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…
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Art and Science of Exploring Biodiversity in Guyana
In this course students explore the artistic, cultural, economic, literary, and scientific role of biodiversity in today’s society. Using Guyana, a biodiverse English-speaking Caribbean nation located along the northeastern coastline…
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…
Locating Intersections between Germany and the U.S., Then and Now
Students interact with travel writings to gain insight into their own culture and German culture to create travel writing with personal, travel, cultural and global themes. This course delves into…
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…
Italy: Exploring Science and Medicine through Art and Literature
This program is a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Health Solutions. Students will form a foundational perspective in medicine and health care…
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…
World Literature I
No course can live up to so lofty a title as World Literature. The goal of this course is, therefore, to introduce students to a sampling of pre-modern literatures – in…
Intro to Creative Writing Abroad
The course was a study abroad course in Creative Writing in Ireland. Students used The New York Times as a resource for articles on Ireland in the broadest sense — history,…
Travel Writing in Auvillar, France
There are only two plots in all of literature, claimed the late John Gardner: the story of a journey, and of a stranger coming to town. Most travel literature is…