Global Engagement

Through language education and immersive learning, our students are challenged to transcend their own knowledge and habits. The skills of intercultural communication and curious listening will help our students positively contribute to the conflicts they encounter around the world.

Middlebury has 16 schools worldwide across 32 sites, and students in these programs become cultural ambassadors. New language skills and new understandings of cultural mores are valuable tools for conflict transformation.

Student Opportunities in Global Learning

Throughout Middlebury’s global network, there are multiple opportunities for students to deepen their CT knowledge, skills, and dispositions. These include internships, courses, research projects, experiential learning, and more. To learn more about specific projects in these various sites, please visit the Schools Abroad website on CT projects.

Global Courses Funding for Middlebury Faculty

CT supports up to three “global courses” offered by the College and Institute during the January, Spring, or Summer terms each academic year. The goal is to connect global immersion with conflict analysis and transformation skills across the curriculum.

Projects

• In Chile, six students including Anna Parrott, Gabriela Contreras, Francisca Sepúlveda, Sebastián Baier, Luis Ojeda, and Isabella Caro, alongside professors Alejandro Espinosa and Alejandro Herrera, undertook a research project to address socio-ecological conflicts at the Ramsar site in Monkul, in the Araucanía Region, proposing strategies for transforming land management conflicts.
• At the School in Spain, students participated in a guided tour honoring the memory of Black people who endured slavery in Spain, and reflected on on the restorative nature of history reclamation.
• The Middlebury in Taiwan program hosted a student retreat focused on cross-cultural conflicts between Chinese and Western cultural norms.