Globetrotter Fall 2011

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Message froM the Director

This issue oGlobetrottereatures the sixth annual Siena College-Concordia

University Conerence on Globalization. Concordia sent a delegation o 18 aculty and

students, its largest ever. This year, student presentations dominated the proceedings it was wonderul to see the work o the students proessionally presented. In addition

to student presentations on specic issues, there were presentations on the Siena Fair

Trade campaign and the rst Siena-Concordia cross-border course, Canada and the

United States: Divergent Paths Intertwined Destinies [HIST-402].

In the all, Antonio de Lecea, the economic minister at the delegation or the European Union, talked about ho

the EU is dealing with the global economic crisis.

This issue also discusses the new portolio component o the Capstone course and proles three recent

Globalization Studies minor graduates. We also report on the revival o the Siena-Brazil connection and the trave

course taught by Proessors Andrea Smith-Hunter [MMGT] and Suvarna Cherukuri [SOCI].

Check out the revised Facebook page, Globalization Studies at Siena.

Jean M. Stern, Ph.D.

Director, Globalization Studies Program

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globalization stuDies electives for fall 2011

Course with Globalization Studies attributes accepted as electives:

GLST-300 courses:

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pc a [c- w Crea397]

m ecy-g ev - glst 300 c u C mba c

hnrs: i s fc - glst 300 [c- w engl490]

Reminder:

s w C : Chinese 101 - 31193 - ATDV 250 - 04

eCon 360 ecc dv

finC 413 i fc

fren 027 fc C

germ 025 20C g l t

germ 026 tw C g C

hist 202 W W ii

mrKt 334 i mk

relg 280 W r

soCi 160 ev scy


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stuDent Profile

three stuDents goback abroaD

Studying abroad in collegeis a transormative experienceand, in the Globalization Studiesdepartment at Siena, that is nodierent. Three recent Siena gradsand globalization studies minorswant to go back and build on that

experience they have applied orjobs overseas or this all.

Catherine Raleigh 11, apolitical science major, spenther study abroad experiencein three dierent locations inArica: Johannesburg, Namibiaand Cape Town. She interned orthe Media Institute o SouthernArica, learning about corruption

in the media and working with thecountrys national board o elections.

It was the best experience o mylie, Raleigh said.

Raleigh returned home wantingmore. She has secured a ull-time job

as a teaching assistant or the comingacademic year in Nancy, France,through its government.

Valerie Swenson 11, a Spanishmajor, has always done well withlanguages and studied in Malaga,Spain. She took advantage o her timin Europe, visiting seven dierentcountries and 21 dierent cities.

Being in college, there is nomore opportunistic time to travel,Swenson said.

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Valerie SwensonIm not done traveling yet. It

really is like a bug. It startedmy reshman year and has justgotten worse and worse. I eellike I need to travel while I stillhave the chance.

why theyre going back

and multicultural studies minor,

had a less traditional study abroadexperience. Weis was a residentassistant at Siena so she went toMalaga, Spain in the summer toavoid missing an entire semester.

Weis wants to continue her workin residence lie and has applied or

an assistant residence directorposition in Florence, Italy at acampus aliated with Marist College.

I I went to Spain as a Spanish

major, I would have known thelanguage but I wouldnt haveunderstood what I was doingor why I was there, Weis said.Whether it was political scienceclasses or art classes or religionclasses, globalization studies helpedme to understand that experience

and to make the most o it.

In March, Swenson went on

the Dominican Republic ServiceTrip through the Sr. Thea BowmanCenter or Women and taughtEnglish as a second language.That experience helped make herdecision to apply to the NorthAmerican Language and CultureAssistants program in Spain.

Brittany Weis 11, a Spanishmajor and globalization studies

Catherine RaleighBecause my rst experience wasamazing and made me challengemysel. I want to experience thatagain or a longer period o time somewhere they speak a dierentlanguage

Brittany Weis

My study abroad experience was

great but it was much shorter thanmost programs because it was onlysummer and not a ull semester. So Idenitely need and want to go backor that ull immersion


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On March 24 and 25, SienasGlobalization Studies Program

hosted the sixth annual JointSiena-Concordia GlobalizationConerence. This years themewas Transnational Economic andEnvironmental Justice, and, or therst time, student presentationsdominated the conerence.

The Concordia delegation

consisted o three proessors andsta and 15 students who werehosted by Siena students, who metor the rst time.

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The conerence began with adinner and keynote speaker, Susan

Stebbins, Ph.D., proessor oanthropology at SUNY Potsdam.Her talk, Bring Tea, Not Guns:

The Bridge and the Tent at the U.S./Canadian Border, dealt with a

dispute involving the three nationson the border: the U.S., Canada andthe Akwesasne-Mohawk.

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The conerence continuedwith three panels the next day:Canada/U.S. Issues with student

and aculty presentations onspecic issues;Think Globally/Act Locally withpresentations onthe Siena FairTrade campaignand the Concordia

Campus Greencampaign; and apanel reporting on

the joint Siena-Concordia Historycourse on U.S.-Canadian Relation

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For the rst time, Siena Collegcompleted its rst collaborativeclass with the Loyola InternationaCollege o Concordia Universityin Montreal this past spring.Essentially there were two section

o the class, Canada and the

siena-concorDia globalization conference

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United States: Divergent Paths Intertwined Destinies [HIST-402],

just held in dierent countries.Both schools ollowed the

same syllabus, learning about thedierences in political makeupbetween the U.S. and Canada andinterpreting key historical eventssuch as World War I and II, theGreat Depression and the current

wars in the Middle East. Three timesduring the semester there was aweb conerence held online so thestudents could interact with eachother and they also completed jointresearch projects through Gmail andGoogle chat.

It was a very challenging

but successul class, said ClaireParham, proessor o history, whospoke about the new class at the

conerence. She co-taught the coursewith Proessor Rosemarie Schade

rom Concordia.Canada and the United States:

Divergent Paths IntertwinedDestinies [HIST-402] is an upperlevel history class but can also lla requirement in the globalizationstudies minor. It will be availableagain in spring 2012.

It was a lot o un, said seniorAlli Bartunek 11. We clicked rightaway.


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Siena College sent 15 studentsto Curichiba, Brazil with AndreaSmith-Hunter, Ph.D., proessor omarketing and management andsociology, and Suvarna Cherukuri,Ph.D., associate proessor osociology, or a 12-day study

tour in May. The trip served asa three-credit course sponsored

by the Sociology Department inconjunction with the School oBusiness.

The purpose was to see greencompanies, entrepreneurshipand social responsibility rom adierent perspective, said Smith-

Hunter.

It was academicallyrigorous, and at the sametime, an eye-openingexperience in a dierentculture. Students begantheir weekdays withclasses at FAE Institute a business school with

several aliations toU.S. colleges that at onetime included Siena

and went oncorporate

visits in theaternoon.

The corporate visits werehighlighted by a trip to the ItaipuBinacional Power Plant wherethey use a natural waterallto share hydroelectric powerbetween Brazil and Paraguay, an

entrepreneur that employed localinmates to manuacture uniormsrom recycled materials and awoman who patented wax usedor hair removal and now ownsmultiple ranchises.

Smith-Hunter saw the impacto these real lie examples o

entrepreneurship on the studentsI sat there and wondered i (anyo those 15 students) will be

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On November 9, 2010, theGlobalization Studies Programsponsored a talk by Antonio deLecea, Ph.D., titled EuropeanUnions Response to the CurrentGlobal Economic Crisis. Thetalk provided some background

on the structures and policies othe European Union and thengave de Leceas assessment o theimplications o Greeces sovereigndebt situation on the euro and theeects o scal austerity mea-sures on Greece and other heavilyindebted countries o the EU.

Since 2009, de Lecea has beenMinister or Economic and

Financial Aairs at the EuropeanUnion Delegation to the United

States in Washington, D.C. Previ-ously, he was Director or Inter-national Aairs in the EuropeanCommissions Directorate Gen-eral or Economic and FinancialAairs where he provided analyti-cal and policy advice supportingthe Commissions positions on the

international issues relevant to theEconomic and Monetary Union.

antonio De lecealectures on theeuroPean union

working or someone else in 10years, Smith Hunter said.

Students also had theopportunity to explore Brazil.They visited a botanical garden,a sky tower, a fea market andattended concerts where localmusicians played.


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In December, Siena appliedor and was awarded a grant romFair Trade USA to host a regionalconerence or other colleges anduniversities. Siena hosted the rstAnnual Fair Trade College andUniversities Regional Conerenceon April 12, 2011. In addition to

using the grant money rom FairTrade USA, the conerence wassupported by the Franciscan Cente

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Did you know that Sienaserves only air trade coee in the

dining hall? They also oer airtrade tea, sugar and occasionallycocoa. You can also purchaseairly traded handcrated goods

fair traDe at siena

rom The Womens Centeror Vera Eccarius-Kellys,

Ph.D., stash o Mayanhand goods made in theSiena green and gold.Though Siena has beenserving/selling air tradegoods on campus andprogramming around airtrade or a number o years, this was

a particularly busy year.

In October, Siena applied or andwas awarded air trade status. It isonly the third college in the countryto do so and rst Catholic or private.Siena held a well attended pressconerence to announce its air trade

status that included comments byU.S. Congressional RepresentativePaul Tonko.


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or Service and Advocacy,Multicultural Studies, Peace

Studies and the Bowman Centeror Women. The conerencewelcomed attendees rom as araway as Villanova and receivedsupport rom air trade partnersMango Tree Imports, CRS andEqual Exchange.

Siena Students or FairTrade held numerous air tradechocolate tastings and Bead orLie programs in the residencehalls this past year. Students alsoorganized a very successul FairTrade World Cup Soccer event withsix teams competing and a Fair Trade

Wine Tasting and Dinner that wasco-sponsored by Sodexo.


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caPstone Portfolios

a new way to DocuMent your Minor

This spring, the Globalization Studies Program introduced the use o portolios

in the Senior Capstone course as a way or students to evaluate their experiences as aGlobalization Studies minor. The portolio is broken down into ve sections:

Evaluation o the students electives

Evaluation o the study abroad experience in terms o both globalization issuesencountered and the students experience o intercultural transitions while living in another country

Sharing o students time and globalization experiences with the Siena community

Individual research project in which the students use at least some o their sources in the language o theircountry o study to research a globalization issue aecting that country and its response

Student assessment o whether they are or are not becoming a Citizen o the World as well as o the U.S.

As this portolio was the rst attempt, there will be some ne tuning. From now on, all minors will prepare aportolio and should be thinking about and gathering material that they would like to include.

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

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