By Nathan Saylors, BSCJ ’19
As a first-year undergraduate student enrolled in SPEA IUPUI, I did not expect to have the opportunity to travel halfway around the world for an educational program. The SPEA On the Rhine program focused on Public Policy and Administration. All five seminars revolved around the European Union as well as the acknowledgement of the different topics and situations from the German and the United States’ perspectives.
Our five-week program was stationed in the small town of Speyer, Germany, where we learned about international governance. English-speaking German professors taught most of the seminars in our program, and we also took classes with German students from the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. This allowed us to coexist with citizens of Germany and to break the cultural and language barriers that exist. (more…)