Vision Statement:
Klein Global Opportunities aims to create influential global leaders by providing opportunities to students and faculty who wish to learn, grow, and experience media and communication within urban centers around the world
Mission Statement:
The office provides international and domestic opportunities for all students who desire to become influential leaders and empowered global citizens through academic and practical experience. We offer engaging educational and professional experiences such as cultural immersion courses and assignments, internships, and service projects in a variety of locations, through both full semester and summer programs. Our programs are designed to not only enhance a student’s marketability in the workplace, but to also cultivate their global perspective in a growing multicultural environment. Through guidance and expertise, encourages faculty to propose and participate in international and domestic experiential learning.
Goals of Global Opportunities
- Enhance the academic experience of students across all Klein departments creating immersive international and intercultural experiences for them
- Stimulate student engagement with cultures other than their own, particularly with regard to media markets, practices, institutions, social processes, and research.
- Encourage sustainable growth in international and intercultural matters among faculty, staff, and administration
- Broaden students’ view of potential future careers and job opportunities
- Provide support, guidance, policies, and procedures to facilitate participation by faculty with the necessary insight and experience in international and domestic opportunities
- Develop future global-minded leaders within the fields of Media and Communication
- Explore emerging media markets in urban centers throughout the world
Objectives of Global Opportunities
- Promote personal adaptability and flexibility, tolerance for ambiguity, and an ability to understand and articulate different viewpoints, thereby developing a greater sense of the value of diversity, and enhancing individual self-confidence
- Develop professionalism and problem-solving skills through the ability to recognize and decipher social cues and norms, and act accordingly in a variety of cultural contexts
- Develop rudimentary understanding of the structure of Media Institutions in cultures outside of the US
- Understanding of the impact of Culture and Government on Media institutions and content in cultures other than the US
- Develop critical thinking in comparison of the similarities and differences of media content, audience engagement, and consumer spending in the US and other nations
- Promote critical thinking in comparison of the similarities and differences in patterns of communication in the US and other nations
- Develop critical analysis in comparison of the ways in which various media interact with other (convergence) in the US and other nations
- Promote analytical thinking regarding media and communication styles present in other cultures but not in the US
- Promote critical thinking with regard to applications of foreign models to the industry in the U.S.
- Provide academic course options that broaden student knowledge within a field of study at their chosen location and fulfill graduation requirements
- Help students take advantage of scholarship opportunities that make it possible for every student to have a study away experience