Category Archives: International study

International study, Seminars

Study Abroad Fair Tuesday!

Please forward the announcement below to your students regarding our Study Abroad Fair this Tuesday, January 22nd from  11am-4pm in the Union. We will have a full staff of Study Abroad Advisors working at the fair to help students select programs based on their majors, minors, professional or personal interests. We have a program for everyone! Please encourage your students to attend for more information. 

Please also note that if students are interested in studying abroad, they can do 1 of 3 things: 
1.) Go to a First Steps Info Session held Mon-Wed, 4pm-5pm in International Studies Building 101 (the Study Abroad Office)
2.) Watch the First Steps Video Series online.
3.) Or they can stop by the Study Abroad Office to meet with a Peer Advisor for more information.

For all of our events, deadlines, and info sessions, please visit our Events and Deadlines page.
Course Announcements, International study, Seminars

Ecuador Course Abroad Info Session

Global Studies 298: Education and Development: A Case Study in Ecuador
 
Info Session:
Wednesday, January 23, 4:00 pm
1051 Lincoln Hall
 
Application Due: February 11, 2013
 
More Information on the Study Abroad Website: http://studyabroad.illinois.edu/userfiles/pages/facultyledprog.aspx
and this FLYER.

TOPIC: Course focuses on education as a factor in human and national development. Using Ecuador as a
case study, we consider primary and secondary education achievement and the role of non-governmental
organizations in the education sector. We work with an NGO to provide a summer enrichment opportunity
for children in a small, lower income community. We read about and discuss what it means to be a global
citizen and critically reflect on our impact in the community and the community’s impact on us.
 
SERVICE PROJECTS: Our group creates and conducts a month-long summer enrichment experience in
‘global studies’ – offering modules on ESL, Environmental Science, Sports & Wellness, and Arts & Cultures
around the World. (Students receive instruction in teaching methods and strategies.) Campers range in age
from 5-15, with older ones serving as ‘leaders’ to support our student instructors. We also help in a
community garden.
 
EXCURSIONS: On weekends, we travel around the country to experience first-hand the tremendous cultural
and natural diversity that Ecuador offers.
 
Questions? Contact Michelle Castro at mccastr2@illinois.edu.
International study, Scholarships/Fellowships, Undergraduate research

Summer Research Opportunity for Undergraduates

Summer Research Opportunity-University of Tokyo
 
The Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo will offer summer research internship opportunities to qualified undergraduate students. The program is a grant program, named UTRIP (the University-of-Tokyo Research Internship Program). The features of the UTRIP program are as follows:
 
* Six-week research-centered program for students who wish to obtain a Master’s or Doctoral   
  degree in natural science areas.
 
* Providing financial support to all participants including housing for the full period of six week,  
   coverage for traveling costs to, and from Japan (up to 100,000 yen) as well as stipend of  
   60,000 yen to cover some personal expenses in Japan. No program fees will be charged.
 
* Eligibility: Undergraduate students of a Bachelor’s degree program. At selection, however, the  
   priority for nomination is given to applicants in their junior years.
 
* Application process: All application materials will be accepted at the
   given site.
 
* Please check for the application procedure at: http://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/utrip/apply-now/
 
The program details are available at the website below:
 
Please contact me at the email address:
soeda.sachiko@mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp, if you have any questions.
 
 
Matthew Price, PhD.
Undergraduate Research and National and International Scholarships Coordinator
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fifth Floor, Illini Union Bookstore
807 South Wright Street
Champaign, IL 61820
International study, Majors/Minors, Other departments, Seminars

Global Studies Info Sessions

We will hold Global Studies Information Sessions during Spring 2013 on the following dates and times:

Tuesday, January 15, 1:00 pm
Wednesday, January 23, 3:00 pm
Monday, January 28, 3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 5, 4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13, 4:00 pm
Thursday, March 28, 3:00 pm
Thursday, April 11, 3:00 pm
Friday, April 26, 2:00 pm

Meetings will be held in the Global Studies Conference Room (703 S. Wright Street, 3rd Floor).

Attendance at a meeting is required prior to declaring the major or the minor. Each meeting will last about an hour. In preparation for the meeting, students are encouraged to visit our website at: www.globalstudies.illinois.edu

Info session dates and times can always be found here: http://www.globalstudies.illinois.edu/academics/prospective/#current

Course Announcements, International study

Translation Studies Classes and Study Abroad Program

Spaces are still available in TRST  400, 404, 405, and 420.  Also, additional information is available for the summer study abroad course in the European Union.


It’s time to register for Spring classes for the Translation Studies Program.  Students who are pursuing the translation certificate or who wish to take classes as electives are encouraged to enroll.

We are attaching an updated list of courses for your information.  Please note that we are offering a special 4-week seminar in Literary Translation for two credits (LAS 490) from March 12-April 11, 2013 that will be taught by visiting professor Antoine Cazé from the Université Denis Diderot, Paris VII.  Professor Cazé is the Director of the Paris VII Center for Translation Studies and a well-known translator of American literature into French. This will be an exciting opportunity to work with one of our senior exchange faculty.  A syllabus of the course is attached.

Please note our study abroad course in the European Union, offered from May 13-27, 2013.  This is a unique opportunity to learn firsthand about translation and interpreting careers with international agencies. TRST 400, offered in Spring 2013, is a preparatory course for the study abroad experience, but not a required pre-requisite for it.

Please contact our office if you need an advising appointment or have questions related to registration.

Elizabeth Lowe
Professor and Director, Center for Translation Studies
School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-171
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: (217) 244-7455 Fax: (217)244-8430
email: elowe@illinois.edu
Skype:elowe924
http://www.translation.illinois.edu

Course Announcements, International study

Seats available in Scandinavian Spring Courses

SCANDINAVIAN COURSES:SPRING 2013
Take a Scandinavian Course next semester!  

SCAN 225 – Vikings & Volvos: Scandinavian Culture
Credit: 3 hours
M W F,  10:00-10:50 AM
Dr. Mark Safstrom
This course will explore the last 1,000 years of Nordic history and culture, beginning with the age of the Vikings all the way down to the present era, in which the Nordic countries have emerged as industrial nations. 
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Literature and the Arts and Western Comparative Culture course.
SCAN 492 – New Scandinavian Cinema
Credit: 3 hours
M W, 1:00-2:50 PM
Dr. Anna Westerstahl Stenport
The course addresses major themes, movements, genres, aesthetics, and approaches to filmmaking and film production in Scandinavia since the early 1990s. Divided into sections, the course will address films and industry practices of relevance in particular to the following: Globalization, Environment and Nature (including the Arctic), Gender and Sexuality, Hollywood remakes, and director Lars von Trier. Screenings on Mondays, lecture and discussion on Wednesdays. Assigned readings, regular writing assignments, and a research project.  All materials in English.
Same as MACS 492.  Meets with EURO 490.
SCAN 496 – SPECIAL TOPICS: Children and Childhood in Scandinavia
Credit: 3 or 4 hours
T, Th, 2:00-3:20 PM
Dr. Theo Malekin
This course will explore the changing understanding of childhood and youth in Scandinavia through children’s literature and accounts of childhood in fiction, film and related media. Works analyzed range from Andersen’s fairy tales and Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking to contemporary youth fiction and cinema. This course will address what constitutes children’s literature; how childhood is construed in children’s literature as well as in adult-audience fiction and memoirs; and how representations of childhood correlate with evolving ideas about family formation, child-rearing, the welfare state, and education in twentieth- and twenty-first century society.


CWL 441/PHIL 444/SCAN 496 – SPECIAL TOPICS: Kierkegaard
Credit: 3 or 4 hours
T, Th, 3:30-4:50 PM
Dr. Mark Safstrom
This seminar-style course will feature readings from all the major works by Kierkegaard (incl. “Either/Or” and “Fear and Trembling”), as well as works by other Scandinavian authors who responded to him, such as fairy tales by H.C. Andersen, dramas by Henrik Ibsen (“Peer Gynt” and “Brand”) and August Strindberg (“To Damascus”), novels by Selma Lagerlöf (“Jerusalem”) and pioneer feminist Fredrika Bremer (“Hertha”), films by Ingmar Bergman (“Scenes from a Marriage”), and much more.  This course will focus on two prominent themes in his philosophy – existentialism and pietism, as well as individuality and the discovery of self. 
 
SCANDINAVIAN COURSE:SUMMER 2013

SAO-LAS: Stockholm Summer Arctic Program
“Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic”
Program Dates: June 10 – July 15, 2013

In this intensive six-week program, participants discover how climate change is altering one of the world’s great wildernesses, and then conduct research that will help map a sustainable future for the Arctic. UIUC students participate together with students from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.  Taught on location in Stockholm, Sweden and Svalbard, Norway.  The program fulfills 6 hours of course credit (GLBL 499, ESE 497, SCAN 496). Enrollment is open to both science and non-science majors – applicants must be junior status or have instructor’s consent. Program Fee: TBA.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2013

Contacts:  Sherry Danielson, SAO Program Coordinator, at sdaniel2@illinios.edu
Laura Hastings, Interim Director, LAS International Programs, at lhasting@illinois.
Additional information available at the Study Abroad Office website at:
https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10859
Activities, International study

Tech Contest Opens Today on Challengeslavery.org

Dear Colleagues,
 
We launched the C-TIP Campus Challenge Tech Contest today for the best technology idea to combat modern slavery.  We are accepting submissions from students in the U.S. and abroad until January 8.  Please help us spread the word by forwarding the information below to your college and university contacts.  
 
 
 
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Today, USAID & challengeslavery.org launch their new Tech Contest with a Grand Prize of $5000! The contest is open until January 8!
 
The Tech Contest is a call to college and university students worldwide to develop creative technology solutions for preventing human trafficking, rescuing victims, and assisting survivors. With traffickers using technology such as cell phones and social networking to ensnare their victims, the Tech Contest challenges you to turn the tables on traffickers to use technology positively to combat trafficking in developing countries.
 
If you have a creative vision for using technology to fight traffickers, you could win one of several cash prizes and showcase your ideas for USAID personnel and their partners. In addition to the $5,000 Grand Prize, runners-up will receive prizes of $2,500!
 
It’s easy to enter the Tech Contest. Join the challengeslavery.org community and then follow the links to enter. If you’re already a community member, click here to enter the contest.
You can submit your idea as an individual, with a partner, or in a team — you can even create a team by connecting with other members from the community! The technology idea that you submit may address one of the challenges outlined here OR you may address a problem related to combating trafficking that you identify yourself. (If you choose to develop your own problem statement, please make sure to briefly and clearly articulate it in your submission.) 
 
All submissions must include the following:
 
• A 250 word summary of your idea in English;
• A 150 word statement on the potential impact of your idea;
• A 150 word statement about the feasibility of your solution; 
• A three-page concept note describing your idea OR 
  a short video of no more than five minutes OR 
  a website to illustrate your idea.
 
The contest will be accepting submissions from November 28, 2012 to January 8, 2013. To learn more and to enter the contest, visit the Tech Contest page now.
 
Good luck, we can’t wait to see your submissions!
International study, Scholarships/Fellowships

Study abroad scholarship applications are open

Hello!

I am emailing to let you know that the applications for the I4I Scholarship and the IPS Scholarships have been opened on the Study Abroad website.  The deadline for the applications is Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:59 pm.

Start an application for the I4I Scholarship here: https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10625
Start an application for IPS Scholarships here: https://app.studyabroad.illinois.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10930

PLEASE NOTE:  Previously, you could apply for the I4I Scholarship and all the IPS Scholarships in one application.  Now the applications are separate.  If you want to apply for both the I4I Scholarship and the IPS Scholarships, you must complete both applications.  If you choose, you can use the same essays for both applications, or you can tailor them to the specific scholarships.  Please contact me with questions.

Andrea

—
Andrea Wagner
Coordinator of International Scholarships
International Programs and Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
507 E. Green St., Ste. 410
Champaign, IL 61820  MC 417
ph: 217-244-5771
fax: 217-265-0810
awagne@illinois.edu
International study, Other departments, Scholarships/Fellowships, Seminars

State Department Meet & Greet

The Career Center invites you to an Adviser Meet & Greet/Presentation with the State Department’s Diplomat-in-Residence, Ambassador John Nay:
 
Date:   Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Time:   2:30-3:30pm
Place:  The Career Center Conference Room, Room 143
RSVP:  Tori Spring at vspring@illinois.edu
 
Please join us for a presentation by State Department Diplomat-in-Residence, Ambassador John Nay, who will talk about how we can best guide and advise students interested in opportunities with the State Department, including Foreign and Civil Service careers, internships, and fellowships.  A question and answer session will take place at the end.    
 
*To find out more about Ambassador Nay and the Diplomat-in-Residence program, please visit: http://www.careers.state.gov/engage/dir.html
 
Thanks,
Tori Spring
 
 
Please also advertise the following to your students:
 
All-Campus Info Session with State Department Diplomat-in-Residence, Ambassador John Nay
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Time: 5-6:20pm
Place: 269 Everitt (619 S. Wright St.)
 
Interested in hearing from a U.S. Ambassador? Thinking about a career as a Foreign or Civil Service Officer? Ever wondered what it would be like to work for the US in a foreign country? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then come hear from our State Department Diplomat-in-Residence, Ambassador John Nay. Ambassador Nay has had an extensive career that includes tours of duty in Canada, India, Taiwan, Singapore, South Africa, and Washington D.C. There will be time for Q&A at the end of the session.
 
International study, Scholarships/Fellowships

Boren Scholarship Session

The University of Illinois National and International Scholarships Program will be hosting an information session on National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren undergraduate study abroad scholarships on Friday, November 30 at 3:00 in room 514 at 807 S. Wright Street. We will provide participants with information about the program and tips on filling out competitive applications. The campus application deadline is January 16 for any study between May 2013 and May 2014 (all students are eligible for semester or year-long programs while some students may be eligible for summer intensive language programs as well). Students are encouraged to begin writing application drafts before winter break.
 
The Boren provides study abroad scholarships of $6,000-$20,000 for a full academic year or $4,000-$10,000 for a semester for U.S. citizens to study in Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Middle East on almost any study abroad program. These are merit-based scholarships (approximately 1 in 5 eligible applicants receive awards including multiple University of Illinois students every year). In order to receive the scholarship, award winners must enter into a service agreement requiring that they attempt to work in a paid position for the federal government in an area related to national security—generally the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, or the Intelligence Community within three years of graduation (deferrals possible/encouraged for graduate study). Winners also receive priority-hiring status. Further information is available at http://www.topscholars.illinois.edu/prestigious/nsep.html
 

Please direct questions to David Schug by email at topscholars@illinois.edu or at the fifth floor, Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 South Wright Street.
 
 
David Schug, Director
National and International Scholarships Program  |  University of Illinois
Illini Union Bookstore, 5th Floor, MC-317  |  807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
ph: (217) 333-4710  |  fax: (217) 244-4851  |  topscholars@illinois.edu