I am taking 2 courses for grad credit: (1) Integrating Global Perspectives into the K-12 Curriculum and (2) Intercultural Communication
and I am auditing 3 additional courses: (1) Internationalization of Higher Education (2) Global Studies, and (3) Brush-up Spanish
The Spanish class is only for the 8 days leading up to Barcelona...and my Spanish is definitely not as advanced as a lot of the students in the class, but since I am not taking it for credit, its just a good learning experience for me.
I'm really excited about the two courses I am actually taking for credit. Like I said in an earlier post, the professor for these courses is a very well published professor of intercultural education, Ken Cushner. I've already bounced some ideas off him, he is going to be a great mentor and he is already recruiting me to pursue my doctorate at his home university, Kent State :) I don't want to move back to the cold though.....
I have started a student group called "Future Teachers" on the ship...I am hoping that a bunch of the undergraduates studying education decide to take part. Since I eventually want to teach future educators, I am hoping this will be a good experience for me. I think I'll end up organizing a partnership between the "Future Teacher" group and those in charge of the dependent children on the ship.
Thanks for those of you who are commenting on my posts!! Its keeping me motivated to keep up with this blog :)
Can't wait to hear about your class Global Perspectives, please post some of that on your blog :)
ReplyDeleteDon't get frustrated if you don't get it in Barcelona, their Spanish is in a world of their own. Fast and with the lisps. I probably couldn't even understand it all!
Dustin came to the beach on Wednesday to Thursday, we had a good time. He was saying how great he is at ping-pong and the beach house we were in happened to have one.