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Ireland and Northern Ireland
Travel Dates: March 14-22, 2008
Professors: Dr. Sarah Stookey, Assistant Professor of Management (860) 832-3284 or stookeysab@ccsu.edu
Dr. Louise B. Williams, Associate Professor of History (860) 832-2806 or williamsl@ccsu.edu
Courses: International Business 495: Field Studies in International Business, 3 credits History 498: Historical Field Studies Abroad, 3 credits
Cost: The cost of the program, exclusive of tuition and registration fees, is approximately $2,395 per person, based on double occupancy and a minimum of 14 participants.
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor for the course for which the student enrolls.
Program Registration Deadline: December 3, 2007
Irish Business, Culture and History This field study course focuses on the northern area of the Republic of Ireland; Northern Ireland, UK; and Dublin, Ireland. The emphases will be the history of these areas, conflict resolution, and business in the emerging Irish economy. The aim of the program is to provide a comprehensive background to understand the present political and business climate, and, more broadly, understand business challenges in an emerging economy.
Participants will visit Inch Island, tour the Inishowen Peninsula, including a 4000-year-old ring fort, St. Aengus Church (the Irish building of the 20th Century), the graves of St. Mura and Elizabeth Jones, an Irish famine village, and a mass rock and holy well. Other sites to be visited include Donegal Castle, Donegal Abbey, the grave of poet W.B. Yeats, Giant's Causeway, Dunluce Castle, and Bushmill’s Distillery. In Dublin, we will visit Trinity College, Government buildings, Guinness Brewery, Christ Church, the Ha’penny Bridge Temple Bar, and The Spire of Light.
Participants will receive lectures from experts in the history, politics, and business of the areas to be visited. Lecturers and their areas of expertise will include: Mr. John Hume (Nobel Peace Laureate) will lecture on peace-building in Ireland and Europe; Dr. Jim Bell will lecture on Irish business; Aoife NicSheain will provide Gaelic language lessons; Mr. Tony Johnston, Director Inch House Studies Centre, will lecture on Irish History; Dr. Billy Kelley will conduct a guided tour of Derry’s Historic Walls and lecture on 17th Century Irish history; Prof. Paul Arthur and Dr. Terry Cradden will lecture on Politics and the Troubles in Northern Ireland; the Commander of the Police Service of Northern Ireland will address post conflict policing; and community leaders and town politicians will address local community and political issues.
Evening activities will include an Irish banquet including a harpist, piper, Irish dancer, and singers, and other traditional performances. Others evenings will be spent at local venues.
Participants in this program will be required to attend weekly class meetings (one hour in duration) from the beginning of the Spring semester until travel, as well as two one-hour sessions after returning from Ireland.
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