Join us on the Boston Campus for our Global Experience Fair on January 9th!

Global Learning

Defining

Global Learning

  • An approach to higher education and a set of intellectual orientations.
  • Incorporates the international/transnational, the intercultural, and the local.
  • Combines systems thinking with comparative perspectives and multidisciplinary problem-solving.
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Our Global & Intercultural Learning Goals

Global experiences are transformative. It is our goal that students who participate in global programs will be able to:

  • Recognize and critically examine their own cultural influences.
  • Analyze the connection between the global and the local, and understand how structures, forces, and phenomena shape culture and individual experience.
  • Live, learn, and work effectively with people whose backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are different from their own.
  • Reflect and act with an understanding of the local and global impacts of their decision.
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Campus Workshops and Learning Opportunities

The Global Experience Office supports faculty and co-curricular educators in designing programs that allow students to develop mindsets and practices to build their intercultural competence.

Students

The Global Experience Office continually works to develop new programming to enhance the study abroad experience and global learning across NU’s global campuses.

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GEO offers credit and non-credit online learning opportunities that can be taken during the Fall & Spring terms before, after, or during a global experience.

  • Offered in Fall & Spring Semesters
  • Register for the course through Banner
  • Contact Molly McMahon, Associate Director of Academic Integration & Global Learning, for more information: [email protected]
  • Offered Fall & Spring
  • 10-week, Non-credit, self-paced, asynchronous online course
  • Learn more & Sign Up
  • Contact Molly McMahon, Associate Director of Academic Integration & Global Learning, for more information: [email protected]
  • Offered Fall & Spring
  • 10-week, Non-credit, self-paced, asynchronous online course
  • Learn more & Sign Up
  • Contact Molly McMahon, Associate Director of Academic Integration & Global Learning, for more information: [email protected]

Faculty & Staff

The Global Experience Office supports faculty and co-curricular educators in designing programs that allow students to develop mindsets and practices to build their intercultural competence.

Professors teaching abroad.

Assessment Efforts

The Global Experience Office and Educational Innovation division participates in the Global Engagement survey with the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative.

Recent Reports from the Global Engagement Survey include:

To learn more or get involved in our research and assessment efforts, please contact Molly McMahon and the Academic Integration & Planning team at [email protected].