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Students travel to Cambodia through embedded course in developmental psychology
Jessica Lawson
April 05, 2019
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of the Liberal Arts offers many embedded courses to Penn State students. Embedded courses are semester-long classes that include an optional short-term international experience related to the course content.
Students in the course PSYCH 212 Introduction to Developmental Psychology went to Siem Reap, Cambodia over spring break. This is the third consecutive year professors Cathleen Hunt and Bo Cleveland led the embedded program, which allows Penn State students to visit local schools all over the city with students of all ages. There, they had the chance to lead educational activities that Hunt helped them plan with local staff and teachers. Many students refer to these experiences as some of the most memorable of the trip.
“The best part of this experience was interacting and doing hands-on activities with the Khmer children,” said Jalani Cook, a psychology student who went on the trip. “Because this experience was part of a child development class, we were able to experience how these children adapt to obstacles, challenges and new tasks. Being able to interact with the children was heart-warming because they were so happy and energetic.”
This course works specifically with nonprofit, non-governmental, charitable organizations, such as Caring for Cambodia, Ponheary Li Foundation, and the PEPY Empowering Youth organization. Taking part in events with these organizations helped students learn about both the opportunities and the obstacles facing Cambodian students. Additionally, a new part of the embedded course this year was that, prior to the trip, participating students had the opportunity to take part in dialogues facilitated by Penn State’s World in Conversation initiative with Cambodian college students who they would meet with on the trip to discuss each other’s experiences with educational goals and barriers.
https://news.psu.edu/story/567529/2019/ ... elopmental
Jessica Lawson
April 05, 2019
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of the Liberal Arts offers many embedded courses to Penn State students. Embedded courses are semester-long classes that include an optional short-term international experience related to the course content.
Students in the course PSYCH 212 Introduction to Developmental Psychology went to Siem Reap, Cambodia over spring break. This is the third consecutive year professors Cathleen Hunt and Bo Cleveland led the embedded program, which allows Penn State students to visit local schools all over the city with students of all ages. There, they had the chance to lead educational activities that Hunt helped them plan with local staff and teachers. Many students refer to these experiences as some of the most memorable of the trip.
“The best part of this experience was interacting and doing hands-on activities with the Khmer children,” said Jalani Cook, a psychology student who went on the trip. “Because this experience was part of a child development class, we were able to experience how these children adapt to obstacles, challenges and new tasks. Being able to interact with the children was heart-warming because they were so happy and energetic.”
This course works specifically with nonprofit, non-governmental, charitable organizations, such as Caring for Cambodia, Ponheary Li Foundation, and the PEPY Empowering Youth organization. Taking part in events with these organizations helped students learn about both the opportunities and the obstacles facing Cambodian students. Additionally, a new part of the embedded course this year was that, prior to the trip, participating students had the opportunity to take part in dialogues facilitated by Penn State’s World in Conversation initiative with Cambodian college students who they would meet with on the trip to discuss each other’s experiences with educational goals and barriers.
https://news.psu.edu/story/567529/2019/ ... elopmental
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