Programs by Country: Indonesia + Dialogue of Civilizations
Bali: Global Wellness and Healing Arts (closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Bali, Indonesia
Faculty Leader: Jane McCool (j.mccool@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
Information Session: October 24, 6:15 pm, 442 CSC
Summer I
Courses: NRSG1206 Global Wellness & INTL4944 Dialogue of Civilizations Regional Engagement - Balinese Culture and the Healing Arts
Description:
The Indonesian island of Bali, one of the most tranquil and beautiful places on earth, will be the setting for this interprofessional dialogue in Global Wellness, Culture, and the Healing Arts. In a land where spirituality, ancient tradition, and the natural world blend to create a unique environment, students will have the opportunity to live and learn in an atmosphere that nurtures harmony, mindfulness, and self-reflection.
Exploration of the culture through the arts, language, healing practices, and rituals of the Balinese people will provide a wide range of learning venues that underpin the holistic study of multidimensional well-being. The Bali Institute for Global Renewal offers multiple partnerships and affiliations on the island that facilitate community integration; students are encouraged to create relationships in a cultural context that is quite different than their own by living and learning with the people of Bali. Every aspect of this program is designed as a living-learning environment that offers engagement with deep indigenous practices. As such, students will be provided with a true immersion experience within models of sustainable communal living in Ubud, Amed, Levina, Pemuteron, and Sudaji.
Through conversation and focused study and practice with leaders and scholars in the intersecting fields of Eastern and Western Health and Healing, students will learn to consider and selectively engage embodied knowledge that incorporates both worldviews in order to create an operant framework for sustainable human health and well-being. Strategic health initiatives for individuals and populations will be designed and discussed within the context of this framework.
Bali: Negotiating the Global and the Local in Balinese Performing Arts (Closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Bali, Indonesia
Faculty Leader: Julie Strand (ju.strand@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
Summer I
Courses: MUSC 2502 Balinese Performing Arts: Music/Dance & MUSC 3501 Negotiating the Global and the Local in Balinese Performing Arts
Description: This course will explore the arts of music, dance and theater in Bali, examining how processes of cultural globalization have influenced the ways in which the Balinese have accepted, rejected, and transformed various foreign influences as they find their own way of adapting to modern times and new generations. Coursework will cover Balinese history, culture, and music traditions, and case studies that demonstrate different examples how Balinese have responded to forces of globalization. Students will learn the basics of ethnographic fieldwork and complete a group field research project at the end of the program. The applied aspect of the courses will involve learning to perform the Balinese gamelan and/or traditional Balinese dance, attending local temple festivals and other ceremonies and performances, and attending annual Bali Arts Festivalin Denpasar (~45 minutes from where we will stay). The Arts Festival is the premiere showcase for Bali’s top talent in all genres of Balinese performing arts.
Bali: Poverty, Development, and Immigration (Closed)
Dialogue of Civilizations | Bali, Indonesia
Faculty Leader: Denise Horn (d.horn@neu.edu)
Study Abroad Coordinator: Colleen Boyle (c.boyle@neu.edu)
Summer I
Courses: INTL 4944 DOC: Regional Engagement & INTL4940 Global Corps Practicum
Description:
The Global Corps Practicum gives Northeastern and Balinese students the opportunity to participate in an intensive practicum on global civil society in an international setting. We will cover the essentials of global citizenship, social entrepreneurship, and NGO development to respond to local and global problems.
The NU Global Corps Practicum trains students in the burgeoning field of social entrepreneurship, which uses community development and business models to tackle social problems, whether through creating and disseminating new technologies or encouraging the growth of micro-enterprises and micro-finance; the point is to use community development and business principles but emphasize social impact over profit. Our program teaches students to use these principles in the hopes of creating sustainable projects grounded in social justice.
Northeastern students will spend the first week in Ubud, Bali in a cultural immersion program, where they will experience Bali’s unique art, music, spiritual and political culture. They will then spend three days in homestays in the village of Sudaji, site of an innovative eco-friendly community model of cultural preservation. Afterwards, we will move to the Northern Balinese city of Singaraja where Northeastern students and their Balinese peers from Ganesha University will participate in a four week workshop on social entrepreneurship. At the end of the four-week training in Singaraja, students’ project proposals will be presented to local organizations and their partners who will choose one or two of the projects that could be implemented successfully in Singaraja and the surrounding communities. The ultimate goal is to empower both Balinese and Northeastern students to identify creative solutions to pressing problems and to offer fresh new ideas for local organizations.