Recreation & Leisure Studies
Building Bridges across Borders: Virtually Aligning Courses between Institutional Partners (Kazakhstan)

This project focuses on internationally aligning the Community Engagement course taught at UW with a course in the Master of Public Health program at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. In collaboration with colleagues at Nazarbayev we will initially determine courses ripe for alignment, including points of intersection such as panel discussions whereby faculty will speak to contemporary recreation, health, and community engagement challenges inhibiting quality of life, and on-line forums whereby students will engage with each other on the topics covered. Considering experiences and reflections, faculty will explore the development of a virtual course which could be mutually taught and offered in both locations.