Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
XLRN 2100 - Building Your Story through Study Abroad/Away
Serves as a curricular companion to study away programs, emphasizing immersive student engagement with their program location while on site. Using the best practices of experiential learning, this course fosters student understanding and implementation of preflection, action, and reflection methodologies to maximize personal, academic, civic, and professional growth through the authentic context of their program location.
Requisites: Enrolled in Global Opportunities program
Credit Hours: 1 - 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to connect relevant prior academic knowledge and cultural experience to on-site engagement in their host community.
- Students will be able to connect across disciplines and cultural perspectives throughout the study away experience through preflective and reflective activities.
- Students will be able to apply skills, theories, or methodologies gained from their home campus and/or community to their experience away.
- Students will be able to tell their story of personal, academic, professional, and/or civic growth by completing assignments using a format, language, or visual representation in ways that enhance meaning.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a global citizen and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts as a practitioner in their field.
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