Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Curriculum II

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Sigrid -- Berka, University of Rhode Island; Anett Geithner, University of Rhode Island; DAAD; Eric Kaldor, University of Rhode Island; Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

outabout each other’s motivation and objectives and practice their common second language together.An additional goal was to raise their intercultural awareness and competence and to criticallyexamine any biases they might harbor. In preparation for the trip, a website including a blog wasdesigned which students were asked to fill with content of their own before, during and after thetrip. The course syllabus informed students that they had to complete three main assignmentsconsisting of five specific parts:Each student had to write two individual personal blog posts, one before the trip with their personalprofile and a short introduction, and, the second as a short final conclusion statement about theirfindings at the end of the travel tour. The