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acquire global skills that can open up personal and professional opportunities • go on a life-changing experience and open your eyes to different ways of life • gain understanding, tolerance, and empathy
Let's go to ENGLAND! I will be teaching ORGC 3325 and ORGC 3376. These are to be taught by traveling through various parts of England, visiting historically and culturally relevant locations, and dropping in on national and global organizations in the area.
If you are Interested In either the programs outlined here, email Dr. Scheinfeld so we can figure out the Interest In the programs!
AN AVERAGE DAY
AN AVERAGE DAY
Some days we are touring all day – visiting museums, historical locations, or organizations that provide even more detailed insight into the challenges and benefits of working in a global city. Some days we will head out of London to visit Stonehenge or Bletchley Park or the World of & Making of Harry Potter. Each of these sites allows us to learn interpersonal and intercultural communication first hand.
Through these trips and visits, we will truly experience how perception, identity, and history shape our communication, language, and relationships. We will also meet with health care organizations, international organizations, the US embassy, and the South London Refugee Association to better understand how communication is an integral part of their work, how they work as a team, and their tips to communicating with multicultural partners.
Other days are free! For you to sleep in, tour something not on the schedule, eat at that restaurant you saw.
There are no classroom, desk, powerpoint days. We will have our discussions at breakfast, on the bus, right before we all separate for a free afternoon, or integrated as part of our visits. You are in charge of keeping atop of the material in order to fully understand how what we are learning is playing out and can engage and interact with the places we go and people we meet (especially those guiding us around).
COURSES
COURSES
ORGC 3325 Intercultural Communication
ORGC 3376 Interpersonal Communication
You can sign up for one or both of the offered courses. These courses can be used as related studies for your major, minors, or upper division electives if you are not in SOCM or an organizational communication major. I may be biased after majoring in the field myself for 10yrs, but I think these two courses could be two of the most important courses you take in college.
According to Forbes, the skills you will learn in this class due to the nature of the assignments (digital & data literacy, creativity, flexibility, collaboration, time management, public speaking) and as part of the content of the course (critical thinking, emotional IQ, teamwork, empathetic listening, communication in various modalities) are those they continue to seek in new employees and skills they encourage mid-level employees to try to learn (and ASAP!). The other skills Forbes mentions, you learn as part of studying abroad: curiosity, continuously learning, self recognition, DEI experiences.
ADD'L DETAILS
ADD'L DETAILS
What do I do if I have more questions?
Email me! Meet with me. OR email Patrick in the Global Education Office at psteimer@kennesaw.edu. We are happy to chat with you, answer questions, and so forth!
Deadline: TBD
First come First Serve
We are capping our trip at 15 students! I know WHAT?! But it looks SO FUN! The first 15 students who pay the $300 deposit and are accepted will be able to come with us!
Do I have to be a KSU student?
Actually, no! You would have to apply to KSU and then have the credits transferred. Or if you are planning on coming to KSU in the Fall, that works too.
Cost: TBD
Includes housing, events, ground transportation, museum/location entry fees, and breakfast
Financial Aid
Eligible students on faculty-led education abroad programs can receive $300 Global Learning Financial Support (found on Owl Life)
You can use your financial aid towards your KSU tuition and fees for this program. You'll need to check with your academic advisor and make sure you can earn major credit for the courses offered first.
We have scholarships available on the Global Affairs website. Continue to check back as they open sporadically.
Dr. Scheinfeld is currenetly working with two history professors to allow students from both history and communication programs to benefit from a cross-disciplinary program abroad. This program will take us to Eastern Europe to dive into World War II, the Holocaust, and Slavic cultures.
Similar to the above program, students will study intercultural communication ranging from defining culture and cultural dimensions, to developing relationships, conflict, and acculturation/cultural shock.
We will not only be learning these cultural aspects while being immersed in a different cultures, alongside students from another part of the country, but also how perception and identity shape our intercultural communication and the sociorelational aspects of communication.
However, language is always evolving and changing and it is important to learn how modern history shapes our perception of ourselves and others, especially other races, genders, sexualities, nationalities, and religions, as these, in turn, forms the communication we use today.
Students will get credit for both ORGC 3325, and have the option to enroll in one more ORGC/COMM course, given they are enrolled in both courses and complete the necessary assignments. Graduate students are also able to attend and get credit for graduate level intercultural communication or topics courses. In this Interdisciplinary study abroad program, students will benefit from history professors and majors on our trip, and history students will benefit from communication professors and students.
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