The faculty members teaching the courses listed below would like to offer their course as a Globally Connected Course in fall of the 2025-26 academic year and are looking for a course partner from an Alliance institution. Course descriptions will be added as they are submitted.
The courses are organized by academic division, but you are encouraged to think creatively and expansively about how GCC programming could enhance your course. Some of the richest course connections are cross-disciplinary, so you are strongly encouraged to search broadly.
If you are interested, please contact the instructor to explore connecting their course to a course you teach. Visit the Global Course Connections page for information on how to submit a course description and how to submit a connection proposal.
Also review the list of courses for spring 2026.
ANTH 291 Cultural Tourism
Sam Pack, [email protected], Kenyon College
Cultural tourism is paradoxical. On the one hand, the economic benefits of tourism serve as a driver to restore, protect, and promote local cultures. However, it can also undermine these cultures when tourism activities impinge on the rights of indigenous peoples to self-determination. This course explores the impacts of tourism on local communities and the economic, social, cultural, environmental, and political motivations that encourage individuals to participate. It provides alternative insights into tourism as a cultural phenomenon by examining tourism from a different worldview. Themes of the tourist gaze, authenticity, identity, and commodification will be considered throughout the semester. [Expected enrollment: 15]
LI1099 Language and Society
Rebekah Rast, [email protected], The American University of Paris
We often have preconceptions about the languages, dialects and accents spoken in our home countries or elsewhere. An accent, for example, may carry a particular status. One language might be used in schools, while another is spoken at home. A certain dialect might be used by news presenters, while another is not. Where do these ideas and customs come from? How do they affect speech communities and their relationships with other communities? What happens when different languages and dialects come into contact with each other? How do languages and dialects evolve over time and how is this evolution viewed within and outside of specific speech communities? Taking a diachronic perspective, we will examine the movement of people in the Middle East to see how their languages and dialects evolved. We will then follow the movement of people into Europe and the Americas, where a myriad of languages are spoken. Shifting to a synchronic perspective, the course will contemplate language interaction in multilingual communities and within multilingual individuals, code-switching between one’s languages, and the development of pidgins and creoles. Case studies, fieldwork, and reports of your own linguistic experience will be an integral part of the course. We will also benefit from a global course connection (GCC), coordinated by the Global Liberal Arts Alliance, of which AUP is a member. This semester, connecting remotely with students at a partner university in Pakistan, we will explore content from different perspectives. For instance, the topic of language, gender and sexuality raises intriguing questions across cultures. Engaging in discussion with our Pakistani peers will give us the opportunity to share experiences and better understand other perspectives on these questions. This course is part of the FirstBridge “History, Politics and Languages” and will include a cultural study trip to Malta. [Expected enrollment: 18]