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Field Sites 2005GIEU Site - AlaskaAlaska-UM: Adventures in Learning Across Settings for Knowledge, Affirmation, Understanding, and Meaning Site Leaders: Tony Alvarez and Mary Ortega GIEU Site - Beijing, ChinaMaking a Difference in Chinese Health Care Site Leaders: Elaine Van Doren and Sue Clemen-Stone Abstract: This project will engage students in looking at the health care delivery system in China and in the U.S. Students will visit agencies providing both traditional Chinese and western medicine. Additionally students will participate in client-focused activities working with Chinese nursing students. Returning to the US, the students will act as hosts to the students they worked with in China. Experiences will be chosen to allow for comparison of the cultural effects on each health care delivery system. GIEU Site - DetroitReimagining Detroit Through the Lives of Children Site Leaders: Lorraine Gutierrez and Stella Raudenbush Dept/School/College: School of Social Work and LSA, Psychology GIEU Site - East AfricaEast African Communities and the AIDS Crisis Abstract: This project will offer students the rare opportunity to live with African families in several modern settings and visit various educational, social welfare, and health institutions with attention to the public health messages offered and the methods used to engage local communities. The dual purpose is for students to get clear ideas of daily lives and concerns within several typical African settings and how the AIDS crisis is dealt with in those contexts. We plan weeklong residencies in rural agricultural communities, rural pastoral communities, and urban centers with students assisting in local projects and observing and participating in community settings. GIEU Site - GhanaModernizing Suame Magazine in Ghana Site Leader: Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Jr. Abstract: We propose to investigate the engineering requirements, as well as economic, legal, and social ramifications of modernizing a vast manufacturing engineering establishment in Ghana - the Suame Magazine. This is a typical informal manufacturing community of self-trained and apprenticed artisans and skilled workers. GIEU participants will work with counterparts at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana to develop recommendations for the project. Website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/gieughana05 GIEU Site - GuatemalaGuatemala – Providing Care to Vulnerable Populations Site Leader: Jody Lori Abstract: This project will challenge students to utilize the process of critical thinking to develop strategies for dealing with social and ethical dilemmas faced in providing health care in a multi-cultural setting. It will serve as a springboard to increase awareness and dialogue about the distribution of health care and health inequalities faced by developing countries. Experiences within Guatemala will provide students with an opportunity to recognize the interplay between sociopolitical, cultural, and historical factors and health and health delivery. Students will have an opportunity to increase their language skills in addition to gaining interpersonal skills through interaction with indigenous and local populations. GIEU Site - Varanasi, IndiaGlobalization and Local Narratives: The Lives of Indian Craftsmen in a Modern, Traditional Society Site Leader: Nita Kumar GIEU Site - JamaicaPedagogy of Action: Transformation Through Community Activism in Jamaica Site Leaders: Nesha Haniff and Leseliey Welch GIEU Site - Oaxaca, MexicoOaxaca: Heath and Illness in the Mexican Context Site Leader: Judith Lynch-Sauer Abstract: Program designed to 1) support the development of cultural competence in students with an interest in the health professions; 2) examine health and illness from an ecological framework; 3) examine the relation between Mexican cultural beliefs and health and illness practices. This cultural immersion experience includes a variety of experiential learning opportunities: observations in health care settings; discussions with lay and professional health providers; and home stays to provide students with a panorama of health and illness in Mexico. GIEU Site - Moscow, RussiaChekhov International Festival Project in Russia Site Leaders: Kate Mendeloff and Leonora Ivanitsky Abstract: Students will experience a unique cultural exchange with Russian and European artists and students of theater through direct participation in the Chekhov International Theater Festival. The festival features prominent experimental artists from Eastern and Western Europe, it affords a challenging and collegial environment for younger students and artists. Students would see diverse offerings of the other guest companies and participate in workshops and lectures. Additionally, students would have an opportunity to view other productions in Moscow and to travel to St. Petersburg and Kiev to expand on their understanding of Russian culture, while being directly involved in an outdoor production in the festival and in Ann Arbor. GIEU Site - South AfricaWomen in Cooperatives: South African and US Perspectives (WiCSA) Site Leaders: Mark Creekmore and Jane Hassinger GIEU Site - Hanoi, Viet NamThe Teach-In: Interpreting the Wars for Viet Nam Site Leader: David R. Smith Abstract: Exposing undergraduates to Vietnam as a nation, as opposed to simply a war, this group of undergraduates and faculty members will travel to Vietnam to further their study of the war, especially considering the differing ways that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people have formally remembered and interpreted the war. The International Relations Office at the Vietnam National University will host our group in Hanoi and will assist in arranging a series of seminars. We will also travel by train to central Vietnam to interact with Vietnamese who have direct experience with the lasting effects of war; sites include Hue, Danang, and possibly My Lai. Finally, the group will continue by train to Ho Chi Minh City.
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