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the global classroom project down under

Dr. TyAnna Herrington, off hrs by arrangement, ty@gatech.edu

| The European University at St. Petersburg | | Tomsk Polytechnic University | | Blekinge Institute of Technology || Volgograd State University |

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, and, in the Down Under semester, Atlanta USA, at Georgia Tech. 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 political issues from Australian, Russian and American perspectives. Focused topics of your choice 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 the production of your proposed analytical documents (formal reports and digital documents), assessment and consideration of the work you create (progress reports) and presentations of your work (oral presentations).

Much of the work in 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 Georgia Tech. 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.