Global Affairs
{American University} Community of Scholars Program
The Community of Scholars offers academically outstanding students the chance to broaden their understanding of international relations by enrolling in a 3-credit college class designed just for them. Students admitted to this program will sample the undergraduate experience and take advantage of what the School of International Service (SIS) has to offer. Community of Scholars will introduce you to the advancing field of global affairs through college-level coursework. Whether online or in class at AU, instructors will provide dynamic lectures and engage students in discussions as well as simulations, such as a mock National Security Council debate.
{AMP Global Youth} Global Scholars
Global Scholar is an international relations summer program that builds the knowledge and skills high school students need to make social change on a local and global scale. Through hands-on learning and meetings with leading policy experts, Global Scholar empowers young and emerging leaders to become change makers on their college campuses and in their local communities. Recent graduates of the program have enrolled at top institutions like Harvard, Columbia, the University of Chicago, McGill University, and others. Global Scholar alumni have also gone on to work with leading organizations like the United Nations.
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{Boston University} Academic Immersion: Global Studies: Security, Statecraft & Spycraft
AIM: Global Studies: Security, Statecraft, & Spycraft is an exciting three-week program for rising juniors and seniors. You will get the opportunity to learn how the United States really conducts its foreign policy and manages its national security concerns from a unique insider’s view — our instructors have extensive real-world experience, and include a former US Air Force general, a former Ambassador, and a former CIA officer who worked overseas. This track is offered in partnership with BU’s renowned Pardee School of Global Studies. In the mornings, you will learn from these leading practitioners in a dynamic, discussion-based interdisciplinary environment. Your afternoons will be devoted to challenging simulations and real-world exercises where you get to play the part of national security officials, diplomats, and spies. You will also participate in team activities. This program will conclude with student-led briefings on a team project dealing with foreign policy and national security issues. After researching and analyzing alternatives, you will present your findings and suggested course of action to, and be questioned by, a panel of experts. These presentations will be attended by your peers, families, and members of the BU community.
{Cornell University} War, Peace, Poverty and Power: An Introduction to International Relations
From the food we eat to the products we use to the news we watch, we are part of an international community. Military, political, economic, and humanitarian struggles across the globe—once so distant—now demand our urgent attention. If we wish to build a more peaceful and fair world, therefore, it is critical we develop an understanding of international relations. In this program you'll explore the tremendous changes that have taken place in the international arena in the past few decades. When the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, the world entered a new and dangerous era of conflict. The subsequent U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the rise of ISIS produced debates about whether and how to fight insurgencies, as well as about the best way to deal with terrorism. Ethnic and religious conflict have become a major focus of international politics. The effects of economic globalization and the rapid growth of China's economy have also led to reappraisals of the existing global economic order.
{Duke University} Global Public Service Academies
GPSA for Health is a hands-on, academic, service-learning program for high school and college students, and works in educational collaboration with Duke University and Johns Hopkins University. Participants on our programs provide hands-on help, tackling real-world problems with the environment and healthcare in Guatemala, Belize, North Carolina and West Virginia (and soon in our Southeast Asia site).
{Duke University} Youth Leadership in Global Health Program
The Youth Leadership in Global Health Program is for students who, like you, have a passion for health occupations and want to gain leadership experience, knowledge and project management skills in the field of global health.
{Envision} Global Young Leaders Conference
Spend 10 amazing days in Washington, D.C. and New York City where you will adopt in-demand leadership skills, gain the diverse perspectives of peers from around the world, and connect with global-issues leaders. Join other students from across the globe for this extraordinary opportunity to step into the role of a global leader, learn from and interact with subject-matter experts, study the art of cross-cultural communication, and be empowered to fully realize your true potential.
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{George Washington University} International Law: Governance & Mediation Summer Immersion
How do space militarization, nuclear weapons, and climate change impact an international phenomenon such as terrorism? These issues and many others are all governed by international laws, ratified treaties, and United Nations resolutions. In this course, students will learn the principles of global governance and mediation, discover how the many different subfields of international law fit into the discipline of international affairs, think critically about the various topics, and make individual contributions within a cooperative approach.
{George Washington University} U.S. Foreign Policy: Multilateralism Summer Immersion
The globalization of economic, political, social and cultural activity has increased society’s need for international understanding and cooperation. This course will expose students to viewpoints and perspectives of foreign policymakers and explore multilateral approaches to international issues. Students will gain a basic understanding of how to analyze and articulate foreign policy.
{Georgetown University} Foreign Policy Academy
Combining group exercises, discussions with policymakers and foreign policy officials, and visits to embassies, Georgetown's Foreign Policy Academy introduces you to the many components that guide and create U.S. foreign policy. Throughout your time in the program, you'll develop your critical thinking and interpretive skills while examining key international crises and world leaders' responses and policy choices in a global arena. You'll also analyze the factors that affect the decision-making process and the methods used to formulate and implement policies.
{Georgetown University} International Relations Academy
Spend your summer living and learning in Washington, D.C.—an epicenter for international relations. As one of the oldest universities in the world, and long considered a hub for international dialogue, Georgetown is a venue that international leaders often choose to state their positions and calls for action. During the one-week International Relations Academy, you'll have the opportunity to engage with world-renowned faculty, gain valuable hands-on experience, and explore today's global issues and challenges at the city in the center of it all.
{Global Education Benchmark Group} Collaborative Student Programs
As a leading institution in global education, we are proud to offer unique and engaging student collaborative programs to member school students. The 2019 offering will travel to Morocco, June 8-19. Open only to GEBG member schools, this collaborative program allows schools the unique opportunity to expand their range of global offerings and visit locations where they may have limited connections.
{Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth} Global Issues at Princeton
As citizens living in the twenty-first century, we face numerous challenges and opportunities. In an increasingly interconnected world, choices we make locally have significant global implications. CTY's program for tenth through twelfth graders focuses on key global issues in the 21st century.
{National Student Leadership Conference} International Diplomacy
At the NSLC on International Diplomacy summer program for high school students, you will live the life of a diplomat in the United Nations Security Council as you investigate, debate, and seek solutions to the vital challenges facing our world and our future. You will visit some of the most important diplomatic institutions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. By the time you finish this exciting, hands-on program, you’ll have a better understanding of the complex world of diplomacy.
{Seeds of Peace} Seeds of Peace Camp
Americans have been involved with Seeds of Peace from its inception in 1993, taking part in the Middle East dialogue program at the Camp in Maine and remaining involved in programs at home and abroad. This continues to this day, with Americans and youth from the United Kingdom participating in dialogue alongside their peers from the Middle East as well as South Asia. Our model begins at the Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine where we build a shared living environment of support and respect in which Seeds have the opportunity to form strong, authentic relationships; daily facilitated dialogue sessions that explore concepts of identity and analyze stereotypes and misperceptions; and group challenge activities designed for team-building, cooperation, and communication.
💰 Scholarships Available
{St. Mark's School} Global Citizenship Institute
An innovative collaboration between Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria and St. Mark's School in Southborough, MA to educate and support faculty and students from public, private and international secondary schools as they learn ways to become engaged global citizens actively working to solve problems of global and local significance.
{The School for Ethics and Global Leadership} Summer Ethics and Leadership Institute
At the Summer Ethics and Leadership Institute, you will study a range of global ethical dilemmas and the responses of the international community. You will meet with the very people who work on these issues, often presenting your work to them for evaluation. Would you like to argue for Brexit against a politician who campaigned to stay in the European Union? Do you want to discuss the relationship between the Queen and Parliament with a sitting Member of Parliament? Would you like to present and defend your policy memo to an expert on the warring former British colonies of India and Pakistan? Then this is the program for you.
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{Tufts University} Intensive: International Relations
During the program, rising high school juniors and seniors will experience Tufts University’s distinctive approach to the study of International Relations, will earn college credit, and will create a path toward future scholastic and professional goals. Students will analyze current events and theoretical frameworks for understanding IR through interactive virtual seminars from experts; interrogate key concepts in small, collaborative discussion sections; begin developing the language and communication skills that form the foundation of international affairs; work together in teams to handle simulated real-world crisis situations; conduct digital research of academic resources using Tufts’ Tisch Library; and compose a college-level research paper with guidance from advanced classroom assistants and a research librarian. After two weeks of intensive classes, students will gain a solid understanding of what studying International Relations at the college level is really like.
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{University of Chicago} Pathways in World Politics
Those who can create and shape order have power. How is order formed at the international level? How is it expressed domestically? How do domestic and international orders change and interact with one another? Political Science defines order as the institutions (e.g. treaties signed by nations; a nation's government type, such as being a democracy) that regulate interactions between individuals, communities, and nations.
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{University of Notre Dame} Leadership Seminars
Leadership Seminars explore topics affecting the global community. The courses are centered around vibrant discussion and a robust exchange of ideas. In this context, students are encouraged to examine their own conclusions and hone their own leadership capacities by improving their communications and analytical skills. Expenses for students accepted to Leadership Seminars—including transportation to and from Notre Dame—will be paid for by the University. Approximately 100 students are admitted to Leadership Seminars each year, and students are eligible to receive one college credit upon completion of the program.
{University of Southern California} The COVID-19 Crisis: The Past, Present and Future of Global Health
In the COVID-19 era, there is no more pressing field to learn more about than global health. COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, upending lives worldwide in just a few months. It has illustrated just how the intensification of global trade and travel facilitates the rapid spread of disease, how a single pandemic can bring the world economy to its knees, and how national responses can challenge human rights and exasperate social injustices. Do you seek to better understand how we got into this situation in the first place and how it may all end? Are you intrigued by the social and racial inequities uncovered by the virus? Would you like to learn more about how the COVID-19 vaccine will be developed and distributed in the US and around the world? Then this course is for you. The course takes a broad multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the environmental, social, and political determinants of disease and health around the world. We apply a very hands-on, practical approach through fun, daily individual and group exercises. The course is appropriate for students interested in medicine, public health, anthropology, international relations, international business, economics, law, and other disciplines—in other words, it's for everyone interested in helping the world recover from our current crisis and prevent similar crises in the future!
ViviendasLeon
ViviendasLeon embodies transformative experiences in global education travel. Our programs offer the opportunity to become the person you want to be; to introduce your family to other people, cultures and perspectives; to experience challenges and feel successful; to eliminate barriers to understanding of others; to inspire students to become compassionate global citizens; and to gain new independence and insights about yourself and the world we live in.
{Yale University} Yale International Relations Leadership Institute
YIRLI is a premier summer opportunity for passionate student leaders and budding future diplomats. Alongside faculty and students at Yale University, you will strengthen your leadership capacity, sharpen your public speaking and diplomacy skills, take part in innovative challenges, improve your Model United Nations and debate prowess, and make lifelong friends as well as mentors.
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{Yale University} Yale Young Global Scholars: Solving Global Challenges
Solving Global Challenges (SGC) focuses on innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches to solving the greatest challenges facing the global community in the 21st century. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students work towards developing solutions to issues with a global impact, focusing heavily on the 17 key challenges identified in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)(link is external). These wide-ranging topics include global health, artificial intelligence, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, cyber security, and gene editing. This session gives students the tools to translate between technical knowledge and in-practice implications. SGC draws on a multitude of academic disciplines, from STEM to social sciences to the humanities and the arts. Students will practice skills in critical analysis, problem solving, and creativity as they explore and brainstorm innovative and sustainable solutions to a wide array of contemporary social, economic, and environmental problems.