Italian Language and Culture for Embedded Experiences Abroad, is designed for students who have little or no knowledge of Italy’s language and culture. This course is linguistic and cultural preparation…
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MenuCritical Global Citizenship: Migration, Nationality, and Peace in Austria
In 2020, with new leadership in the Central Michigan University Honors Program and the Office of Global Engagement, a substantial revision of the global citizenship curriculum was undertaken by Dr….
Negotiating Peace: From Conflict to Coexistence
How do violent conflicts end? Are conflicts ever truly resolved, or are they managed? Negotiating Peace is a hands-on, interactive program where students will learn about the conflict resolution process…
Social Justice, Identity, and Language in Oaxaca
This program provides the opportunity for heritage Spanish speakers (bilingual students who have been in contact with Spanish through their homes or through extended periods in a Spanish-speaking country) to…
Great Ages Modern World
This course is a 4-credit general education class that fulfills a university graduation requirement in the area of arts and humanities. General education classes at MSU have a theme, with…
Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Expand Awareness of Contemporary Issues
Data from our annual re-entry survey reveals that undergraduates today haven’t necessarily engaged in formal study of their host cultures prior to their education abroad experiences. To some degree this…
Sustainability on Trial: Environmental Justice in Northern Europe
This Syracuse Signature Seminar is an experiential course that frames a semester at either our London or Florence campus in the light of shared concerns for people and planet, using…
Paris: City Spaces and Lives in a Globalizing World
In this course, students will be introduced to the cityscapes of what Walter Benjamin referred to as the Capital of the Nineteenth Century and what others have called the City…
Class Anthology Project
Instructions to Students: The class will work in two groups for this project. Your group will imagine yourselves as a team of editors for a new anthology of Caribbean literature….
International Internship and Professional Development (INT 3010)
This is a 3-module course that provides the student with a preliminary curriculum, an international internship experience (8 weeks minimum), and a re-acclimation curriculum. All curricular settings are designed to…
Service Learning, Child, Family, Health and Agriculture in South Africa
This course requires 2 components for students participating in the Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) 379 service learning trip: an 8-week course of study in preparation for the trip,…
Slavery and the Environment in a Comparative Context (HIS 241)
This course offers a rare opportunity to explore historic slave plantation ruins on a remote island in the Bahamas as a means of interpreting the history of slavery. We examine…
Social Justice Awareness and Global Health Experiences
Social Justice Awareness and Global Health Experiences (PD 2065) is designed to help students gain an effective understanding of the realities of health access and the social determinants of inequities…
The Politics of Development
In the twenty-four years since the end of Apartheid, South Africa has struggled to achieve its development goals. Progress in the provision of housing, basic services, and social grants has…
Celebrating Campus Connections for International Education Week
Starting in 2017, the University of Richmond decided to counter negative messages about international cooperation by emphasizing cross-cultural understanding. During International Education Week in November we hosted Danish Week, an occasion for…
Anthropologists Abroad
Anthropologists Abroad (ANT297/298) is a proseminar designed for undergraduate anthropology majors and minors at Connecticut College, particularly those who pursue studies and research outside of the United States. Collaboratively designed…
The Balkans Semester for the Study of War and Peace
The Balkans Semester for the Study of War and Peace is an interdisciplinary, humanities based program centered around the themes of war and peace, conflict and reconciliation. The program will…
Global May Uganda
Students will learn how Ugandan society provides for its people in order to secure survival, livelihoods, dignity and overall development. This Study Abroad course will introduce students to the beautiful…
ASL-BSL Language, Culture, and Linguistics
This course examines American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL), and American Deaf culture and British Deaf Culture through first-hand experience. This course will encompass everything learned from…
Sherpa Life and Culture
Sherpa Life and Culture focuses on the lives and culture of Nepal in general and the Sherpa people in particular during program lasting almost a whole academic year that includes…
Peruvian Social Reality
The purpose of this 4-credit semester course is to help students reach a basic understanding of Peruvian social reality, identifying the major problems and conflicts, clarifying the relationship of the…
Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Argentina
Transitional justice is an emerging field of law and inter-disciplinary academic study. Latin America has been at the forefront of the transitional justice movement since the early 1980s, and countries…
Sustainability and Food Production in Italy
There are more than six billion humans on the planet, each of whom needs to eat every day: ever-higher food production is contributing to faster use of non-renewable fossil fuels…
Negotiating Identities Across Europe’s Borders
Travelling through Europe, one is constantly confronted with memories of conflict and reconciliation in places that have experienced dramatic upheavals. The importance of dealing with Europe’s conflict-ridden past has been…
Inventing Ireland: The Creation of Irish Identity Through Drama, Film, and Performance
What does the idea of being “Irish” mean? The content of this course will employ a cultural studies and performative theory approach to exploring the development and representation of Irish…
Encuestas
Students follow the Encuesta method by interviewing the Spanish people in their home and in the neighborhood where they live to gain access to la gente auténtica, or the real…
Citizen, State and Society: a Service-Learning Approach
This course examines major social issues currently being dealt within Greece, inviting an analysis of the changing relationships between state and citizen that are unfolding in contemporary Greek society. In…
Los Angeles Term
This program is one of two off-campus programs required in the Global Studies major at Azusa Pacific University (the other is “Global Learning Term”). Students complete over half of the…
Understanding Modern China: History, Culture and Politics
This is a survey course designed to provide students with an essential framework for understanding the complex and constantly shifting forces shaping contemporary China. The course examines the main social,…