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Limited on time for study abroad? Or looking to add on a Short Course to a semester experience? ASP Short Course Programs are the perfect choice!

Participate in a 3-week Short Course Program and take a course you can transfer back to your home university, explore Michigan and the Midwest United States, and go home a true MSU Spartan.

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Global Studies: Digital Media & Technology (Summer 2024)

Students in this short course will work in MSU's Digital Scholarship Lab with experts in Global Studies and Digital Humanities, to explore cultural and ethical questions associated with the use of digital technologies. More specifically, they will study the forms of digital media, the relationship between digital technologies and society, and the formation of digital communities. Finally, students will acquire technical skills in the design of digital resources for personal, academic, community, or professional purposes. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with the technical knowledge and the practical skills to research, to analyze, and to create digital resources in our increasingly global world.

Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Program Dates: June 29 – July 21, 2024

Program Fee: $3,500

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Business: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (Summer 2024)

Taught out of the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Eli Broad College of Business, this Entrepreneurship Bootcamp focuses on the foundational skills and mindset necessary to create innovative business models and companies. 

Specifically, in this course students will learn:

  • to recognize the characteristics and behaviors of individuals who are entrepreneurially minded, and gain some insights as to how to acquire those characteristics and behaviors;
  • how to explore their own entrepreneurial interests and aptitudes;
  • basic concepts and skills required to start, manage, and grow a new venture;
  • tactics for testing the validity of business models using customer discovery and secondary research;
  • an in depth exploration of the components necessary to create viable business models.

Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Program Dates: June 29 – July 21, 2024

Program Fee: $3,500

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Film: Lights, Camera, Action! (Summer 2024)

During the course, students will work in groups and apply knowledge acquired during this course to produce a high quality, 5-minute short film project. These films will be produced at a professional level, not a student level, and the expected level of quality is such that they would be accepted into the program of a US-based film festival.

Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Program Dates: June 29 – July 21, 2024

Program Fee: $3,800

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Law: Negotiation, Contracts & Comparative Law (Summer 2024)

Students will learn how to communicate about contracts with attorneys and business people from different cultures. There will also be a change to apply new knowledge gained in the course to negotiate and draft a simply contract in a (relatively) competitive exercise with peers from various cultures and backgrounds.

Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Program Dates: June 29 – July 21, 2024

Program Fee: $3,800 

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US Foreign Policy: Traditions and Tensions (Winter 2025)

This course, offered through James Madison College, will focus on providing an understanding of the policy formation process and the direction of US foreign policy from a broad historical and international perspective.

Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Program Dates: Winter 2025

Program Fee: TBD

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