AUK Students to Visit the United States

The American University of Kuwait is announcing its first large scale academic visit by its students to the United States in April 2010. The trip will include 41 AUK students together with three academic advisors. Dr. Mohsen Bagnied, Head of the Business and Economics Division, Dr. Marcia Denny, Assistant Professor of Business Law, and Ms. Loubna Saksak, Coordinator. The trip will include visits to both Washington, DC and New York City. The study abroad trip (Marketing 389) will include a two-day intensive training seminars on International Marketing and International Business. The seminars will be given by two Senior Professors from the University of Maryland University College. The trip will also include visits to the World Bank, the UN International Monetary Fund, the University of Maryland College Park Campus, Congress, The White House, the Library of Congress, US State Department, the Smithsonian Institute, and Wall Street in New York. The Embassy of Kuwait in Washington, DC will host a dinner reception for the Group by H.E. Ambassador Sheikh Salem Abdulla Al-Jabir Al-Sabah. Also the Kuwaiti Consulate in New York City will have a lunch reception for the AUK group. 

There are two major sponsors for the trip. MENA Holding Company who paid for all Airfares to the United States, and provided academic supplies to the group. ZAIN who will be covering all the costs of the two-day intensive training programs in Washington DC. The US Embassy in Kuwait will offer an orientation Seminar for the participants. 

MRKT 389 is the 3rd study abroad trip organized by the Business and Economics Division during the Spring 2010. The first was to Mexico (FINC 389), and the Second was to Milan, Italy (FINC 389). Such Study Abroad trips will enrich the global business educational experience of AUK students, and provide them with a competitive edge in the job market.

A collective photo of the participants