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….
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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…

Applied food and resource economics: An Italian feast
This course will explore In depth the food and natural resource-based economy of Italy through an applied economics lens. Economics and policy will be used to provide insight into the…

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…
Bali Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Immersion: A Human-Centered Approach to Adaptive Problems
With its magnificent forested volcanoes, iconic terraced rice fields, teeming coral reefs, and ubiquitous temples, Bali earns its nickname as the “Island of the Gods.” While its ancient Hindu culture…
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…

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…

Macroeconomics Seminar: Traveling Economists in China
There are two primary goals in this course. The first is to understand the incredible economic development of China over the course of the last two generations within the context…

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…

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…

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…

Sustainable Development Across Morocco
The overall goal of the program is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the cultural, political, socioeconomic and historical context for sustainable development policies, discourse and projects in Morocco, in…

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…

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…
International Politics
This course will primarily involve analysis of world politics, focusing on the role of nation-states and international organizations and on selected foreign policy issues. This is an introductory survey course…

Sport Psychology
The study abroad program provides a capstone experience for all course members. This program’s research experience is hands-on and interactive. The qualitative research methods for this program include photo voice,…
American Foreign Policy
This is my basic U.S. Foreign Policy course – at the 200 level – for Dickinson Students. I began the course in 1898 and took it up to the present….
Community Development Seminar
Community development is planned internal intervention to generate change for the purpose of enhancing people’s quality of life. However, there is often disagreement as to what is meant by an…
Research Methods and Ethics
The Research Methods and Ethics (RME) seminar provides theoretical, conceptual, and practical tools for conducting field research in the Balkans. In particular, it provides the means to identify and carry…

The Geopolitics of Mediterranean Security
This course is a graduate-level seminar on geopolitics, national and homeland security. The course emphasizes the role of international institutions within in the context of the Mediterranean subregion (including Southern…
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…
The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the Wars of the 1990s
With the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, changes in Europe were raising hopes for social change and a better future. As…
EU Studies Integrative Seminar
The Integrative Seminar is mandatory for all European Union Program students. It provides students with an understanding of the origin, development and workings of the European Union, and how these…
Peace and Conflict Studies in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo
After 1991, as Yugoslavia began to disintegrate, new states emerged alongside each other, each with their own new political structures, and different challenges and realities to face. This course will…