JEOPARDY

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Education Abroad Glossary
Chip Peterson, U. Minnesota Lilli Engle,
AUCP Lance Kenney, Villanova U. Kim Kreutzer, U.
Colorado- Boulder William Nolting, U.
Michigan Anthony Ogden, Penn State
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Session Overview

• Divided into four parts
• Part I What is the glossary?
• Part II If you were writing the glossary
  Issues the task force faced
• Part III Glossary Jeopardy Game
• Part IV Questions discussion
• What this session is Highly interactive session
  with three objectives.
• Give you a sense of the process we went
  through.
• Point out issues remaining.
• And have some fun!
• What the session is not A walk-through of the
  glossary. Read it online!

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Part I What is the glossary?

• Origins
• Idea generated at Forum meeting during the NAFSA
  Baltimore conference (three years ago!)
• Task force appointed fall 2004
• Task force process to date
• Defined scope of glossary (audience, terms,
  etc)
• Identified tentative clusters of definitions
• Task force members volunteered for particular
  clusters
• Clusters changed through mergers, divisions, or
  redefinitions
• Grouped clusters gradually into six broad
  sections
• Forum has now posted the glossary (draft 16) on
  its website.

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Part I What is the glossary?

• Next Steps
• Conversion to wiki
• Online comments/edits will be invited
• On-going editorial review
• Forum Board and/or Council reviews draft
  adopts it
• Hard copy published in addition to online
  version?
• Issues for future editing
• Limited feedback from outside the task
  forcehow will field react?
• Inconsistency in style, length/detail of
  definitions, etc.
• Inconsistency about capturing current usages vs.
  recommending conventions

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Part II If you were writing the glossary

• Objectives
• To help you understand the sorts of decisions we
  have had to make
• To help us get additional ideas from what you
  say
• To have some fun
• If You Were Writing the Glossary
• The Molly Ivins Team
• The Ralph Yarborough Team
• The John Hightower Team
• The Barbara Jordan Team

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Question One

• Topic Scope, audience, and format
• For 3 Points
• If you were sitting down to draft an education
  abroad glossary,
• What would be its scope (i.e., what sorts of
  terms would you include?)
• What would be its limits (i.e., what sorts of
  terms would you consider to fall outside its
  scope?)
• At whom would you aim it?
• How would you organize it?
• Time Limit 3 minutes

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Question One

• Here are some of the task forces decisions
• Focus. Education abroad for US college
  university students.
• Primary Audience. Education abroad professionals
  faculty, in US in destination countries, who
  works with such students.
• Scope. Includes education abroad broadly
  defined, not just study abroad.
• Purposes of Entries. Some entries try to distill
  predominant usages, others suggest a convention
  for the field.
• Which English. Definitions reflect US usages.
• Degree of Precision. For now, definitions not so
  precise as would be needed for data gathering,
  that might come later.
• Organizational Structure. Clusters of terms
  grouped into sections.
• Order of Terms. By topic areas rather than
  alphabetically, with alphabetical index at end.

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Question Two

• Topic Term for a provider-sponsored study
  abroad program that has been adopted by the
  home institution
• For 2 Points
• Many institutions adopt specific
  provider-sponsored programs (in their catalog, on
  their website, etc.). How many difference names
  can you think of that one institution or another
  used to describe such programs?
• Time Limit 2 minutes

Approved program, Recommended program, Endorsed
program, Preferred program, Highlighted program,
Featured program, Affiliated program, Cosponsored
program, (Name of home institution) program
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Question Two

• Affiliated (or Cosponsored Program)
• A program with which an institution has a special
  relationship. There is no standard significance
  for an affiliated program one would need to
  know each institutions definition to determine
  what special privileges these programs would be
  granted at the institution. Among the privileges
  that an affiliated program enjoys in one model or
  another are resident credit, grades counted
  toward the home institution's GPA, publicity in
  the college catalog, applicability of
  institutional financial aid, or even permission
  to participate.

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Question Three

• Topic Program types
• For 3 Points
• If you were to classify study abroad programs
  into no fewer than five nor more than ten broad
  types, what would they be?

• Cluster IV-E
• Orientation
• Program Descriptors
• Duration
• Timing
• Study Abroad Program Types
• Study Abroad Program Subtypes
• Work, Internships, Volunteering, Service-Learning

Time Limit 3 minutes
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Question Three

• Topic Program types
• Here are the six categories in the draft
  glossary

• e. Study Abroad Program Types
• Integrated University Study
• Classroom Study Abroad
• Field Study Program
• Overseas Campus
• Study Tour
• Hybrid (or Mixed) Program

Time Limit 3 minutes
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Question Four

• Topic Ordinary definitions vs. definitions for
  purposes of data gathering
• Here are 3 definitions from the glossary on
  program types
• Integrated University Study A study abroad
  program type in which the predominant study
  format is participation in regular courses
  alongside degree-seeking students from the host
  university.
• Classroom Study Abroad Program A study abroad
  program type in which the predominant study
  format consists of classroom-based courses
  designed for non- native students. May include a
  variety of subtypes such as language institutes,
  area studies programs, institutes for foreigners
  at host-country universities, and faculty- led
  programs.
• Field Study Program A study abroad program
  type in which field study is a required and
  pedagogically central component.

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Question Four

• Topic Ordinary definitions vs. definitions for
  purposes of data gathering
• For 4 Points
• How would you modify these definitions so that
  each of the three categories can be clearly
  distinguished from each other for purposes of
  data collection? (Assume for this purpose that
  there is no hybrid or mixed category.)
• How much field study does a program have to have
  to be a field study program rather than a
  classroom study abroad program?
• If a program combines program-sponsored courses
  with the opportunity to take courses in a host
  university, how can those two categories be
  defined so that anyone looking at a program will
  clearly know to which of the first two
  categories above it belongs?
• Time Limit 4 minutes

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Question Four
This cluster is perhaps the most tentative
and potentially most controversial in the
glossary. It attempts to synthesize various
program characteristics into a small number of
idealized models. Following considerable
discussion and modification, such a
classification scheme might eventually be
employed in data reporting on study abroad
participation. Before that could happen, a
consensus would need to be reached in the field
not only about which categories to include but
also on how to define their boundaries concretely
enough to minimize ambiguity. This particular
cluster, then , is meant to be the opening salvo
in a long conversation rather than a standard for
the field.
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Question Five

• Topic The U.S. educational system
• For 3 Points
• One of the 6 broad glossary sections is called
  Understanding the US Education System. Name some
  clusters you think would be logical to include in
  such a section.
• Time Limit 3 minutes

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Question Five

• Topic The US educational system
• Heres what we came up with

• Understanding the US Education System
• Levels of Education Types of Institutions
• Degrees Educational Levels
• Credit Instruction
• Classes Courses
• Academic Calendars
• Cognition Skill Development

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Question Six

• Topic Geographic regions
• The section on geographical terms divides the
  world into major regions (examples Europe, North
  Africa the Middle East). Each region contains a
  number of sub-regions that cut across national
  boundaries. For example, the following are among
  the Asian sub-regions in the draft glossary
• Central Asia
• Trancaucasus
• East Asia
• South Asia
• Himalayan Kingdoms
• Southeast Asia
• Indochina

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Question Six

• Topic Geographic regions
• For 3 Points
• Compile as long a list as you can of such
  sub-regions for the western hemisphere.
  Remember, each region must include portions of
  more than one country, thus something like The
  South or The Maritime Provinces would be beyond
  the scope of this section. Write down your
  answers and hand them in.
• Team with most legitimate sub-regions wins.
  Sub-regions not on task forces list count
  double.
• Time Limit 3 minutes

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Question Six

• Topic Geographic regions
• America
• Hispanic America
• Ibero-America
• Middle America
• Central America
• Mesoamerica
• The Caribbean
• Greater Antilles
• Lesser Antilles
• South America
• The Guianas

• Guiana
• Andean Countries
• Northern Andes
• Central Andes
• Southern Andes
• Bolivian Countries
• Southern Cone
• Rio De La Plata
• Patagonia
• North America
• Anglo-America

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Question Seven

• Topic Fees
• For 2 Points
• How would you define a study abroad program fee?
• Time Limit 2 minutes

• Program Fee -
• A fee paid to an organization ( a college, a
  university, or an independent program provider)
  to cover specified aspects of a study abroad
  program. (Although Program Tuition is sometimes
  used as an alternate term, it is better employed
  only to refer to the component of a program fee
  that covers academic and administrative expenses
  but not such items as housing or health and
  accident insurance.

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A glimpse of the glossary
a. Levels of Education Types of Institutions
b. Degrees Educational Levels c. Credit
Instruction d. Classes Courses e. Academic
Calendars f. Cognition Skill Development
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A glimpse of the glossary

• Delineating the Profession
• Learning Outside the Home Campus

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A glimpse of the glossary

• Understanding Culture
• Cultural Identity
• Intercultural Awareness
• Intercultural Adjustment
• Intercultural Communication
• Participant Demographics Diversity
• Student Engagement

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A glimpse of the glossary

• Orientation
• Program Descriptors
• Duration
• Timing
• Study Abroad Program Types
• Study Abroad Program Subtypes
• Work, Internships, Volunteering, Service-Learning

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A glimpse of the glossary

• Orientation
• Sponsorship Sponsor Relations
• Student Mobility Schemes
• Program Oversight
• Key Education Abroad Staff Roles
• Participant Status
• Fee Structures
• Financial Aid
• Student Accommodation
• Health, Safety, Risk, Liability
• Travel Authorization

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A glimpse of the glossary

• Broad Intercontinental
• Regional Terms
• Africa South of the Sahara
• North Africa and the Middle East
• Asia
• Europe
• Oceania
• The Americas

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Education Abroad Glossary
Chip Peterson, U. Minnesota Lilli Engle,
AUCP Lance Kenney, Villanova U. Kim Kreutzer, U.
Colorado- Boulder William Nolting, U.
Michigan Anthony Ogden, Penn State
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Education Abroad Glossary
Chip Peterson, U. Minnesota Lilli Engle,
AUCP Lance Kenney, Villanova U. Kim Kreutzer, U.
Colorado- Boulder William Nolting, U.
Michigan Anthony Ogden, Penn State
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JEOPARDY ! !
Education Abroad Glossary
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Answer

• A student, usually a recently returned education
  abroad alumnus, who is trained to assist
  prospective students with answering questions
  about the education abroad application process,
  identifying programs which are appropriate to
  meet academic and personal needs, and helping to
  identify resources and related information on
  studying abroad.

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Question

• What is a peer advisor?

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Answer

• The anxiety and feelings (of surprise,
  disorientation, confusion, etc.) felt by an
  individual coming into contact with an entirely
  different social environment, such as a different
  country. It often relates to the temporary
  inability to assimilate the new culture, causing
  difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and
  what is not.

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Question

• What is culture shock or transition shock?

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Answer

• Anyone who has ever lived abroad before adulthood
  because of a parents occupational choice (with
  for, example, the diplomatic corps, religious or
  non-governmental missions, international
  business) or whose parents were/are abroad
  independently for career purposes. Those who have
  spent a significant portion of their childhood
  outside of their own country belong to a separate
  third culture distinct from that of their home
  or host countries. Elements from each culture are
  assimilated into the persons life experience,
  without having the sense of belonging or full
  ownership in any.

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Question

• What is a global nomad (or third-culture kid)?

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Answer

• The recognition and understanding of the states
  of mind, including beliefs, desires, and
  particularly emotions, of others without
  injecting ones own. The concept is often
  characterized as the ability to put oneself in
  anothers shoes, or to identify with the
  feelings of the other person on that persons
  terms. Relies on the ability to set aside
  temporarily ones own perception of the world and
  assume an alternative perspective.

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Question

• What is empathy?

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Answer

• The natural tendency to look at the world
  primarily from the perspective of ones own
  culture and to evaluate all other groups from
  that viewpoint. People tend to use their own
  verbal and non-verbal codes, their own
  assumptions and rules to evaluate others.

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Question

• What is ethnocentrism?

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Answer

• A program involving a two-way movement of
  participantswhether faculty, students, staff, or
  community membersbetween institutions or
  countries.

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Question

• What is an exchange?

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Answer

• Orientation programming intended to support
  students with their readjustment back to their
  home culture and campus. This orientation
  encourages students to reflect upon what they
  learned abroad and articulate their experiences
  to themselves and others so that they might
  further build their new skills and perspectives.
  May be built into the in-country program and/or
  given on the home campus after students return.

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Question

• What is re-entry orientation?

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A short study abroad experience that forms an
integral part of, or an optional add-on to, a
course given on the home campus. Most commonly
the study abroad portion of the course takes
place during a mid-semester break or after the
end of the on-campus term. Typically the study
abroad cannot overlap significantly with the
dates of the on-campus term because participants
are enrolled in other classes as well.

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Question

• What is course embedded study abroad?

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!! Daily Double !!

• How much would you
• like to wager?

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Daily Double !
Answer

• An in-country institution whose primary mission
  is to provide special classes for American
  students or for a broader range of non-native
  students. Normally involves permanent staff and
  office facilities. Centers may be operated
  independently may be special units within a
  host-country university or may be sponsored by a
  college or university in another country or by a
  study abroad provider. They may or
  may not be accredited.

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Question
Daily Double !

• What is a study abroad center?

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Answer

• The term traces its origins to the works of John
  Dewey, essentially means learning by doing. It
  encompasses a vast array of approaches to
  learning outside the classroom, sometimes
  complementing classroom-based instruction. These
  may include research, field trips or seminars,
  field work or observation, as well as immersion
  in workplace settings such as internships,
  volunteering, teaching, and paid jobs. Giving
  structure to the learning experience through
  means such as observation and reflection is often
  seen as an essential element. May be curricular
  (for credit) or co-curricular
  (not-for-credit).

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Question

• What is experiential education?

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Answer

• A professional adviser who specializes in
  education abroad. The adviser works closely with
  students to explain the general education abroad
  process, application procedures and the type of
  programs that are available. Discussion also
  includes scholarship and financial information,
  the credit approval process, academic major/minor
  articulation, pre-departure preparation, and
  general program requirements.

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Question

• What is an education abroad advisor (or study
  abroad advisor)?

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Answer

• Private housing hosted by a local family, which
  often includes a private bedroom, meals, laundry,
  etc. Usually provides the greatest immersion in
  the host language and culture, giving students
  first-hand knowledge of what family life is like
  in the host culture and the opportunity to use
  the language in an informal setting. In most
  cases, the family welcomes the student like one
  of the family, getting to know the student and
  offering a support network to him/her.

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Question

• What is a homestay?

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Answer

• A federal law that affords parents the right to
  have access to their childrens education
  records, the right to seek to have the records
  amended, and the right to have some control over
  the disclosure of personally identifiable
  information from the records. When a student
  turns 18 years old, or enters a postsecondary
  institution at any age, the rights under this law
  transfer from the parents to the student, with
  some exceptions in practice, such as students
  claimed by either parent as a dependent for tax
  purposes.

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Question

• What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
  Act (FERPA)?

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Answer

• Official term used by the US State Department for
  an announcement that warns US citizens against
  travel to a specific country. It is the strongest
  of the three types of travel information issued
  by the State Department. Note that these come in
  different degrees of severity, though they are
  not designated quantitatively, but by language
  that calls, for example, for all US citizens to
  defer non-essential travel, or for the voluntary
  or mandatory evacuation of some or all US staff
  members (and/or their families) of the US embassy
  and consulates located in the country.

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Question

• What is a travel warning?

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Answer

• The 1999 agreement signed by ministers of
  education from 29 European nations at the
  University of Bologna to harmonize academic
  degree and quality standards throughout Europe.
  One year earlier the foundation for this
  agreement was established by the education
  ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK
  through the so-called Sorbonne Declaration, which
  called for "harmonizing the architecture" of the
  European educational system. The process has
  continued with bi-annual meetings and agreements.

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Question

• What is the Bologna Declaration and process?

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Answer

• A detailed summary of the content and
  requirements of an academic course (typically
  includes lecture or discussion topics, assigned
  and optional readings, assignments, and
  evaluation criteria).

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Question

• What is a syllabus?

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Answer

• A set of higher education institutions, mostly in
  the South and East of the US, that were
  originally aimed at, or restricted to, African
  American students and that tend still to have a
  predominantly African American student body.

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Question

• What is an Historically Black College or
  University (HBCU)?

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Answer

• The academic tradition in US under-graduate
  education that requires students to not only have
  a primary course of study, but also to take
  introductory classes in a variety of different
  core disciplines (social sciences, humanities,
  natural sciences, fine arts, etc.) in an attempt
  to foster student learning earmarked by both
  depth and breadth.

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Question

• What is general education or liberal education?

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• 1) The knowledge, skills, and abilities an
  individual student possesses and can demonstrate
  upon completion of a learning experience or
  sequence of learning experiences (e.g., course,
  degree, education abroad program). In an
  education abroad context, this may include
  language acquisition, cross-cultural competence,
  discipline-specific knowledge, research skills,
  etc. 2) Advance statements about what students
  ought to understand or be able to do as a result
  of a learning experience.

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Question

• What are learning outcomes?

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• In organizational and managerial theory, the
  ability to cope with, make sense of, and
  integrate oneself into foreign cultures, be they
  national, ethnic, corporate, vocational, etc. Has
  cognitive, behavioral, and affective dimensions.

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Question

• What is cultural intelligence?

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• A voluntary association of more than fifty
  countries with historical ties to the United
  Kingdom. Among the largest are Australia,
  Bangladesh, Canada, India, Kenya, Nigeria,
  Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka. Tanzania,
  Uganda, and the United Kingdom.

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Question

• What is the commonwealth (formerly British
  Commonwealth)?

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• The former French and Belgian colonies of
  Sub-Saharan Africa where French is still used
  widely Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon
  (partially), Central African Republic, Chad,
  Comoros, Congo (both Republic of and Democratic
  Republic of), Côte dIvoire, Gabon, Guinea,
  Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda,
  Senegal, and Togo.

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Question

• What is Francophone Africa?

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Answer

• Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia
  (usually), Greece, Macedonia, Rumania, Serbia
  Montenegro, and sometimes Slovenia and/or
  Turkeys small European portion. Because the term
  has tended to have pejorative implications, some
  people advocate Southeastern Europe as an
  alternative.

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Question

• What are the Balkans?

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Answer

• Collective term for New Guinea plus a series of
  island chains in the western portion of the South
  Pacific, east of New Guinea and the northern half
  of Australia, from the Bismarks on the northwest
  through the Solomons and the New Hebrides to New
  Caledonia and Fiji. In political terms it
  includes Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea,
  Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Question

• What is Melanesia?

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• Typically defined to include Burkina Faso, Chad,
  Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,
  Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan. (Only parts
  of most of these countries are actually in the
  region climatically defined. The northern
  portions of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and
  Sudan lie within the Sahara. Moreover, in
  climatic terms the northern portions of several
  other countries form part of this region Benin,
  Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and
  Togo.)

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• What are the Sahelian countries?

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Part IV
Questions? Suggestions? Discussion?
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Thank you for attending today! Please send
feedback and inquiries to Chip Peterson,
c-pete_at_umn.edu Anthony Ogden, ogden_at_ip.psu.edu