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The center offers a rich array of curricular
opportunities for all students, from the first year to their culminating year on
campus. The center will organize an orientation program focusing on global issues
for entering students. Each year, a number of First-Year
Seminars will be offered
with an international or intercultural focus, followed by a short faculty-led international
experience.
The center sponsors Global
STRIDE Fellows who will advance their study of a second language with an intensive
summer abroad experience. During their sophomore year, Fellows will undertake an
internship with an international flavor.
Juniors can use the center as an information crossroads
for study abroad and semester or summer internships. Presidential Seminars offer
opportunities to bring juniors on campus and seniors returning from study abroad
to confront their various perspectives and disciplines on international issues and
to communicate via videoconferencing with students abroad studying the same issues.
Student-focused symposia such as Smith Elects the
World and Collaborations Across Borders give
students opportunities to share their research and internship experiences with the
broader community. A number of competitive fellowships for student summer research
abroad are available for students who cannot spend a semester or year away from campus.
In the near future, a Global Engagement Student Fund will sponsor internships, travel,
research or projects that encompass the focus of the Center for Community Engagement
and the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability.
Various purposes will direct students and scholars to
the center, curricular as well as co-curricular -- in spaces both virtual and physical.
Planning is under way to identify a space on campus, large enough to house the various
offices and programs vital to the college’s global mission, and designed with
care to enhance the meeting, communication and engagement of the various constituents
the center will serve. Such a space will allow students to visit the Office for International
Study and the Office for International Students and Scholars to inform themselves
of study abroad opportunities; to connect with international students and scholars
on campus; to seek advice on international internship opportunities; to hear or read
the latest international news; to apply for funds for an international event their
organization is planning. Identified as the place on campus where lectures, films,
classes, and workshops with an international focus happen, the center will draw visitors
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