Study Trip Sultanate of Oman and United Arab Emirates |
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We live in a time of global flows of people, goods, and idea. The emerging academic field of intercultural studies reflects the growing demand for skills and expertise in navigating an increasingly interconnected world and offers a framework for orientating oneself in the midst of these ongoing processes of change.
Since 2003, the intercultural studies program at Danube University Krems has been offering seminars aboard to provide a real-world setting within which to experience intercultural challenges and to apply intercultural knowledge and skills.
This seminar is taught in the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates within the structured environment of a guided experience. Lecturers are Arabic experts as well as international professionals who live and work in the region. This seminar gives participants the opportunity of immersing themselves in the complex and multidimensional social layers of a region which is of growing importance internationally. .
Since 2003, the intercultural studies program at Danube University Krems has been offering seminars aboard to provide a real-world setting within which to experience intercultural challenges and to apply intercultural knowledge and skills.
This seminar is taught in the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates within the structured environment of a guided experience. Lecturers are Arabic experts as well as international professionals who live and work in the region. This seminar gives participants the opportunity of immersing themselves in the complex and multidimensional social layers of a region which is of growing importance internationally. .
| Ziele |
• To become familiar with recent political, economic, social, cultural and religious changes in the gulf area with a particular focus on the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates • To gain an understanding of the region’s diversity, in particular of the different worlds inhabited by men and women, local citizens, foreign experts and migrant laborers, as well as rich and poor, urban and rural, younger and elderly citizens • To interact with local decision makers, professors and students, with entrepreneurs, and with expatriates. • To experience and reflect on life and work issues in the Gulf States. |
| Zulassungsvoraussetzungen | Good English language skills and serious interest in intercultural issues in general and in the Gulf States in particular. |
| Methode(n) |
• Reflection on one’s own stereotypes in regard to the region • Preparatory reading • Presentations (with discussions) in English by Arab professors at three different universities • Meetings with Arab decision makers in their institutions • Guided tours, excursions and small group projects to sites of political, economic, cultural and/or religious importance • Visiting sites and institutions of contemporary and planned urban culture • Structured debriefing of the intellectual inputs and the personal impressions. |
| Sprache | english |
| Termin | NEW!!! 4 - 11 Dec, 2011 |
| Dauer | 8 Tage |
| Teilnahmegebühr | Euro 1200,- |
| Veranstaltungsort | Sultanate of Oman and United Arab Emirates |
| Veranstalter | Department für Weiterbildungsforschung und Bildungsmanagement |
| Information und Anmeldung |
Alexandra Zeilinger Telefon: +43 (0)2732 893-2568, Fax: +43 (0)2732 893-4360 E-Mail: alexandra.zeilinger@donau-uni.ac.at |
| Anmeldungen erbeten bis 31. Okt. 2011 |
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