an opportunity for students to visit a prestigious medical school, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, and to study health-related issues as they relate to Europe and the United States. Students will write a paper related to the lectures.
Wroxton, England
From January 4 to 26, two undergraduate students will be living at Wroxton College, England, while fulfilling their 60 hours of field experience for the Peter Sammartino School of Education QUEST combined-degree program. They are the first in a new program, coordinated by Daniel Aronoff, interim deputy director, education (Metro), that places students at the Banbury School and the Bloxham Academy in Oxfordshire, England, to fulfill their contact hours during the course of a regular spring or fall semester at these British middle and high schools.
In addition, Martin Donoff, director, MFA in creative writing program, College at Florham, and special assistant to the president, will lead 27 students and eight faculty members in a master in fine arts in creative writing residency at Wroxton College from January 3–12. Along with lectures by guest writers, panels and workshops, the course will feature two students presenting lectures on their own works.
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December 2005/
January 2006
| · | Vancouver Plans Endorsed |
| · | University Poised for Last Phase of Middle States Re-accreditation Process |
| · | University to Open Academic Publishing Center |
| · | PublicMind Wrap Up |
| · | Winter Session Study Abroad |
| · | Consortium Offers State’s First Higher-ed Jobs Database |
| · | International/Global Journals in Library |
| · | Federal, State Grants Received; New Proposal Process Implemented |
| · | Faculty/Staff — Update, In Memoriam, Welcome |
| · | College Happenings |
| · | Spotlight — Alfano, Campbell, Cacchiola, Zwick |
| · | This & That |
| · | Photo Stories — New Dominican-American Program, Spirit of Giving, Employee Benefits Fair. |
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