Colleges and universities must ensure that graduates are equipped to succeed in the global workforce. What do we know about the extent to which institutions are designing international activities, providing students with direct experience of different cultures and courses on global topics, and ensuring that graduates acquire global learning…

Integrating a "global perspective" into courses necessarily involves examining whether traditional disciplinary assumptions still apply in a global context and, if not, how they need to be translated in order to remain relevant. In this article, the author maps out this process by tracing one "intellectual journey" in order to…

Undergraduate education has not kept pace with knowledge about the role of culture in shaping human and social behavior. The deficiencies can and should be repaired, but some real innovations are essential to the process. Despite the challenge, there is a real opportunity to parlay research advances emerging out of the recent "cultural turn" in a…

International education on college campuses is discussed in terms of its definition, its content dilemma in a rapidly changing world, utilization of the interdependence-diversity paradox to organize curriculum development, and programmatic issues such as inclusion of international issues within disciplines to build a multidisciplinary focus on…

This article considers difficulties in including the sciences in campus planning for an international curriculum. It encourages finding ways to increase international scientific study, make international scientific exposure attractive, and increase integration of scientists into the interactive world community. (DB)

This paper presents an approach to organizing general education around international education through focusing on a specific world area, in this case Latin America. Considered are the importance of Latin America as a major regional entity, major cultural characteristics that North Americans need to understand, and programmatic considerations in…

Describes the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Faculty and Curriculum Development Seminar, held in Japan and designed to open faculty minds to global issues. The year-long seminar involves three-person teams from eight institutions, competitively selected through proposals. Its three phases include preparatory reading and…