Hallie Decker, a junior majoring in Chinese and International Studies, will be studying for a year at Shanghai University from August 2011-August 2012. During her year there, she'll be blogging about her adventures.
Kari Burchfield works with A&S Interdisciplinary Programs and the International Studies Program and is also acting as staff support for the upcoming Year of China Initiative.
by Erin Holaday Ziegler, Alicia Brab and Gwendolyn Schaefer
This has not been a summer by the pool for University of Kentucky rising junior Gwendolyn Schaefer who is participating in a seven-month study abroad experience in Amman, Jordan with AMIDEAST, a leading American nonprofit organization engaged in international education, training and development activities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Corrine Price, an undergraduate senior, worked as an intern at the Saartijie Baartman Centre for Women and Children, a domestic violence shelter in Cape Town, South Africa. The trip was sponsored by the University of Kentucky and was in conjunction with the Kentucky and South Africa Initiative: "Different Lands, Common Ground."
Study Abroad experience offers opportunity for student and global community to learn about different cultures.
Student studies abroad as part of A&S initiative
During fall 2010, a panel of A&S alumni described how the University of Kentucky prepared them for their careers.
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Monica Udvardy, a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program, discusses where interdepartmental collaborative efforts could take the College of Arts & Sciences in the years to come.
UK's first day of Fall Classes is August 24th, 2011.
About 25 researchers from UK's various colleges have formed an interdisciplinary research and graduate training group on Comparative Decision Making.
