In the next month or so, business students at AU’s Hull College of Business and other students will leave and study abroad from a week-long trip up to a full term. In today’s “Two Questions with the Dean,” Dean Mark Thompson explains the details.
ABD: What trip is set up for this semester?
HULL: The study abroad trip this coming summer is going to England and Scotland as part of our international business course.
So, it gives students a great opportunity to experience what it’s like to be somewhere else, from how businesses operate abroad to just the culture and diversity that you see with being abroad, and how different countries and different citizens behave and work together.
ABD: How is it really different the way that they run business there versus here, and do students choose to stay?
HULL: It’s different in a number of ways. They often will see that certainly there are cultures where the way you do business is that you may conduct business over lunch and over an extended lunch, or it may be that there’s a certain time in the day that business is not conducted that that is for you, individually, to spend time with your family. You know that learning about those differences is part of what that study abroad experience is, and it varies across the globe.
We have had Hull College students that have gone on to work internationally after interning with companies overseas. We are seeing that we are much more of a global marketplace, and with AU and Hull, we see a lot of students that will go abroad to either study or ultimately work.
