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Current Offerings
Below are the global cross-cultural courses that will be offered during May-Term 2025! These courses are one exciting way to fulfill your general education cross-cultural requirement during your time at Messiah University!
Complete your application soon to avoid being wait-listed for your first choice program. Your faculty course leader may choose to conduct interviews for acceptance. Once notified of your acceptance from the faculty course leader a non-refundable deposit of $200 will be required to confirm your spot.
If you are considering a cross-cultural course to graduate, please be sure to explore other options as well, as students are not guaranteed spots on a cross-cultural course.
Click on the course name below for more information and to apply.
May Term 2025
Faculty Leaders
Status
& Larry Mylin
Accepting Applicants
Turkey & Greece
Sharon Putt, Keith Putt, & Shelly Skinner
Closed
Jamaica
Paul Johns & Neville Tomlinson
Closed
Accepting Applicants
Accepting Applicants
Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, & Norway
Erik Lindquist
Closed
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Accepting Applicants
Program Advisors
For academic requirement information, contact Kate Oswald Wilkins , Asst. Dean of General Education and Common Learning of Boyer 104, 717.766.2511 Ext. 2801.
For general course information, contact Paula Holtzinger , Director of Agape Center for Local and Global Engagement 717.766.2511 Ext.6089. (For information about individual cross-cultural courses, contact the course faculty leader directly.)
For faculty mentoring and advice, contact , Academic Coordinator for Cross-Cultural Cources, Associate Professor of Communication, Boyer 211, 717.766.2511 x2234.
Goals and Objectives
Cross-cultural courses help students:
Identify relevant information about the host culture's history, traditions, politics, geography, including regional differences, if applicable.
Discuss facets in which the host culture differs from their own.
Discuss facets in which the host culture is similar to their own.
Explain insights that they learned about themselves and their own relationships by directly interacting with individuals and groups from the host culture.
Credits
Students can earn three credits, fulfilling part of their general education language requirements, by enrolling in one of the cross-cultural study courses offered in May. Students also can fulfill this general education requirement by participating in a Messiah-approved, semester-long, international program. (More information about these programs is available in the Agape Center for Local and Global Engagement.)
Costs
Cross-cultural course tuition charges are included as part of the spring semester tuition fees. (As long as students do not take more than 18 credits during Spring Term, and May-Term, there will be no additional charges for spring semester tuition.)
There is an additional course fee that covers travel costs for the course (such as flights, hotel fees, international insurance coverage, and in-country transportation costs). The average course fee is $3700.