Santa Clara University

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

Santa Clara University aspires to create a learning community that promotes competence, conscience, and compassion among students with a mandate to pursue scholarly understanding and constructive engagement with the world. As the principal University-wide organization focusing on international, intercultural, and global subjects, International Programs provides a variety of academic settings and learning opportunities around the world through study abroad offerings. Academically the approach is both interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary and recognizes that learning takes place in the classroom, in the field, in the community, and in service to others. International Programs appreciates that intercultural competence and knowledge of the global environment should not be limited to the humanities or social sciences, but is relevant to business, engineering, and the natural sciences as well. While International Programs’ mission is informed by a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, it is inspired by the challenge offered by martyred Salvadorian Jesuit Ignacio Ellacuria:

We, as an intellectual community, must analyze causes; use imagination and creativity together to discover remedies; communicate to our public a consciousness that inspires the freedom of self-determination; educate professionals with a conscience, who will be immediate instruments of transformation; and continually hone an educational institution that is academically excellent and ethically oriented.

Undergraduate students can choose from a variety of study abroad programs in almost 100 locations, including Santa Clara’s own programs, several direct exchange programs, and a number of programs affiliated with other universities and study centers. Credits earned from all approved study abroad programs are accepted as degree credit at Santa Clara, and some coursework can fulfill University Core Curriculum, major, and minor requirements subject to appropriate approval.

Courses offered through International Programs can be found in the International Programs section in Interdisciplinary Minors and Other Programs of Study.