The FAMU Center for Global Security and International Affairs
2013 Summer Study Abroad Program’s 23 scholars are geared up and ready to
journey to South Africa (six students), the Dominican Republic (four
students), Ghana (five students), and Brazil (eight
students), respectively.
Scheduled to depart
Tallahassee today, June 24, for a time span of four to six weeks, the
students will take classes at selected universities or institutions in
their chosen countries. Students are required to take a course in the
language of the country as part of their required cultural immersion
activity for the Center’s study abroad program.
The
program’s participants started their initial research project in the
spring 2013 semester, and upon the students’return to Tallahassee in
August, they will participate in a campus colloquium affording program
scholars opportunities to present reports on their study abroad
experience and the academic research they conducted in their respective
countries.
“As director of the Center for Global Security and International Affairs (CGSIA), I'm pleased to see the product of facultyand mentors' commitment to developing future global leaders,” said Keith Simmonds, director and principal investigator for the CGSIA.
The CGSIA mission
is to create and develop leaders utilizing a holistic approach through
teaching, dialoguing and informing citizens at home and abroad about
global security and international affairs.We consider ourselves as
vendors in the marketplace of ideas, communicating a new paradigm for
national security.
This is the Center’s fourth year conducting
study abroad programs. Since 2009, students have traveled to China, Hong Kong,
Belgium, Britain, Spain and Costa Rica. The program scholars understand
that the world has become a global community without borders, and it is
critical that Americans become conversant with the politics, economics
and culture of all people.