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…
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MenuBali 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NanoJapan: International Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
The NanoJapan: International Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, established by a National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education (NSF-PIRE) grant in 2006, is a twelve-week summer program through…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….