Global Seminars

The Learning Abroad Center is offering 15 Global Seminars over 2021–2022 winter break and May sessions. Global Seminars are three-week, three-credit experiential study abroad programs led by UofM faculty and staff. They offer a way for students to explore interdisciplinary topics, and most are approved for liberal education themes and/or cores.

Several three-credit Global Seminars and other seminars offered by the Learning Abroad Center have been pre-approved to count as non-course Honors Experiences. These courses are listed below.

Winter Break (application deadline October 15, 2021)

• Ghana’s Business of Doing Good: Social Startups & Public Affairs—Simone Gbolo
• Leadership & Social Change in Ireland—Evan Witt
• Natural History of Patagonia, Chile—Jim Perry
• Solidarity & Community-Led Transformation in South Africa—Nate Whittaker

May session (priority application deadline: February 1, 2022; final deadline: March 1, 2022)

• Australian Storytelling through Film & Literature —Martha Johnson
• Beyond the Nobel Prize: Innovation in Sweden—Nikki Letawsky Shultz
• Capturing Greece: Color, Light, & Form—Monica Fogg
• Consuming French Culture & Cuisine—Trina Whitaker
• Death & Ritual in Victorian London—Ann Tandy-Treiber
• Japanese Traditions & Psychology of Well-Being—Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
• London: Economy, International Trade, & Brexit—Fahima Aziz
• Music, Art, & Fashion in Italy—Wendy Zaro-Mullins
• Spanish History on the Camino de Santiago: A Hiking Adventure—Nanette Hanks
• Sustainable Food Systems of Sicily & Florence—Mike White
• Urban Transformation in Italy— Kathy Rider

2021-22 LAC Seminars

Below are more instructor-led programs for spring break, May, and summer session. They vary in length, dates, and content so students can find one that best fits their academic and professional goals:

• Health & Medicine in India—Karin Hamilton, winter break 2021–2022 (abroad) and spring semester 2021 (on campus); application deadline: October 1, 2021
• Iceland: Nature, Culture, & Design—Virajita Singh, spring semester (on campus) and spring break 2022 (abroad); application deadline: December 1, 2021
• Sustainable Approaches to Health in France— Tricia Todd, spring semester (on campus) and May session 2022 (abroad); application deadline: January 1, 2022
• Empowering Youth through Sport— Daheia Barr-Anderson, summer 2022; application deadline: March 15, 2022