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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The major aim of this course is to compare the response of nursing and midwifery to COVID-19 in different countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and…
Seminar in Occupational Therapy: International Experience
This course embodies an international experiential component via an online faculty led study abroad course. Through readings, seminar, in-class dialogue, online discussions, virtual site visits, and self-reflection, students will explore…
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…
The Global Future Physician and Global Health in Thailand, Humans, Elephants and Disease
The course was originally two separate and distinct global seminars. In the last two years, we have shifted the two courses to be separate experiences in country (one group goes…
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…
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…
Nursing Field Experience in a Low-Resource Country: Peru
This study abroad course will focus on language acquisition while working and living in a low resource country. Students will participate in service-learning projects with community partnerships. Recognition of the…
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…
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…
Travel Study in Kinesiology
The overarching goal of the program is to provide students with first hand knowledge of the basis of altitude stress and the challenges, responses, and factors of exertion affected by…
Nursing in Barcelona
Interview with Rich Kurtzman, Site Director
International Interdisciplinary OT/PT Service-Learning Program
This service-learning, fieldwork, and service-provision project in Belize has evolved from the Dr. Beitman’s ongoing work with Mrs. Rhondine Petrof, Executive director of Toucan Education Programs, Ltd., on the development…
Connecting Art and Science : The Cultural History of Art and Anatomy in Italy
Italy’s medieval universities established the study of human anatomy for physicians. To heighten their art, Renaissance masters clandestinely examined anatomy through human dissection. The Italian peninsula connects art and anatomy…
Voices in Global Health
Language plays a crucial role in understanding the socio-cultural differences that exist in many aspects global health, and it is instrumental in helping global health workers interpret the cultural systems…
Biomedicine and Culture
This course discusses the history of biology and medicine; popular representations of health, disease, and the medical establishment; cross-cultural medical practices and ethical issues; and the cultural implications of medical…
The Global Future Physician
The Global Future Physician is a three week global seminar to Mysore, India. It was designed to provide undergraduate students interested in global health, medicine, public health or other health…
UNC Chapel Hill’s STEM Courses Abroad
The Study Abroad Office along with a science working group made up of faculty from the different science departments have started offering “gateway” courses (i.e., courses such as BIOL 202…