Browsing by Subject "Berlin"

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    Culture within a culture: participant perspectives on personal learning and development of a GLBT short-term study abroad program.
    (2012-01) Bowers, Annika
    This study examines the outcomes of a four-week, short-term study abroad course focused on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) studies at the University of Minnesota. It aims to address the lack of research on the cross-section of study abroad and GLBT Studies courses. The qualitative method of interviewing participants illuminates the learning and personal development outcomes through documenting their intercultural experience of learning about GLBT issues throughout history, and examining the reflective re-entry process to highlight behavioral changes. This study aims to discover the impact of GLBT study abroad programs on participant attitudes, knowledge, future interest in study abroad, and new or renewed plans to engage in GLBT activism. The findings offer insight into how collaboration between GLBT higher education and education abroad professionals could expand both international education and GLBT Studies and strengthen the experience of all study abroad participants. Keywords: short-term study abroad, GLBT Studies, Berlin, Amsterdam, University of Minnesota Este estudio examina los resultados de un curso al extranjero a corto plazo enfocado en estudios Gay, Lesbiana, Bisexual, Transgénero (GLBT) de la Universidad de Minnesota y aspira dirigirse a la falta de investigaciones de la sección transversa de los estudios extranjeros y cursos de estudios GLBT. El método cualitativo de entrevistar los participantes ilumina el aprendizaje y desarrollo personal por documentar susexperiencias interculturales en aprender de los asuntos GLBT, y examinar el proceso reflexivo de la reentrada para destacar cambios de comportamiento. Este estudio también ambiciona descubrir el impacto en la actitud, interés en estudiar al extranjero en el futuro, y planes nuevos o renovados en involucrarse en activismo GLBT. Las conclusiones ofrecen entendimiento de cómo colaboración entre profesionales universitarios de educación al extranjero y de los estudios GLBT tiene la posibilidad de aumentar ambos campos y fortalecer la experiencia de todos los participantes de estudios extranjeros. Palabras claves: curso al extranjero a corto plazo, estudios GLBT, Berlin, Amsterdam, Universidad de Minnesota.
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    Maker Made: Creating a Silicon Place in Berlin, Germany
    (2016-12) Phillips, Leonore
    Drawing on the inspiration that Silicon Valley provides, this dissertation is about the way Silicon Allee in Berlin Germany is made by workers, students, bureaucrats and even the larger population of Berlin. Silicon Allee is a community; it’s a matrix of interconnected people, machines, ideas, places and words that are changing, connecting, disconnecting, and reconnecting; maintained through webpages, text messages, classrooms, university spaces, meetups, camps, tweets, coworking sites, coffee shop talk and offices. In this age of ultra-information and continuous connections that can span the globe in seconds, Berlin’s Silicon Allee is also embedded in a larger culture of computing that both ignores and reinforces boundaries. I use this dissertation to explore the way that these boundaries are made, unmade and revised both locally, nationally and globally through discourses on and practices of work.