Explore Your Options

Fishing Vessels, Indonesia

Photograph by Fery Sutyawan, Ph.D. student, Marine Affairs

You expect to gain a global perspective when you study business or international relations, but what if you are interested in healthcare, fisheries management, or gender and women’s studies? Here, you’ll find a world of possibilities.

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Consider a Global Major

Don't be afraid to challenge yourself. You can learn a second language or combine multiple disciplines to suit your unique interests. Browse our Program Finder.

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Talk to Your Advisor

Your advisor is here to help you to gain a global perspective in a way that fits your goals. Advisors can connect you to international opportunities you never even considered.

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Step Outside the Classroom

Your first experience abroad may transform your perspective about what you want to do in life. Where you want to go? What you want to do there? Explore your options.

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Learn a Language

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A Footbridge in Oaxaca

Photograph by Ian Quinn

Global Options for Any Major

Emely Baez at a health clinic in Indonesia during J Term.

Nursing

Emely Baez, a student in the College of Nursing with a strong interest in global health, has studied abroad in Tanzania, Jamaica, Argentina, Spain, and Indonesia.

Her Story

Biological Sciences

Wilfredo Tangui, an aspiring physician majoring in biological sciences and minoring in leadership studies and Japanese, studied in Japan and taught English in Colombia.

His Story

A student dances with a circle of women in Mozambique.

Communication Studies

Jenna Ziegelmayer, a writing and rhetoric, communication studies, and Spanish major, spent a summer in Salamanca, Spain and won a grant to teach English in Madrid and Segovia.