INTD 449 - Study Abroad - Course Title Varies

• Experience a fascinating Central American country in a variety of interactive ways – real-time lectures with local experts, virtual tours, short internship, and cooperative research with Panamanian students.
• Focus on political history, wellness issues, and sustainable development.
• Topics include Panama’s and Panama City’s political history and economics, Panama Canal’s history, the natural environment and the issue of sustainability, and health-care issues.
• Participate in short internship with a community-development, reforestation, or conservation non-profit organization.
• Participate in a collaborative international project with Panamanian university students. 
• Course may be used to fulfill general education requirements for history and political science.  

Oxford Don Tutorial (Oxford, England) - Summer 2021

• Experience a one-on-one interactive tutorial with a professor/scholar (called Don) from one of the world’s greatest universities
• Six meetings with the Don through zoom, focusing on weekly readings and three student research/writing essays of around 1,500 words each.
• Six virtual tours of major English cities with a 360-degree camera (Oxford, London, Bath, Canterbury, Manchester, Liverpool) with written assignments. 
• Course may be used to fulfil general education requirements for any academic area as determined by the nature of the Tutorial subject.  

World Affairs (Oxford, England) - Summer 2021

• Focus on 16 virtual lectures on world affairs topics by Oxford professors and other former government officials with important experiences in world affairs.
• Students write short papers on each lecture and on its readings.
• Topics from summer 2019 include British-American Intelligence, War and History; An Introduction to British Government and Politics; Britain and the European Union; A History of Modern Britain—”Revolution!” (television documentary); The “Special Relationship” between the US and UK and its Influence on World Affairs; Operational Intelligence in a Counter Insurgency Campaign (Case Study: Northern Ireland); Anglo-American Relations/Foreign Policy during the Falklands War; The Arab Spring; Diplomatic Lessons from Brexit; The ‘Refugee Crisis’ - the Role of the European Union; The Peace Process in Northern Ireland: An Anglo-American Perspective; China and the Belt Road Initiative; Domestic Drivers of Chinese Foreign Policy; American Foreign Policy under Obama; Four Major Transformation of the International System by Global War since 1500.
• Six virtual tours with a 360-degree camera (Oxford, London, Bath, Canterbury, Manchester, Liverpool) with written assignments for each.
• Course may be used to fulfill general education requirements for history and political science.