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每学期, welcome新2登录 offers a number of courses that reflect our commitment to fostering global understanding. 过去的课程包括:

• Beyond Words: Intercultural Communication

  You might be fluent in a second language, but can you communicate effectively across cultures by showing an understanding of and sensitivity to cultural differences? We live in an era of unprecedented interconnectedness between people from widely different cultural backgrounds and intercultural competence has become a crucial skill to possess. In this course, students learn basic conceptual tools and theories of intercultural communication. 学生 will analyze their personal intercultural experiences and deconstruct intercultural communication processes presented in course materials, 包括文学, 电影, and a repertoire of critical incidents. By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  • identify key theories and concepts of intercultural communication that have pragmatic utility for purposes of communicating across cultures;
  • engage in and critically reflect on activities intended to develop their sensitivity to cultural differences;
  • and observe the complexities of intercultural communication processes by reflecting on the nature of culture shock, 文化适应, 集成, 跨文化冲突, 等.

• 国土与. 应许之地

  This course examines patterns of global migration, 移民, and emigration in the context of the aspirations of groups and individuals, of the promises and hazards of 经济 and social change, and of the combination of ‘push and pull factors’ that constitute the landscape within which migration takes place. This course pays particular attention to social identity — to the glue that holds together various groups and to the mythologies that build up around them.

• Globalization and International Relations

  How can we understand the challenges modern powerful nations face in advancing their interests, 安全, 和野心? How do rapid changes in global strategic, 经济, and geopolitical environments challenge nations to preserve their threatened standing or to seek opportunistic advancement? How accurate have international relations frameworks, 比如政治现实主义, been in assessing – and predicting – interstate behavior? This class considers and employs conceptual tools, 包括危机升级, 双极性, 零和博弈思维, 势力范围, 国家安全, and deterrence to understand the nature of superpower rivalry, 过去和现在. The course draws on readings from a diverse group of modern scholars as well ancient sources in considering the cases of classical Greece in the 5th century BC, 1914年的欧洲, 冷战的爆发, 以及后9/11时代.

• 的Esquel-Y.L. Yang Education Fund allows five to seven faculty members to spend up to two weeks working with teachers in China during the summer.

• Confucius Classroom promotes learning Chinese language and culture.

• Professional development opportunities, such as The Brookings Institution Professional Development Training: 21st Century Learning and the Evolving Global landscape, which was offered in August 2015.

Through faculty-led travel programs and partnerships with exchange organizations School Year Abroad and Round Square, welcome新2登录 students and faculty can immerse themselves in the language and culture of another place.

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• 大使演讲系列， initiated in 2008 by Philip Pillsbury ’53, brings in ambassadors and diplomats from all over the world, including the ambassadors of Chile, 哥伦比亚, 克罗地亚, 法国, 日本, 俄罗斯, 和南非.
  

• Other guest speakers have included Elie Wiesel, documentary producer Nosarieme Garrick, and Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein of Jordan.