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Current Offerings

There are no domestic cross-cultural courses being offered during May-Term 2024! Click here for Global Cross-Cultural Opportunities.

Program Advisors

For academic requirement information, contact Kate Oswald Wilkins, Asst. Dean of General Education and Common Learning of Boyer 104, 717.766.2511 Ext. 2801.

For general course information, contact Paula Holtzinger, Director of Agape Center for Local and Global Engagement 717.766.2511 Ext.6089. (For information about individual cross-cultural courses, contact the course faculty leader directly.)

For faculty mentoring and advice, contact Dr. Fabrizio Cilento, Academic Coordinator for Cross-Cultural Cources, Associate Professor of Communication, Boyer 211, 717.766.2511 x2234.

Goals and Objectives

Cross-cultural courses help students:

Identify relevant information about the host culture's history, traditions, politics, geography, including regional differences, if applicable.
Discuss facets in which the host culture differs from their own.
Discuss facets in which the host culture is similar to their own.
Explain insights that they learned about themselves and their own relationships by directly interacting with individuals and groups from the host culture.

Credits

Students can earn three credits, fulfilling part of their general education language requirements, by enrolling in one of the cross-cultural study courses offered in May. Students also can fulfill this general education requirement by participating in a Messiah-approved, semester-long, international program. (More information about these programs is available in the Agape Center for Local and Global Engagement.)

Costs

Cross-cultural course tuition charges are included as part of the spring semester tuition fees. (As long as students do not take more than 18 credits during Spring Term, and May-Term, there will be no additional charges for spring semester tuition.)

There is an additional course fee that covers travel costs for the course (such as flights, hotel fees, international insurance coverage, and in-country transportation costs). The average course fee is $3700.