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….
Forms of Social Activism in Italy (a Community-Engaged Learning Course)
The course introduces students to the concept of activism in Italian culture, and examines how citizens, individually and collectively, have achieved social change in post-unification Italy. In the course, students…
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…
Comparative Healthcare Systems – Nursing and Midwifery Response to Global Health Crises
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Creating Technology Solutions in Multicultural Populations
Creating Technology Solutions in Multicultural Populations CIT 399 (3 credit hours) is open to students of all majors who have completed 30 or more credit hours with a minimum of…
Children and Schools Abroad and in the United States
The major academic focus of this course is inquiry about professional growth and development in teaching and knowledge of children’s academic and social/emotion growth. In particular, how education is influenced…
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…
Sustainable Buildings
This study abroad program focuses on the principal components of sustainable design and construction, energy, healthy buildings, natural resources, and other environmental issues. CSU students collaborate with local Costa Rican…
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…
Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology
This course, through a combination of lectures and instructional laboratory, educates aspiring Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) professionals to apply technology to meet contemporary commercial needs. The course includes education in…
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…
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…
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…
Social Justice and Sustainability In India
At Western Michigan University, the Haworth College of Business and College of Health and Human Services have developed an interprofessional study abroad course, “Social Justice and Sustainability in India.” This course for…
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…
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…
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…
On-Site Perspectives: Education Abroad Management in Spain
This course is an introduction to on-site management of U.S. Education Abroad programs in Madrid, Spain. Middlebury’s Madrid School Abroad, Sede Prim, will serve as a case study for the…
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…
Intercultural Communication, Identity and Leadership
This course explores contemporary British culture through the lenses of intercultural studies. Students will learn about contemporary cultural, societal and political themes in London, compare ethnic and racial identities 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…
Reporting HIV/AIDS in Africa (2017)
This is an advanced journalism reporting course. Enrolled students have fundamental skills in researching a topic, interviewing human sources, maintaining accurate notes, writing accurate texts, photographing people and places, collecting…
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…
Geohazards in the Himalaya
The course focuses on field geoscience and geohazards in the context of human interactions and sustainable development in Nepal. On an extended mountain trek and urban investigations, students engage in…
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…
Language-Culture Module Series
The SPAN 310 Language-Culture Module Series focus individually on the four areas of language acquisition: Reading Skills, Academic Writing, Oral Communication and Listening Comprehension. Local culture is incorporated into the…
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…
Marketing Québec: Policy and Cultural Identity
The only place in the world where Pepsi consistently beats Coke, Québec comprises a unique group of consumers that have baffled marketing executives for years. What makes French Canadians so…
South African International Teaching Internship
The South African international teaching internship is a course offered to advanced teacher education students at Monash University in Australia. It is offered to students who have already demonstrated excellent…
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…
Global School-Based Agricultural Education
Global School-Based Agricultural Education (AEE 499/AEC 6905) is an embedded course taught jointly between Penn State University and the University of Florida. The course includes equal number of pre-service and…
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,…
Writing for Linguistic and Cultural Competence
The course is designed to develop C1 level oral and written competence in Spanish, wherein “users are expected to be able to use the structures of a language with ease…
Sophomore Experience Abroad
Developed with the needs of sophomores in mind as they enter a year of transition, self-discovery and decision making, the course functions as both an engagement activity and a skills…
Panama Avian Field Ecology
This 3 credit course will provide students with an immersive study of Tropical Ecology with a focus on bird ecology and conservation of coastal and mangrove ecosystems. The course is a unique blend…
International Field Study Experience
Offers a faculty-led experiential learning opportunity for graduate students to further investigate their research topic in the designated country or region. Through exploring local resources, discussions and lectures with hosting…
Intercultural Communication
This course examines intercultural interaction from a communication perspective as defined by the theory known as the Coordination Management of Meaning (CMM). This unique communication approach serves to provide students…
Intensive Modern Standard Arabic
I have designed curricula for all levels of Intensive Modern Standard Arabic, but here, I focus on our Advanced-High level. The main goals of the Advanced-High level are to maintain the…
French Language and Culture
Interview with Amy Tondu, Assistant Director of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in France
Cultural Portfolio
This is a writing-intensive course offered by Middlebury College to assist participants of Middlebury School in Japan in Tokyo. This course includes discussions and weekly field-trips, and provides a framework…
Conservation Biology and Practice in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
“Conservation Biology and Practice in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Global Seminar” is for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in applied conservation biology and human dimensions of environmental change….
Comparative Arts
Comparative Arts in France is a 3-credit course specifically designed for the faculty-led, on-site UML program in Paris, France from June 30 – July 19, 2014. Comparative Arts in France…
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….
The Geography of Faith: Paul and the Emergence of Christianity in the Aegean
Sarah Lawrence faculty member Cameron Afzal will introduce students to the Roman world and the impact of the Apostle Paul’s work in major urban centers of the Eastern Mediterranean. The…
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…
Occupational Science: Community and Justice in Ecuador
This course focuses on how systems, communities, and organizations influence health disparity and occupational participation throughout many countries. You will explore, through systematic observation, interview, and analysis the determinants of…
Mathematics in Non-European Cultures
MTH 155 (2 credits, Fall) Survey of mathematical ideas developed by non-European cultures, such as African, Asian, South Pacific Islands, and native North, Central, and South America. Includes culture and…
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…
International Storytelling
The International Storytelling course at Kent State University combines engaged experiential learning with international work and recreation, allowing students to develop journalism skills while broadening their understanding of the world….
International Service Learning: India
This course integrates academic perspectives on how to make a positive difference in a globalizing world with the experience of doing service work in orphanages run by HOINA (Homes of…
International Agriculture
Agriculture and trade in agricultural goods have been synonymous since mankind first intentionally planted a crop for food production. Modern agriculture, and the systems the urban majority of the world’s…
Intercultural Engagement
This 1-credit hour cultural engagement course enhances the study abroad experience by providing opportunities, guidance, and structure for learning outside the classroom. Specifically, it gives students opportunities to interact with…
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,…
Global Business Practicum
This course provides students with a first-hand look at the business environment of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and is designed a partnership between Vienna University of Economics and Business…
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…
Advanced Oral Expression and Communication
This course (Spanish 410: Advanced Oral Expression and Communication) was part of the Penn State faculty-led study abroad program carried out in Ronda, Spain. This course was designed and taught…
The Space in the Page: Visual Representation and a Sense of Place
Many thinkers agree that we use a rich mixture of history, cultural heritage, science, and art both knowingly and unknowingly to construct our sense of place. Our experience of a…
Benin: Permaculture and Global Education
This course and program with travel to the Republic of Benin will provide an opportunity for students to not only travel to a developing country, but also gain a once-in-a-lifetime…
Cross-Cultural Engagement While Abroad
INS 151 is the second course in the Cross-Cultural Engagement course series. The course is intended to help students to engage with the host culture while abroad; in so doing, they will…
Sound Spatialization, Synthesis and Computer-Aided Composition
This course focuses on three important areas in music technology: spatialization, computer-aided composition, analysis and synthesis techniques. In each area, concepts and implementations will be explored in a variety of…
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…
Italian Art and Culture
The heritage of Italian art has always been linked to everyday cultural ritual, and civic and national identity. This course represents a unique study abroad opportunity as students immerse themselves…
Issues in Global Business
Issues in global business is a course requiring students from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds to examine a broad range of social, cultural, legal and political issues that can impact…
Intercultural Communication and Leadership
The following is the course description from the ‘Intercultural Communication and Leadership’ syllabus (note that this course is offered at numerous study centers around the world and the text in…
Ecology of Managed and Natural Ecosystems
The Field Course on Ecology of Managed and Natural Ecosystems is a four week course in which students travel to several geographic areas of Costa Rica to learn about strategies…
EcoExplorers
EcoExplorers is a course-based international experience. Students meet weekly January through May to prepare for 3-5 weeks of fieldwork typically occurring in May or June. To date the course has…
Culture, Competence, and Composition
In order to support student outcomes that demonstrate the effects of Middlebury’s endeavor to effectively link the learning of language with a deeper understanding of the host culture, the portfolio…
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…
UGA College of Environment and Design – Nanjing Forestry University College of Landscape Architecture Studio in Costa Rica
The University of Georgia (UGA) College of Environment and Design, the Nanjing Forestry University (NFU) College of Landscape Architecture, and the University of Georgia’s Costa Rica campus have developed an…
Trans-cultural Experience through Cultural Immersion: Intentional Targeted Intervention Model
This is a hybrid or blended course that combines in-person instruction with online learning, creating a learning community of study abroad students situated in cultural immersion contexts across the globe…
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…
Integrated Field Course: Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
The Integrated Field Course presents upper-level students with the opportunity to travel to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for a two-week field research course to evaluate and compare urban processes and…
Children in a Multicultural Context: Theory and Practice
Scandinavia is known to be one of the best places for raising children to be competent, independent, democratic, and social beings. In Denmark today, approximately 9% of the total Danish…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Mendoza: International ETP in Argentina
This course explores the unique challenges of business and entrepreneurship in an intercultural and international context. Specifically, the course focuses on local as well as expatriate entrepreneurs in the emerging…
Exploring Community and Culture
Exploring Community & Culture (C&C): C&C is designed to assist students to reflect more intentionally on their study abroad experiences. Using the concepts of community, culture, and context, the course…
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…