An online Master of Education program for educators around the world interested in thinking critically about globalization and incorporating international perspectives into their curriculum and pedagogy.

Learn more: http://gse.ed.uiuc.edu/  

FLAS Fellowships are awarded to exceptional undergraduate and graduate students who plan to pursue professional work related to globalization. Funding is for language study, particularly of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL).

Learn more: students/FLAS/index.html  

The Department of Linguistics, with CGS support, offers degree programs and courses for the study of Arabic, including Arabic dialects; Hindi and the languages and cultures of India; Persian; and Turkish.

Learn more: http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/students/language/  

Critical issues and future challenges facing the food and high technology industries in the European Union are a central theme of a course developed with CGS support for the International Business Immersion Program.

Learn more: http://www.ibip.uiuc.edu/  

CGS collaborates with ACDIS faculty in disciplines such as geography, history, political science and engineering to support courses and workshops on conflict management, biosecurity policy, or the history of terrorism.

Learn more: http://acdis.illinois.edu/  

Prisms of Globalization lectures address the historical and political contexts and policy debates surrounding global issues. Recent annual themes have included technology and energy security, immigration, and Islamic and Muslim society.

Learn more: events/prisms-globalization  

The Global Studies Library provides access to cross-disciplinary resources such as databases, books, journals, and documents, and a dedicated Global Studies Librarian to assist with global studies research and course support.

Learn more: http://cms.library.uiuc.edu/cms/cgs/index.html  

CHAMP is dedicated to interdisciplinary critical study of cultural identity and theories of heritage and museum practice within a global context. The program offers a graduate minor degree, courses, and conferences and workshops.

Learn more: http://www.champ.uiuc.edu/about_us.html  

Workshops organized collaboratively with campus departments and global studies centers at other universities address current and cutting-edge research on societal, political, environmental, and technical topics in international agriculture.

Learn more: http://cgs.illinois.edu/events/biofuels08.html  

SILMW will offer intensive courses in a variety of Muslim World languages, including Arabic, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu and Indonesian, by experienced, trained, and highly proficient instructors. Classes will be held four hours per day over a period of eight weeks, for a total of 132 hours.

Learn more: http://silmw.linguistics.uiuc.edu  

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