Fall 2024-25 Global Passport Applications

Are you interested in teaching a Global Passport course in Rome, Italy, or Paris, France, in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025? The Global Passport Committee, which is part of the St. John’s University Core Curriculum Council, seeks applications by Thursday, November 30, from full- and part-time faculty who want to teach University core curriculum courses or other first-year courses in the Global Passport program.  

Since first-year students cannot spend a full semester studying abroad, St. John’s created the Global Passport program to offer them the opportunity to participate in faculty-led, experiential education activities at the Rome campus or Paris location. The program model is simple: faculty teach a first-year requirement, either from the common or distributed core, or from among their home college’s list of first-year required courses. This New York-based, semester-long course connects the classroom global learning experience to what students then learn during a stay in either Italy or France. 

At the end of the semester, professors and their students travel abroad for approximately seven days (fall courses travel in early January, spring courses in mid-May). 

In the Global Passport model, the “typical” three-credit core courses are enhanced by an additional one-credit corequisite class assigned to the winter or summer immediately following the full semester to provide additional academic time to solidify learning abroad. Faculty are compensated for this class.

Faculty flight and housing expenses are covered, as is limited meal reimbursement. Professors are expected to fly to the host city with their students and may return with them as well (although arrangements may be possible for faculty wishing to stay longer). As Global Passport program leaders, while abroad, participating faculty are expected to participate in orientation, frame each day through class time and reflection with their students, share several meals with students, lead excursions, and accompany students on local site visits.

For the 2024–25 academic year, the Global Passport Committee asks that faculty design their courses around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with an eye toward meeting the “Diversity/Global Learning” concepts detailed in the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ High-Impact Practices document. 

Course proposals should demonstrate relevant learning objectives, semester-long disciplinary connections, and site visits that make travel to Rome or Paris an essential, embedded component of the overall class. Interested faculty members should submit the Global Passport application with their chair’s approval. The proposal should be accompanied by a customized description of the proposed course, complete with information about relevant assignments or projects that connect to the city where they wish to teach. 

All interested faculty members must submit a proposal with their chair’s signature, along with an acknowledgment that they will participate in required student learning assessment reporting. In addition, faculty should include in their proposal a one-paragraph description of how they envision embedding the UN sustainability goals or global learning outcomes within the New York-based semester course.

Please email completed proposal forms by Thursday, November 30, to Zoe Petropoulou, Ph.D., Senior Director for Global Engagement, at [email protected].