Sample the Academic Excellence of Global Liberal Arts Education at Duke Kunshan

Dear GSI Applicants,

I am very pleased to announce the DKU Global Summer Institute as an exciting new opportunity for students interested in Duke Kunshan University! This innovative new summer learning experience will allow students from around China and around the world to come together at DKU to discuss a series of vital issues that will affect all of humanity in the very near future. The experience of the last two years with the covid pandemic has taught us a lot about the unexpected challenges that our global species may face – but has also demonstrated the ways in which human ingenuity and cooperative effort can successfully deal with such challenges.

The Global Summer Institute brings together DKU faculty who will lead students through an examination of these issues from a variety of different perspectives. The scope of topics covered in these summer programs – from social entrepreneurship to machine learning to health informatics – demonstrate the breadth of expertise available to DKU students, as well as the power of the DKU liberal arts education model. That model emphasizes both disciplinary expertise in particular fields, as well as a wide-ranging and fearless engagement with broader interdisciplinary issues. It will do so at an institution that values both situated knowledge of the places and cultures that we call our own, as well as a truly globalized perspective.

Students in these Global Summer Institute programs will emerge with a richer sense of the possibilities that global cooperation affords, develop important intercultural communication skills, and gain valuable experience that will support them in their future careers.

We look forward to welcoming you to DKU!

 

 

 

Dr. Scott MacEachern
Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
Duke Kunshan University