Italian Language and Culture for Embedded Experiences Abroad, is designed for students who have little or no knowledge of Italy’s language and culture. This course is linguistic and cultural preparation…
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MenuCritical Global Citizenship: Migration, Nationality, and Peace in Austria
In 2020, with new leadership in the Central Michigan University Honors Program and the Office of Global Engagement, a substantial revision of the global citizenship curriculum was undertaken by Dr….
Forms of Social Activism in Italy (a Community-Engaged Learning Course)
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…
Studies in Children’s Literature
Children’s Culture of the the Former Yugoslavia is an advanced study of youth culture in what was Yugoslavia, the countries of Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro in particular. Our study…
Comparative Healthcare Systems – Nursing and Midwifery Response to Global Health Crises
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…
Negotiating Peace: From Conflict to Coexistence
How do violent conflicts end? Are conflicts ever truly resolved, or are they managed? Negotiating Peace is a hands-on, interactive program where students will learn about the conflict resolution process…
Seminar 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…
Applied food and resource economics: An Italian feast
This course will explore In depth the food and natural resource-based economy of Italy through an applied economics lens. Economics and policy will be used to provide insight into the…
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…
Great Ages Modern World
This course is a 4-credit general education class that fulfills a university graduation requirement in the area of arts and humanities. General education classes at MSU have a theme, with…
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…
Bali 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Service Learning, Child, Family, Health and Agriculture in South Africa
This course requires 2 components for students participating in the Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) 379 service learning trip: an 8-week course of study in preparation for the trip,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Politics of Development
In the twenty-four years since the end of Apartheid, South Africa has struggled to achieve its development goals. Progress in the provision of housing, basic services, and social grants has…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sustainable Development Across Morocco
The overall goal of the program is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the cultural, political, socioeconomic and historical context for sustainable development policies, discourse and projects in Morocco, in…
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…
Global May Uganda
Students will learn how Ugandan society provides for its people in order to secure survival, livelihoods, dignity and overall development. This Study Abroad course will introduce students to the beautiful…
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…
Computer Science Study Abroad New Zealand with Service Learning
This month-long faculty-led program, bases at the University of Canterbury on New Zealand’s South Island, was co-directed by two faculty members of the University of Delaware’s Department of Computer Science…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
STEM Summer Research Program
Our STEM Summer Research programs abroad challenge the academic knowledge and critical thinking skills of students all while exposing them to many cultural, societal and historic experiences. Students can choose…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Synthesizing Your Service Experience
Through readings, speakers, class discussions, and reflections UNIV 307 Synthesizing Your Service Experiences weaves together your service experience, academic, career, and personal goals and provides you with next steps for…
International Trip Logistics
This course focuses on the specific details necessary for international travel. Assignments may include developing a trip budget, booking your flight, and obtaining necessary visas. Note: This course is part…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Cross-Cultural Engagement and Re-entry
INS 152 is the third course in the Cross-Cultural Engagement course series. The objective of this course is to facilitate re-entry after a study abroad experience, to identify intercultural competency…
Cross-Cultural Engagement While Abroad
INS 151 is the second course in the Cross-Cultural Engagement course series. The course is intended to help students to engage with the host culture while abroad; in so doing, they will…
Preparing for Cross-Cultural Engagement Abroad
Learning Goals: Learn basic facts and principles of host country and culture Develop awareness of the value of culture learning and development of intercultural competence; Learn how to learn experientially…
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…
International Service Research
This 1 credit course is required of all students conducting international service through the Center for Civic Leadership. This includes students participating in the Loewenstern Fellowship, Rice Developing World Student’s…
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…
Issues in Global Business
Issues in global business is a course requiring students from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds to examine a broad range of social, cultural, legal and political issues that can impact…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Voices in Global Health
Language plays a crucial role in understanding the socio-cultural differences that exist in many aspects global health, and it is instrumental in helping global health workers interpret the cultural systems…
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…
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…
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…
Alternative Spring Break
In our CIVC450 course, “Alternative Spring Break,” service-learning participants debated the concept of “volontourism.” Using The New York Times, students were to read an article, “Volontourists Needed,” by Leila de…
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…
Continuing the Journey: From Study Abroad to a Life of Global Engagement
A team-taught a course for students who had recently returned from terms studying abroad. The purpose of the course was to help students understand and navigate the re-entry process, build upon…