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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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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
The ISA Discovery Model
For over two years ISA has offered all its program participants a full one-year digital subscription to The New York Times. This period of time coincided with the roll-out of…
Global School-Based Agricultural Education
Global School-Based Agricultural Education (AEE 499/AEC 6905) is an embedded course taught jointly between Penn State University and the University of Florida. The course includes equal number of pre-service and…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Intercultural Communication and Leadership
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…