Global Pathways Certificate:
International/Intercultural Experience Options

This sustained experience will make it possible for you to:

• Adjust your behavior and/or language in intercultural situations.
• Collaborate effectively with people from cultures different from your own.

This experience should reflect your theme area. Experiences which occurred after you enrolled as a degree-seeking university student and within two years of application can be used to meet this requirement if they are the one of the options listed below.

Additional experiences may also be eligible, but do need to be approved in advance of participation.

University approved or national recognized organization's international experiences (such as study abroad, cultural exchange, international internship, service learning or research project abroad) for at least 1 week include:

• FSU Alternative Break Corps
• FSU Beyond Borders
• FSU Center for the Advancement of Human Rights (CAHR)
  Check with your department to see if placement is available and with CAHR
• FSU Faculty led trips
  Check with your department and International Programs
• FSU/FAMU Engineers Without Borders
• FSU Global Peace Exchange
• FSU International Medical Outreach
• FSU International Programs: Study Abroad and Internships
• FSU International University Exchanges
• FSU Internships & Externships
  Check with your department Internship Coordinator and the Career Center
• FSU Office of National Fellowships
• FSU Sustained Service Experiences
• FSU Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors

Additional experiences may also be eligible, but do need to be approved in advance of participation by the Program Director, Global Pathways Certificate and Exchanges.

Criteria for International Experiences:

Immersion in the target culture, as characterized by

• If less than one month, but at least a week:
  • Strategic daily interaction with the host culture that includes all of the following: social, cultural, educational and service activities.
  • Minimal opportunities to ‘retreat’ to your own cultural group
• If more than one month:
  • Strategic daily interactions with the host culture that focuses on one of the following (instead of all): social, cultural, educational and service activities.

Provides opportunities to:

• Experience a cultural exchange
• Adjust behavior, views and perceptions (intellectually, emotionally, socially, politically, etc.).
• Collaborate with people whose culture/customs, ethnicity, attitudes, opinions, and ideas that are different from your own.
• Speak the local language and other ways to adapt communication.
• Acquire/gain specific skills, knowledge or abilities.

University approved sustained intercultural experiences in the U.S. (minimum 75 hours total, maximum 2 experiences) include:

• FSU Alternative Break Corps
• FSU Center for Intensive English Studies: Conversation partners
• FSU Center for the Advancement of Human Rights (CAHR)
  Check with your department to see if placement is available and with CAHR
• FSU Faculty led trips
  Check with your department and International Programs
• FSU International Friends Program
• FSU Internships & Externships
  Check with your department Internship Coordinator and the Career Center
• FSU Multicultural Student Organizations
• FSU Summer Serviceship Program (click on Summer Serviceships)
• FSU Office of National Fellowships
• FSU Service Learning Courses (choose Service Learning in the 'Additional Search Criteria')
• FSU Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors
• Mentor for International Students engaged in the Center for Global Engagement ’s Special Programs
• Panhandle Area Educational Consortium Migrant Education (click on Community Outreach)
• Literacy Volunteers of Leon County (when teaching English as a foreign language)

We can assist in finding these experiences on campus in our limited number of placements each semester. Sign up early for the best options and expect to wait a semester or 2 for a placement.

Additional experiences may also be eligible, but do need to be approved in advance of participation by the Program Director, Global Pathways Certificate and Exchanges.

Criteria for Domestic Intercultural Experiences:

Immersion in a target culture, as characterized by

• Strategic and ongoing integration with another culture that focuses on one of the following: social, cultural, educational and service activities.
• At least 35 hours over no more than 4 months

Provides opportunities to:

• Experience a cultural exchange
• Adjust behavior, views and perceptions (intellectually, emotionally, socially, politically, etc.).
• Collaborate with people whose culture/customs, ethnicity, attitudes, opinions, and ideas that are different from your own.
• Speak another language and other ways to adapt communication.
• Acquire/gain specific skills, knowledge or abilities.