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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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…
Class Anthology Project
Instructions to Students: The class will work in two groups for this project. Your group will imagine yourselves as a team of editors for a new anthology of Caribbean literature….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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….
Susquehanna University’s Global Opportunities (GO) Program
Susquehanna’s Global Opportunities (GO) Program is a graduation requirement. All students, regardless of major, must prepare for, complete and reflect on an immersion experience in a culture different from their…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Reflection Project for Alumni Ambassadors
Following their return to their home institutions, students have the opportunity to join our Alumni Ambassador program. As Ambassadors, students represent IFSA-Butler on their home campus and have opportunities for…
Student Bloggers
We provided access to The New York Times to our student bloggers to add depth to their reflections on their experiences abroad. Our bloggers regularly produce written and visual content…
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…
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…
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,…
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…