{"id":18146,"date":"2017-07-18T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=18146"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:14:00","slug":"passport-understanding-foreign-students-immersed-american-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/passport-understanding-foreign-students-immersed-american-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport to Understanding: Foreign students immersed in American culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<p><strong>SUSI students<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alyona Pyzhikova \u2014 Russia<\/li>\n<li>Antreas Antonopoulos \u2014 Cyprus<\/li>\n<li>Briyandan Baheerathan \u2014 Norway<\/li>\n<li>Bruna Moreira \u2014 Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Damiano Campini \u2014 Italy<\/li>\n<li>Dmitrij Shuliak \u2014 Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Drita Velaj \u2014 Italy<\/li>\n<li>Hela Mohamed \u2014 Spain<\/li>\n<li>Inari Ahokas \u2014\u00a0 Finland<\/li>\n<li>Ines Bensaid \u2014 France<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Verschoor \u2014 The Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Janis Berzins \u2014 Latvia<\/li>\n<li>Justicia Minkah-Premo \u2014 United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Lehane \u2014 Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Lina Shi \u2014 The Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Matas Kaminskas \u2014 Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Mykola Kravets \u2014 Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Selma Brodrej \u2014 Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Stavros Malkidis \u2014 Greece<\/li>\n<li>Stephan Johansen \u2014 Norway<\/li>\n<li>Tiago Franco \u2014 Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Zsuzsanna Larsen \u2014 Hungary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stephan Johansen has traveled quite a few times to the United States from his home in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty much up and down the East Coast,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>His trips include a visit to South Carolina but, standing on the deck of the Hunter Museum of American Art, looking out over the Tennessee River, he feels like he\u2019s finally found the South he\u2019s always heard about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouthern hospitality is real,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a common theme brought up by many of the 22 foreign students like Johansen who are at UTC for about a month to dive into American culture, American business and American politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn doing our lectures and in our visits to companies, we will learn a lot of tools that we can apply in our home countries,\u201d says Tiago Franco from Portugal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"18148\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/passport-understanding-foreign-students-immersed-american-culture\/susi-students-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,854\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) students visit the Challenger Center. SUSI is a U.S. Department of State funded program, where 22 different students come from 18 different countries to study Social Entrepreneurship. The Center for Global Education and College of Business, with our nonprofit partner FHI360, will host these students for four weeks.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1498792047&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SUSI-students-17&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SUSI-students-17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) students visit the Challenger Center. SUSI is a U.S. Department of State funded program, where 22 different students come from 18 different countries to study Social Entrepreneurship. The Center for Global Education and College of Business, with our nonprofit partner FHI360, will host these students for four weeks.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-18148\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-580x387.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/SUSI-Students1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of the Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI), international students visited the Challenger Center in Chattanooga. In the program, 22 different students come to UTC from 18 different countries to study social entrepreneurship.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the second year in a row, the College of Business and the Center for Global Education are hosting undergrads from 18 countries for four weeks. The students are here as part of the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Study at the U.S. Institute for Student Leaders (SUSI). The State Department works with nonprofit FHI 360 to administer the program.<\/p>\n<p>Classroom lectures, hands-on activities, leadership development and working and meeting with Americans, both on UTC\u2019s campus and throughout Chattanooga, are part of the program. The students also participate in community service with such organizations as the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe social entrepreneurship focus of this program allows us to teach the students techniques used by start-up companies to develop, fund and execute solutions to social, cultural or environmental issues,\u201d says Dr. Robert Dooley, dean of the College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChattanooga\u2019s start-up community offers some amazing examples of innovative and entrepreneurial thinking,\u201d he says. \u201cOur hope \u2014 and the goal of the SUSI program \u2014 is that these students take that knowledge and share it in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After only a week at UTC, Franco, a business administration major, says he\u2019s already developed \u201ca new mindset about social entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a broader vision about what we can do and also tools on how to implement projects because we have many ideas and we find many needs, but it\u2019s really hard to put all our ideas into action,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Not so different<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Zsuzsanna Larsen from Hungary says she\u2019s \u201cgenerally interested in helping other people.\u201d Majoring in law, she hopes to use what\u2019s she is learning at UTC to \u201cdouble up,\u201d mixing social entrepreneurship with legal knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Justicia Minkah-Premo, another law major who lives in the United Kingdom, came to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides having a passion for business, I also have a passion for solving social issues,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the success of such American companies as Apple, Microsoft and Google, she figures the program at UTC \u201cwill be a really good advantage for me\u201d by combining the business-oriented classes with the community outreach component.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m also gaining a lot of communication skills, teamworking skills, and I\u2019m trying to think of a way to combine both social enterprise and corporate law together. That way I can help small-start businesses with my legal knowledge into one.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Still tourists<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_18154\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" data-attachment-id=\"18154\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/passport-understanding-foreign-students-immersed-american-culture\/susi3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,869\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"susi3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-1024x695.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-18154\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-580x394.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-610x414.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-250x170.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-589x400.jpg 589w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3-562x380.jpg 562w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/07\/susi3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the SUSI program come to UTC from such countries as Finland, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Portugal and Hungary, among others.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Except for the swirling mass of accents, the SUSI students look and act like most American college students. They laugh a lot, talk almost constantly. They clown around. They play cornhole at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.<\/p>\n<p>And they take smartphone photos \u2014 lots of smartphone photos \u2014 at the Hunter Museum of American Art. Bluff View Sculpture Garden. Coolidge Park. The Incline.<\/p>\n<p>But even with all the classroom studies and community service projects, there\u2019s still time to simply be a tourist in Chattanooga. For Minkah-Premo, one thing sticks out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been to a city that had this much art,\u201d she says. \u201cEverywhere I turn I see a painting on the wall or something. I really love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others are fascinated with what, to Chattanooga residents, are familiar sights.<\/p>\n<p>In Coolidge Park, underneath the Walnut Street Bridge, Inari Ahokas stares up in wonder at the structure, saying it\u2019s one of the most awesome bridges she\u2019s ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>But now the Finnish student has a decision to make: Is the Walnut Street Bridge the most awe-inspiring bridge she\u2019s ever seen or is it the London Tower Bridge?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know which one is cooler,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their wide-ranging backgrounds, the students also say there are more similarities between them than differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came from so many different countries but we\u2019ve found a real nice group,\u201d Franco says. \u201cThey\u2019re interesting people with lots of ideas that can complement each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L16qDuyKv24?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJZxNrfgO9c?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two foreign students from 18 countries are at UTC for about a month to dive into American culture, American business and American politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/07\/passport-understanding-foreign-students-immersed-american-culture\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":18245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,6743,64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-business","8":"category-international-programs","9":"category-news","10":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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