Dr. Yuri P.Tretyakov | yuri@eu.spb.ru | Office hours Tuesday 13-14; Saturday 12:30-14:30 |
| WebBoard |
| Grading and Description of Assignments
| Schedule | Project Questions |
| The European University at St. Petersburg |
The Global Classroom Project is designed to provide a forum for cross-cultural, digital communication and collaborative project development with colleagues in St. Petersburg and Volgograd Russia and Karlskrona, Sweden. This forum for experiential learning demands a high level of person-to-person communication and interaction that centers on the challenges of real-life contextual communication.
The course focuses on analysis of cross-cultural, digital communication. Both in subject area study and experientially, you will explore issues in this area, analyze them, and report the results of your research, experience, and analysis.
This semester, the overall goal of your class project is to provide effective, clear, well-designed affective expressions of your responses to the Southeast Asian tsunami tragedy. The other major class assignments will serve as your introduction of qualifications (resume), plans of action (proposals), and production of your proposed response.
Much of this class will be virtual in nature, conducted both on the World Wide Web through WebBoard conferencing software and through e-mail, to allow you to work with your classmates in Russia at the European University at St. Petersburg and Volgograd State University, and Sweden, at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona. As such, you must plan to devote time to your online discussions, just as you would to sessions in more traditional face-to-face class environments.
We hope to submit the results of your work to UNICEF as a gesture of support for those affected by the Southeast Asian tsunami tragedy.