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…
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MenuBali 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…