New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced that students from Seoul's Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) are scheduled to arrive in Las Cruces for collaborative projects with NMSU students. These interdisciplinary teams of four will work closely with professors and sustainability communication experts from SKKU and NMSU's Journalism and Media Studies and Creative Media Institute to produce videos addressing global issues, fostering international collaboration.
A group of students from SKKU will convene at NMSU on Monday, Nov. 27, to engage in a collaborative project led by Gain Park, an assistant professor in NMSU's Journalism and Media Studies. Students from both Seoul and Las Cruces will produce short videos addressing global issues in four interdisciplinary teams over a four-day period. Their creations will culminate in a public showcase on Thursday, Nov. 30, "said Park," according to a press release by NMSU.
"Student groups will select their own topics with their own reasoning," said Park according to a press release by NMSU. He expressed his expectations that they'll come up with unique solutions identified by young, creative, convergent minds and have the experience of publishing their products to yield behavior and attitude changes including their own.
Upon completing the project, the teams will strategize the dissemination of their videos across various social media platforms. The Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education at SKKU which sponsors the program will issue certificates of participation to all students involved in the collaborative project, "said Park," according to a press release by NMSU.
"SKKU and NMSU students have different cultural and social backgrounds, yet they share global issues as global citizens," said Seyoung Lee, the director of SKKU’s Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education according to a press release by NMSU. The aim is that this project would help students learn from their differences find universal values to overcome these differences and effect real-life changes.