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Symposium: “Revitalizing Rural Environments”

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REVITALIZING RURAL ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM: REGIONAL TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
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Massive migration from rural lands to urban centers is destabilizing small villages and towns all over the world. At a time when information technology has the potential to distribute knowledge and resources in more egalitarian ways than ever before, it is ironic that today’s unsustainable urban congestion often recalls the problems of the Industrial Revolution more than two centuries ago: pollution, lack of medical care, squatter housing, overburdened infrastructure, tensions between demographic groups, to name a few.

These events are open to the public.

Thursday, March 29

12:00–1:00 p.m. | Spark G45
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East Meets West Symposium: “Immigration”

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This signature event in our annual calendar brings guest speakers and Asia Program faculty together with students for an interdisciplinary exploration of a larger topic, in a lecture and workshop format. The spring 2018 symposium will explore local and global issues surrounding immigration.

Also Available as a One-Credit DIVR Course!

Students may enroll in the symposium as a one-credit course, ASIA 301: East Meets West [DIVR] (SLN 05103). Since themes and topics change each semester, ASIA 301 can be taken up to three times for credit.

The class consists of three days of lectures and activities. Students receive a letter grade based primarily on … » More …