2025 International Opportunities

Biology of the Galapagos - Galapagos, Ecuador - CAS Faculty: James sikes

This course introduces students to the diverse range of marine and terrestrial species and ecosystems found in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) and emphasizes the principles of ecology and evolutionary biology. Students will survey the many unique, and often endemic, plant and animal species while studying one of the world's most important and extraordinary geographic areas given its isolation, rough terrestrial terrain, and distinct oceanographic features.

Comparative Public Policy - Singapore, Republic of singapore - SOM Faculty: Nicholas Tay

This global immersion course will introduce students to comparative public policy and engage them in drawing lessons from the Singapore experience during our visit. Nearly six decades ago, Singapore, with no natural resources and meager wealth, was deemed improbable to survive after being forced to leave the Federation of Malaysia in 1965. Today, Singapore is ranked third among the world's wealthiest countries. Singapore's thoughtful public policy programs played an essential role in the transformation. Students will learn how the various public policy programs help Singapore to navigate the economic, social, and environmental challenges. Students will also learn about Singapore's history and experience its rich and fascinating culture and food, integrating cultures and influences from neighboring countries in Southeast Asia and worldwide.

Global Sport Management - Johannesburg, South Africa - CAS Faculty: Michael Goldman

Through a range of experiences, engagements, reflections and actions, students will gain a rich understanding of the dynamics of competing in this global sport management environment. Specifically, this 10-day study abroad course will include observational and experiential visits to sport teams, facilities, broadcasters, agencies and sponsors, presentations by sport management leaders, service-learning opportunities with local sport-based development organizations, and classroom-based debates and debriefs - all supported by a set of relevant reading materials and resources.

Urban development in indonesia - Jakarta, indonesia - CAS Faculty: John zarobell

The course seeks to introduce students to dynamics and challenges of urban development in the Global South while training them in the techniques of urban planners, regional and national governments, developers, foundations and others who seek to promote sustainable development in one of the world’s fastest growing cities. Students from USF will travel to Jakarta and will prepare policy proposals for Jakarta after expert meetings, site visits, and collaboration with UNTAR students with the end goal to present their Policy Proposals before a panel of Jakarta experts on the last day of class. The three urban sub-themes that will be explored in the policy proposals are: Traditional Areas (kampungs and marketplaces), Modern Commercial Areas (Central Business District), and State-controlled Public Areas/Tourist Zones. 

BASE Black Heritage Immersion to SOuthern USA - Southern USA - Faculty/Staff: Emille Lawrence and LaShirine Howard

The Black Heritage Immersion Experience, open to members of the Marshall-Riley Living Learning Community, allows students to delve deeply into some of the most poignant chapters of Black history in the U.S., including antebellum slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the long Civil Rights Movement. This immersion provides first-hand exposure to various historic sites, memorials, and communities in Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

Humane Architecture in Arizona borderlands - Ajo, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico - Faculty: Seth Wachtel and Ross Mccarthy

This innovative design-build program collaborates and supports the work of Humane Borders, an organization whose mission is directed at saving the lives of migrants suffering from dehydration in the Sonoran Desert. Their critical life-saving work focuses on the strategic placing of water stations throughout the harsh desert environment. Through the lens of equity, human rights, and environmental sustainability the class will build upon research conducted in the Capstone Architecture Outreach Studio ARCH 400CEL and develop innovative architectural solutions focused on creating, building and locating adaptive water stations toward a just and humane environment in the Arizona borderlands.

Disruptive Innovations in Mobility & Clean Tech* - Belgium & Netherlands - SOM Faculty: William Riggs

This AGI will focus on two countries that have been working to build new systems for clean tech / energy, transportation, and financial infrastructure. In this context this STEM-oriented course will work with clients to ideate new strategies for market growth particularly in the clean tech and clean transportation sectors. Using work from strategy sessions with clients, students assimilate information and transform knowledge providing a consolidated report that further ideates the engineering and business models for the future of public and private sector innovations in the target sectors. 

USF Family Business Academic Global Immersion in the Philippines - Manila, Philippines - SOM Faculty: Monika Hudson

AGI-Family Businesses Immersion course (BUS477-CD/CEL) is one of the School of Management’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation and International Business elective offerings that concurrently carries cultural diversity and community-engaged learning designations.  This year, the combined USF, Ateneo and Javeriana cohort will build upon general family business theory and extend theory-to-practice through a combination of USF, Ateneo and Javeriana on-site and remote coursework and business/cultural immersion experiences with students, instructors and family-owned firms located in Manila, Philippines.

May| Leadership and global Citizenship+ - salzburg, austria - soe Faculty: noah borrero and walt gmelch

This program is designed to explore the process of becoming a global citizen from a leadership perspective. Broadly speaking, global citizens are consciously prepared to live and work in the  complex interdependent society of the 21st century and contribute to improving the common global good of our planet and its citizens.  

May| USF Crossing Borders-Changing lives: Migrants at the spain*-morocco border - Spain and MOrocco - CAS Faculty: Lois Lorentzen

In this course we will examine the historical, economic and political roots of migration to Spain, focusing primarily on Africa. Meet with scholars and professionals engaged academically, professionally and personally with migration issues. Hear directly from undocumented and documented migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees about their experiences. Observe civil society organizations' support for migrant groups. Appreciate the border as a place not only of diminished rights but also of human richness. Witness the integration of the academic, social, and pastoral approaches as practiced in Jesuit migration projects in Spain and Morocco.

June|Education, Resistance and Community* - San Juan, puerto rico - SOE Faculty: monisha bajaj

This program will provide graduate students a glimpse into "Education, Resistance, and Community in Puerto Rico" through a 7-day immersion focused on exploring austerity measures that have limited educational quality on the one hand, and, on the other, community-based arts, educational, and other forms of resistance that seek to transform schools and provide culturally relevant and affirming education in out-of-school spaces.

July|Culture and Environment - Sitka, Alaska - CAS Faculty: Kathleen coll

This field course in the island community of Sitka, Alaska examines the relationship between culture, community, and the environment. Students will learn about the region’s marine and terrestrial environments and their use by the indigenous Tlingit Indians (who today comprise a quarter of Sitka’s population) and by its non-Native residents. We will explore Tlingit and Western views of nature, stewardship, and conservation. The course will also examine current controversies surrounding the use of the area’s natural resources -- its fish, timber, and natural beauty. The latter includes the impact of large-scale cruise ship tourism on Sitka. Wherever possible the emphasis is hands-on, experiential learning.

July|McGrath Graduate Fellowship - Siem Reap, Cambodia and Bangkok Thailand - Program Leader: Bob Just

The McGrath Graduate Fellowship Program selects graduate students to engage and grapple with a diversity of experiences and questions that challenge humanity and the earth we live on. Topics including gender, education, sustainability, pandemics, connectivity/ technology and access, equity and inclusion will provide a framework for USF graduate students to explore, investigate and develop skills and new ways of thinking toward the future. An experiential immersion will lay the foundation of the program experience through which Fellows will engage in a process of discernment and action guided by the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP).