Curriculum Internationalization
IU Indianapolis is committed to providing all students with at least one meaningful international experience.
One way to accomplish this is through curriculum internationalization, defined as:
"The incorporation of international, intercultural, and/or global dimension into the content of the curriculum as well as the learning outcomes, assessment tasks, teaching methods, and support services of a program of study.” (Leask, 2015)
Benefits of Curriculum Internationalization
- Help students meet IU Indianapolis’s Dimensions of Global Learning
- Provides exposure to difference and encourages multicultural understanding and acceptance
- Enhances student and faculty intercultural communication skills
- Provides an international perspective of a discipline or field
- Enhances student competitiveness in the global marketplace
- Engage faculty and students in internationally informed research
- Provides faculty opportunities to address urgent research questions
- Helps faculty and students develop an international professional network
- Provides understanding of global issues and forces that shape our city, state, nation and the world
Learn More
IU Indianapolis Dimensions of Global Learning
Incorporate a Global Perspective
Curriculum Internationalization in Action @ IU Indianapolis
