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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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…
Great Ages Modern World
This education abroad program is associated with a 4-credit general education class that fulfills a university graduation requirement. General education classes at MSU have a theme, with the specific topic…
Bali Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Immersion: A Human-Centered Approach to Wicked 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…
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….
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…
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…
Comparing News Coverage Around the World
This assignment comes out of the Global Education Office at Virginia Tech. Students who complete the assignment can use the merit towards earning a badge in the (soon to be launched)…
Comparing Social Media Comments
This assignment comes out of the Global Education Office at Virginia Tech. Students who complete the assignment can use the merit towards earning a badge in the (soon to be launched)…
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…
Contextualizing Historical Art
A program of the California State University, CSU Summer Arts is an international summer program that presents intensive classes taught by master artists in all artistic disciplines. Our focus is on…
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…
Pairing International and Domestic Students
The Virginia Tech Global Education Office coordinates a variety of study abroad and international exchange programs. To encourage intercultural learning and personal development, the Global Education Office plans to give…
Perspective-Taking through Opinion Pieces
The Virginia Tech Global Education Office coordinates a variety of study abroad and international exchange programs. To encourage intercultural learning and personal development, the Global Education Office plans to give all students…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Computer Science Study Abroad New Zealand with Service Learning
This month-long faculty-led program, bases at the University of Canterbury on New Zealand’s South Island, was co-directed by two faculty members of the University of Delaware’s Department of Computer Science…
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…
Cross-Border Interviewing and Story Development in Rosario
The interview is intimate, immediate, and often an entrée toward the soul. Conducting interviews can be both great fun and an art form. The interview is a critical tool for…
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…
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…
Architecture Term Abroad
The term abroad semester comprises a package of three courses – a 6-credit design studio and two 3-credit seminars. For the Arch 474 urban design studio, students explore the urban…
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…
Making Pre-Departure Orientation More Interactive
This past year, The New School totally revamped our pre-departure orientation programming for students studying abroad. Rather than being simply a lecture on do’s and don’ts and important information, which…
Producing Global Citizens in the Short-Term
With global initiatives, and producing students who are “global citizens”, a growing priority at The New School, the study abroad team made it a goal last year to find ways…
Re-Entry Reflection on Cultural Values
International Field Study Experience (IFSE) is an eight-week interdisciplinary, online course in which graduate students have the unique opportunity to serve as international consultants for international companies/organizations. IFSE is designed…
A Deep Dive into Historical and Cultural Contexts
International Field Study Experience (IFSE) is an eight-week interdisciplinary, online course in which graduate students have the unique opportunity to serve as international consultants for international companies/organizations. IFSE is designed…
Connecting and Contextualizing Course Themes
International Field Study Experience (IFSE) is an eight-week interdisciplinary, online course in which graduate students have the unique opportunity to serve as international consultants for international companies/organizations. IFSE is designed…
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…
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…
STEM Summer Research Program
Our STEM Summer Research programs abroad challenge the academic knowledge and critical thinking skills of students all while exposing them to many cultural, societal and historic experiences. Students can choose…
Nursing in Barcelona
Interview with Rich Kurtzman, Site Director
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,…
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…
Introduction to Study Abroad
This course is designed to help students thoughtfully prepare for an international education experience overseas. Utilizing theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for a successful academic experience abroad, students will engage…
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…
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….
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….
Go ED.
Go ED. is a study abroad program that partners with international relief and development organizations across the globe. We believe that in order to end the spiritual and physical hunger…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cross-Cultural Engagement and Re-entry
INS 152 is the third course in the Cross-Cultural Engagement course series. The objective of this course is to facilitate re-entry after a study abroad experience, to identify intercultural competency…
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…
University College Utrecht Exchange Programs
Interview with Carla Kist, Exchange Officer
International Service Research
This 1 credit course is required of all students conducting international service through the Center for Civic Leadership. This includes students participating in the Loewenstern Fellowship, Rice Developing World Student’s…
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…
Los Angeles Term
This program is one of two off-campus programs required in the Global Studies major at Azusa Pacific University (the other is “Global Learning Term”). Students complete over half of the…
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…
Understanding Modern China: History, Culture and Politics
This is a survey course designed to provide students with an essential framework for understanding the complex and constantly shifting forces shaping contemporary China. The course examines the main social,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Alternative Spring Break
In our CIVC450 course, “Alternative Spring Break,” service-learning participants debated the concept of “volontourism.” Using The New York Times, students were to read an article, “Volontourists Needed,” by Leila de…
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…
Preparing to Work in a Global Economy
DOPP 2001 is an established optional re-entry course for students who have studied or interned abroad while at Georgia Tech. The students were charged with self-selecting New York Times content,…
Pre-Departure Detectives
During the Hobart and William Smith Colleges study abroad program in Rome, Italy, our students take the following courses: “Rome: the Eternal Tourist City,” focused on tourism and authenticity; “Contemporary Italy,” and…
Continuing the Journey: From Study Abroad to a Life of Global Engagement
A team-taught a course for students who had recently returned from terms studying abroad. The purpose of the course was to help students understand and navigate the re-entry process, build upon…
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,…
Syracuse in Wroclaw
SU intends to use Wroclaw, Poland as an “urban laboratory” for interdisciplinary study of the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century, exploring themes of reconciliation, public…
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…
Guyana Lesley Abroad Service Semester (GLASS)
The Guyana Lesley Abroad Service Semester (GLASS) program is the first semester-long study abroad program in the country of Guyana and is unique in many ways. The aim of the GLASS…
Indigenous Natural Resource Ecology
“Indigenous Natural Resource Ecology” is a three-credit, eight-week fieldwork course designed to complement a Tropical Ecology course by providing an immersion in the social environment of an indigenous Guyanese community….