密歇根罗斯大学将为本科生提供新的虚拟交换课程-新东方前途出国

　　November 13, 2019Michigan Ross To Offer New Virtual Exchange Course For Undergraduates Print Share 

　　2019年11月13日密歇根罗斯大学将为本科生提供新的虚拟交换课程

　　Cross-cultural relationships in business can be challenging, but students adept at navigating them are far more likely to excel in business — not to mention a host of other global professions and fields.

　　商业中的跨文化关系可能具有挑战性，但善于驾驭这种关系的学生更有可能在商业中脱颖而出，更不用说在许多其他全球专业和领域了。 在线咨询

　　A unique course offered at the Ross School of Business, and facilitated by William Davidson Institute, will equip students with the skills they need to work on cross-cultural, geographically dispersed teams so common in today’s business world. Open to all majors, the course uses technology to connect University of Michigan students with their peers in Egypt, Lebanon and Libya.

　　罗斯商学院（Ross School of Business）开设了一门独特的课程，由威廉戴维森学院（William Davidson Institute）提供便利，将使学生具备在当今商业世界如此普遍的跨文化、地理位置分散的团队中工作所需的技能。该课程面向所有专业，利用技术将密歇根大学的学生与埃及、黎巴嫩和利比亚的同龄人联系起来。

　　Business & Culture: A Virtual Practicum (BA 310), a new 14-week, three-credit course, will serve up a mix of traditional classroom sessions and hands-on, experiential activities. The innovative course will be offered in the winter 2020 semester and most students may register through Wolverine Access now.

　　商业与文化：虚拟实习（BA 310）是一门为期14周、三学分的新课程，将提供传统课堂教学和实践性体验活动。创新课程将在2020年冬季学期开设，大多数学生现在可以通过金刚狼通道注册。

　　The course will increase students’ awareness of the scope and nature of cross-cultural business and allow them to apply their new knowledge through work in international teams. It will be led by Michigan Ross Clinical Assistant Professor and WDI Faculty Affiliate John Branch, along with professors from American University in Cairo and American University in Beirut and the founder of the Benghazi Youth for Technology and Entrepreneurship in Libya.

　　该课程将提高学生对跨文化商务的范围和性质的认识，并使他们能够通过在国际团队中的工作应用他们的新知识。它将由密歇根-罗斯临床助理教授和WDI教职员工John Branch，以及开罗美国大学和贝鲁特美国大学的教授和利比亚班加西青年技术和创业协会的创始人领导。 在线咨询

　　“Success in business, and increasingly also in life in general, requires cultural competence—the ability to navigate culturally awkward situations, respect for alternative worldviews and the skills to lead people who are different,” Branch said. “Arguably, when it comes to developing cultural competence, nothing can replace a cross-cultural experience living, studying, or working abroad.”

　　Branch说：“在商业上的成功，以及在日常生活中的成功，都需要具备文化能力，能够驾驭文化上的尴尬局面，尊重另类的世界观，以及领导与众不同的人的技能。”。“可以说，在培养文化能力方面，没有什么能取代在国外生活、学习或工作的跨文化体验。”

　　But Branch said today’s interconnected world allows a simulation of a cross-cultural experience.

　　但布兰奇说，当今相互关联的世界允许一种跨文化体验的模拟。

　　“Using the internet and other technologies, it enables students from four countries to work and study together,” he said. “They will ‘attend’ course sessions together, studying cases which reveal unique cultural approaches to business.”

　　他说：“利用互联网和其他技术，它使来自四个国家的学生能够一起工作和学习。”。“他们将一起‘参加’课程，研究揭示独特商业文化方法的案例。” 在线咨询

　　Students will maintain a journal filled with their cultural reflections and also participate in an online discussion forum with their international peers where ideas, opinions and questions are shared. For the final project, students will form international teams and research and plan the internationalization of a fictitious company.

　　学生们将保持一本充满他们文化反思的日志，还将参加一个与国际同行分享想法、观点和问题的在线讨论论坛。在最后一个项目中，学生们将组建国际团队，研究并规划虚拟公司的国际化。

　　The course is expected to run four times beginning winter 2020. It builds off WDI’s successful project from 2017 and 2018, the MENA-Michigan Initiative for Global Action Through Entrepreneurship (M²GATE) program. That project brought together more than 400 students from five Michigan university campuses, including U-M, and their peers in Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. M²GATE and the Business & Culture course are both made possible with grant support by the Stevens Initiative, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government, and is administered by the Aspen Institute. The Stevens Initiative is also supported by the Bezos Family Foundation and the governments of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

　　预计从2020年冬季开始，该课程将进行四次。它建立了WDI从2017年到2018年的成功项目，即MENA密歇根州全球创业行动计划（M？GATE）。这个项目汇集了密歇根大学五个校区的400多名学生，其中包括密歇根大学，以及他们在埃及、利比亚、摩洛哥和突尼斯的同龄人。MèGATE和商业与文化课程都有史蒂文斯倡议的资助，史蒂文斯倡议由美国国务院赞助，美国政府提供资金，并由阿斯彭研究所管理。史蒂文斯倡议还得到贝佐斯家庭基金会以及摩洛哥和阿拉伯联合酋长国政府的支持。 在线咨询

　　In addition, WDI’s Performance Measurement and Improvement (PMI) will evaluate the impact the program has on students in the U.S., Libya, Lebanon and Egypt in areas such as empathy and cross-cultural skills, and use the findings to look for ways to improve subsequent BA310 classes. The data from the PMI team’s work also will be used to optimize future virtual exchange courses.

　　此外，WDI的绩效衡量和改进（PMI）将评估该项目在移情和跨文化技能等领域对美国、利比亚、黎巴嫩和埃及学生的影响，并利用调查结果寻找改进后续BA310课程的方法。PMI团队的工作数据也将用于优化未来的虚拟交换课程。

　　“Virtual exchange is an ideal way to prepare students for the global workforce they’ll soon be part of,” said Amy Gillett, academic advisor of the new program and vice president of WDI’s Education sector. “It’s also a fun and exciting way to learn and a great way to build an international network.”

　　“虚拟交流是让学生为即将加入的全球劳动力做好准备的理想方式，”新项目的学术顾问、WDI教育部门副总裁Amy Gillett说。“这也是一种有趣和令人兴奋的学习方式，也是一种建立国际网络的好方法。”