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SIT Study Abroad
A pioneer in experiential, field-based study abroad, SIT Study Abroad provides academically engaging semester and summer programs in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East for undergraduate students. "SIT Nicaragua taught me to imagine another world and begin creating it. All the conversations I had with my companeros, teachers, and homestay family seemed to end with the same question: if we don't like how things are, what are we going to do about it?" -- Mariella Castaldi, SIT Study Abroad Nicaragua Fall 2009, Oberlin College Focus on Critical Global Issues SIT Study Abroad programs examine critical global issues...
Collaborative and Comparative Study of the American and Chinese Systems
In the current competitive world, it is very important for students to have broad knowledge of globalization and understand the difference of health, education and culture in different countries. This course will provide an elective for senior undergraduate and graduate students in all the programs. It will provide opportunity for contact with graduate students and faculty members in Chinese universities and to develop comparative and cooperative research projects. Beginning in Beijing, students will visit some of China's most historical sites before heading to inland for a remarkable journey to Hohhot, the land of the legendary Ghengis Khan. As the adventure...
Mongolia: Nomadic Culture and Globalization
Mongolia is both protected and restricted by its dramatic physical environment, which includes the Gobi Desert as well as vast mountain and forest steppes. Landlocked between Siberia and northern China, much of this rugged nation remains largely isolated from global development efforts. Its essentially nomadic population continues to practice pastoralism, living in traditional ger, or felt tents, and moving constantly over an area twice the size of Texas. In the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, home of the Academy of Sciences and local universities, you study strategies for development and efforts to balance open-door policies with those that focus on nationalism...