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Study Abroad Courses Announced for J-term 1998

Date 4/10/1997 12:00 AM | Topic: News

Plans are underway for 13 study abroad courses for J-term 1998. Led by Luther faculty, these courses will take students to 17 countries, offering the unique opportunity to learn about other cultures first hand. Information and applications are available in the Study Abroad Resource Center, located in 124 West Larsen. Applications will be accepted through May 21 and again when school resumes in the fall. Courses are offered within several academic disciplines and are each worth three academic credits.



Three new courses are being offered for next year, including a Paideia II course in Guatemala. Led by Professors Lee Zook, Lori Stanley, and a member of the religion faculty, "Liberation Theology, Service Learning and Mayan Culture," will incorporate service projects as an integral part of the course. Professor Gereon Kopf, who will join the religion faculty this fall, will lead a class to Japan, focusing on the country's major religions of Buddhism, Shintoism and Christianity. "Literature of the African Peoples: South Africa in Transition," is the title of another new course, led by Professor Martin Klammer. Offered for either English or Africana Studies credit, this course will be held in the coastal city of Cape Town, South Africa, and will examine the transition to democracy from apartheid.



The Canary Islands, a Spanish-speaking country off the northwestern coast of Africa, will be the location for a course led by Professor Richard Leake. Students will study the role of an entrepreneur in economic development, and can receive either economics or management credit.



In addition, Luther Associate Professor of Art Dale Raddatz-Lackore will lead a class to Britain and Ireland through UMAIE, a consortium of midwestern colleges. Emphasis will be on art forms produced in the British Isles, but the course will also cover art works from around the world.



The biology department will offer two study-abroad opportunities with courses in Ecuador and San Salvador. For those seeking foreign language credits there are courses in Spanish and Russian. Professor Jaime Gomez will direct a study of Andean Civilization in Chile and Peru, while Laurie Iudin-Nelson, professor of Russian Studies, will focus her course on life and culture in the Eastern European countries of Russia and Estonia.



Other parts of Europe to be visited include Greece and Turkey, where Professor William Kurth's foreign culture course will study the monuments and myths of the ancient Greek world. Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic are on the itinerary for two courses: a management course, comparing the health care systems of Eastern and Western Europe to those in the United States, led by Professor Christina Moorcroft, and a psychology course led by Professor William Moorcroft, entitled "Vienna, Freud, and Dreams." The popular Paideia II course, under the direction of Professors Wilfred Bunge and John Bale, will again study theatre in London and Stratford and its role in both historical and modern Enlgand.

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Jo Quanbeck
Chips Staff Writer

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