International Research Funding Alert

August 2021

To ensure that all undergraduates are exposed to global perspectives regardless of their study focus, Texas Tech has established the Academy for Curricular Internationalization to provide training in teaching excellence in the area of course internationalization for tenure-track faculty, professors of practice and instructors.

The 2021-2022 workshop series will build a community of fellows that share an understanding that the future presents complex challenges that require collaboration beyond national borders and that such challenges need to be brought into focus in the classroom. This faculty-training workshop series will utilize a peer-mentoring approach to cover the basics of course internationalization so instructors can clearly articulate global learning outcomes and readily transform teaching content, pedagogies, and means of assessment.

Faculty with experience/expertise in course internationalization will serve as mentors for participants who will build an internationalized course. Mentors will provide case studies, teaching resources, and opportunities for open discussions. Protégés will be tasked with designing/ retooling a course with global student learning outcomes; assessment tools may include written assignments, oral presentations, group work, reflections, classroom discussions and/or standardized instruments to measure international awareness, intercultural understanding, and global responsibility.