As global citizens, students need to have a working knowledge of other countries which are important in shaping the corporate, social and political world. As a rising state in the world economy, India's status in the business and in world affairs is shifting. This short course will explore how these three factors interact in India and in the perceived position of India as a world economy.

Muriel Zhou, Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education

Dr. V. Page Fortna

-Contrary to the conventional wisdom, terrorism is not a weapon of the weak, nor is it effective.

-Civil wars involving terrorism are harder to end.

-Terrorists do not win.

An 'Economic Hit Man' details his experiences exploiting Latin America & the Middle East

Radisav Vidic, Ph.D., P.E.

William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Jennifer Dobbs's debut collection, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007), received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motten Book Award, and her chapbook, Song of a Mirror, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. She was also awarded a 2010 literature translation grant with Young Shil Cho from The Daesan Foundation of Korea.

Panel presenters include:

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Asst. Prof. of English, St Olaf College--'Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Overseas Korean Adoptee and Unwed Mother Advocacy'

Eleana Kim, Asst. Prof. Anthropology, University of Rochester--'The Dry Eye of Adoption Politics: Testimony, Social Justice, and Representation Among Transnational Korean Adoptees'

Mr. Leonard Kachebonaho, Executive Secretary of the Tanzanian NGO KADERES, will discuss the role of KADERES in providing services to the community in three key areas of development: (1) Clean and easily accessible water; (2) Clinics and health centers; and (3) Microfinance. He will talk about the work of KADERES, the impact it has had on rural populations, the challenges and opportunities as they move forward with their development projects.

Marzia Cozzolino, PhD student in Administrative and Policy Studies

In this session the presenter will share the results of a survey administered to a purposeful sampling of Pennsylvania educators in the

Are Muslims friends or foes to America? How can we tell? Does Islam that unites Muslims divide them as well? How so? What does this mean to the U.S. foreign policy? These questions and others will be addressed by Professor Moataz Herzawi's talk in which he will dissect the phenomenon of Political Islamism from a Middle Eastern perspective. He will respond as well to several of the thorny questions that are haunting the American mind.