Global Classrooms
Illinois Global Classrooms is a COIL initiative that supports students and instructors to structure Collaborative, Online, and International Learning experiences, facilitated by technology, between students at the University of Illinois and students from international partner institutions.
In this program, you'll connect with an international partner in a similar or complementary major to develop a virtual project, and you implement it in one of your existing courses. Projects vary in scope and duration but typically last between six and eight weeks.
In collaboration with the campus-wide study abroad community and with support from the European Union Center, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for Global Studies, LAS Global Classrooms will expand your global learning reach, allow you to see your major from multiple perspectives, and will help you challenge your assumptions.
Learn more about how the Global Classroom initiative brings scholars together and fosters transformative learning experiences in this article.
Spring 2025 Course Offerings
ABE 232: Context in International Interventions
Instructor: Ann-Perry Witmer, Senior Research Scientist
Partner: Universidad Privada Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia
This multi-disciplinary course will examine a new approach to infrastructure engineering for alternately developed societies that seeks to counteract the disconnects and differing objectives among project stakeholders that result in lack of infrastructure sustainability and resiliency. Using a case study from Western Africa, the course will consider the impact of globalization, the attitudes of industrialized societies, and the role of place-based knowledge in designing and implementing infrastructure interventions for rural societies.
3 undergraduate hours.
ACE 398 : Recreation, Sport and Tourism Economics in Croatia
Instructor: Renata Endres, Associate Professor, College of Applied Health Sciences
Experiential learning on a special topic in a field of study directly pertaining to subject matter in agricultural and consumer economics.
ACE 436 : International Business Immersion
Instructor: Meredith Blumthal, Associate Professor, College of Applied Health Sciences
Instructor: Chaya S. Sandler, Director of Food & Agribusiness, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
This is an experiential learning course with an international travel component designed to equip participants with the skills required to successfully operate in a global business environment. Examples of topics covered include global supply chains and marketing channels, regulatory and trade environments, and environmental considerations.
ANTH 485: Anthropology of Policing
Instructor: Jeffrey T. Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Partner: Lingxiao Zhou, Professor, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, CN
Introduction to the use of anthropological theories and methods in policing studies. Includes comparative historical survey of the diverse sources of power and authority which are bundled into the modern idea of "police power," considers the range of authors contributing to contemporary debates about policing in anthropology, and supports students focusing on both theoretical and applied questions.
3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.
BADM 395: International Business Immersion
Instructor: Gretchen Winter, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Associate Professor, Gies College of Business
This Global Classroom/Study Abroad offering will challenge students to think about how companies can develop a broad plan to transition a country’s energy mix and infrastructure to support a lower carbon future in a professionally responsibly manner that balances competing stakeholder interests. The course will include a blend of classroom learning, field trips to area fossil fuel as well as clean energy sites, and guest lectures from business leaders and professors with relevant expertise. Throughout the semester, the Illinois learners enrolled in this course will work in teams that will include students from international universities. The course will feature in-person as well as virtual learning formats to facilitate teamwork. An international site visit be conducted at the end of the semester. The course will culminate with team presentations to a panel that includes company managers, faculty, and local leaders who will evaluate the professional responsibility, practicality, economic viability, and effectiveness of the plans.
BUS 116: Intercultural Learning in Business
Instructor: Cory Ohms, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs, Gies College of Business
Instructor: Rachel Newell, Assistant Director of Gies Honors, Gies College of Business
Introduction to global learning in business to prepare undergraduate Gies Scholar students to become global business leaders. Restricted to first-year students in the Gies Scholars Program, a leadership program for selected students in the Gies College of Business. Students will work with teams from global universities to solve business problems and when possible, will participate in a short-term study abroad immersion trip.
BUS 199: Technology & Mgmt Business Abroad
Instructor: Samantha Koon, Director Hoeft Technology & Management, Gies College of Business
Introduces T&M students to the history, culture, and business environment of international destinations. Students will engage in company visits, lectures, and experiential learning opportunities to learn more about a variety of businesses abroad, from large corporations to NGOs to startups.
BUS 301: Business in Action
Instructor: James Noonan, Clinical Assistant Professor and Academic Director of the Master’s of Science in Technology Mgmt Program, Gies College of Business
Introduces students to the complexities of business by working on a real organizational problem with an actual client. Students will work with a client to identify, analyze, and present recommendations to solve an organizational problem. Requires students to apply problem-solving skills to uncertain situations as well as build and manage a professional team.
CMN 361: Storytelling as Oral Communication
Instructor: Mardia Bishop, Professor, Director of Public Speaking Instruction, Department of Communication
Partner: Ariadna Levi, Professor, Professor of Interculturality, Department of Human Formation, Iteso, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico
Explores the role of traditional oral narrative in contemporary social life. Examines some major genres: folktales, family stories, personal growth narratives, professional autobiographical presentations, TED talks. Each of these genres will be examined in terms of content, context in a larger community of discourse, and performance demands. In addition, students will create and perform their own stories representing these genres.
3 undergraduate hours.
EPOL 202: Foundations of Education - ACP
Instructor: Curtis Mason, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, College of Education
Partner: collaborating with an institution in Ecuador
This course studies some of the problems of formulating and justifying aims and policies in American education, of designing and systematizing the curriculum, of organization and social context of the public school system, and of the teaching-learning process; examined in terms of perspectives provided by social philosophy, history, sociology, and philosophy of education. Completion of campus Composition I general education required for enrollment. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2025 for: Advanced Composition.
3 undergraduate hours.
PSYC 144: Stereotypes, Prejudice & Discrimination
Instructor: Chadly Stern, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Partner: Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Tacik Przemysław and Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Poland
Exploration of the issues and methods necessary to understand and conduct research into stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. To achieve this goal, the course will be broken up into three sections. In the first section, students will be introduced to the basic methods of how behavioral scientists develop research questions, conduct studies, reach conclusions about their findings, and ultimately generalize their findings to understand human behavior. In the second section, students will read about and discuss research examining stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how these factors contribute to inequality. In the final section, students will learn about research that translates basic findings from behavioral science to understand real-world consequences of stereotyping, prejudice, and inequality. Throughout the course, students will have opportunities to experience the inner workings of the behavioral science research process through touring UIUC behavioral science laboratories, completing and discussing measures of stereotyping and bias employed in the behavioral sciences, and designing and proposing their own empirical studies that would address questions related to inequality..
3 undergraduate hours.
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