Best Practices Conference in June, 2001

Participants:

• Brooks Hill
• Donald Clark
• Mark Moody

Project Title: Trinity's Proposed International Studies Program

Project Description:

International Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program that combines broad approaches to world affairs, foreign language learning, study abroad, and specialized studies arranged by students in close consultation with the faculty advisory committee. All students participate in elements in the core and choose among options for individual concentrations in either functional or regional specialties. Career planning and preparation for graduate study are important parts of the program. The number of hours in the program varies according to the individual student's plan of study but may not be less than 33 semester hours.

THE MAJOR

I. The Common Curriculum

II. International Studies Core Components (14-20 hours)

1. HIST 3303 (U.S. Diplomatic History) or PLSI 1331 (Comparing Countries)

2. INTL 3100 (International Studies Colloquium; 2-3 hours).

Required enrollment during each semester of residence in the major.

3. Advanced Language study (at least 6 upper division hours)

4. Study Abroad with the advice of the committee and Study Abroad counselor.

5. Internship Course option (INTL 3X01; maximum 3 hours)

6. Senior Tutorial or Departmental Seminar (3 hours)

III. Concentrations (15-18 hours including courses taken while abroad)

International Studies concentrations are individual programs of study that are designed by students in consultation with the Program Director and the appropriate concentration advisor. All concentration plans must be approved by the Committee.

IV. Electives sufficient to total 124 semester hours.

V. Students are strongly encouraged to take courses in the Languages Across the Curriculum Program.

THE MINOR

I. International Studies Core Components (9-12 hours)

1. HIST 3303 (U.S. Diplomatic History) or PLSI 1331 (Comparing Countries)

2. INTL 3100 (International Studies Colloquium; 2-3 hours).

Required enrollment during each semester of residence in the minor.

3. The lower division sequence in an appropriate foreign language

(The equivalent of four college semesters)

4. Study Abroad with the advice of the committee and Study Abroad counselor.

5. Internship Course option (INTL 3X01; maximum 3 hours)

6. INTL Tutorial or Departmental Seminar (3 hours)

Proposed Regional & Functional Concentrations

(12-15 hours including courses taken abroad)

International Studies concentrations are individual programs of study that are designed by students in consultation with the Program Director and the appropriate concentration advisor. All concentration plans must be approved by the Committee. See below for a list of the concentrations and advisors. The total number of hours in the Concentration must be sufficient to make a total of 21 semester hours in the program.

Regional Concentrations

• East Asian Studies: Professors Stephen L. Field (MLL), Randall Nadeau (Religion), Donald Clark (History)
  
• European Studies: Professors Peter O'Brien (PLSI), Nanette Le Coat (Modern Languages), Rita Kosnik (Business Admin.)
  
• Latin American and Latino Studies: Professors Alida Metcalf (History), Arturo Madrid (Modern Languages), Pablo Martínez (Modern Languages)
• Middle Eastern Studies: Professors David Lesch (History), Sussan Siavoshi (Political Science), Edward Curtis (Religion)

Functional Concentrations

• International Affairs: Professors Guy Poitras (PLSI), Mary Ann Tétreault (PLSI)
• International Business: Professors Darryl Waldron (BUSN), Stephen Field (Modern Languages)
• International/Intercultural Communications: Professors L. Brooks Hill (S & D), Robert Huesca (Communications)
• International Education Administration: Professors Donald N. Clark (History), Angela Breidenstein (Education)
• International Environmental Studies: Professors David Ribble (Biology), Richard Reed (Sociology & Anthro)

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES -- COURSES WITHIN THE PROGRAM

INTL 3100 International Studies Colloquium

All majors and minors who are not studying abroad are required to enroll in INTL 3100 (The Colloquium) during each semester of their residence in the program. The Colloquium is also open to students who are not in the program, as well as to interested faculty and visitors. It meets once each week for discussion of issues of interest to students and faculty in the program. Session topics include discussions of world affairs issues, presentations by students, faculty members, and guests, reports from affiliated student groups such as Trinity Model United Nations and the International Club, presentations on career and graduate school planning, and reports from seniors regarding their individual tutorials. Offered each semester; may be repeated for up to three hours credit.

INTL 3X01 Internship

Between one and three hours of credit may be arranged for appropriate international internships that are undertaken while abroad if they meet academic criteria set by the Committee. Credit may also be arranged for internships in San Antonio during the school year and away, during the summer, with Committee Approval. Consult the Program Director.

INTL 3X02 Special Topics

From time to time the International Studies program will present special topic courses not described in the Courses of Study Bulletin. Announcements of such courses will be by special prospectus. May be repeated on different topics.

INTL 3103 Research Practicum

Research practica are tutorials in which students prepare proposals for international grant competitions and fellowships. Qualified students identify fellowship opportunities and consult with International Studies Program faculty and, upon approval by the International Studies Committee, a faculty mentor assigned by the Director to supervise the student's preparations for national competition. Normally this requires research in a field, definition of a research project, and production of application materials by a set deadline. May be arranged in either semester

A. Fulbright Research Practicum

B. Rhodes Research Practicum

C. Marshall Research Practicum

D. National Research Fellowship Practicum

INTL 4300 Senior Tutorial

All senior International Studies majors in the program must take a tutorial that is taught by special arrangement with individual faculty members across the University's departments. Arrangements are made by program advisors with the approval of the International Studies Committee.

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INTL 4301 Senior Seminar (taken in another department for credit in International Studies)

All International Studies majors and minors in the program must, with the approval of the International Studies Committee, take a departmental senior seminar in one of the program's constituent departments that relates to his/her concentration within the program. Normally this will be done during the senior year, though in special cases the requirement may be satisfied in the junior year.

LANGUAGES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

[Courses as presently listed in the Courses of Study Bulletin]

• INTL 3101 La economía mexicana (The Mexican Economy)
• INTL 3104 La experiencia latina en los Estados Unidos (The U.S. Latino Experience)
• INTL 3107 La telenovela en América Latina (The Latin American Soap Opera)
• INTL 3108 Bartolomé de las Casas y La Destruccion de las Indias
• INTL 3109 Relaciones fronterizas: México-Estados Unidos (Mexico-United States
• Border Relations)
• INTL 3110 La música popular latinoamericano (Latin American Popular Music)
• INTL 3111 Narody Rossii (The Peoples of Russia)
• INTL 3112 Shangye Zhongwen (The Practice of Business in China)
• INTL 3113 Les Paroles de la Révolution française (The Language of the French
• Revolution)
• INTL 3114 Zhongguo Gudai Sixiang (Classical Chinese Thought)
• INTL 3115 Deutschland und die Europäische Union: Fakten, Hoffnungen und Ängste
• (Germany and the European Union: Facts, Hopes and Fears)
• INTL 3117 Teorii I iskusstvo russkogo avantgarda (Theories and Art of the Russian
• Avant-Garde)
• INTL 3118 Grupos indígenas y Destrucción Ambiental en América Latina (Indigenous
• Peoples and Ecological Destruction in Latin America)
• INTL 3120 La historia cultural del baile latinoamericano (The Cultural History of Latin
• American Dance)
• INTL 3121 Las matemáticas en las ciencias sociales (Mathematics in the Social Sciences)
  

Participants:

Name: Brooks Hill

Title: Professor of Speech Communication & Chair of Speech and Drama

E-mail: LHILL@trinity.edu

Biographical Information: L. Brooks Hill received his B.A. from the University of Memphis, his M.A. from the University of Alabama, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His teaching interests are in the areas of public and intercultural/international communication. His current research interests are in the area of intercultural communication. Widely published, Dr. Hill has also received well over two million dollars in external funding for training and research, working extensively with the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Department of Health and Human Services. He is a co-developer of the data bank Native American Research Information Service (NARIS).

Name: Donald Clark

Title: Director of International Studies & Study Abroad Programs & Professor of History and International Studies

E-mail: dclark@trinity.edu

Biographical Information: Donald N. Clark is Professor of History and Director of Trinity's International Programs Office, which administers the study abroad program, international exchanges and foreign student advising, and Trinity's interdisciplinary International Studies major/minor. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Harvard University and has worked and studied in Asia as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Social Science Research Council fellow, and Fulbright scholar. As a leader in the field of Korean Studies he has been elected to the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and has served several terms as chair of the Association's Committee on Korean Studies. World Wide Web: www.trinity.edu/departments/int_studies/IPO/index.htm

Name: Mark Moody

Title: Assistant Director of Admissions and International Admissions Coordinator

E-mail: mmoody@trinity.edu

Biographical Information: Mark Moody, Assistant Director of Admissions and International Admissions Coordinator, earned his B.A. in Spanish at Trinity University in 1995 and since then has worked three years in Admissions with primary focus on developing long-term strategies for overseas recruitment that focuses on relationships with schools and prospective students overseas.