Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
Website: uca.edu/global-learning/coil/
Contact: Phillip Bailey, phillipb@uca.edu
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) connects students and professors in different countries for collaborative projects and discussions as part of their coursework. COIL Collaborations between students and professors provide meaningful, significant opportunities for global experiences built into programs of study. COIL enhances intercultural student team focused interaction through proven approaches to meaningful online and virtual engagement, while providing universities with a cost-effective way to ensure that their students are globally engaged. In order to provide more UCA students access to collaborating with international students around the world, UCA joined the COIL Global Network in 2021 to provide UCA faculty with opportunities to adopt powerful COIL methods in their classes.
Education Abroad
Website: uca.edu/globalstudy
Contact: Alexandra Depner, adepner1@uca.edu
UCA students can participate in global learning first-hand through education abroad experiences. Education abroad at UCA includes a number of arrangements by which students complete part of their degree program through educational activities outside the United States. Such activities may include international classroom study, research, internships, and/or service-learning for academic credit. Three main types of education abroad programs are offered through UCA are language immersion, faculty-led study abroad programs, and semester exchange.
Students may also choose to study away through National Student Exchange (NSE). NSE offers UCA students an opportunity to study away through member colleges and universities throughout the United States, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S Virgin Islands. Students apply for admission through NSE and upon acceptance enroll in classes representing their UCA major or minor.