How is this different from most study abroad programs?In a number of significant ways, the AISA Project will provide students with experiences that are not part of a typical academic study abroad program. Although a study abroad program might include the study of art or drama history as an elective component, the AISA project aims to :

• simultaneously engage students in three activities that contribute to thinking critically and creatively about identity, as represented in art: namely: art perception, reflection and production (art making);
• increase awareness of identity issues through activities that focus specifically on intercultural communication (e.g., through workshops, school visits, excursions, and local interviews);
• help students make connections between their own perception of self, how they represent this (performance of self) and how they narrate self. This focus of understanding deliberately parallels the three foci for study of art identified above (perception, reflection, and production).
• make students responsible for sharing their own learning and awareness with others, both in Germany (e.g., through reflections, everyday interactions, workshops geared to intercultural dialogue, school visits, and interviews with Germans) and in America (e.g., through outreach to middle and high schools and contributions to intercultural learning for U-M German students).
  

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