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Information & Protocols for International Programs

Establish an International Exchange

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences encourages all departments to set up formal international linkages and exchanges to enhance their collaboration in research, teaching and public engagement.

Formal international linkages require institutional agreements that clarify the roles, responsibilities and general nature of the linkage. The general process for establishing these agreements is as follows.

  1. Faculty members, with support from their departments, explore a possible agreement with a partner abroad. The agreement should be of mutual benefit and attempt to be as broad as possible, including, if possible, a student exchange that allows Illinois students to take courses from the partner and have the courses count towards their degree requirements.
  2. Faculty members/department contact LAS Asst. Dean for international initiatives, Dr. Barbara Hancin-Bhatt, hancinbh@illinois.edu, for college-level support for agreement or program design and approval.
  3. Faculty members/department and College work with the International Programs and Studies (IPS) for institutional approval.

The agreement process takes time to ensure that it has institutional support, and the College works to facilitate faculty/department efforts in this process.

LAS Courses Abroad

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences supports the internationalization of our curriculum through offering courses that integrate an international field visit or that take place mostly abroad. Faculty may contact LAS Asst. Dean, Dr. Barbara Hancin-Bhatt, to explore their interests in offering a course abroad: hancinbh@illinois.edu or 333-0178.

To propose a departmental course with an international experience:

  1. Familiarize yourself with information on the Study Abroad Office faculty/staff page.
  2. Complete a course abroad planning form. Submit the form, along with the course syllabus, for departmental review and approval. Then submit the form and syllabus to Barbara Hancin-Bhatt in LAS International Programs for college review and approval. LAS International Programs will send the completed and approved forms to the Study Abroad Office contact.  Forms must be received in the Study Abroad Office by the deadlines stated on their website.  
  3. Once your planning forms have been reviewed and approved by your department, LAS International Programs, and the Study Abroad Office, you may begin student recruitment.
  4. Salary funding requests should be made through the usual departmental means, including submitting summer teaching requests to Dean Mester in December.

To propose a Global Studies Seminar Abroad (GLBL 298):

  1. Familiarize yourself with information on the Study Abroad Office faculty/staff page.
  2. Complete a proposal for the Global Studies Seminar Abroad. Questions may be addressed to Dean Hancin-Bhatt.
  3. Get departmental approval for your proposal and submit to the college for approval. Note submission deadlines. After obtaining approvals, you may start student recruitment.
  4. If your proposal is accepted for offering, your salary funding will be through the LAS International Programs office.

Support for Site Visit

LAS offers a limited number of grants to support a site visit to develop an international experience within a course. Faculty interested in this support should send a brief proposal outlining the purpose, itinerary and costs requested for the site visit. Recent site visit grants have ranged from $400-$1,200.

International Programs and Studies also offers grants to support site visits. See their website at www.ilint.uiuc.edu/resources.

Updated August 26, 2009