Winter 2008-2009 - Vietnam
Five Weeks at Augustana and Five Weeks in Vietnam Following Christmas Break
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The Academic Experience
Vietnam is an exciting destination for a U.S. college student. This international learning community draws upon multiple disciplines - political science, literature, economics, business, and history among them - offering students a rich interdisciplinary context in which to study Vietnam.
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The Academic and Cultural Experience Abroad
You will stay in Vietnam's three major cities: Hanoi, its capital; Ho Chi Minh City, its economic hub; and Hue, its cultural center. The three cities will provide us with rich cultural opportunities, access to inexpensive and exciting food, arts and crafts from a culture different from our own, historical sites that we have seen in Vietnam literature, history and film, and more. We will experience Vietnam as the site of a still provocative "American War," as a setting for vivid and important American and Vietnamese literature, as a quickly developing Asian economy, and as an evolving political experiment.
- Introduction to the Culture of Vietnam - 1 credit
. - You will receive credit for a learning community and a global ("G") skill
. - Political Science - Politics in Developing Nations (PS) taught by Dr. Mariano Magalhães
. - WL 310 Vietnamese Literature - taught by Dr. David Crowe (PL)
. - Business Administration - From War to Doi Moi: Vietnam's Economic Liberalization (PH) taught by Dr. Ann Ericson
Professors Crowe and Magalhães will be in Vietnam for three weeks each, overlapping a week in the middle. During the five weeks on campus their classes will each meet weekly for the equivalent of four 1-hour 15-minute class periods instead of three class periods, and they will continue their courses in Vietnam. Dr. Ericson will be with you the entire time we are in Vietnam, so will teach the entire 10-week term. The 1-credit seminar will begin the middle of the fall 2008 term, continuing through winter term.
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About the Faculty
Dr. David Crowe is a professor of English and chair of the department. He specializes in 20th Century American literature, especially the works written by writers who lived in Paris in the 1920s. He has taught two European term courses that traveled to Paris and Rome, courses that featured the literature of American expatriates, along with visits to the neighborhoods that they depicted, cafes they visited, and homes they lived in. In 1999-2000 he and his family lived in Bergen, Norway while he fulfilled the terms of a Fulbright Grant. While in Norway, David traveled the country lecturing about the Vietnam war literature that we will be studying before and during our trip to Vietnam.
Dr. Ann Ericson, Director of Vietnam Term. Dr. Ericson is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Business Administration , teaches marketing and international business and is a member of Augustana's Asian Studies program. Ericson has a special interest in social policy issues in marketing, and regularly leads students in research projects for local non-profit organizations. In summer 2007 she taught at International University, part of the Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City. In 2006 she participated in a CIEE summer institute held in Vietnam and Cambodia. She taught in Japan and Taiwan on the 2004 and 2007 East Asia terms. She was a member of Augustana's Freeman Foundation-supported "Building Bridges" program in Japan and China during summer 2002.
Dr. Mariano Magalhães is an associate professor in the Political Science department. His experiences abroad began when he moved to Brazil in 1979 when he was only eleven years old. He lived in Brazil for the next ten years. While he was an undergrad and graduate student at the University of Iowa in the 1990s he traveled throughout Brazil to conduct research on his dissertation (trips to Brasília and Rio de Janeiro), to visit various parts of the country (in the South and Southeast), and to return to Maceió (in the Northeast) where he had lived in the 1980s. More recently, he has returned to Brazil numerous times to carry out a new research project on the impact of decentralization on democratic governance in the small northeastern state of Alagoas. In addition to these trips, Magalhães also participated in the Fall 2006 Latin American term, which traveled to Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
