{"id":15787,"date":"2023-11-28T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:16:18","slug":"elizabethtown-college-students-participate-in-european-union-simulation-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/11\/28\/elizabethtown-college-students-participate-in-european-union-simulation-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Students Participate in European Union Simulation Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College students enrolled in Professor of Political Science, Endowed Chair of International Studies, Oya Dursun-\u00d6zkanca\u2019s European Simulation course recently traveled to Washington D.C. for the annual three-day Mid-Atlantic European Union Simulation exercise. A group of 14 Blue Jays joined more than 150 college students from around the region to take part in the exercise, which continued a more than 20-year tradition of Etown students participating in the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exercise is an exceptional experiential learning opportunity for our students, allowing students to practice what we\u2019ve been learning since the beginning of the semester in real life,\u201d Dursun-Ozkanca said.<\/p>\n

This year, Etown\u2019s delegation represented the Republic of Romania and European Commission members. Each Blue Jay represented a member of the Romanian Cabinet, a member of the European Parliament, or a member of the European Commission as they debated the reconstruction of Ukraine and energy security. Etown students also attended a briefing session at the Embassy of Romania in Washington D.C. where they were afforded the opportunity to ask Romanian diplomats questions about debate topics.<\/p>\n

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Etown students represented the Republic of Romania and European Commission members at the simulation.<\/p><\/div>\n

Throughout the semester, students in Dursun-\u00d6zkanca\u2019s European Union Simulation course learned about the history of European political development and the structure of the European Union, and they acquired the skills necessary to become insightful interpreters of European politics. This conference gave the students a chance to experience the EU decision-making processes in person and helped to practice their interpersonal communication, bargaining, negotiation, and mediation skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter spending a semester learning about the ins and outs of the European Union, it was really rewarding to get to put it all into practice,\u201d Nicholas Wiley \u201925, a Political Science major, said. \u201cThe simulation required me to use almost all the skills I\u2019ve been building to help in my major, including amending legislation, speaking publicly and even running for office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aurora Lefever \u201925 was elected to a leadership position in the European Parliament, and two other Etown delegation members, Ryan Strzelecki \u201925 and Ryan Horst \u201924 worked as European Commissioners, along with five other students, to draft legislations that attendees discussed and amended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College students enrolled in Professor of Political Science, Endowed Chair of International Studies, Oya Dursun-\u00d6zkanca\u2019s European Simulation course recently traveled to Washington D.C. for the annual three-day Mid-Atlantic European Union Simulation exercise. A group of 14 Blue Jays joined more than 150 college students from around the region to take part in the exercise, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":15788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,7],"tags":[197,1350,1517,2070,769,2072,2071,293,436],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus-community","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-eu-simulation","tag-european-union-simulation","tag-experiential-learning","tag-hands-on-learning","tag-political-science","tag-politics","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}