Print VersionA Sampling of CIBER-Funded Curriculum Development
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Small-Scale Entrepreneurial Development
Kenneth Shapiro, associate dean and professor, Department of International Programs/CALS, UW-Madison
CIBER will provide funding to create a new three-credit class focused on imparting entrepreneurial skills and giving students a foundation for understanding small business opportunities and challenges in a global environment. Universities in Japan, India, and Uganda will contribute content via distance learning. Class members will study what defines and allows people to go forward with ideas and take risks, and how they grow and manage money, especially in informal markets. This class will especially consider the role of women, as in rural areas all over the world women and micro-financing are providing the key to small business development. The class will culminate in a study-abroad session over January break where the class will visit their classmates from a partner institute and collaborate on a project. The long-term goal of this class is to establish a self-sustaining, interdisciplinary class that will teach students the social and historical context business development takes place in, and the leadership, problem solving and communication skills needed to help them succeed in a global small-business environment.
Building Personnel for the UW-Madison Arabic and Persian Immersion Program
Steven Smith, assistant director, Department of Global Studies, UW-Madison
CIBER will provide funding to build the Persian instructional staff for the UW-Madison Arabic and Persian Immersion Program (APIP), an eight-week opportunity for students to learn an entire year of either Arabic or Persian in an immersion setting. This funding will allow APIP to hire an additional Persian lecturer for the entire eight-week duration of the program. The development of the Persian program will strengthen UW-Madison’s Middle East Studies Program in hopes that one day it will join other area studies programs as a fully funded National Resource Center.