The PCS Global Campus Program [GCP] contains four major projects to be carried out: joint online classes, field training (internship), summer course, and essay contest. These projects are to be undertaken in order to pursue our objectives. The objectives would serve as practical guidelines for all of us when the formulation, development, and implementation of the GCP are set forth.
Objectives
1. Promoting multilateral academic collaboration
- Develop program curriculum together
- Incorporating local perspectives into the curriculum and to trust building among participating faculties
- Deliver online classes via video conferencing systems (See Curriculum for details)
- Enhancing mutual understanding among participants with different backgrounds through interactive discussions
- Organize summer courses for students
- Arousing students' interests in PCS topics by offering an intensive short course during vacation periods common to all member universities
- Foster faculty exchanges
- Improving the quality of instruction in faculties and encouraging joint research from diverse points of view.
(Curriculum Development Meeting in January, 2007)
2. Emphasizing the importance of field/practical experiences
- Provide internship opportunities in the field
- Giving interns a chance to grasp what goes on and what practitioners are required to do in the real world
- Facilitate the advancement of field research
- Increasing the creditability and strength of the research by filling gaps between theory and practice based on fieldwork findings
3. Sharing outcomes/knowledge/information
- Establish systematic monitoring/assessment/improvement mechanisms
- Constructing a sustainable and transparent program
- Create online PCS database
- Helping interested groups/individuals search for PCS literatures
- Hold international conferences/workshops/symposia
- Providing a place where concerned faculties & students can exchange and share knowledge/skill/information
- Run international student essay contests on PCS topics
- Affording chance that students can present their thoughts, perspectives, and analyses on the international stage