CASS students off to summer schools overseas
From left, Deborah Veness (Manager and Senior Educational Developer, CASS Student and Education Office), Lara Strelnikow, Associate Dean (International) Professor Jacqueline Lo, Kieran Pender, Louis Klee, Associate Dean (Students), Associate Dean (Students) Dr Johanna Rendle-Short, David Yichi Zhang and Associate Dean (Education) Dr Royston Gustavson.
At least six College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) students will this winter attend universities overseas or hit the beach for courses ranging from the Chinese economy to philosopher Kierkegaard to the media and global protests.
Their exchanges are part of the 10-member International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) Global Summer Program (GSP). Students from partner universities will visit the ANU later this year.
Six students recently attended a morning tea and send-off by members of the CASS executive.
“We’re incredibly proud of you and want to know how you’re going,” Associate Dean (international) Professor Jacqueline Lo said.
Sam Hardwick, who’s in the third-year of a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Economics double degree, is going to China’s Peking University to attend a course on the Chinese economy.
He learned about the IARU program in his first year and was told other participants had amazing stories from the experience.
Lara Strelnikow, in her fifth year of a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws double degree, is off to Cambridge University for the interdisciplinary course our changing world, incorporating science, literature and history.
David Yichi Zhang, an international student from Beijing, will study at the ANU Kioloa coastal campus on the New South Wales south coast. The Bachelor of Finance student is taking a major in international relations.
Louis Klee has finished his Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) and is now doing a Diploma of Languages in French.
Louis said he’s always wanted to properly study Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
“I’ll get to be in Denmark and do a course which contextualises Kierkegaard,” he said.
“It’s Kierkegaard: individual the global society at the University of Copenhagen.”
Fourth year Bachelor of Arts/ Bachelor of Laws student Kieran Pender jumped at the chance to visit the University of California Berkeley for a course on media and global protest movements.
“I am thinking of doing arts honours next year,” he said.
“The expert I want to contact is at Berkeley and it’s an excellent chance to meet them and learn from them.”