2008 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change

The 2008 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change is set to launch for a second year this summer at Schloss Leopoldskron in Austria. The session will run from 29 July - 18 August. Over 50 students from all continents will join a dozen faculty members for three weeks of intense study, deep conversations, fabulous meals, beautiful walks into town, and late-night, hard-fought matches of ping pong and tabletop fussball.

Building off the successful inaugural 2007 Academy, this summer students will further explore media’s role in global communities and civil society.

The Salzburg Academy is conceived to answer two of the most pressing questions of our time:
“How do news media affect our understanding of ourselves, our cultures, our politics?” and
“How can we use media to better cover global problems and to better report on possible solutions?”

MORE DETAILS
• All students will take two graduate-level courses: “Global Media Literacy” & “Global Change, Global Cooperation, Global News”

• Course lectures, small-group sessions, as well as the workshops and online work will be conducted in English.

• To read more about the program, CLICK HERE.

• To apply, CLICK HERE.

• For a precis of what the students accomplished last year see BELOW.

• Students and faculty will study, live and eat in residence at the world-renowned Schloss Leopoldskron, an 18th-century Rococo palace built by the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, owned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, renovated by Max Reinhardt the co-founder of the Salzburg Music Festival, and used for the von Trapp family home in “The Sound of Music.” Schloss Leopoldskron is now the home of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

• To learn more about Schloss Leopoldskron, CLICK HERE.

• To read about the Salzburg Global Seminar, CLICK HERE.

Transforming Media Education

Fifty-two students from five continents came together in August 2007 to start a world-wide revolution in media education. The students, all selected to be in the first class of the Salzburg Academy Program on Media and Global Change, created a dynamic online-based curriculum titled “Global Media Literacy.”

The Academy students also looked at two key issues in depth—Terrorism and Climate Change—and built web-based modules that consider how global media cover these subjects.

To see a sampling of what the students created, click on the boxes on the right.

The Global Media Literacy box will take you directly into a selection of pages that the students created for the online curriculum.

The Climate Change and Terrorism boxes will take you to an opening flash presentation. Take a look at all five of the topics in the flash, then click on one to bring you to a sample set of pages from all the modules.

Once you are in those new pages click the links on the right-hand column to see a variety of student-created video and flash presentations, case studies, class exercises and online links to other resources.

To get back to this home page, click on the link at the top right of the pages.

Finally, to read about guest speakers during the Academy session, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who gave the opening address, visit:
Academy Events

What is the Salzburg Academy?

The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is a new initiative of the Salzburg Global Seminar and the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. The Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent, non-governmental organization that for 60 years has convened imaginative thinkers from different cultures and institutions to solve issues of global concern.

The three-week Academy program was designed to bring together top undergraduate and graduate students from around the world to study and live at the Seminar’s home, the world-renowned Schloss Leopoldskron, celebrated as an historic center of scholarship—as well as the movie “home” of the Von Trapp family in “The Sound of Music.” Faculty and deans from a dozen different universities across the globe oversaw the program, giving lectures and acting as mentors to small teams of students.

Plans are underway to complete the editing of the Global Media Literacy curriculum and the related online modules this fall, to translate core portions of the curriculum into Chinese and Spanish and to develop resource materials in a number of the home languages of the attendees. The attending faculty and deans have committed to teach the academic modules back at their home institutions.