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….
Studies in Children’s Literature
Children’s Culture of the the Former Yugoslavia is an advanced study of youth culture in what was Yugoslavia, the countries of Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro in particular. Our study…
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…
Florentine Art Walks
This course examines the city of Florence through themed walks that offer a comprehensive approach to the city as an open-air cultural, historical, and artistic research site, from its Roman…
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…
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…
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…
American Conceptions of Scotland
What is real and what is mythical, imagined, and reinterpreted in American conceptions of Scotland (or any study abroad location) – present and past? Where and how do our conceptions…
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…
Disegno in Orvieto
This drawing-based course is taken during the first month of the semester by all students, art majors and non-art majors together. The course prepares each student to engage deeply with…
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…
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…
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…
Public History in England
In this course students think critically about historic interpretation and preservation in England and analyze the stories curators tell. They explore the challenges curators face with financing, preservation, interpreting sites…
Kingdoms in the Sun: Sicily and Southern Italy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This course is an intellectual excursion into the history of Sicily and the southern Italian mainland from approximately 500 BC – 1300 AD. It is driven by an analysis of…
History of Ireland
This course focuses on Irish History from its Celtic roots, through foreign invasions, early modern Ireland before emancipation, the Great Famine, Home Rule, the Easter Uprising, the Irish Free State,…
History and Culture of Southeastern Europe in Dubrovnik, Croatia
The Yale Summer Session Program Abroad in Dubrovnik, Croatia provides a multidisciplinary study of the region from antiquity to modernity. The course covers the Byzantine presence and the remnants of…