About Me

Biography

Hello, my name is Jane Hulse.
   I am an honors student at The Ohio State University majoring in Agricultural Communications and minoring in International Economic Development and Professional Writing.
Originally, I am from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, but ended up in Ohio to pursue my degree because I wanted room to explore. I have been fortunate enough to have my explorations include study abroad trips to England and the Czech Republic as I pursue the Global Options program at OSU. Through the GO program I have learned to better connect and communicate with people from diverse backgrounds. 
   Similarly, my overall education has been geared towards understanding a variety of different methods to communicate with people whether it be through data analysis, writing, public speaking, graphic design, photography, or even understanding how economic decisions can communicate individual and societal values. 
   My involvement with communications research, both through my work as a research assistant and through my work on my own undergraduate research thesis, has also given me a better understanding of the how and why these methods of communication work.  

Why I decided to pursue Global Option/My Goal for Global Options

I decided to pursue Global Options because it fit in well with both my personal and my academic aspirations. I also thought that pursuing Global Options would give me an organized way to seek out and document my experiences as I expand my horizons.

I have an interest in global food security and hope to find a career that allows me to work to improve food security around the world. Global Options fits into this goal because having the opportunity to travel abroad and learn about different perspectives on the issues surrounding food security will help enable me to find more nuanced solutions to the societal problems that cause food insecurity in my future career.

Global Options fits into my academic life well because as an Honors student, I am supposed to pursue a set of G.O.A.L.S, the first of which is Global Awareness. The Global Options program increases my global awareness by letting me learn about the world through both trips abroad and required course work.

My top three goals for participating in Global Options are to be more aware of different cultures, to gain a better understanding of how what our country does impacts the world on both an economic and environmental basis, and to better be able to connect and communicate with people from diverse backgrounds. I think participating in this program will offer opportunities for personal growth that are not entirely predictable, and I look forward to finding out what they will be.