2025-26 International Opportunities

Join us for our upcoming Virtual Information Session. During this session you will learn about AY 2026 domestic and international credit-bearing short-term opportunities and the application process. For questions about this event, please contact the Center for Global Education at studyabroad@usfca.edu.

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Humane Architecture in Arizona Borderlands - Tuscan, Arizona - CAS 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.

Civil Rights, Social Justice through the context of indigenous sport in ireland - Dublin and donegal, Ireland - CAS Faculty: Shannon Siegel

This immersion the delves into the topic of indigenous sport, as well as social justice and access to health care. Lectures and field trips on Civil Rights, Social Justice, and the incorporation of community service are all included in the program, and appeal to the USF student body as a whole. Students will also visit Northern Ireland and experience the roles that art and sport and dance have filled in providing access to social justice and where they have used sport to reconcile and implement social change.

SONHP Healthcare practicum in kenya - Chogoria, Kenya - SONHP Faculty: Deepika Goyal

This clinical practice course provides the opportunity to apply knowledge and understanding of the  impact of socioeconomic and political influences on the health and well-being of individuals and  communities in a “low-resource setting,” in Chogoria, Kenya, a rural village at the base of Mount  Kenya, 3.5 hours from Nairobi. Students will participate in a learning program in which they will  live and work in the culturally diverse setting, experiencing the challenges to population-focused  health care in the area. Students will also participate in community-based partnerships to meet the  health disparities of the population, and they will have the opportunity to participate in interventions  that help to address those disparities.

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.

Global Sport Management Immersion Week: Australia* - Gold Coast and Melbourne, Australia - CAS Faculty: Ashley Sloper

The purpose of this March 2026 course is to immerse students in the economic and social context of the business of sport in Australia. 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 11-day study abroad program 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.

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.

Comparative Public Policy: Drawing Lessons from Singapore+ - Singapore, 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.

Jewish Culture, Memory, and resistance in Poland - Warsaw, Poland - CAS Faculty: Oren Kroll-Zeldin

This immersive trip to Poland offers students the opportunity to deeply explore the history, culture, and resilience of Jewish communities, with a focus on the intersection of history, memory, and ongoing issues of displacement and genocide. The program spans 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland, with particular emphasis on the 20th-century cultural renaissance, including Yiddish art, poetry, film, folklore, and political movements.

AGI Bio-Entrepreneurship in China*- Shenzhen, Beijing - CAS Faculty: Christina Tzagarakis-foster

This AGI is intended to give students a sense of biotechnology enterprise in China, comprehending the mission and people of the major organizations which affect all elements of science and technology-based businesses, as well as its relation to the global biotech industry. During the visit, meetings will be conducted with global and national organizations, local start-ups, trade organizations, and cultural institutions. The intention is to learn about the starting, funding, managing and supporting fledgling biotech start-ups, to develop an appreciation for mature industry organizations, and to gain further insight into the biotech business process, which starts at the lab bench and ends with the consumer. Cultural experiences are intended to enrich student understanding of the socioeconomic factors at work.

Gastronomy and Culture in italy - Florence, Italy - SOM Faculty: Amy martin

Through reading, reflection, conversation, and immersion of the senses, students will cultivate new perspectives and exercise creative thinking about food and its place in Italian culture and in the world. Particular emphasis will be placed on local food traditions and cultures to identify farming and production techniques. Further, emphasis on the significance of local holidays and customs, such as dining, will also be explored.

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.

Greenville community design and rebuild - Greenville, California - CAS Faculty: Seth Wachtel and ross mccarthy

The Architecture Outreach Immersion: Greenville Community Design & Re-Build program is a hands-on, community-engaged initiative set in Greenville, CA, a town severely impacted by the 2021 Dixie Fire. The program focuses on collaborating with local residents, Maidu cultural representatives, and community organizations to design and construct an architectural project that supports the community’s rebuilding and cultural preservation efforts.

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).