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the global classroom project

Dr. TyAnna Herrington, 404.894.6207, Skiles 23, off hrs MW 10-11 & by arrangement, ty@gatech.edu

| 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, Russia. 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 analyses of the differences and similarities in attitude toward economic issues from Russian and American perspectives. Your exploration of economic issues will provide a means for examining cultural, historical, political, and other differences and similarities in your nations' characters. Your other major class assignments will support the work in the analyses and serve as your plans of action (proposals) for your collaboration and the production of your proposed analytical documents (formal reports and digital documents).

Much of this class will be virtual in nature, conducted both on the World Wide Web through WebBoard conferencing software and through e-mail, texting, and Skype, where possible, to allow you to work with your classmates in Russia at the European University at St. Petersburg. 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.