First-Generation Abroad
First-Generation Abroad students will enroll in two courses taught at the CEA study center by local professors.
Taking a total of six credits will allow students to qualify for summer financial aid and scholarships. First-Generation Abroad advisors do their best to ensure all classes will transfer back to WSU as UCORE credits. Otherwise, the classes will transfer back as electives. As a reminder, each major has room for electives. All students need to earn a minimum of 120 credits to earn a degree from WSU. All classes are taught in English.
Course Offerings in Rome, Italy:
Critical Perspectives on Italy: Contemporary Society & Culture
This class satisfies a 3-credit Social Science (SSCI) UCORE/Upper Division Elective. The class will be similar to a anthropology or sociology course.
Description: "This course provides you with an interactive experience of contemporary life in Italy, by exploring a range of defining features of this country and its people. In-class and on-site lectures will alert you to salient sociopolitical and cultural phenomena in current Italian life, triggering critical analysis and evaluation of your surroundings. In particular, you will observe and reflect on practices of identity formation, as these are expressed in class, gender, and community relations; political allegiance and conflict; cultural alignment or dissent; social solidarity and artistic innovation."
Angels, Demons, & Artists in Rome
This class satisfies a 3-credit Arts (ARTS) UCORE/Upper Division Elective. The class will be similar to art history, archaeology, classical studies, or history course.
Description: "This course is a survey of the art and architecture of Rome from classical Antiquity to the present. It will teach the basic principles of art historical analysis through an active study of monuments, buildings, and artworks within their historical context. The power of images and the messages they convey will serve as a predominant guideline to reconstruct the history of the city. Issues such as politics, patronage, gender, religion, and symbols will be examined as well as the ways these inter-relate to create identities."
Course Offerings in Seville, Spain:
Popular Culture in Spain: Andalusia
This class satisfies a 3-credit Humanities (HUM) UCORE/Upper Division Elective. The class will be similar to a cultural studies or sociology course.
Description: "Popular Culture in Andalusia includes a wide range of themes pertinent to a better understanding of Spanish folklore and personality: history, art, regional differences, politics, habits, social values, traditions, etc. Andalusia has a unique contact with Mediterranean, European and African cultures. The class evolves around a number of on-site study excursions that provides students with a more vivid experience of the Andalusian culture adding an experiential component to the course content. The study excursions articulate the structure of the whole course and provide most of the main topics of the class. The course also focuses on a number of other themes that are illustrated by means of texts, images, art works and daily objects."
Communication & Global Competence
This class satisfies a 3-credit Diversity (DIVR) UCORE/Upper Division Elective. The class will be similar to cultural studies or communication course.
Description: "With the rise of global mobility and communication, encountering people from a variety of cultures and the need for effective communication are commonplace. This course explores the interaction between culture and communication and introduces students to the knowledge and skills necessary to attain global competence. In addition, this course introduces the construct of global competence; creates the opportunity to analyze and evaluate how our own cultural identity influences communication with others; engages interaction with the host culture; and prepares students with knowledge and skills to be effective and ethical intercultural communicators. This class will include lectures, class discussions, simulations, interactive examples, case studies, media presentations, cultural encounters, and field experiences."