Global Seminars
The Learning Abroad Center is offering 12 Global Seminars over 2022–2023 winter break and May session. 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, 2022)
- Marketing & Sponsorship in German Sports—Clinton Warren
May Session (Priority Application Deadline: February 1, 2023; Final Deadline: March 1, 2023)
- Beyond the Nobel Prize: Innovation in Sweden—Nikki Letawsky Shultz
- Capturing Greece: Color, Light, & Form—Frances Trice
- Empowering Youth Through Sport—Daheia Barr-Anderson
- Ghana’s Business of Doing Good: Social Startups & Public Affairs—Simone Gbolo
- In the Field: Teaching & Learning in Danish Schools & Communities—Kathy Seifert
- Influence of Art & Artifacts in Japan—Tetsuya Yamada
- Japanese Traditions & Psychology of Well-Being—Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
- Leadership & Social Change in Ireland—Evan Witt
- London: Economy, International Trade, & Brexit—Fahima Aziz
- Sustainable Food Systems of Sicily & Florence—Mike White
2022-23 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:
Winter break (abroad) and spring semester (on campus)
- Health & Medicine in India—Karin Hamilton (PHSRC); application deadline: October 1, 2022
Spring semester (on campus) and spring break (abroad)
- Gruel to Gourmet: Food Systems, Culture, History, & Sustainability in France—Mike White; application deadline: December 1, 2022
- Health in the Andes: Humans, Animals, & Ecosystems—Dana Lovold; application deadline: December 1, 2022
- Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art & Science, History & Myth—JB Shank; application deadline: December 1, 2022
Spring semester (on campus) and May session (abroad)
- Sustainable Approaches to Health in France—Karin Hamilton; application deadline: January 15, 2023
Summer only
- Learning from the Mediterranean Landscape—Joseph Favour, during summer session II of Montpellier summer program; application deadline: March 15, 2023
- Sexual Health & Sex Education in the Netherlands—Kristen Mark; application deadline: April 1, 2023