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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MenuForms 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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
WFU Salamanca
The Department of Romance Languages of Wake Forest University sponsors a study abroad program at the University of Salamanca, Spain, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Europe….
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…
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…
Languages and Cultures for Professions (LCP)
Languages and Cultures for Professions (LCP) is a second major option for students studying Chinese, French, German, Russian or Spanish whose first major is in Iowa State’s Colleges of Business,…
Fundación Ortega y Gasset Toledo Program
The Center for International Studies offers the opportunity to live immersed in a quiet provincial city, only half an hour from Madrid and with all the advantages of the 21st century….
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…
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…
Direct Enrollment Programs at Arcadia University College of Global Studies
Interview with Peter Leuner, Regional Director of UK and Ireland; Director of Arcadia in London
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…
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…