Student Gains Dance Experience and Connections Overseas Through EDGE
September 12, 2014
Cedar. City, Utah
On July 5, 2014 Cameo Coburn and four other Southern Utah University students traveled to Taipei, Taiwan on a faculty-led study abroad trip. They spent two weeks in Taipei studying different styles of dance, taking master classes, and making professional and personal connections with the students at National Taiwan University of the Arts (NTA.)
In this cultural immersion, the students got to experience a lifestyle and set of traditions very different from their own, both in the dance studios and out. They took dance classes in both Mandarin and English, and received lessons in styles such as jazz, modern, ballet, and many different styles of Chinese dance. Outside of the classroom, the SUU students and faculty went out into the city of Taipei with the students from NTA to experience different local sites such as night markets, restaurants, hot springs, museums and more. They were given the ability to embrace Taiwanese culture fully in their two weeks abroad, while broadening their dance horizons.
The SUU Global Engagement Center helped to make this study abroad program available to Cameo and other students like her to use it in fulfillment of their EDGE Project. The EDGE project is a project that students are required to do for graduation. It is a project of their own design in which they use an engagement center to receive experiential education and use their college education in a tangible way, making them more marketable and well-rounded after graduation. It is because of the EDGE Program that many students have the ability to go on study abroad programs and have a more thorough and educated experience.###
Cameo Coburn
702-300-2343
cameocoburn@gmail.com
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