Education

The International Internship course develops vital business skills employers are actively seeking in job candidates. This course is comprised of two parts: an internship, and a hybrid academic seminar. Students are placed in an internship within a sector related to their professional ambitions. The hybrid academic seminar, conducted both online and in-person, analyzes and evaluates the workplace culture and the daily working environment students experience. The course is divided into eight career readiness competency modules as set out by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), which guide the course’s learning objectives. During the academic seminar, students reflect weekly on their internship experience within the context of their host culture by comparing and contrasting their experiences with their global internship placement with that of their home culture. Students reflect on their experiences in their internship, the role they have played in the evolution of their experience in their internship placement, and the experiences of their peers in their internship placements. Students develop a greater awareness of their strengths relative to the career readiness competencies, the subtleties and complexities of integrating into a cross-cultural work environment, and how to build and maintain a career search portfolio.

This course provides a reflection on Teaching-Learning Theories for foreign languages and their applications in secondary education. It focuses on Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

The Internship Workforce course provides students with an overview of working in the United Kingdom. The course looks at the changing organizational structures of work in Britain. It examines the social and economic changes that affect the workplace in the UK. Topics covered include: sociology of work, trade unions, oppression at work, generational changes at work, and the future of work. An internship while studying in London provides an opportunity to experience a “hands on” working situation and a different perspective on the workplace and working practices, while developing professional skills.

Students engage in on- or off-campus teaching or teaching assistant activity to gain experience and basic skills in teaching in the ESL/EFL or CLIL classroom.  Students are also required to attend classes that focus on the various elements of teaching English or other languages as a second or additional language. This upper division course is intended to develop student' interest and knowledge in language acquisition and communication across cultures, international educational exchange, and learning organizations. Specifically, this course develops basic skills in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).  A certificate of completion is granted upon successful conclusion of the course. 

This course looks at some fundamental questions about the purposes of education. This course teaches students to think about the idea that schools are central in reproducing and reinforcing inequalities, such as those associated with social class, race, and gender. This course considers the paradox between the emancipatory aspirations of education and the practical disparities in its outcomes. This course also addresses a series of issues which animate current educational debate in the UK, such as selection by "ability" in grammar schools and universities, the notion of lifelong learning and continual personal development, and the educational "problem" of white working-class boys.