Future Programs

The semester program is the recommended intercultural study option. Each semester program includes 15 semester hours of credit taken as five (3 SH) courses. The experience integrates course content through analysis and experiential learning. The semester program meets the intercultural experience requirements in the EMU Core Curriculum through intercultural immersion, and other Core requirements such as Language learning or other themes in history, culture, or an area of faculty expertise.

Summer seminars provide exposure to another cultural context for 3-6 weeks. A three-week experience comprises the core intercultural social science course, while six-week seminars include a second 3 SH course.  The Washington Community Scholars’ Center offers fall, spring and summer terms. WCSC semester coursework meets all core intercultural requirements except foreign language.  

Summer 2025

• Environmental Justice in D.C. - 3-week seminar (3SH) - Jim Yoder & Ann Butwell 
  - Apply before January 22
• Switzerland & Germany: Anabaptism at 500 - 3-week seminar (3SH) - Heike Peckruhn and Sarah Bixler   - Applications closed Nov. 7 
• Local Context 3-week seminar (3SH) - Debbi DiGennaro
• Washington Community Scholars’ Center - 10SH

Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Semester Options

• Washington Community Scholars’ Center
• On-campus courses
  • Intercultural Community Immersion (3SH) - Christina Harrison
  • Cultural Learning & Integration (1SH) for students with significant multicultural experience - Christina Harrison
• Global Learning - Students remain enrolled at EMU while studying with a  partner school. 
  • Goshen College - Indonesia, Ecuador, Tanzania or a 13-week Summer Term in Ecuador or Senegal*

  • Bluffton University  - Semester in Greece or fall semester in Guatemala*

• Handong Global University  exchange program in Pohang, South Korea. English instruction for courses in various majors. Dorm residence with international and South Korean students.*
  
  
• LCC International University  A North American style university on the Baltic Sea, hosts a liberal arts student exchange program in Klaipeda, Lithuania. English instruction across the curriculum. Dorm residence with international  and Lithuanian students.*
  
  

• Central America Study and Service (CASAS) study abroad for the semester or a 12-week summer term, supported by homestay, internships and field excursions.*

• Amizade-AllPeopleBeHappy provides programs in global service and learning for a more just and joyful world. Study or practicum work is rooted in the values of peace and justice in New Zealand, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, or other locations for summer terms.*
  
  

• School for International Training provides inter-disciplinary academics related to various critical global issues, alongside cultural immersion in a variety of countries and contexts.

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*Contact EMU Intercultural intercultural@emu.edu to apply to outside programs

See also Alternative Programs

 

Seminars for future terms will be announced in 2025