Global College - Kyoto
Asia - Japan - Kyoto
| Address: |
9 Hanover Place, 4th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201-5882 USA |
| E-mail: | meredith.fisher@liu.edu |
| Phone: | 718.488.3409 |
| Fax: | 718.780.4325 |
| Degree: | Bachelors |
| Setting: | Urban |
| Enrollment: | 1000 or Less |
| Financial aid: | Yes |
| Fafsa Number: | 002751 |
| Housing: | Yes |
Description
Global College places a strong emphasis on experiential learning and students undertake an exciting and dynamic individually-tailored education. This emphasis on internships, service learning and field trips ensures that students immerse themselves within the community at-hand. A student might focus on rain forest ecology, non-western healing practices, peace studies, conflict resolution, and any number of other academic possibilities and combinations.
Our academic program includes the Foundation Year Program in Costa Rica which is designed to prepare first-year students with the fundamentals of independent study abroad.
Second and Third Years are an opportunity to build upon first-year learning and apply knowledge and skills at other Global College Centers in China, India, Japan or participate in the traveling Comparative Religion & Culture Program.
Fourth Year students spend one semester doing an Independent Study in a country previously visited, before participating in the Capstone Semester in Brooklyn, New York, in order to synthesize and integrate all their overseas experiences from the previous 3.5 years through courses such as: Senior Skills Seminar, Writing Workshop, Senior Seminar, Capstone Preparation Workshop, Internship, Cross-Cultural Understanding in a Globalizing World.
Curriculum Overview
The Japan Center in Kyoto exposes students to the ancient capital of Japan through workshops in haiku, papermaking, tea ceremony, calligraphy, sumie, and Taiko drumming, as well as modern-day subjects such as literature, cinema, photography, creative writing, interactive web-publishing, digital literacy, Behind the Mask: alternative Japan, and teaching English as a second language.
Student Life
In a third year fieldtrip to Hiroshima, students may speak with the elderly survivors of the A bomb and hear their concerns about how the next generation will carry on their efforts to speak out against nuclear proliferation and communicate world peace. In a fieldtrip to Koya San, students may speak with a resident American monk about how monastic life is being affected by the proliferation of cell phone and internet technology, and how a once secluded monastic village has rapidly become a tourist attraction prized for its special tofu. In Okinawa, students may meet with a local activist engaged in a battle to prevent US Marines from relocating their largest air base to the habitats of Japanese manatees. In a day trip to Gion, the traditional entertainment district of Kyoto, students may speak with a geisha to learn how the influence of Western feminism has caused young women to desire careers in office work, particularly the travel and fashion industry, leaving the geisha arts to fade into history. Tokyo's Harajuku district with its explosive youth culture is a site where students may learn how the creative genius of a whole generation of young Japanese exerts a huge influence on global pop culture - from anime to manga, and fashion to cinema.
Financial Aid
Global College offers merit awards for international experience, community service and academic achievement. Students who complete FAFSA may receive US federal loans and grants.
Housing
Students are accommodated in dorms located five minutes from the Japan Center. The dorms are in a quiet residential neighborhood, and the rooms are small but more than adequate. Each room has a closet for storing clothes and bedding, kitchens as well as communal toilet and bathing facilities.
