STUDY
ABROAD
Information Sessions!
All EUROPE, ALL THE TIME!
Mon., October 14
11:30-2:00
International Resource Center, EMU
Info session speaker schedule:
11:30-12:00
Short term programs:
Austria, England, France,
Greece, Italy, Spain
12:00-12:30
Italy and France
12:30-1:00
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
1:00-1:30
Central Europe, Russia, NIS
1:30-2:00 Germany
ie3 global internships
Wed., October 16
1:00-2:30 pm
International Resource Center, EMU
CHINA
Wed., October 23
3:30-4:30 pm
International Resource Center, EMU
JAPAN
Tues., October 29
3:30-4:30 pm
International Resource Center, EMU
KOREA
Tues., October 29
4:30-5:00 pm
International Resource Center, EMU
GERMANY
Tues., November 5
3:30-4:30 pm
International Resource Center, EMU
STUDY ABROAD FAIR
Wed., November 20
11:00-4:00 pm
Fir Room, EMU
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itten by the travel bug? Want to leam about
other cultures in a place warm as home?
The International Resource Center
(IRC), located in the EMU’s International
Lounge, is your “meeting place for the world.”
There you can: connect with friends, family, local
newspapers and radio; watch international pro
grams, videos and films; and plan trips abroad, in
the United States and in Oregon.
The International Lounge is where international
events happen. Last year, for example, there were
international films, travel talks, music and dance
presentations, and the creation of a sand mandala
by Tibetan Buddhist monks.
This year the IRC will co-sponsor: live music at
the first International Coffee Hour, September 27;
international films, every Friday night after Coffee
Hour; Travel Talks, including a series of programs
with STA Travel on travel safety, Europe, Australia
and Asia (the first is October 22).
Other fall term events in the Lounge include In
ternational Student Orientation, a Scandinavian
Film Festival, football (soccer) nights, and an Inter
national Scholars Reception.
The International Resource Center is one of the
[IRC offers you the world]
best-kept secrets on campus. Come for events!
Come to plan your travel! Come to hang out with
friends! Come to enjoy!
Check out the IRC website for information on 90
countries around the world: http://darkwing.uore
gon.edu/~irc.
Students talk with a Tibetan monk who visited the IRC.
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the World Right Here on Campus
Studying abroad is a wonderful opportunity, but it isn’t the only way to expand your cultural boundaries. The University of Oregon is
an increasingly international community, and there are many ways to get a more worldly perspective while you are on campus.
Consider this sampling of the opportunities that await you:
Make new friends
There are abundant oppor
tunities at the UO to meet new
friends from around the
world!. Get involved with the
International Student Asso
ciation (ISA), which has an of
fice adjacent to the Internation
al Resource Center, on the
mezzanine level of the EMU.
Or stop by the ISA; Interna
tional Coffee Hour, held
every Friday afternoon at 4:00
pm (16:00) in the International
Lounge. Or, if you’d like to es
tablish an ongoing relation
ship, consider joining the Con
versation Friends, a program
that matches American volun
teers with international stu
dents who want to improve
their English-language skills in
friendly, social interaction. Of
course, there are also a variety
of international clubs at the
UO for people interested in
culture-specific activities, in
cluding “culture nights” that
feature the cuisine and cus
toms of particular cultures,
conversation gatherings, films,
and special events. Each
spring, these clubs and the ISA
bring us the wonderful Inter
national Week, which in
cludes one day of events dedi
cated to each major continent
or world region and culminates
in International Night.
Resources:
• ISA: http://darkwing.uore
gon/edu/~asuoisa
•Conversation Friends:
http://oip.uoregon.edu/ff,
or call 346-3206
•International clubs: start at
http://oip.uoregon.edu/iss/isg
Talk the Talk
One of the best ways to “be
international” is to learn the
language of another culture.
The UO offers regular, for
credit language courses in fif
teen languages as well as self
study courses in ten additional
languages. The self-study lan
guage program is administered
Japan, and Korea. If film is
your passion, you can also
choose from a number of inter
national film series and festi
vals held on campus each year.
The Russian and East Euro
pean Studies Center, for exam
ple, typically sponsors a Russ
ian Film Series each year, and
this year the Scandinavian
Studies Program will sponsor a
Scandinavian Film Series in
the IRC. There is also a cross
cultural International Film
Series. Or try the UO Queer
Film Festival (QFF), which
brings to campus each Febru
ary films about gay, lesbian, bi
sexual, and transgender life in
diverse cultures. If you’re a
music buff, consider one of the
university’s many performance
venues that include interna
tional performers, like the in
ternationally acclaimed Bach
Festival (June and July), or the
groovy Willamette Valley
Folk Festival (WVFF), which
is held outdoors each May on
the EMU east lawn. Musically
inclined, yourself? You might
also consider the School of
Music’s Gamelan ensemble,
which creates Pacific Rim mu
sic on a variety of instruments,
including the beautiful game
lan.
Resources:
•Cultural Forum: http://
culturalforum.uoregon.edu
•Museum of Art:
http://uoma.uoregon.edu/
•Russian Film Series: Email
<russian@darkwing>.
•Scandinavian Film Series:
Email <radkins@oregon>.
•International Film Series:
http://babel uoregon.edu/ylc/
Filmseries/filmseries.html
•QFF: http://darkwing.
uoregon.edu/~qff/
• Bach Festival: http ://bach
fest.uoregon.edu
•WVFF: http://culturalfo
rum.uoregon.edu
•Gamelan ensemble: Email
<rhyr@oregon> or call 346
3766
Walk the Walk
If you really want to show
your commitment to being a
member of the UO internation
al community, there are several
options to get more involved.
Consider volunieering for this
yearns FL1S Day (see the website
listed:above) on April 25,
2003, or for International
Week (see the ISA website list
ed above). If you'd like to get
both international and work
experience, consider an inter
national internship through ei
ther Oregon's International Ed
ucation, Experience and
Employment (IE j) program, or
through the International
Studies Program (ISP). Or join
with scores of other UO alum
ni who have had remarkable
and unique experiences abroad
through the Fulbright US. Stu
dent Program or the Peace
Corps. With opportunities in
nearly every comer of the
globe, thereare few limits to
where the UO can launch you.
Resources:
•IE3: http://ie3global.orst.edu
♦ISP: http://darkwing.uore
gon.edu/-isp/
♦Fulbright: Call 346-3207 to
make an informational
appointment, and see
http://www.1ie.0tg
•Peace Corps: http://uoca
reer.uoregon .edu/pcorps/
peacecorps.htm
Learn more about the
world around you
The U O offers numerous
ways to educate yourself about
the world and its many cul
tures. There are ten interna
tional area studies programs,
like the Asian Studies Program
and the Latin American Studies
Program, each offering courses
(and sometimes majors and
minors) on the peoples, cul
tures, history, and politics of
the region. If you are interest
ed in cross-border issues, the
newly formed Center for Crit
ical Theory and Transnation
al Studies (CCTTS) will spon
sor events and research on the
increasing globalization of
world cultures. Likewise, the
Center for Indigenous Cul
tural Survival (CICS) exam
ines the experiences of indige
nous peoples (like Native
American peoples, the Maori
peoples of New Zealand, and
the Sami peoples of northern
Europe) in cross-cultural per
spective. In addition to special
events, the center sponsors a
large variety of summer-term
courses on indigenous issues.
In addition, the UO hosts a va
riety of international confer
ences each year, including two
annual meetings on global eco
logical topics: the Coalition
Against Environmental
Racism (CAER) Conference
(February), and the HOPES
Eco-Design Arts Conference
(April), which is sponsored by
the Architecture School’s Eco
logical Design Center—the
same organization that spon
sored the solar power project
in the EMU. And of course,
the International Resource
Center (IRC), housed in the
EMU, offers a variety of print
and electronic resources on
countries and cultures from
around the globe, as well as in
ternational television broad
casts and special events.
Resources:
•Area studies programs:
http ^/international. uoregon.
edu/areastudies.html
•CCTTS: http://www.uore
gon.edu/~cctts
•CICS:
http ://www. uoregon .edu/~
cics/center.htm
•CAER Conference:
http ://gladstone. uoregon.
edu/~caer
•HOPES Conference:
http ://edc. uoregon. edu/
con ferences
•IRC: http://darkwing.
uoregon.edu/~irc