文明对话

教员:卡亨佩尔

地点:

古巴哈瓦那

课程:

JRNL 5360 -全球报告

CLTR 4944 -海外文化参与:了解古巴生活和文化

“古巴报道”计划将包括在印刷和广播的最后期限进行实地实时报道，为我们随时出版的在线多媒体杂志提供报道。这种密集的新闻经验是最好的体验式学习，因为它的成员将成为经验丰富的国际记者。他们还将了解我们访问的社区的景观、政治和文化习俗，因为他们将在我们在该国的整整29天里报道这些情况。参加这个项目的学生将作为一个旅行记者团。作为国际记者，他们将在截止日期前为展示课程材料的在线杂志寻找和宣传故事和/或广播片段，并用英语报道和撰写。学生也可能被要求为他们的故事拍照，并在必要和适当的时候提供视频和音频。主题可以包括有关政府、政治、宗教、难民、移民、艺术、体育、商业和生活方式的文章。除了他们的报道作品，学生还将被要求在整个课程中维护一个博客，作为我们杂志网站的一部分发表。学生将与社区密切接触。几乎从抵达的第一天起，他们就会为他们的项目采访当地人。 Interview subjects will range from people on the street to business owners to heads of state. They will also be looking for stories to write about, which puts them in touch in a profound way with the issues and topics that face a community. This kind of experience has no parallel on a resume or cover letter. It’s intense, it’s life-changing and there is no better way to enhance a student’s Northeastern career and beyond. Students should be aware that the Zika virus is present in Cuba. If a student is pregnant, she should not consider attending this Dialogue. Students with asthma should talk with their doctors before applying to this Dialogue. If they decide to attend, they should bring extra inhalers because of poor air quality in Havana. Students with allergies to bugs and/or animals should be aware of the frequency with which they will encounter these in Cuba. There are often no screens on the windows, and stray cats and dogs are pervasive on the streets. Students who have physical disabilities will have an extremely difficult time moving around in Cuba. There are almost no accommodations for handicapped accessibility and many of the roads are covered with trash or heaps of rubble. There are frequent pipes or holes dotting the roads and debris on the sidewalks. Also, the roads are overrun with numerous speeding cars and loose adherence to traffic calming measures and signals.