October, 2001:
Our Euro Summer School project was a productive collaborative effort involvin g students from Denison, Kenyon, and Oberlin. The first three weeks of the program was hosted by the Center for European Studies at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Students participated in an introductory course on international business taught by Oberlin Professor David Cleeton. As an integral part of the course a 10-hour module on intercultural communications was organized by Professor Paul S. Paul Verluyten of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The technological component of the c ourse centered on the completion of a series of Web-based learning modules using Professor Cleeton's International Business WebQuester (Dushkin McGraw-Hill, 2000).
While headquartered in Maastricht the student took two field trips. On their visit to Brussels they were given a series of briefings from officials at NATO Headquarters and the European Commission. A business site visit took them to the factory and headquarters of DAF Trucks, a division of Packard International, in Einhoven.
After the three-week stay in Maastricht, the Oberlin-in-Europe students joined a larger group of international students in the European Summer School Program coordinated by three leading European business schools. The students worked for one week each at: HEC - Paris, France; Universita Bocconi - Milan, Italy; and Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien - Vienna, Austria.
The program courses were built around modular approaches under two main topics:
European Affairs
Links
Oberlin Online series: http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/holding/default/09012001.html
Oberlin-in-Europe Euro Summer School Web site: http://www.oberlin.edu/~oeurope/
- report by David Cleeton