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Learn more about CAPA’s continuing response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on our notices page.
Enhance your in-country summer study abroad experience or take online study abroad courses from home. Courses are offered in a variety of disciplines including health care and COVID-19, human rights, psychology, marketing, economics, politics, culture, writing, and more. Plus, you can further enhance your summer with a remote or in person Global Internship.
Courses are offered simultaneously in online and in-person formats. The majority of courses will be comprised of a blend of students participating remotely from home and in person at our CAPA Centers.
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Earn 3 credits per course, plus earn 3 or 6 credits with an optional Remote Global Internship. Take courses in Florence, London, and Sydney. Credit is issued by the State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego.
Online programming utilizes CAPA’s Globally Networked Learning technology delivered through Canvas, creating a seamless online learning experience.
Virtual My Global City events across CAPA’s global cities are available to students taking at least one course. Events vary by week and may include a virtual pub trivia in Sydney, online cooking class in Florence, a virtual city tour of London, and much more! Plus, students will have access to guest lectures, professional networking events, LinkedIn toolbox professional development sessions, and extracurricular activities such as virtual book clubs.
This course will introduce the impact of globalization on London, one of the world's most significant global cities, in comparative context. Students will examine London’s changing identity as a world city with a particular emphasis on comparing the city's imperial, postcolonial, and transatlantic connections, and the ways in which past and present, local and global intertwine in the capital. Students will combine classroom work with experiential learning, centred on field studies to areas such as Brixton, Spitalfields, Southbank, and the Olympic sites in East London.
LNDN URBS 3345
This intensive seminar will focus on practical issues surrounding human rights. Students will examine politics and morality of human rights; analyze the theoretical foundations and development of human rights concepts, and the philosophies underpinning them; investigate frameworks of international human rights law; and explore London as a global centre for human rights advocacy, practice, and activism. Topics will include human rights and international relations; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect; postcolonial and feminist critiques of human rights; the intersection of human rights with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class; the relationship between human and civil rights; women’s, children’s and indigenous peoples’ rights; and the practical implementation and enforcement of human rights.
LNDN INTR/PSCI 3355
Course details and syllabus will be available in summer 2021. Please contact us with any questions at 800.793.0334 or at www.capa.org/contact-us
SDNY HSCI 3122
This course will explore the multi-faceted dimensions of human interaction with diverse environments in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Students will develop an understanding of the origins of environmental concerns and current debates in these regions from pre-European contact to the present day; focus on topics as broad as the peopling of the Pacific and the challenge of climate change to selected issues, such as the impact of mining, clean energy futures, our vulnerability to natural disasters, and increasing urbanization; and examine the intersection of culture and nature.
SDNY GEOG 3390
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