BETH 314/415 — 3 credits
Global Health: India
July 20 - August 3
Nicole Deming, Gopal Yadavalli, Deepak Sarma
Contact: Michelle Champoir at mln10@case.edu
The course provides a combined education in the academic and international worlds. It is relevant to students interested in Medicine, Bioethics, Sociology, International & Public Health, Religion, Law, History, and Policy (among other fields). Program Schedule: Summer 2013: Trip to Hyderabad, India will occur from Monday, July 22, 2013 to Saturday August 3, 2013. This program offers students an in-depth study of disease in India by examining the historical, cultural, ethical, medical, religious, and legal aspects that influence HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and TB. Delves into the ethical dilemmas that arise at the intersection of medicine, law, technology, and culture. Gives a cross-sectional perspective of health care in India. Incorporates the expertise of doctors, administrators, and leaders, both here and abroad, enable a better understanding of how medicine, law and life intersect. Provides an opportunity to travel to Hyderabad, India to directly observe Indian culture and health care. The learning objectives are to understand the biology of HIV/AIDS, TB, and leprosy; identify different contributors to the spread of disease, barriers to access to health care and treatment, and develop cultural humility; examine the ethical issues in global health as exemplified by the treatment of disease in India, and how they differ in the cultural and political settings of the United States. For more information contact Michelle Champoir at mln10@case.edu. To visit the Bioethics website click here. To view program details click here.
ECHE 362D — 4 credits
Chemical Engineering Laboratory in Denmark
June 28 - July 27
Syed Qutubuddin
Contact: syed.qutubuddin@case.edu
Chemical Engineering Laboratory in Denmark is a version of ECHE 362 taught during the summer at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby, about 15 km north of central. The course is a specially designed version for international students of the ordinary DTU course in large scale unit operations. Two-person teams perform 7 exercises, including reports. The exercises include: liquid flow in pipes, pump systems, flow in packed columns, filtration, drying in a tunnel, spray drying, fluidization and fluidized bed drying, distillation, absorption, ultrafiltration, ion exchange, heat exchanging, evaporation, crystallisation, agitation, centrifugation, organic synthesis, fixed bed enzyme reactor and process control. Prereq: ECHE 260 and ECHE 360 and ECHE 361 and ECHE 363 and ECHE 364. Contact Syed Qutubuddin syed.qutubuddin@case.edu for more information.
ENGR 225B — 4 credits
Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer: Botswana
May 13 - May 31
MTWRF 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
REC MTWRF 1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Daniel Lacks and R. Mohan Sankaran
Contact: daniel.lacks@case.edu
Elementary thermodynamic concepts: first and second laws, and equilibrium. Basic fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer: microscopic and macroscopic perspectives. The course will be taught at the University of Botswana, and engineering applications will be discussed in the context of regional issues specific to Botswana. Prereq: CHEM 111 and ENGR 145 and PHYS 121.
ETHS 306 — 3 credits
The Cuban Experience
May 10 - June 7
Damaris Punales-Alpizar
Contact: damaris.punales-alpizar@case.edu
This is a three week study-abroad intensive course that takes place at Editorial Vigía, in Matanzas, Cuba. The course combines the unique advantages of a total immersion environment in Spanish with a classroom curriculum that includes conversation practice and study of relevant cultural, literary and historical issues. Students complete three hours of classroom instruction and an hour and a half of publishing workshop four days per week. In this workshop, they work in the edition of a bilingual book. In addition, they participate in organized visits to historic sites and museums connected to the culture curriculum. The focus of the culture curriculum is the study of Cuban history and culture through its literature, visual arts, films, and music. After applying and being accepted in the program, students meet for personal advising with the program director and attend four different one hour orientation-information meetings in the spring semester. After successful completion of the study-abroad program, students receive 3 upper-level credits in Spanish. The course is interdisciplinary in approach and provides students with the tools they need to analyze and understand the complexities of modern Cuba. Students will have formal classes taught by their professor and talks and meetings with specialists on Cuban literature, art, architecture, history and other aspects of culture and society. In addition, they will attend lectures, participate in discussions, and take field trips that will expose them to many aspects of Cuban culture, such as art, architecture, music, dance, film, literature, artisan work, folklore, history and urban growth. Offered as SPAN 306, SPAN 406, and ETHS 306. Prereq: SPAN 202.
SPAN 306/406 — 3 credits
The Cuban Experience
May 10 - June 7
Damaris Punales-Alpizar
Contact: damaris.punales-alpizar@case.edu
This is a three week study-abroad intensive course that takes place at Editorial Vigía, in Matanzas, Cuba. The course combines the unique advantages of a total immersion environment in Spanish with a classroom curriculum that includes conversation practice and study of relevant cultural, literary and historical issues. Students complete three hours of classroom instruction and an hour and a half of publishing workshop four days per week. In this workshop, they work in the edition of a bilingual book. In addition, they participate in organized visits to historic sites and museums connected to the culture curriculum. The focus of the culture curriculum is the study of Cuban history and culture through its literature, visual arts, films, and music. After applying and being accepted in the program, students meet for personal advising with the program director and attend four different one hour orientation-information meetings in the spring semester. After successful completion of the study-abroad program, students receive 3 upper-level credits in Spanish. The course is interdisciplinary in approach and provides students with the tools they need to analyze and understand the complexities of modern Cuba. Students will have formal classes taught by their professor and talks and meetings with specialists on Cuban literature, art, architecture, history and other aspects of culture and society. In addition, they will attend lectures, participate in discussions, and take field trips that will expose them to many aspects of Cuban culture, such as art, architecture, music, dance, film, literature, artisan work, folklore, history and urban growth. Offered as SPAN 306, SPAN 406, and ETHS 306. Prereq: SPAN 202.