Announcing the 2024-2025 Penn Global Seminars
By: Penn Abroad
Announcing the 2024-2025 Penn Global Seminars
Penn Global Seminars (PGS) are semester-long courses taught on campus that include an embedded travel component. Through PGS, Penn undergraduate students are able to take full advantage of essential global learning opportunities regardless of their class year or major. The 2024-2025 academic year course offerings allow students to participate in unique global experiences during their undergraduate careers across many disciplines.
Highlights of next year’s seminars include:
- 18 courses offered over the 2024-2025 academic year
- New program sites, including Brazil, Malawi, and Bulgaria
- Courses offered in a diverse array of disciplines, including urban studies, language, history, religious studies, and environmental science
Continuing our mission to keep the program cost low and accessible to all students, PGS participants will pay only a $950 flat program fee: round-trip airfare, accommodation, most meals, and course related activities are included.
Applications for the Fall 2024 semester will open on March 25, 2024. For more information about the program visit the Penn Global Seminars website. We appreciate your help sharing this information with interested students and colleagues.
In the 2024-2025 academic year, the following Penn Global Seminars will be offered:
Fall 2024
With Travel over Winter Break 2024/2025
- Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America
Dr. Teresa Giménez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Costa Rica - Exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine | China Education Initiative
Dr. Jianghong Liu; School of Nursing
Travel to China - Global Business Communication for Impact | Open to Wharton students only
Sean Carney and Sara Mangat; The Wharton School
Travel to the United Kingdom - Global Jewish Communities
Dr. Peter Decherney, Department of Cinema and Media Studies; School of Arts and Sciences & Dr. Sara Byala, Critical Writing; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Uganda
Spring 2025
With Travel over Spring Break 2025
- Comparative Cultures of Resilience and Sustainability in the Netherlands and the United States
Dr. Simon Richter, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to the Netherlands - Cairo as Palimpsest | Fulfills writing seminar requirement
Dr. Fayyaz Vellani, Critical Writing; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Egypt - Global Radiation History: Living in the Atomic Age 1945-Present
Dr. M. Susan Lindee, Department of History and Sociology of Science; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Japan - Perspectives in Afro-Luso-Brazilian Culture
Dr. Mercia Flannery & Dr. Carlos Pio, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Brazil - Bicycles: The Mechanical Advantage
Dr. Dustyn Roberts, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Travel to the Netherlands - Global Aging—Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Iliana Kohler, Department of Sociology; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Malawi - Science Accessibility in India | Fulfills writing seminar requirement
Dr. Aurora MacRae-Crerar, Critical Writing; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to India - People of the Land: Indigeneity and Politics in Argentina and Chile
Dr. Tulia Falleti, Department of Political Science; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Argentina
Spring 2025
With Travel in May 2025
- Before Netflix: The Past and Present of Latin American Television
Dr. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez; Annenberg School for Communication
Travel to Mexico - Disability Rights and Oppression: Experiences within Global Deaf Communities
Dr. Jami Fisher, Department of Linguistics; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Italy - Mongolian Civilization: Nomadic and Sedentary
Dr. Christopher Pratt Atwood, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Mongolia - European Foreign and Security Policy in Times of Crisis
Dr. Valeriya Kamenova, Department of International Relations; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Bulgaria - The Tangled Web-National Competitiveness and International Security in Northeast Asia
Dr. Tomoharu Nishino, Department of International Relations; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to Japan - Policy Task Force on U.S. – China Relations | China Education Initiative
Neysun Mahboubi, JD, Department of Philosophy, Department of Politics and Economics; School of Arts and Sciences
Travel to China