The major aim of this course is to compare the response of nursing and midwifery to COVID-19 in different countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and…
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MenuSeminar in Occupational Therapy: International Experience
This course embodies an international experiential component via an online faculty led study abroad course. Through readings, seminar, in-class dialogue, online discussions, virtual site visits, and self-reflection, students will explore…
Social Justice, Identity, and Language in Oaxaca
This program provides the opportunity for heritage Spanish speakers (bilingual students who have been in contact with Spanish through their homes or through extended periods in a Spanish-speaking country) to…
Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Expand Awareness of Contemporary Issues
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…
Art and Science of Exploring Biodiversity in Guyana
In this course students explore the artistic, cultural, economic, literary, and scientific role of biodiversity in today’s society. Using Guyana, a biodiverse English-speaking Caribbean nation located along the northeastern coastline…
Sustainable Buildings
This study abroad program focuses on the principal components of sustainable design and construction, energy, healthy buildings, natural resources, and other environmental issues. CSU students collaborate with local Costa Rican…
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…
Slavery and the Environment in a Comparative Context (HIS 241)
This course offers a rare opportunity to explore historic slave plantation ruins on a remote island in the Bahamas as a means of interpreting the history of slavery. We examine…
Social Justice Awareness and Global Health Experiences
Social Justice Awareness and Global Health Experiences (PD 2065) is designed to help students gain an effective understanding of the realities of health access and the social determinants of inequities…
Nursing Field Experience in a Low-Resource Country: Peru
This study abroad course will focus on language acquisition while working and living in a low resource country. Students will participate in service-learning projects with community partnerships. Recognition of the…
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)…
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…
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…
Cross-Border Interviewing and Story Development in Rosario
The interview is intimate, immediate, and often an entrée toward the soul. Conducting interviews can be both great fun and an art form. The interview is a critical tool for…
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…
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…
Travel Study in Kinesiology
The overarching goal of the program is to provide students with first hand knowledge of the basis of altitude stress and the challenges, responses, and factors of exertion affected by…
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…
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…
The Border Studies Program
The Border Studies Program combines rigorous academic study, practical on-site learning, travel seminars and structured reflection in a semester that engages students in some of today’s most urgent social, economic,…
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…
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….
Occupational Science: Community and Justice in Ecuador
This course focuses on how systems, communities, and organizations influence health disparity and occupational participation throughout many countries. You will explore, through systematic observation, interview, and analysis the determinants of…
Mathematics in Non-European Cultures
MTH 155 (2 credits, Fall) Survey of mathematical ideas developed by non-European cultures, such as African, Asian, South Pacific Islands, and native North, Central, and South America. Includes culture and…
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 Agriculture
Agriculture and trade in agricultural goods have been synonymous since mankind first intentionally planted a crop for food production. Modern agriculture, and the systems the urban majority of the world’s…
Los Angeles Term
This program is one of two off-campus programs required in the Global Studies major at Azusa Pacific University (the other is “Global Learning Term”). Students complete over half of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….