Ohio Wesleyan has a strong history
of providing quality liberal arts education for future business leaders.
Responding to the now prevalent global economy and marketplace, the
Woltemade Center has engaged in major faculty development work, focusing
on Japanese-American economic relations, as well as the recent integration
processes in Europe and their significance for the U.S. faculty members
from the Economics Department.
As part of our endeavors, we have
established a faculty exchange program with Waseda University in Tokyo.
The program enables faculty groups to study details of Japanese economy,
integrate Japanese related material into their courses and to develop
experimental courses such as The Japanese Experience, and Japanese
Education and Economic Growth of Modern Japan. The International Education
program has also permitted an interdisciplinary faculty group to study
developments in the European Union, and to collaborate with RWI, a
key economic research institute in Essen, Germany. Again faculty have
integrated some of this information into their existing classes. Most
recently, the University and the Woltemade Center co-funded a summer
1999 interdisciplinary faculty development trip to Venezuela which
resulted in an honors course titled Venezuela in a Global Economy.
