Amanda Raude
As an FIU student, I am proud to say I am "World's Ahead". I believe it is important to understand the world and it's complexities. The key to understanding people is understanding where they come from. Having the opportunity to further educate myself with classes that promote diversity and culture has encouraged me to want to venture off and help others from all around the world. I feel that it is important to gain perspective in order to be able to relate to people, which I think will benefit me personally as well as professionally.
Global Learning courses I completed:
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AMH 4671 - Race, Gender, Science in the Atlantic World: Examines the ways in which scientists in the Atlantic World categorized, defined, and assigned meaning to racial and gendered differences. Explores how these differences influenced social media and pop culture. Emphasizing on the eugenics movement, birth control and abortion, the fashion industry, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, public health, immigration debates, environmental racism, forced sterilization, alternative health and healing, and medicinal practices in the Caribbean and Latin America.
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REL 3185 - Healers and Mediums: A course on global healing methods through medium ship, channeling, shamanism, para psychological phenomena, plants and animals. Explores validity of such healing practices that have been used for thousands of years.
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CLP 4314 - Psychology of Health and Illness: Course provides an overview of the field of health psychology and behavioral medicine with an emphasis on psychological, social, cultural, and global factors affecting health and health care/policy.
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JPN 3955 - Foreign Study Japan: Study of Japanese language and culture in Japan. Examining Japanese society, culture, politics and foreign relations through fieldwork activities. Activities such as a tea ceremony experience, a scavenger hunt throughout downtown Beppu, and a farm-stay with a host family in rural Japan.
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SOP 4731 - Global Psychology: Examination of cultural contexts informing human behavior and psychological wellness internationally. Examine psychology research through direct application to global phenomena.
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