2008 APSA Teaching and Learning Track Summaries—Track Eleven: Internationalizing the Curriculum I

Abstract

The participants in Internationalizing the Curriculum I took a multi-level approach to considering the challenges of incorporating global issues into higher education. Our discussion—facilitated by track moderator Pamela Zeiser (University of North Florida)—focused primarily on the challenges of internationalizing the curriculum on four levels: the student, the course, the program, and the institution. Within this general framework the group addressed many related pedagogical issues, such as active learning, the role of technology, the effective use of distance learning, and how each complements or challenges the learning environment and the goal of internationalizing the curriculum.

Teaching Data Science in Political Science: Integrating Methods with Substantive Curriculum

“…For example, writing across the curriculum is an example of a successful initiative that integrates multiple faculty members, teaching a set of skills across a range of courses (Warfield-Brown and Pontuso 2004). Another example of successful interdisciplinary change is the internationalization of the curriculum (Barber 2007; Bromley and Walker 2008;Cassell 2007;Ishiyama and Breuning 2006;Lantis 2011;Martin 2007;Ward 2007).…”