About UNIBusiness | Blogs From Abroad
Education doesn't always take place in a classroom. Read first-hand accounts of UNIBusiness students' education and adventures overseas.
Gabe's English Semester
Gabe Tovar (Finance) is spending the spring 2011 semester studying at the University of Hull, England. You can read about his classes and adventures and enjoy his photo documentation of it all.
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Jessica Snook (Accounting) is spending the spring 2011 semester at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Snook, who will graduate with a Spanish minor, is studying in Spanish to improve her fluency in the language.
Nick's Epic Adventure
Nick Canby (Management '10) spent six months in Dalian, China, working part-time as an intern with DDAFESCO and taking two courses at Dalian Nationalities University. He began this adventure in August 2010 after completing the UNIBusiness Dalian Capstone course earlier that summer.
China Diaries
A collection of blogs under "An Internship Adventure," which chronicles UNIBusiness students working and studying in Dalian, China, and "Reflections on Iowa," which gives the view of FAW employees who traveled from China to take part in internships at UNI and in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls community.
China Tour
A collection of blogs by UNIBusiness students participating in the Global Skills program held in Dalian, China, each June. Starting in 2011 students from all the participating universities - from six different cultures - will blog.
Iowa-Midwest Brazil Exchange on Business and Agriculture
Eight students per year from UNI, Hawkeye Community College and Kirkwood Community College study for one semester at the Universidade de Brasilia or the Universidade Federal de Goias. This is a collection of blogs about their experiences and the experiences of their instructors.
Little Hero Big Adventure
Jonathan Corcoran (Management and Biology) is spending the fall 2011 semester teaching English to elementary students in rural Korea.through the Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) program. He hopes to follow up that experience with a study abroad program at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan.
Would you like to "Blog from Abroad"?
UNIBusiness encourages all its students to get international experience. Whether it's a semester abroad a short-term course overseas or an international internship, UNIBusiness works to make it financially feasible and personally and professionally rewarding.
UNIBusiness students are interested in overseas experienceschr should contact Chris Schrage, UNI instructor of marketing and international programs coordinator for the College of Business Administration, at 319-273-2126 or christine.schrage@uni.edu.
Schrage can also give students more information about College of Business Administration scholarships that support international experiences, including Fly Free and Cost Neutral funding.
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