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Center for International Studies

Faculty-Led Program to Berlin | Faculty-Led Program to Spain | International Education Week

Faculty-Led Program to Berlin

This November, Dr. Keith Holz and Ann Rowson-Love will take students on a ten day faculty-led program to Berlin. Through preliminary readings, film screenings and discussions, students will learn about Berlin’s special position as a crucible of artistic, architectural, and museum-based experimentation at the heart of the new Germany and Europe. Stress will be placed upon how various branches of Berlin’s cultural industry have sought to work through and beyond the memory and physical presence of two world wars and the National Socialist (1933-1945) and GDR (1948-1989) pasts.

As part of this Study Abroad Course, students will meet with museum and collection curators, museum and monument educators, and dealers in contemporary art, arts group organizers, and artists. Special attention will be given to those individuals and institutions that have developed new models of engagement with art, artists, and museums in the city.  Students participating will earn 3 credit hours through this program. 

Faculty-Led Program to Spain

Dr. Guada Cabedo-Timmons will be leading a group of students to study in Spain this spring. The Western Illinois Spanish Experience-Spain (WISE Spain) program provides a semester-long immersion in Spanish language and culture along with on-site guidance and mentoring by a Department of Foreign Languages faculty member. In addition, students will take part in several excursions and tours of outstanding historical and cultural treasures of Spain led by Spanish-speaking professional guides. Homestay lodging gives students a greater understanding of Spanish culture and improves their Spanish proficiency.

The program is conducted in cooperation with the Colegio de España in Salamanca and Universitat Jaume I in Castellón. February and March are spent in Salamanca, site of the first university founded in Spain and a city that is traditionally college student-oriented. In April, the group moves to Castellón on the Mediterranean coast of Spain to experience a modern campus, one of the most technologically and academically advanced in Spain. Both locations and universities give students a wide perspective of the cultural variety of Spain and university life there.

International Education Week

In conjunction with the WIU community, the Center for International Studies is currently planning activities for this year’s International Education Week. The two week long celebration will contain events focusing on native dress, cuisine, dance, current issues, trivia, and presentations on culture and international experiences.  

The Office of Study Abroad will have tables set up in the Union to educate students about the opportunities available to study abroad. 

The final schedule of events will be posted in early November, so please check the Center for International Studies website for more information.

Come enjoy the diversity of WIU!

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