China & Taiwan
Students participating in this course are eligible for a TLO Scholarship. See the Cost section below for more information.
- Where:
- Beijing, China & Taipei, Taiwan
- When:
- Travel occurs during spring break (Friday, March 12 – Sunday, March 21, 2010). This course includes required meetings pre and post travel.
- Note: Required predeparture and post-travel sessions are listed below. All participants are required to attend all of these sessions as part of the ECO 4956: Study Abroad in China & Taiwan course.
Date Time Location Friday, December 4, 2009 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, January 15, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, January 29, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, February 12, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, February 26, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, March 5, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, April 16, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA Friday, May 21, 2010 1pm – 4pm TBA - Class Capacity:
- 20
- Summary:
- This course helps students understand how economics can be applied to many daily decisions in their daily lives, and provide a unique opportunity to discover the roles of cultural, social, and economics factors in such decision-making process through research collaboration with students in China & Taiwan.
- Do you know how several simple economic principles can help you to make important decisions in life – on education, leisure, work, consumption, health and almost everything else? Or maybe you have been making important choices following these principles without knowing it? How do college students like you on the other side of the planet (in China & Taiwan) make their important decisions in life? If the same economic principles are the underlying guidance, how can their choices be different from yours? Your instructors will give you a toolbox (containing some microeconomics principles, some statistics, one airline ticket, and a few other things) and let you find our own answers!
- First, UNF students will team up with students from Taiwan (Soochow University) and China (Beijing International Studies University) using blackboard to develop research topics on one aspect that affects college students. Second, the UNF students will travel to China & Taiwan to meet their international research partners face to face and exchange ideas (plus, of course, visiting lots of cultural sites like Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, The Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, and the Summer Palace in Beijing and Longshan Temple, National Palace Museum and the Taipei 101 Financial Building in Taipei!) Finally, the international research partners will present their final reports.
- Prerequisites:
- ECO 2023: Principles of Microeconomics
- ECO 3411: Business/Economic Statistics (co-requisite) or MAN 4550: Intro to Management Science (co-requisite)
- Subjects:
- Economics & Statistics
- Open To:
- Junior & Senior Coggin Students
- Credits:
- 3 credit hours
- Syllabus:
- ECO 4956: Study Abroad in China & Taiwan Syllabus [pdf]
- Itinerary:
- ECO 4956: Study Abroad in China & Taiwan Itinerary [pdf]
- Cost:
$3,995$2,995* (plus the cost of 3 hours UNF tuition)- 1st Payment: $500 due by December 1, 2009
2nd Payment:$3,495$2,495* due by February 1, 2010 - * Eligible students may receive a Transformational Learning Opportunity (TLO) scholarship of $1,000 awarded by the President's Office to lower the total cost to a maximum of $2,995. Only undergraduate degree-seeking students are eligible for the TLO scholarship. Questions about TLO eligibility should be directed to Martina.Perry@unf.edu 904.620.2994
- Application:
- Review and download our application process
- More Info:
- Contact:
- Dr. Chung-Ping Loh
42/3107
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