When: To be announced for 2009
Length of time: 5 days
Course: Freshman Business Scholars
This experiential international program is being offered in conjunction with the spring quarter Cultural Competency freshman honors course. Students will spend 5 days in Montreal exploring the world's second largest French speaking city. The itinerary will include an academic component, business presentations on the cultural make-up and history of French Canada, experiential exercises geared towards exploring the multiculturalism of the city and cultural sightseeing.
When: Fall Quarter
Length of time in Canada: 4 days
Course: International Business Capstone
Students have the opportunity to take an innovative international business capstone course with French Canadian students from the Université du Québec à Montréal. They form cross-cultural teams and work on a capstone project through video-conferencing and email. The course is taught by Montréal and UC College of Business faculty. For 4 days in September, UC students travel to Montréal to meet their Canadian classmates, form teams, and visit companies. The Canadian students come to Cincinnati for 4 days in mid-November, visit companies and finalize their presentations. Student teams present their projects at that time.
The City
Montréal, population 3,360,000, is framed by Mont Royal and the St. Lawrence River. What was initially a simple missionary village, three and a half centuries later, has burgeoned into the world's largest inland port, the home of Canada's first banks and trading companies, the world's second-largest French-speaking city, and a metropolis of international repute. Given its prime location - only 37 miles (60 km) from the U.S. border - Montréal is an increasingly important hub of North American trade.
Montréal is a bilingual, mulitcultural society, and although its French influence is the focus of much controversy within Canada, it's this very flavor that's attractive to visitors. Montréal is a city renowned for its vibrant nightlife, love of sports, world-class museums, orchestras, shopping and year-round festivals. It is easy to get most everywhere on the metro and by foot.
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