Global Media Education
The Salzburg Global Seminar and ICMPA launched the inaugural Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. Fifty-two students from five continents and and a dozen faculty and deans from 12 universities came together in July and August 2007 in Salzburg, Austria, to start a world-wide revolution in media education.
The students created a dynamic online-based curriculum like nothing ever before taught. Read the press release (pdf) for a detailed account of this program.
Also, visit the Salzburg Global Seminar's Academy page for the latest details on the next academy.
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Highlights of 2007
The three-week Academy brought together top undergraduate and graduate students from around the world and a global faculty to study and live at the Seminar’s home, the world-renowned Schloss Leopoldskron, celebrated as an historic center of scholarship—as well as the movie “home” of the Von Trapp family in “The Sound of Music.”
The Global Media Literacy curriculum focused on five key elements of global citizenship: access, awareness, assessment, appreciation and action. The Academy also covered two key issues in depth: Terrorism and Climate Change. The students built web-based modules that consider how global media cover these subjects.
To hear the students talk about what they created and experienced visit the Salzburg Academy's web site.
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Apply for 2008 Academy
Student Applicants (Deadline April 30, 08):
» About the Academy
Applications for students
» studying inside the USA
» studying outside the USA (pdf)
Institutions and Foundations:
For more information on supporting the Salzburg Academy, please contact: Paul Mihailidis
For more information on study abroad programs at UMD, visit the University of Maryland International Programs.
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