Spring 2009 Semester on-campus courses
with Spring Break Studying Abroad

Duquesne University students have the opportunity to take a special kind of course - a course embedding international material in your studies for the entire semester here on campus AND including a faculty-led study tour during spring break. Since the study tour is integral to the academic course, all students enrolling in the course must commit to participating in and paying for the spring break study tour component. Cost of this component will range between $2000-$2500 per student. The exact price of each study tour will be available from the faculty leader by early September.

Course Format
Each course will meet on campus for a two-three hour class per week during the Spring semester. The early weeks of study preceding Spring Break will prepare you to take full advantage of your week at the international site. Upon return from Spring Break abroad, your studies will continue and include a project or paper based upon your international study experience.

Study Tour Format
The study tour will travel as a group under the guidance of your professor. All travel arrangements will be arranged and will include airfare, land transportation, hotels, site admissions, and many meals.

BREAK AWAY and enroll in one of these five exciting Spring ’09 courses. Class size is limited.

BREAK AWAY to study art history in Florence, Italy

BREAK AWAY to study Logistics in Germany and the Netherlands

BREAK AWAY to study Sociology in Belize

BREAK AWAY to study Theater Arts in Brittany, France

BREAK AWAY to study Health Care Disparities in Geneva, Switzerland

Your Next Steps (timeline to keep you on track)

BREAK AWAY to study art history in Florence, Italy.

Course: ARHY 379 The Origins of Renaissance Art
[satisfies new Core Theme Area: Creative Arts]

Course is limited to 20 students.

Prerequisites
None. Students from all schools are welcome and encouraged. Majors given priority.

Cost of trip: $2250

Professors
Dr. Madeline Archer (archerm@duq.edu)
Dr. Roberta Aronson (aronson@duq.edu)

More information
See Dr. Madeline Archer, 604A College Hall, (412) 396-6343 or
Dr. Roberta Aronson, 601 Union, (412) 396-1818

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BREAK AWAY to study Logistics in Germany and the Netherlands .

Course: SCMG 472 Global Transportation and Logistics

Goods must move quickly and efficiently around the globe. This course will examine detailed strategies for managing transportation and warehousing operations in a global business environment. Special attention will be given to the interaction between these activities and other functions in the supply chain such as procurement and inventory control to maximize the performance of the entire network. A significant portion of the course will focus on the similarities and differences between logistics operations in domestic and international settings. The technology systems and decision models that facilitate distribution operations will be interwoven throughout the course where appropriate.

Our spring Break Away study trip will be to see transportation and logistics operations in action. Beginning in Cologne, Germany, with a day-long tour of the city followed by several company visits, we will travel by train to the Netherlands to Rotterdam, the logistics center of Europe. We will have a guided tour of the Port of Rotterdam, including visits to the Rotterdam Car Center and the Fruit Terminal Rotterdam. The remainder of the trip will include company visits, presentations by local university faculty members, cultural excursions, and ample free time to explore the city.

Course is limited to 25 students.

Prerequisites
SCMG 367 Supply Chain & Operations. Interested students from outside the business school are welcome without the prerequisite course, but they should contact the professor before enrolling.

Cost of trip: $2300

Professor
Dr. Matt Drake (drake987@duq.edu)

More information
See Dr. Drake, 925 Rockwell Hall, (412) 396-1959 or check out

http://www.business.duq.edu/faculty/drake/rotterdam09.htm

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BREAK AWAY to study Sociology in Belize.

Course: SOCI 101, Survey of Sociology
[satisfies new Core Theme Area: Social Justice]  

This course examines how a society develops. We will focus on the complex interactions between societies and their environment, compare how different types of societies adapt to specific environments, and evaluate how changing environments require changes in society. These general sociological issues will be applied to the study of three specific social aspects of the country of Belize: 1) the history of human environmental interactions in Belize from Mayan times to present; 2) current local environmental issues, especially in terms of environmental justice in Belize; and 3) the social and economic integration of Belize into the global economy through eco-tourism.   We will spend nine days in Belize where we will tour Belize City, stay at an environmental field station in the Belizean western tropical forests, snorkel through Belizean marine sanctuaries, study tropical forest conservation and explore Mayan archeological sites. The local Garifuna, Creole, Hispanic, Mayan and Mestizo communities are developing sustainable economic practices that leave forest, ocean, reef, and river environmental values intact while enhancing Belizean social, economic and cultural development. We will study how Belize is transforming itself around this theme of eco-tourism.

Course is limited to 20 students

Prerequisites
None. Students from all schools are welcome and encouraged.

Professors
Dr. Michael Irwin (irwinm@duq.edu)

More information
Dr. Michael Irwin 504A College Hall, (412) 396-6488

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BREAK AWAY to study Theater Arts in Brittany, France

Course: THEA 304 Movement for the Stage: Semiotics for the Theater This course will focus on the importance of voice and movement as crucial elements of theatrical structure and meaning; they hold the power to change the significance of words. Moreover, a great deal of theatrical content is communicated in the total absence of words. It would be truer to acknowledge that it is not just language but behavior that is being communicated in a performance. Apart from athletes, dancers, exercise physiologists and developmental psychologists, few of us have any need to be so cognitively aware of the movement aspects of our behavior. Rarely do we need to scrutinize how we accomplish everyday tasks or what varied choices we might have exercised. But a theater artist must think of how to convey these tasks, assign meaning to them, master the variations, and exercise discretion and creativity in the choosing.

Studies will be enriched by a spring break studying in collaboration with Pascal Guin, Artistic Director of Le Theatre Bleu, Riec-sur-Belon, France. Workshops will be conducted every morning and afternoon on various subjects. A workshop production of the student’s final project will be given before the French Minister of Culture who will also work with the students. Students will be billeted in private homes of the members of the Le Theatre Bleu while in France. The final evening will be spent in Paris attending a theater performance of the student’s choice.

Prerequisites
None, but students must be at least a sophomore.

Professors
Mark Thompson and John Lane (lanej@duq.edu)

More information
See Mr. Lane in 623A/B College Hall

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BREAK AWAY to study Health Care Disparities in Geneva, Switzerland .

Course: HLTS 200 Disparities in Health Care
[satisfies New Core Theme Area: Social Justice]

Disparities in Health Care will provide a broad introduction into cultural themes of health, illness and health care by critically reviewing existing social inequalities and cultural perceptions. While basic biological explanations for health and disease will be considered in this course, we will primarily focus on the health consequences of socioeconomic status, race, religion and gender. Differences in the quality of health care delivered to racial/ethnic groups will be explored in an attempt to explain why health disparities exist in the US and worldwide, and how they may be eliminated.

Our travel study component will take us to Geneva where we will visit private and public hospitals and clinics in order to illustrate differences in the access and quality of health-care services in a different country. We will also tour the International Red Cross and the European headquarters of the United Nations. Geneva is an exciting and lively capital city, and we will take advantage of the rich cultural context.

Course is limited to 20 students.

Prerequisites
None. The course is open to all students.

Professor
Dr. Bridget Calhoun (calhoun@duq.edu)

More information
See Dr. Calhoun in 416 Rangos Health Sciences.

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YOUR NEXT STEPS

The timeline below will help keep you on track in preparing to BREAK AWAY.

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