Cultural and language barriers are often the main concerns in internationalized teaching and learning. In order to discover better solutions, our department established an International Student Program and has successfully completed two pilot studies by hosting international students in the summer and winter of 2005. We collaborated with Andong National University, S. Korea because we felt that the culture and language barriers between Canada and Asian countries are most challenging. Also, we obtained substantial funding for 5 years from the S. Korean government. The visiting students spent two months in University of Alberta attending classes during the day, and had the opportunity to integrate with local communities in sports, heritage, and field trips during the evenings and weekends. Our goal was to expose foreign students to Canadian education and life style, and at the same time, to provide a good opportunity for local students to discover a foreign culture and develop global interpersonal skills.

Our longer-term internationalization strategy will be to host two groups of foreign students per year, and encourage Canadian students to share similar experience in foreign institutions.

Collaborators:
Dr. Anup Basu computing Science Dept., University of Alberta, Canada	Dr. Jong Seong Kim Andong National University, S. Korea
Instructor:
Dr. Irene Cheng Computing Science Dept., University of Alberta, Canada
Lab. Coordinators:
Lihang Ying and Meghna Sigh, University of Alberta, Canada
December 2005 - February 2006 at the Computing Science Center Program Theme: (Computing 498) Introduction to 3D Textured Mesh and Content Creation Programming Tools: JAVA3D and Photoshop

Students and their JAVA3D course project

DEMO: No Smoking!  Sweet Home   Valentine  It hurts!   Nimo?  

No Smoking!	2005 Winter Group Youngbaek Cho Cheol Han Jungdae Kim Kyongmin Kim Suye Kim Jungsub Kwak Juhee Lee Younghee Ma Kyongsub Yoon Mihye Yun
The eye and scales are moving!		Winter Group
	Watch my oscilliating arrow!	Summer Group	Home Sweet Home with flowers and trees
	Valentine Day is Coming		I can dance!	I can dance too!!