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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Sustainability on Trial: Environmental Justice in Northern Europe
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…
Great Ages Modern World
This education abroad program is associated with a 4-credit general education class that fulfills a university graduation requirement. General education classes at MSU have a theme, with the specific topic…
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…
Creating Technology Solutions in Multicultural Populations
Creating Technology Solutions in Multicultural Populations CIT 399 (3 credit hours) is open to students of all majors who have completed 30 or more credit hours with a minimum of…
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…
International Internship and Professional Development (INT 3010)
This is a 3-module course that provides the student with a preliminary curriculum, an international internship experience (8 weeks minimum), and a re-acclimation curriculum. All curricular settings are designed to…
Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology
This course, through a combination of lectures and instructional laboratory, educates aspiring Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) professionals to apply technology to meet contemporary commercial needs. The course includes education in…
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)…
Locating Intersections between Germany and the U.S., Then and Now
Students interact with travel writings to gain insight into their own culture and German culture to create travel writing with personal, travel, cultural and global themes. This course delves into…
Cultural Mentors
Barcelona SAE is a boutique study, intern and customized program provider specializing in Barcelona, Spain programs. Barcelona SAE operates under 9 core values all revolving around cultural engagement, academic learning, self-discovery and…
Contextualizing Historical Art
A program of the California State University, CSU Summer Arts is an international summer program that presents intensive classes taught by master artists in all artistic disciplines. Our focus is on…
American Conceptions of Scotland
What is real and what is mythical, imagined, and reinterpreted in American conceptions of Scotland (or any study abroad location) – present and past? Where and how do our conceptions…
Pairing International and Domestic Students
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…
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…
Disegno in Orvieto
This drawing-based course is taken during the first month of the semester by all students, art majors and non-art majors together. The course prepares each student to engage deeply with…
Italy: Exploring Science and Medicine through Art and Literature
This program is a collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Health Solutions. Students will form a foundational perspective in medicine and health care…
On-Site Perspectives: Education Abroad Management in Spain
This course is an introduction to on-site management of U.S. Education Abroad programs in Madrid, Spain. Middlebury’s Madrid School Abroad, Sede Prim, will serve as a case study for the…
The Balkans Semester for the Study of War and Peace
The Balkans Semester for the Study of War and Peace is an interdisciplinary, humanities based program centered around the themes of war and peace, conflict and reconciliation. The program will…
Intercultural Communication, Identity and Leadership
This course explores contemporary British culture through the lenses of intercultural studies. Students will learn about contemporary cultural, societal and political themes in London, compare ethnic and racial identities in…
ASL-BSL Language, Culture, and Linguistics
This course examines American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL), and American Deaf culture and British Deaf Culture through first-hand experience. This course will encompass everything learned from…
Architecture Term Abroad
The term abroad semester comprises a package of three courses – a 6-credit design studio and two 3-credit seminars. For the Arch 474 urban design studio, students explore the urban…
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…
Negotiating Identities Across Europe’s Borders
Travelling through Europe, one is constantly confronted with memories of conflict and reconciliation in places that have experienced dramatic upheavals. The importance of dealing with Europe’s conflict-ridden past has been…
Re-Entry Reflection on Cultural Values
International Field Study Experience (IFSE) is an eight-week interdisciplinary, online course in which graduate students have the unique opportunity to serve as international consultants for international companies/organizations. IFSE is designed…
A Deep Dive into Historical and Cultural Contexts
International Field Study Experience (IFSE) is an eight-week interdisciplinary, online course in which graduate students have the unique opportunity to serve as international consultants for international companies/organizations. IFSE is designed…
Connecting and Contextualizing Course Themes
International Field Study Experience (IFSE) is an eight-week interdisciplinary, online course in which graduate students have the unique opportunity to serve as international consultants for international companies/organizations. IFSE is designed…
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…
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…
Inventing Ireland: The Creation of Irish Identity Through Drama, Film, and Performance
What does the idea of being “Irish” mean? The content of this course will employ a cultural studies and performative theory approach to exploring the development and representation of Irish…
The Marchutz Painting and Drawing Program
Interview with Alan Roberts, Director of the Marchutz School
International Politics
This course will primarily involve analysis of world politics, focusing on the role of nation-states and international organizations and on selected foreign policy issues. This is an introductory survey course…
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….
Nursing in Barcelona
Interview with Rich Kurtzman, Site Director
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,…
Sophomore Experience Abroad
Developed with the needs of sophomores in mind as they enter a year of transition, self-discovery and decision making, the course functions as both an engagement activity and a skills…
International Field Study Experience
Offers a faculty-led experiential learning opportunity for graduate students to further investigate their research topic in the designated country or region. Through exploring local resources, discussions and lectures with hosting…
Intercultural Communication
This course examines intercultural interaction from a communication perspective as defined by the theory known as the Coordination Management of Meaning (CMM). This unique communication approach serves to provide students…
French Language and Culture
Interview with Amy Tondu, Assistant Director of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in France
Comparative Arts
Comparative Arts in France is a 3-credit course specifically designed for the faculty-led, on-site UML program in Paris, France from June 30 – July 19, 2014. Comparative Arts in France…
American Foreign Policy
This is my basic U.S. Foreign Policy course – at the 200 level – for Dickinson Students. I began the course in 1898 and took it up to the present….
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….
The Geography of Faith: Paul and the Emergence of Christianity in the Aegean
Sarah Lawrence faculty member Cameron Afzal will introduce students to the Roman world and the impact of the Apostle Paul’s work in major urban centers of the Eastern Mediterranean. The…
Public History in England
In this course students think critically about historic interpretation and preservation in England and analyze the stories curators tell. They explore the challenges curators face with financing, preservation, interpreting sites…
Kingdoms in the Sun: Sicily and Southern Italy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This course is an intellectual excursion into the history of Sicily and the southern Italian mainland from approximately 500 BC – 1300 AD. It is driven by an analysis of…
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….
History of Ireland
This course focuses on Irish History from its Celtic roots, through foreign invasions, early modern Ireland before emancipation, the Great Famine, Home Rule, the Easter Uprising, the Irish Free State,…
Global Business Practicum
This course provides students with a first-hand look at the business environment of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and is designed a partnership between Vienna University of Economics and Business…
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…
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…
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…
The Space in the Page: Visual Representation and a Sense of Place
Many thinkers agree that we use a rich mixture of history, cultural heritage, science, and art both knowingly and unknowingly to construct our sense of place. Our experience of a…
University College Utrecht Exchange Programs
Interview with Carla Kist, Exchange Officer
Sound Spatialization, Synthesis and Computer-Aided Composition
This course focuses on three important areas in music technology: spatialization, computer-aided composition, analysis and synthesis techniques. In each area, concepts and implementations will be explored in a variety of…
World Literature I
No course can live up to so lofty a title as World Literature. The goal of this course is, therefore, to introduce students to a sampling of pre-modern literatures – in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Geopolitics of Mediterranean Security
This course is a graduate-level seminar on geopolitics, national and homeland security. The course emphasizes the role of international institutions within in the context of the Mediterranean subregion (including Southern…
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…
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…