So, this year for the first-time UK's office of LGBTQ Resources is excited to partner with
Dr. Kristen Mark in UK's College of Education to create this wonderful hybrid experience
that looks at gender and sexuality in the Netherlands and in Kentucky.
The program was created because the Netherlands has some of the best sexual health outcomes
in the world.
So, we wanted to learn about how they do that.
Being immersed in their culture for an entire month really got me familiar with their practices
and what they believe in.
Just the setting, it really makes you want to pay attention.
If I had taken this class on campus, I would have passed, I certainly would have passed,
but I probably wouldn't have remembered the material in the same way because I was immediately
applying it to real life.
I think this particular program has a lot of strengths in that it's very interdisciplinary.
We incorporate graduate students and undergraduate students in the program and I think that offers
a nice learning environment for both of those groups.
It's more than just sitting in a classroom, it's real-life application and analysis of
yourself, your society and other climates and communities.
It was very eye-opening to see people with all these different ideas and perspectives
So, I think it's incredibly important that we have a course that is intentionally and
openly marketed as a partnership with LGBTQ resources because I think it draws in and
provides a space for students who wouldn't engage in an education abroad experience because
of any number of anxieties.
To be provided an option where you're not just accepted but highlighted, I mean it makes
all the difference.
It's definitely a very interesting experience and something that is very inclusive in general.
This is a course that Dr. Mark has offered for several sessions, summer sessions now,
but we have lots of new opportunity in this partnership.
We are helping incorporate some domestic dialogue before departure.
It'll be valuable for students to be able to take some of the specific issues that we
face here in the Commonwealth to the organizations that we visit in the Netherlands and then
once we come back to also be able to continue with, 'how can we move forward, how can we
make this a more inclusive space?'
Taking all of that knowledge and connecting it back to lived experience ,not only in the
Netherlands, but here in Kentucky...so being able to as a final product produce some real
change and energize a new generation of Kentucky leaders.
I really think this adds another layer to it.
I think it's really important to be identifying or examining our own circumstances and our
own climate.
This is a dynamic course with multiple components both here and abroad, taught by folks who
really care about moving this dialogue forward and I think those pieces make this experience
rather unique and something we hope students will seek out more info on and join us.
If you're interested in seeing a new perspective, expanding your point of view, definitely consider
taking this course.
It will open up new avenues for you and you get to experience a brand new culture that's
completely different from anything that you see here in the United States.
I think it's really important that when you do go off and learn these incredible things,
to bring it home and to make your own community a better place that I really think that
this program encourages that.



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