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Globetr ttersnapshots o sienas globalizations studies program all 2009SIENAcollege


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GREETINGS!

From te DirectorSiena students and aculty continue to be engaged in global activity at many

dierent levels. Since our last issue, we held a successul joint GlobalizationConerence at Siena College and students went to Greece and Turkey this pastsummer as part o travel courses that Siena oers.

In November, the Globalization Studies and the Environmental Studies Programco-sponsored a talk by Jihan Gearon, rom the Indigenous EnvironmentalNetwork and Ben Thomas 12 served as our student representative at West PointsStudent Conerence on U.S. Aairs.

During the spring 2010 semester, we will oer several travel courses in addition tothe globalization studies introduction course and our capstone course. In March wewill participate in the 5th annual Siena-Concordia conerence in Montreal. We willalso host a conerence on Global Civic Engagement on campus.

As Siena College continues to oer more global opportunities to our communitymembers, this newsletter will recap some o the most exciting ventures by ourstudents, aculty, sta and administrators.

Jean M. Stern, Ph.D.Director, Globalization Studies Program

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GRADUATE PROFILE

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Currently pursuing a Master o Arts in Inter-cultural Service, Leadership and Managementat the School o International Training

This past summer she studied Russian at

Astrahanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet on a State DepartmentCritical Language Scholarship

WhILE AT SIENA

During the all 2007 semester she studied abroad at St. Petersburg Uni-versity in Russia where she taught an English class to Russian students.

In the summer o 2006 she traveled to Minsk, Belarus with a group o

Siena students and aculty members to restore a Jewish cemetery. Thisexperience inspired her to switch majors and learn Russian.

Fair Trade

Siena Students or Fair Trade

are ollowing in the ootstepso the University o Wiscon-sin at Oshkosh as well as over140 universities in the U.K.that are certifed as air tradeuniversities. Siena Collegewill be working on a sel-certifcation system. Look orupcoming Fair Trade eventson campus!

Ben Thomas 12, a memberof the Siena Students forFair Trade SteeringCommittee


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An InternationalPartnersip

The Siena College SummerTeacher Training Program orTeachers o English in Ukraine wasdeveloped by Lydia Tarnavsky,proessor o modern languagesat Siena College and fnancedby Americans or Democracy

in Ukraine, Inc. (a local civicorganization). Since 1993, theprogram has been training Englishlanguage teachers in Ukraine innew teaching methodology andthe integration o instructionaltechnology into their schoolscurricula.

The summer 2009 workshop,held in Kovel, Ukraine,was designed to develop an

international partnership betweenU.S. and Ukrainian teachers. For

six consecutive days, Ukrainianteachers, paired with Americanteachers, engaged in collaborativelesson planning. Teachers rom theBerkley School Districtin Michigan workedwith their Ukrainiancounterparts in Kovel

via video conerencingto begin their year-long project promotingcultural diversitythrough the use oeducational technology.The school project willinvolve both teachers

and students inUkraine and in theUnited States.

The impact o the internationaproject attracted the attention o

Mayor Serhiy Kosharuk o Kovewho visited to the workshop tosee and experience frst-hand thepower o these connections.

FACULTY NEWS


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FR. hOANG

One o the newaculty members

teaching the Introduc-tion to GlobalizationStudies course is Fr. Linh Hoang,O.F.M. He is an Assistant Proessoro Religious Studies and has been aull-time aculty member in the reli-gious studies department since 2007.His expertise is in Catholic church

history and world religions and hiscurrent research is on theology andmigration. He presented a paper onthat topic in Haliax, Nova Scotiain May 2009. His work will eventu-ally develop into a monograph on atheology o migration. He is lookingorward to teaching the introductory

course in Globalization Studies, espe-cially since his research and teachingspan many global concerns.

RALUCAIORGULESCU

One o the aculty

members teachingGLST-100 is RalucaIorgulescu, Ph.D. She is an assistantproessor o economics teachingPrinciples o Economics and up-per level international economicscourses (International Trade The-ory, Economic Development and

Comparative Economics).Iorgules-cu holds a B.S. in Physics and aB.A. in Finance and Insurance romRomanian universities. In 2000,she came to the United States andreceived an M.S. in economics and aPh.D. in ecological economics romRensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Over the years, she collected dataor her dissertation in Nigeria, at-tended international conerences

and researched exchanges and summer schools in Europe, Arica, anCentral America. Beyond the clas

room, she is an active scholar whhas published numerous papers inacademic journals and conerenceproceedings.

Iorgulescu is looking orwardto teaching the introductorycourse in Globalization Studies,especially since she strives to

have her students understand thapeople see lie and make economichoices dierently. Accordingto Iorgulescu, it is important orher students to make connectionsbetween what they learn in classand the world around them in thiincreasingly interconnected worl

Fr. hoang and Iorgulescu to Co-Instruct Introduction to Gloalization Studies Cours


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MusikawongJoins SienaFaculty

SudaratMusikawong,Ph.D., has joinedSiena College asAssistant Proessor o Sociol-ogy. She received her doctoratein Sociology rom the Univer-sity o Caliornia at Santa Cruz

in 2006. Her teaching areasinclude Sociology o Cultureand Media, Memory andNationalism, Globalizationand Transnationalism, ThaiStudies and Asian AmericanStudies. Ater several years ofeld research on memories o

state violence in Thailand, shespent time as the Henry Luce

Fellow in Asian Studies atAustralia National University.

Her articles include Work-

ing Practices in Thai IndependentFilm Production and Distribu-tion published in Inter-AsiaCultural Studies, Art or Octo-ber: Thai 1970s Cold War StateViolence in Trauma Art orth-coming in Positions: East AsiaCultures Critique, and Mourn-

ing State Celebrations: AmnesicIterations o Political Violencein Thailand, orthcoming inIdentities, a Journal of GlobalStudies in Culture and Power.Currently she is working on herbook manuscript, Violent Forget-ting and completing new researchon Thailand-United States labortrafcking.

Siena CollegeConcordiaUniversity GloalizationConference The Globalization Studies Pro-gram was happy to host the 4th Annual Siena-Concordia GlobalizatioConerence at Siena rom March 1920, 2009. The theme was Social Jusand Democracy in Global PerspectThree Concordia aculty members 11 students came rom Montreal toparticipate with the GLST-100 stu-dents and Siena community membe

This innovative two-day coner

ence began at with Ricardo Lopez-Torrijos, Ph.D. providing the keynspeech titled, Climate Change andGlobal Justice. Faculty and studenrom each school presented paperson one panel and Capital Districtcommunity members participated ianother panel beore the Concordidelegation let or New York City.

This years conerence will be hMarch 19-20, 2010 in Montreal on Concordia campus.


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TurkeyAssistant Proessor o

Management, Deborah L. Kelly,J.D. and Proessor o ClassicsMichael Sham, Ph.D. organized andchaperoned a 16-night study tourto Turkey and Greece or 25 Sienastudents in May/June 2009.

During the spring 2009 semesterthe students took a Global

Connection international businesscourse taught by Kelly and aClassics topics course developed

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and taught by Sham. The entirecohort o 25 students and two

proessors then traveled to Turkeand Greece together, exploringancient Greek ruins and learningabout present-day Turkish andGreek culture and business. Amothe ancient sites visited by thestudents were Troy, Pergamum,Ephesus, Knossos, the Parthenon

the Ancient Agora, Kerameikos,Temple o Olympian Zeus andDelphi.


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Program UpdateLast January, when the GLST-325 Border course traveled to El Paso,Texas and Juarez, Mexico, the class learned about the needs o schoolchildren in Juarez and the work o Christina Estrada at the Chil-

drens Library. When Ruth Banegas and Jennier Perry returned toSiena, they enlisted the help o L.U.N.A. to sell candy bars and wereable to raise over $400 to send to Christinas program. This moneyis vital to the program because the drug violence in Juarez has dis-couraged people rom visiting the library and making donations.

During their trip the studentslearned how business is conductedin the modern day EuropeanUnion through lectures at theAthens University o Economicsand Business and at the U.S.Embassy. The group also spent twodays touring Istanbul, three dayscruising the Greek islands (Patmos,Rhodes, Crete and Santorini) and

six days in Athens, where theyvisited the 2004 Olympic Stadiumand numerous museums.


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Instructor: Sudarat Musikawong,assistant proessor o sociologyDepartment: SociologyOffered: Spring 2010Course Cap: 12Level: Senior Seminar (second andthird year students need instructorapproval)

This course aims to investiagtethe role o globalization in the

processes o media (production,meaning and audience uses).The course will examine globalmedias role in changing thetelecommunications industry,network technologies, culture andidentity and social inequalities(race, ethnicity, economic class,gender, sexuality, citizenship)between peoples, regions andnation. The course is divided intofve parts:

1) Theoretical oundations inglobalization and transnationalismrom sociology and anthropology

2) Histories o particularglobal media (Internet, satellitetelecommunications and television,cinema) with examination ointernational cases in SoutheastAsia and Latin America

3) Global media and news

industries regulated andderegulated examining debates oncultural imperialism, cultural policyand the New World inormationand communication order

4) Global media texts and theirinterpreted meanings

5) Uses o global media by social

movements. Throughout theseminar, the course will unpackhow existing and new social

inequalities emerge rom theworkings o global media.

Course Requirements:The Seminar that meets Tuesdaysrom 2:30-5:30 p.m. Each week,students will write a two-to-threepage analysis o the readings andbe prepared or critical discussionwith each other. This courserequires students to pursue amajor research project relatedto global media using secondarysources. Students will developtheir own sociologically relevantresearch question that connectsthe theories o the course to thoso their research case. In additionto incorporating the readings intothe project, they must incorporat10 scholarly research articles oracademic book chapters. The fnaresearch paper will be 20-25 page

NEW COURSE FOR SOCIOLOGY: GLObAL MEDIA


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Spring 2010 gLobALizAtion StudieS CourSeS

gLSt-100, icn to Gloalization: hoang [RELG] Iorgulescu [ECON]

gLSt-490, iaal exc Sma: S [poSC]

Cross Listed Courses:

gLSt-300 A fm h 15h Cy [CreA]

Cariean history [ENGL]

Post-Soviet Politics [POSC]

Gloal Media [SOCI]

gLSt-325 plcal Scc tavl Cs: Clma [poSC]

Spanis Language Study Tour [SPAN]Gloal Woman [WSTU]

Courses with GLST elective attributes:

budV-420 glal Ccs

FinC-413 iaal Fac

gerM-026 twh Cy gma Cma

gerM-027 gma Ma LacyHiSt-202 th Ws a h Wl ii

hIST-333 Te Middle East in Modern Times

HiSt-373 Afca ii: th M tas

MKMG-334 International Marketing

poSC-150 Wl plcs

reLg-210 islamSoCi-370 Mcal Scly

SpAn-350 Sash Cvla


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gLobALizAtion StudieS Minor

The Globalization minor complements all majors and prepares students to address the challenges o an ever-changing world and a diverssociety. Students will examine how their decisions and those o other U.S. citizens aect and are being aected by decisions beyond our

borders. They will also see that most careers, whether in business, social policy/action, and the humanities are pursued within a global con

This minor is premised on the defnition o globalization as the growth o relations among people across national borders that creates a

complex series o connections that tie together what people do, what they experience, and how they live across the globe. It also incorporSiena Colleges Franciscan heritage by recognizing that St. Francis and his ollowers developed networks beyond Italys borders and that ocontemporary connections must be evaluated in terms o both how they aect human society and all o Creation and how they involve ouresponsibility to others.

Hence, this minor attempts to enable students to discover their connections and responsibilitiesto the rest o the world through considering these basic questions in all its designated courses:

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SIENAcollegeJean Stern, Director o Globalization Studies 518-783-4250515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, New York 12211 www.siena.edu

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