Global Classrooms

Academic Year 2022-23

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College of Arts and Sciences

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
ANT 101/GST 101	Introduction to Cultural Diversity	Simone Schlichting-Artur and William Albertson (Drexel University)	Fall quarter	English Language Center, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Course Description This learning community brings together students from Global Studies/Anthropology and a multicultural cohort of visiting international students from the English Language Center. Students meet face-to-face to grapple with a variety of challenging and interculturally relevant topics concerning cultural identity, diversity, and equity. They will collaborate on a culminating project to explore their common values and beliefs using art as a form of expression.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
CHIN 201	Chinese 201 Global Classroom Shanghai	Ni Ou (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	East China Normal University, China
Course Description This Global Classroom will enable students to use their second language to communicate with native speakers. Through the various kinds of communication, students can learn about information that was not included in the textbooks, enhance cultural awareness, and improve the ability of critical thinking.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner
FREN 350	West Africa to West Philly	Parfait Kouacou (Drexel University)	Fall quarter	Philadelphia Africa Diaspora, USA
Course Description West Philadelphia, home to Drexel University, shelters the majority of West African immigrants to Philadelphia. The community is an integral part of Philadelphia's social, economic and cultural landscape, yet its legacy is barely known to the public. In this course, students will learn about the multi-layered heritage of this community; in particular the heritage originally transmitted orally, distorted when it was first consigned to print by French colonizers, and recently reinvented through films and animated films. This is a community-based hybrid course in which students connect and discuss (virtually) with members of the African community (in Philadelphia and abroad) on a journey through the myths, epics and legends that shape some West African cultures. The course challenges an understanding of global historical processes, in which non-Westerners are described as receivers of civilization. Students will also explore how the oral traditions of West Africa, far from being a parochial method of record keeping, constitute an aesthetic of knowledge production and dissemination with direct relevance to contemporary global culture. This course is taught in French.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
SPAN 202-001	Spanish V	Celeste Mann (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Course Description In this Global Classroom students from Drexel, learning Spanish, meet in person with students from UC-Santiago who are studying English at Drexel. Specially chosen Chilean students travel to Drexel for 4-5 weeks to study at the ELC (English Language Center). In tandem with their English classes, they meet weekly with Drexel students in small groups to converse in English and Spanish. Drexel students may also join the Chilean students on optional trips and in events in Philadelphia and nearby cities. Together, Drexel and UC students reflect on their linguistic and cultural experiences in a bilingual plenary before the students return to Chile.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
SPAN 430-001	Food, Language and Migration	Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza (Drexel University)	Spring Quarter	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Course Description SPAN 430 will interact with students of an Anthropology to examine how food and language interact in public spaces and compare the different meaning that food might embody. The class will rely on linguistic landscapes to deepen their understanding on the semiotic signs that food embody.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
PSCI 110	American Government	Richardson Dilworth (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Course Description This Global Classroom will introduce students to the American political system, with a special focus on comparisons to European political systems, especially the UK.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
PSY 150-900	Introduction to Social Psychology	Maureen Gibney (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Technological University of the Shannon, Midlands Midwest, Ireland
Course Description This global classroom will introduce students to foundational theoretical and research perspectives in social psychology. Through sharing discussion board topics, students in both university classes will be able to appreciate how and why people feel, think, and behave in social situations.

College of Engineering

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
AE 440/AE 540/WEST T480/ARCH T480	Responsive Urban Environments	Eugenia Victoria Ellis (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Course Description This is a real-time Global Classroom that meets simultaneously in Philadelphia and Milan, Italy. The Responsive Urban Environment (RUE) looks at the city through the lens of ecosystem management. RUE considers the city as a complex network of interrelated systems that rely on each other to maintain system balance. RUE helps students understand the close relationship between the engineering design choices that take place at the scale of the building and neighborhood to the environmental impacts that occur at the wider scale of the urban level.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
AE 441/AE 541/WEST T480/ARCH T480	Bio-Inspired Design	Eugenia Victoria Ellis (Drexel University)	Spring Quarter	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Course Description The introduction of bio-informed sciences into engineering design is providing a new paradigm for the design of the built environment to promote building occupant health and wellbeing. This course explains why designers and engineers need to consider relationships between the built environment and nature by providing the scientific and medical reasons behind the effects of the natural environment on health and wellbeing. Through the case study model, students discover techniques to incorporate the natural environment into design of the built environment and translate this knowledge into new knowledge, inventions and design strategies.

College of Nursing and Health Professions

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
NURS838	Global Leadership Perspectives	Susan Solecki and Theresa Fay-Hillier	Spring Quarter	McMaster University, Canada
Course Description This course is designed to broaden and enhance leadership skills for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student through a global experience in another country aligned with the DNP Essentials. Cultivating an understanding of global health offers a unique opportunity to enrich and prepare future doctoral nursing leaders for responding to current and future global health care needs in diverse settings. Fostering intercultural relationships, while comparing and contrasting society and health care systems in another country, will deepen an intercultural perspective.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
PA 547	Evidence Based Medicine for PAs	Allison Rusgo and Robert O’Brien (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Ulster University School of Medicine, Northern Ireland
Course Description This Global Classroom will be a collaborative effort with faculty from Ulster University to identify, examine, and discuss the nuances between the United Kingdom and the United States public health systems. This course will help future practitioners understand their role in a broader healthcare system to help promote efficient and empathetic care.

Lebow College of Business

Course#	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
BUS 101-011 and 012	Foundations of Business I	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Course#	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
BUS 101-013	Foundations of Business I	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Course#	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
BUS 101-014	Foundations of Business I	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	University of Strathclyde, UK

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	SectionPartner Universities
BUS 102-011 and 012	Foundations of Business II	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Trinty Leeds, UK
Course Description Students will research a particular UNSDG and its application and impact in their local city. They will gather information through both primary and secondary sources and consider stakeholders. They will discuss similarities and differences with their GC partners and then determine ideas for solutions and best practices for their respective communities.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
BUS 102 - 013 and 014	Foundations of Business II	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Course Description Students will research a particular UNSDG and its application and impact in their local city. They will gather information through both primary and secondary sources and consider stakeholders. They will discuss similarities and differences with their GC partners and then determine ideas for solutions and best practices for their respective communities.

Course#	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
INTB 200	International Business	Eydis Olsen-Robinson (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Biaka University Institute of Buea (BUIB), Cameroon

Westphal College of Media and Arts and Designs

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
ARTH 300/530	History of Modern Design	Joseph Larnerd (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Australian College of the Arts, Melbourne (Collarts), Australia
Course Description Drexel students and students in Professor Jenni Woods's "Design Movements" class at Collarts will conceptualize, research, workshop, and write new entries for The Museum of Where We Are (MoWWA), a virtual museum devoted to studying the lived experiences of everyday design. This quarter, student work will also appear in an exhibition at the James E. Marks Intercultural Center with the support of the Center as well as the Drexel Founding Collection.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
EAM 340	Artist Representation and Management	Jeanne McHale Waite (Drexel University)	Spring Quarter	Australian College of the Arts, Melbourne (Collarts), Australia
Course Description This Global Classroom partners with the Entertainment Management Program at Collarts (College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia) to give an introduction to artist representation in the entertainment, music and media industries. It will cover all aspects of representation including client selection, career management and strategy for artists, agent/managers’ roles and managing your career. The course provides a current, international perspective on artist representation conceptually, practically and politically.

Pennoni Honors College

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
HNRS T380-150	Project Just (ice) Cities	Cyndi Rickards(Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Course Description Americans, now more than ever, have been forced to reckon with a history of injustice which has manifest in broad structural inequality. Within this course we will explore the social structures, or agents of justice, (e.g.: employment, immigration, race, education, health care, housing) which support healthy communities or perpetuate injustice. Students will discern their position and place in our community ecosystem while engaging with course themes. Each week students will apply course material and connect with our global partners in Amsterdam to educate one another about our city’s state of justice. Students will compare the policies, applications of social justice in their communities and ultimately craft a social policy recommendation. This course offers students an opportunity to learn about our city, analyze issues of justice, and explore the lived experiences of those in our city. The relationship with our global partners provides not only an inter-cultural experience but, also an opportunity to gain the critical skill of developing different communication styles to work together effectively and respectfully in a diverse team. We will begin our course partnership by welcoming our Dutch colleagues here in Philadelphia during the first week of the course. Dutch and American students will begin their shared learning by visiting social institutions and engaging in course lectures. There is an optional travel opportunity to meet with our University of Amsterdam partners in an International Course Abroad (ICA) at the conclusion of the course in December. Students will engage in lectures and tour the very agents of justice we analyzed all term (e.g., education, housing, employment, healthcare, social services) while experiencing the city of Amsterdam with our partners.

Course #

Course Title

Faculty Instructors

Section

Partner Universities

HNRS T380-150

Project Just (ice) Cities

Cyndi Rickards(Drexel University)

Fall Quarter

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands

Course Description
Americans, now more than ever, have been forced to reckon with a history of injustice which has manifest in broad structural inequality. Within this course we will explore the social structures, or agents of justice, (e.g.: employment, immigration, race, education, health care, housing) which support healthy communities or perpetuate injustice. Students will discern their position and place in our community ecosystem while engaging with course themes.

Each week students will apply course material and connect with our global partners in Amsterdam to educate one another about our city’s state of justice. Students will compare the policies, applications of social justice in their communities and ultimately craft a social policy recommendation.

This course offers students an opportunity to learn about our city, analyze issues of justice, and explore the lived experiences of those in our city. The relationship with our global partners provides not only an inter-cultural experience but, also an opportunity to gain the critical skill of developing different communication styles to work together effectively and respectfully in a diverse team.

We will begin our course partnership by welcoming our Dutch colleagues here in Philadelphia during the first week of the course. Dutch and American students will begin their shared learning by visiting social institutions and engaging in course lectures. There is an optional travel opportunity to meet with our University of Amsterdam partners in an International Course Abroad (ICA) at the conclusion of the course in December. Students will engage in lectures and tour the very agents of justice we analyzed all term (e.g., education, housing, employment, healthcare, social services) while experiencing the city of Amsterdam with our partners.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
HNRS T307-01	How Do They Do it There?	Dana D'Angelo(Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Course Description Students will explore cultural diversity through the ideas of authors such as Meyer and Hofstede and share ideas from their hometowns and university locations related to the concepts. They will then select another region in the world, and research the facets of what “living and working” in a particular global city would be like based on the cultural frameworks. Students will create a final collaborative video based on their work./p>