Fifty-five PIM Students are completing their off-campus journeys and will be presenting their capstone research on Monday August 18 – Thursday August 21 on the SIT campus.
We invite you all to come attend the presentations. The first presentations will take place Monday afternoon from 3:00-5:00PM. Presentations on Tuesday through will be at 8:30-10:30AM, 11:00 -1:00 and from 2:00 – 4:00PM. If you would like to join us, you will need to come onto the SIT campus (to the lobby of the International Center – or IC) to sign up for individual Capstones. Sign up begins on Sunday evening, and you will need to sign up for Capstones personally.
Attached is a list of the presenters and PIM year, their practicum sites, their capstone titles and degrees.
Hope to see you there.
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PRACTICUM: Ted Mann Family Resource Center- Los Angeles, CA
CAPSTONE: Lessons from Family Caregivers: Giving Voice to the End-of-Life Caregiving Experience
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Religions for Peace – New York, NY
CAPSTONE: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interfaith Dialogue: Finding the Peacemaker’s Experience in Building Interfaith Dialogue in NYC
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Suffolk University- Madrid, Spain
CAPSTONE: Study Abroad Madrid: Expectations, Experience, Reflection.
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
Capstone Presentations, continued
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PRACTICUM: LanguageCorps Quito, Ecuador
CAPSTONE: A Study of Student Motivations to Study Abroad in Non-Traditional Locations
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: World Educational Links (WEL) Program, Brattleboro Union High School- Brattleboro, VT
CAPSTONE: Challenges Facing Alternative Education in Morocco: Integration of Tamazight in the School System
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Northfield Mount Hermon School- Northfield, MA
CAPSTONE: What do the teachers think? The benefits and challenges of teaching in a global classroom
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: Sustainable Cambodia- Pursat Town, Cambodia
CAPSTONE: The Health and Social Impacts of Water Development Projects with Three Rural Communities in Cambodia
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: Lebron-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center/Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
CAPSTONE: Establishing Connections Between International Education and Multicultural Education: A Case Study of Hampshire College
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: Morocco Exchange ltd- Granada, Spain
CAPSTONE: Writing the City: Graffiti and the Changing Spanish Identity in Granada
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Rotary International- Evanston, IL
CAPSTONE: The Effects of Organizational Culture on Public Image and Membership Recruitment at Rotary International
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Science in Organizational Management
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PRACTICUM: Educational Praxis-Bapagrama School- Bangalore, India
Tomorrows Foundation – Kolkata, India
CAPSTONE: In the Name of Education: Reproducing Social Stratification through Schooling in India: An Analysis of the Tomorrows Foundation
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Educational Praxis-Bapagrama School- Bangalore, India
Balika Ashram – New Delhi, India
CAPSTONE: Occupied Children: Trafficking for Forced Labour in North India Sustainable Rehabilitation or Re-Commodification?
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development / Policy Analysis and Advocacy
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PRACTICUM: San Ignacio Education Center- Somotillo, Nicaragua
CAPSTONE: Providing Effective Mental Health Services for Guatemalan Women in Lynn, MA
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Crisis Center – Iowa City, IA
CAPSTONE: Living with Bipolar Disorder
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: The Berkana Institute- Spokane, WA
CAPSTONE: Basket Weaving 101: Conditions for Supporting a Trans-Local Learning Community
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Science in Organizational Management / Leadership and Change
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PRACTICUM: Presbyterian College – Clinton, South Carolina
CAPSTONE: Study Abroad Returnees’ Seminar: Presbyterian College
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: World Learning- Brattleboro, VT
CAPSTONE: Is Achieving Sustainability Possible Through Institutions of Higher Education? :A Case Study of World Learning
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Programs, Portland Public Schools- Portland, ME
CAPSTONE: Shaping Our World: The Role of Ethnic Identity in the Education of African Immigrants in Southern Maine
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: World Learning- Brattleboro, VT
CAPSTONE: The Geography of Power: Accessing the Colonial Landscape in Palestine
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Cultural Survival- Cambridge, MA
United Planet- Boston, MA
CAPSTONE: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: An Exploration of Human and Environmental Rights Among the World’s First Nations Communities
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: International Institute of New Hampshire- Manchester, NH
CAPSTONE: The Initiative of a Network: A Case Study on Global Water Partnership’s Advocacy Efforts for Integrated Water Resources Management in Cameroon
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations / Community Development and Social Action
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PRACTICUM: Maasai Association- Seattle, WA
CAPSTONE: Maasai Youth – Careers at the Margins
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development / Development Mangement
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PRACTICUM: Borderlinks – Tucson, AZ
CAPSTONE: BorderLinks Volunteer Program: Creating a Mutually Beneficial Design
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: Windsor Mountain International- Windsor, NH
CAPSTONE: Reciprocidad: A Rural Costa Rican Community’s Evaluation of an International Service-Learning Program
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Charles Darwin Foundation- Galapagos, Ecuador
CAPSTONE: Integrating Conservation into the Tourist Experience: A Case Study of Lindblad Expeditions’ On Board Fundraising Program for the Galapagos Conservation Fund
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: VEGlobal – Santiago, Chile
CAPSTONE: Bringing Up an NGO: A Program Constraints Assessment and Evaluation of VEGlobal’s International Volunteer Program
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: PIM Teaching Assistant, SIT-Brattleboro, VT
CAPSTONE: The perception of Chinese SMEs in the apparel industry about incorporating CSC9000T into their business agenda
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Science in Management / Development Management
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PRACTICUM: EveryOne USA- Putney, VT
CAPSTONE: The Personal Stories of Five Development Practitioners and What They Say About How Change Happens
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Institute for Shipboard Education/ Semester at Sea- Charlottesville, VA
CAPSTONE: The Reentry Experience of Semester at Sea Participants: From a Global Shipboard Education Perspective
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program- IIE- Amman, Jordan
CAPSTONE: A Feasibility Study of the Fair Trade Jordan Project.
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Common Ground Women’s Shelter- New Orleans, Louisiana
CAPSTONE: Collective Identity and Mobilizations:The Relationship between Perceptions of Self and Community-Oriented Action – A Qualitative Research Report
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations
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PRACTICUM: PIM Teaching Assistant, SIT-Brattleboro, VT
CAPSTONE: Learning Through Designing and Implementation of an Evaluation Process
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development / Development Management
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PRACTICUM: Etta Projects – Port Orchard, WA
Comedor de Ninos “Etta Turner” Montero, Bolivia
CAPSTONE: Case Study: The impact of multiple partnerships on client participation in a Bolivian NGO
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development / Community Development and Social Action Training
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PRACTICUM: Arcosanti- Mayer, AZ
CAPSTONE: Strengthening Cross-Sector Partnerships for Sustainable Development Through Improved Partnership Communication and Knowledge Management
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Science in Organizational Management / Development Management
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PRACTICUM: Project Transition- West Palm Beach, FL
CAPSTONE: Comparison of Refugee and International Student Experiences: Implications for Immersion
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: Class Action- Hadley, MA
The Mediation & Training Collaborative- Greenfield, MA
CAPSTONE: Western Massachusetts Mediators’ Perceptions of their Preparation and Training to Deal with Bias and Power Imbalance
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: All Nations International Development Association (ANIDA) –Toronto, Canada
CAPSTONE: Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: The Results of Combining Choice, Literacy and Learning for the Empowerment of Women
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ)- Bethlehem, Palestine
CAPSTONE: To Build Trust: A Psychosocial Inquiry into the Final Status Issues of the Israel/Palestine Conflict in the West Bank
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: Heifer International- Little Rock, AZ
CAPSTONE: The German Flower Campaign: Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Campaigns
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: Multi-Track Diplomacy- Arlington, VA
International Rescue Committee-Silver Spring, MD
CAPSTONE: The Nexus Between Conflict and Development: A Case Study of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation / Conflict and Development
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PRACTICUM: Teach For America – Chicago, IL
CAPSTONE: Strategizing and Planning to Increase the Impact of the Teach For America Program in the Chicago Public School District: A Strategic Management Exercise of the 7-S Framework
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations / Multicultural Organization and Diversity Leadership
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PRACTICUM: Shengda College of Zhengzhou University in Henan Province, China
CAPSTONE: Attitude Formation in College Students in Henan Province, China Regarding Minority Nationals
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations
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PRACTICUM: World Learning Serbia and Montenegro FORECAST Exchange Program- Washington, D.C.
CAPSTONE: Contribution of National Program Agencies (NPAs) to public diplomacy goals of the U.S. Department of State, examining public-private partnership (PPP) through the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP): Case Study: Delphi International, a Program of World Learning from 2002-2006
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: Ibdaa Cultural Center- West Bank Palestine
CAPSTONE: Using the Internet and a Youth Exchange Project between the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel to Foster Development through Communication
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development / Community Development
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PRACTICUM: Save the Children Federation, USA, Malawi Country Office
CAPSTONE: Malawian Secondary School Prevention Program on HIV/AIDS: An examination of youth’s perceptions of assertiveness, a component of Life Skills Education for overcoming the problem
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development / Development Management
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PRACTICUM: Experiment in International Living- Brattleboro, VT
Educational Safaris and Consulting- Lompoc, CA
CAPSTONE: Participant Perceptions of the Long-Term Outcomes of Short-Term Study Abroad Programs for Middle School Students: A Case Study of Educational Safaris
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: The Carter Center- Atlanta, GA
CAPSTONE: In Search of Policy Options for Transforming Bhutanese Refugee Problem in Nepal
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Conflict Transformation
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PRACTICUM: Agro-forestry, Basic health and Cooperatives Nepal (ABC/Nepal)
CAPSTONE: The capacity and effectiveness of Nepalese NGOs in dealing with human trafficking
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: PIM Teaching Assistant, SIT-Brattleboro, VT
CAPSTONE: Teacher Training in Post Solidarnosc Poland: A Journey through Intercultural Communication & Social Justice Theory, Practice, and Personal Growth
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: The Tutorial Center- Bennington, VT
CAPSTONE: Immigrants in Rural America: The Experiences and Perceptions of Hispanic Integration in Bennington, Vermont
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations
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PRACTICUM: Sarvodaya Women’s Movement – Moratuwa , Sri Lanka
CAPSTONE: Obstacles and Approaches to Gender Equality in Sri Lanka
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: Burmese Volunteer Project – Chaing Mai, Thailand
CAPSTONE: Counter-Hegemony as a Tool for Political Defiance in the Burmese Environmental Movement: A Neo-Gramscian Approach
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
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PRACTICUM: Susquehanna University London Program – Selinsgrove, PA
CAPSTONE: First Year International Experience for Business Students
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in International Education
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PRACTICUM: La Esperanza Granada- Granada, Nicaragua
CAPSTONE: An Appreciative Inquiry of Volunteerism: A Case Study of Individual’s Volunteering for an NGO in Granada, Nicaragua
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
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PRACTICUM: Alterra Coffee Roasters- Milwaukee, WI
CAPSTONE: Family Farm Defenders’ Fight Against the National Animal Identification System: A Case Study Analysis
DEGREE/CONCENTRATION: Master of Arts in Sustainable Development
