Welcome IYLEP 2011 Video

Welcome Video For VCU IYLEP Program from Alix Bryan on Vimeo.

IYLEP


The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP), funded by the U.S. Embassy/Baghdad, and implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), enables 50 highly motivated students from Iraq to attend an intensive academic summer program at a U.S. host university.

GEO

    The VCU Global Education Office strives to promote:
  • Global and local student engagement
  • Academic success for international students
  • Research, teaching and service missions of VCU academic units through global partnerships

VCU Mass Communications

  The VCU School of Mass Communications prepares effective and skilled communicators through quality instruction, advising and student services, based on real world applications. Through research, professional service and scholarship in applied communications, the School advances the knowledge and practice of a multi-disciplinary and evolving media environment.

Program

VCU’s School of Mass Communications is offering an intensive study of social media this summer. In July, Professors Jeff South and Marcus Messner will work with students on social media projects. This collaboration will bring together students from two courses, MASC 491 and MASC 691 (Social Media Networking and Intercultural Understanding), and the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program.

This is the second consecutive year that the VCU School of Mass Communications has won a grant from the U.S. State Department to work with IYLEP students on social media.

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst also will host a contingent of IYLEP students this summer for a study of political leadership.

At VCU, students will take part in daily lectures and discussions with various social media experts. Using social media, the students will develop informational and promotional campaigns for nonprofit organizations in Virginia. And the IYLEP students will formulate plans for using social media to promote civil society in Iraq.

This classroom meetings will run from July 5 to July 28, 2011. The undergraduate, graduate and IYLEP students will meet Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.