Custom Virtual Programs

Access an insider’s perspective on today’s fastest-growing industry. Students learn to code, explore careers in tech, and interview professionals to discuss innovations and issues in the industry.

Study the role of games in different societies around the world. Students explore the aspects of cultures that define what makes a game and study the conditions that allowed certain games to become global.

Broaden your knowledge of the fundamentals of national campaigns in the US. Students get a crash course in the electoral college, fundraising, ad buys, staffing, polling, and policy as we lead up to the 2020 election.

Gain a deeper understanding of the development of sugar mill slave plantations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and eventually the American South, as well as sugar’s historical and current impact on the natural environment.

Get an introduction the evolving knowledge acquired by Indigenous peoples over millenia of direct contact with the environment. Students learn how to become more engaged with TEK and work to ensure its survival.

Study the long and storied history of sampling, remixing, and innovation in Hip-Hop and R&B. Students discover how music is celebrated and repurposed to meet the moment, and work on their own productions.

Explore the past contributions and current evolutions of the organizations and allies that constituted up the US Civil Rights Movement. Students confront the various methods by which divergent narratives on our nation’s past can be spread, recognizing the necessity of bridging gaps towards more inclusive citizenship.

Delve into the history of styles and music genres of Afro-Caribbean music, and take a historical overview of multiple dialogues and cultural exchanges between communities of African descent around the world. Students learn about the process of mixing, appropriation, and commercialization that led to the nationalization of various music styles.

Delve into the ways in which race and gender intersect, examine the gendered construction of black and white bodies in culture and history, and the social impact of racial profiling on men and women. Students examine the idea of privilege across a range of categories, including race, gender, language, education, family, and more.

Explore how the production and consumption of food are linked to socioeconomic status, geography, race, and health. Students dive into economics and equity in food systems and explore the cognitive dissonance of food pricing and the advent of massive corporate farms.

Sports, at their best, serve to unite communities, regions, and nations. However, the sports industry also reflects deep-seated issues with race and equity. Students track the history of athlete involvement in protest movements, and how athletes have served as leaders in catalyzing social challenge.

Undertake an in-depth examination of housing segregation in the United States, looking at the history of denials of African Americans and other minority groups equal access to housing through the processes of misinformation, denial of realty and financing services, and racial steering.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (also known as Gabo) is the only Colombian author who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. What was it about his writing that changed the history of literature for Latin America and the world?

Join a team of Colombians to learn how the ‘magical realism’ described by Gabo is part of their national character. We immerse ourselves in the Colombian culture that underlies his stories, and explore the magical world that Gabo created through guided tours of key locations throughout Colombia.

As Colombia rapidly emerges from its history of armed conflict, certain places in the country remain little known to the outside world. Either from extant insecurity, environmental conservation, or simple difficulty in access, virtual visits to these ‘untouchable places’ provide rare opportunities to interact with locals and broaden our world.

This program moves from the ‘Science Island’ of Gorgona to the World Heritage Sites of Chiribiquete and Caño Cristales to the famed ‘lost city’ of Ciudad Perdida, with individual Colombians sharing stories of how the nation has transformed from illicit crops and war to peace and development.

Like many countries in the Eurozone, major change is ongoing in France in the first part of the twenty-first century. We explore Marseille’s culture, and explore where it juxtaposes—or is enhanced—by changing demographics.

Throughout this course, students have direct contact with locals, nonprofits, students, immigrants, and recent migrants, we come to understand the scale of this crisis around the world and the challenges migrants face when trying to find a new place to call home.

Morocco is a melting pot of histories, religions, and cultures that demonstrate the intricate connections that bind us together. The unique religious and cultural syncretism present in Morocco provides a rich backdrop for students to explore their own identities and expand their understanding of culture, language and geography.

We explore Morocco’s ethic of Pan-Africanism, embracing the conflict dialogues we come across with a commitment to listening and empathizing, and it’s his history through both individual and collective narratives.

From the stories dictated by Marco Polo (while in jail, incidentally) in the early fourteenth century to today’s barrage of media reports on the “rise of China,” the world’s most populous country has always been an object of interest for the rest of the world.

We delve into the benefits and challenges of doing business in China, social entrepreneurship in the Chinese context, and what it is like to be a young person in a rapidly-changing China. These language focused lessons and activities also bring out similarities and differences in values, attitudes, and behaviors, thereby developing true cross-cultural understanding.

These program sessions are designed to foster listening comprehension and conversational skills, as well as building student motivation and interest in the target language. Native speakers, from your language of preference, provide level-specific challenges for students, enabling contextual language learning.

Sessions involve both small group and one-to-one interactions, with flexibility according to the unique needs of individual learners. The size of the group and pacing of the sessions allows learners to regularly negotiate for meaning, increasing the effectiveness of the comprehensible inputs and moving students towards heightened
fluency.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (also known as Gabo) is the only Colombian author who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. What was it about his writing that changed the history of literature for Latin America and the world?

Join a team of Colombians to learn how the ‘magical realism’ described by Gabo is part of their national character. We immerse ourselves in the Colombian culture that underlies his stories, and explore the magical world that Gabo created through guided tours of key locations throughout Colombia.

As Colombia rapidly emerges from its history of armed conflict, certain places in the country remain little known to the outside world. Either from extant insecurity, environmental conservation, or simple difficulty in access, virtual visits to these ‘untouchable places’ provide rare opportunities to interact with locals and broaden our world.

This program moves from the ‘Science Island’ of Gorgona to the World Heritage Sites of Chiribiquete and Caño Cristales to the famed ‘lost city’ of Ciudad Perdida, with individual Colombians sharing stories of how the nation has transformed from illicit crops and war to peace and development.

Like many countries in the Eurozone, major change is ongoing in France in the first part of the twenty-first century. We explore Marseille’s culture, and explore where it juxtaposes—or is enhanced—by changing demographics.

Throughout this course, students have direct contact with locals, nonprofits, students, immigrants, and recent migrants, we come to understand the scale of this crisis around the world and the challenges migrants face when trying to find a new place to call home.

Morocco is a melting pot of histories, religions, and cultures that demonstrate the intricate connections that bind us together. The unique religious and cultural syncretism present in Morocco provides a rich backdrop for students to explore their own identities and expand their understanding of culture, language and geography.

We explore Morocco’s ethic of Pan-Africanism, embracing the conflict dialogues we come across with a commitment to listening and empathizing, and it’s his history through both individual and collective narratives.

From the stories dictated by Marco Polo (while in jail, incidentally) in the early fourteenth century to today’s barrage of media reports on the “rise of China,” the world’s most populous country has always been an object of interest for the rest of the world.

We delve into the benefits and challenges of doing business in China, social entrepreneurship in the Chinese context, and what it is like to be a young person in a rapidly-changing China. These language focused lessons and activities also bring out similarities and differences in values, attitudes, and behaviors, thereby developing true cross-cultural understanding.

These program sessions are designed to foster listening comprehension and conversational skills, as well as building student motivation and interest in the target language. Native speakers, from your language of preference, provide level-specific challenges for students, enabling contextual language learning.

Sessions involve both small group and one-to-one interactions, with flexibility according to the unique needs of individual learners. The size of the group and pacing of the sessions allows learners to regularly negotiate for meaning, increasing the effectiveness of the comprehensible inputs and moving students towards heightened
fluency.