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'Hortecus' offers cultural
mesh
By Corrie Wollet
Staff
Writer
Purdue horticulture students have a new study abroad
opportunity through the School of Agriculture, which offers semester-long
trips to Greece, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
The horticulture department at Purdue hosts the
opportunity, formally titled Hortecus. Even though this is study abroad,
it's also an exchange program in cooperation with universities in Greece,
the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
These European universities will send students
to one of the three participating schools in the United States —
Alabama A&M, Oklahoma State or Purdue. The program will allow those
involved to choose where they want to study and what classes they will
take.
The courses offered, although not finalized, will
go along with the horticulture curriculum, making it possible for horticulture
majors to graduate on time.
Professor Arne Skytt Anderson from Denmark said
horticulture as an international business is a small segment of agriculture,
but a distinct one.
This exchange illustrates how plants are grown
in various parts of the world, while also showing the student what it
is like to study at another university. It has been made possible through
a three-year grant from the Department of Education Fund for the Improvement
of Post-secondary Education and the European Commission.
According to the alliance, the grant allows five
$3,000 scholarships from each university to be given to students for
living expenses or tuition.
The cost for the exchange program is the same as
a semester of Purdue tuition, with the only fee being the plane ticket.
Purdue Professor Allen Hammer leads the U.S. partners,
which include professors Douglas Needham at Oklahoma and Caula Beyl
at Alabama A&M. In Europe, Professor Ioannis Valhos at Crete leads
the partners and works with professors Anderson in Denmark, Henk Fuchs
in the Netherlands and Hartmut Stuetzel in Germany.
Students applying for the program should have some
knowledge of the language spoken in their choice country. Before the
trip, short courses will be given in various languages to master survival
tips and sayings.
"I think students who are in a country for
a semester should be able to pick up some basic language of that culture,"
said Hammer.
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