Global Classrooms

Academic Year 2023-24

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College of Arts and Sciences

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
CHIN 201	Chinese 201 Global Classroom Shanghai	Ni Ou (Drexel University)	Fall and Spring Quarters	East China Normal University, China
Course Description CHIN 201, in partnership with East China Normal University, offers a unique opportunity for students to interact with their Chinese peers and develop their language skills through Conversation on WeChat, Discussion Board, and a Final Project. By working together, students gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and language, enhancing their overall learning experience.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
GST 341	Organization of American States	Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Universidad Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
Course Description Participants in this GC will hold biweekly asynchronous and synchronous activities to cooperatively develop the following learning objectives. (1) They will share the political, social, and economic knowledge of the region. (2) They will discuss the agenda topics of the Model OAS from their committee perspective. (3) They will provide feedback on their partners’ draft resolutions. (4) They will practice debate relying on the established protocol. Three activities will be carried out: two asynchronous and one synchronous. The first entails activities in groups of three or four (2 Drexel and 1 or 2 Universidad Bolivariana) depending on the number of students in each class. They will meet biweekly for 40-minutes to discuss and develop the agenda topics from their represented country’s perspective. They will also provide feedback on their drat resolutions. The synchronous consists of two or three meetings where both classes attend. Students will present their resolutions and debate them. They will be encouraged to propose amendments and debate them.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
SOC 207	Medicine and Society	Mary Ebeling (Drexel University)	Spring Quarter	Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Course Description In collaboration with the HUVANT laboratory at Università degli Studi di Milano, this global classroom will engage with machine learning tools used in surgery and medical education. Students will participate in lectures given by HUVANT partners how machine learning and other advanced algorithmic technologies are used in innovative techniques in surgery, especially in oncological surgery, and the complicated role that these AI tools play in medical education. Students will have the opportunity to use the RHAPSODE Area9 anatomical education platform and discuss the experience with the developers at HUVANT. The Global Classroom experience will take place during weeks 5 & 6 during the course SOC 207 Medicine & Society, during spring quarter 23-24.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
SPAN 201-001	Spanish V	Celeste Mann (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Course Description The Global Classroom with UC-Santiago was originally designed by Dr. María de la Luz Matús-Mendoza, and is an interplay of art, technology and language. Intermediate students from Drexel who are learning Spanish, and students from Chile learning English, spend 4 weeks together in an enriched virtual exchange to develop their linguistic and intercultural competencies. The Global Classroom consists of 3 synchronous plenaries which include both classes, 4 weeks of small group online synchronous conversations in Spanish and English, and asynchronous dialogue journals written in both languages with feedback. In a group project on mural arts in both Philadelphia and Santiago, Chile, students showcase their presentation skills in the language they are learning and share art, culture and history, which results in provocative discussion in both languages.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
SPAN 340	Slippery Issues in the Banana Republics	Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Tecnologico de Monterrey, campus Sonora Norte, Mexico
Course Description This telecollaborations will deeply analyze socio political issues that affect Central America and Mexico that might represent an obstacle to reduce inequality within and among countries (Sustainable Development Goal 10). Asynchronous and synchronous activities will be carried out in this telecollaboration to discuss respectfully and academically a freely selected thematic related to inequality in the region and how to reduce it.

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.

College of Engineering

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
AE 440/AE 540	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	Bio-Inspired Design	Eugenia Victoria Ellis (Drexel University)	Spring Quarter	Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Course Description This course introduces bio-informed sciences into engineering design to help students develop engineering strategies for the built environment to promote human health and wellbeing. Topics covered include neuroscience, photobiology, biomimicry, biophilia, and chronobiology. .

College of Nursing and Health Professions

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
PA 547	Evidence Based Medicine for PAs	Allison Rusgo (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	Ulster University School of Medicine, Northern Ireland
Course Description Activity 1 (asynchronous): All students will be provided with an article and accompanying resources to read and annotate prior to the live session. Students will be expected to review these materials and begin brainstorming public health interventions that could be used to tackle the issue presented. Activity 2 (live synchronous lecture): All students will attend this 3-hour session that will be cotaught by Drexel and Ulster University faculty. During this session, students will participate in several breakout activities to develop a public health intervention acceptable in both the US and UK to address the issues raised in the material from the pre-session work. Activity 3 (asynchronous): All students will work together with their breakout session group (assigned during activity 2) to complete a written post-session activity reflecting on their global classroom experience.

Lebow College of Business

Course#	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
BUS 101-4 Sections (All Honors)	Foundations of Business I	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany, University of Galway, Ireland
Course Description This will be a project that looks at new or existing products in a sustainable and social enterprise context, focused on global decisions around marketing, exporting and community impact.

Course#	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
BUS 101-2 Sections	Foundations of Business I	Dana D'Angelo and Jodi Cataline (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	TBD

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
FIN 346	Global Financial Management	Tricia Robak (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Course Description Student groups from Chile and the US will work together to ascertain the viability of bringing a new product or service to market in Chile. The Chilean students will be working to develop a marketing strategy to support the business plan of small businesses in Chile. The US students will approach the project from the perspective of a MNC who might be interested in investing or buying ventures in early stages, planning to invest in their local growth, projecting their potential capacity to be internationalized later. To do this, each group must build a diagnosis of the entrepreneurship mainly using the SWOT and PESTEL tools (which will be taught in person, synchronous or asynchronous, as appropriate). The results of these diagnoses will be presented as a role playing at the end of the process, with a presentation and pitch, where the audience would be the final decision-makers of large US companies or corporations.

Pennoni Honors College

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
HNRS T301	Project Just (ice) Cities	Cyndi Rickards(Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Course Description Students will work collaboratively each week in small groups to create policies and practices to create a just city.

Antoinenette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
Dance 108	Dance Improvisation I	Blanca Huertas-Agnew (Drexel University)	Fall Quarter	University- Sagrado Corazon, Puerto Rico
Course Description A studio course in creative movement. Uses contact and structured improvisational problems, interaction between dances and the elements of time, space and force.

Course #	Course Title	Faculty Instructors	Section	Partner Universities
INTR T480	Global Health Design Seminar	Jihyun Song (Drexel University)	Winter Quarter	University- IVS School of Art and Design, India
Course Description This global classroom introduces students to cross-cultural understanding related to healthcare and the realities and perceptions of current conditions in different countries. Series of projects will introduce research method and design strategies that apply human-centered design and practices to better understand the needs of the end-user in healthcare settings. Students will innovate, prototype, and test designs that address real-world global health problems with constraints and technological limitations. Students will apply what they have learned to user-centered design challenges in healthcare environments. Projects include collaborative assignments that involve analyzing user experiences to solve user-centered design thinking problems and cross-cultural community issues of global health.