Open University, UK
February 2008 - December 2010
Certificate in Contemporary Science
Courses taken:

• Studying Mammals (passed)
• Volcanoes, Earthquakes & Tsunamis (passed)
• Life in the Oceans: Exploring Our Blue Planet (passed)
• Understanding the Weather (passed)
• Introducing Astronomy (passed)
• Fossils & the History of Life (passed)

University of Edinburgh: Institute for Applied Language Studies, Scotland
January 2004 - June 2007
Japanese Language Classes
Level Achieved: Higher Elementary
JLPT Level 4 (passed), December 2007

University of Leicester, England
September 2002 - September 2003
MA in Museum Studies
Dissertation: “Learning from Living Culture – Family Visiting Experiences at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival”
Specialist Subject: Museum Education
Level Achieved: Commendation

University of Edinburgh, Scotland
September 1998 - June 2002
MA (Hons) 2.1 in Scottish Ethnology & English Language
Dissertation: “A Sense of Place – how we perceive places and identify with them” (case study of Edinburgh)
Honours Modules Scottish Ethnology:

• Theory & Methods of Ethnology
• Scotland & Heritage
• Custom & Belief
• Ethnology of Religious Expression
• Traditional Cosmology
• Traditions of Appalachia
• Scottish Emigrant Traditions (audited)

Honours Modules English Language:

• Scots History & Structure
• Modern Scots
• Modern English Syntax
• Ongoing Change in English
• Figurative Language
• Old English

East Tennessee State University, USA
July/ August 2002
Summer Exchange Programme
Course: Appalachian, Scottish and Irish Studies

Gymnasium 'Am Kothen', Germany
April 1990 - June 1998
Abitur (Grade Point Average 1.5)
Major Subjects: English, Music
Minor Subjects: Maths, Geography