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,…
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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…
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…
Voices in Global Health
Language plays a crucial role in understanding the socio-cultural differences that exist in many aspects global health, and it is instrumental in helping global health workers interpret the cultural systems…
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…
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…
Connecting The New York Times to Your World
The Office of International Education coordinates intercultural learning programs for our 150+ exchange students each year. Students complete a mandatory intercultural orientation before departure and reentry session following their study…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
International Experiences in Biology
Since 2004, the “ISU on the Mediterranean-Summer in Valencia, Spain” program has provided nearly 1000 Iowa State University students from over twenty majors the opportunity to live and work abroad…
Living Well in Later Life
“Living Well in Later Life” is a project-based learning opportunity (PBL) that examines the community health of two structurally similar but geographically distant regions: Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, Japan; and Carlisle,…
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….