2008 Woodie Awards
Next year's May Term trips offer new, revised options
Brittany Friesth/Staff Writer
Issue date: 4/3/08 Section: News
Faculty approved 12 proposed May Term abroad courses for 2009 at Tuesday's faculty meeting. The courses include trips to China, Peru, Ecuador, Thailand, Great Britain, Rwanda, Ireland, German and Poland, Thailand, France and Argentina. Some trips will also visit multiple countries.
Nick Proctor, assistant professor of history and chair of the study abroad committee, is pleased with the options students have to choose from if they want go abroad for May Term.
"They're good," Proctor said. "They're going to interesting places and doing interesting things. We have some old chestnuts like the England trip that's been going for decades, and we have some trips being offered that's never been offered before."
Virginia Croskery, assistant professor of music, and Instructor of Music Bruce Brown will lead a first-ever Rwanda trip. Croskery began thinking of proposing the May Term trip after her visit to the country last August.
Croskery considers the course a service learning project through the usage of the arts.
"We will be working together with the Rwandans," Croskery said. "We will use a Rwandan story and Rwandan music, and it will be in their native language."
She plans to divide the group of approximately 20-to-30 students into separate groups to help create a stage, costumes and other materials for the Rwandans to perform the show with.
"We'll leave everything we made, and if the Rwandans want to, they can continue to perform what we put together," Croskery said.
Croskery believes this trip will impact the students in a positive way.
"For an American college student to go to a place like Rwanda, I have no doubt that it will change their life," Croskery said.
Another approved trip will travel to Ireland. It follows a different structure model than most May Term abroad courses, constisting of two separate classes traveling together.
The trips will be led by Chad Roberts, instructor of communications studies, and Steve Griffith, vice president and dean for academic affairs. Roberts' class will focus on media, while Griffith's concentrates on art and history. The classes will spend approximately half the trip together.
Nick Proctor, assistant professor of history and chair of the study abroad committee, is pleased with the options students have to choose from if they want go abroad for May Term.
"They're good," Proctor said. "They're going to interesting places and doing interesting things. We have some old chestnuts like the England trip that's been going for decades, and we have some trips being offered that's never been offered before."
Virginia Croskery, assistant professor of music, and Instructor of Music Bruce Brown will lead a first-ever Rwanda trip. Croskery began thinking of proposing the May Term trip after her visit to the country last August.
Croskery considers the course a service learning project through the usage of the arts.
"We will be working together with the Rwandans," Croskery said. "We will use a Rwandan story and Rwandan music, and it will be in their native language."
She plans to divide the group of approximately 20-to-30 students into separate groups to help create a stage, costumes and other materials for the Rwandans to perform the show with.
"We'll leave everything we made, and if the Rwandans want to, they can continue to perform what we put together," Croskery said.
Croskery believes this trip will impact the students in a positive way.
"For an American college student to go to a place like Rwanda, I have no doubt that it will change their life," Croskery said.
Another approved trip will travel to Ireland. It follows a different structure model than most May Term abroad courses, constisting of two separate classes traveling together.
The trips will be led by Chad Roberts, instructor of communications studies, and Steve Griffith, vice president and dean for academic affairs. Roberts' class will focus on media, while Griffith's concentrates on art and history. The classes will spend approximately half the trip together.
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