学术的方法
CEA CAPA专注于我们所做的一切学术卓越. 通过我们组织范围内的学生学习目标, 一系列的课外活动和实地活动, focus on 教师 development and engagement, close collaboration with our 记录学校, and approach to assessment and evaluation, 我们确保学术是我们课程和学生海外体验的中心.
任务
To empower students to become thoughtful and thriving leaders through living and learning abroad.
愿景
通过创新、包容和有影响力的全球体验重新定义学习.
Academic Excellence
CEA CAPA offers high-quality academic programs that integrate the host context into an 活跃的 learning pedagogy. We achieve this through:
- 与U合作.S. 记录学校 to ensure our course offerings meet the highest academic standards and expectations of academic departments.
- Outlining clear learning objectives both within the formal curriculum and across all program components.
- Hiring highly qualified onsite 教师, and investing in their ongoing training, 研究, and professional development.
- Using student feedback, 合作伙伴评价, and internal assessments to continually identify and implement improvements to our academic offerings.
- 保持海外教育论坛的认可和认证 Quality Improvement Program (妙语).
记录学院
纽黑文大学(UNH)是CEA CAPA的记录学院, providing formal academic oversight in accordance with accrediting requirements and transcripting all CEA CAPA courses.
评价 & 评估
To ensure that we are delivering on our standards for academic and programmatic excellence, we employ a robust, well-rounded system of evaluation and assessment, including but not limited to:
- 出发前、中期和最终项目评估
- Course evaluations
- 教师 peer reviews
- 教师 training and development opportunities
- 记录学校的学术表现评估和年度报告
- University site visits and Familiarization Trips
- CEA CAPA 咨询委员会 oversight and reviews
- 获得国外教育论坛妙语认证
Student Program 评价s
Obtaining student feedback through program evaluations provides CEA CAPA with valuable information used to evaluate each program, identify actionable improvements, and measure learning and development outcomes. By analyzing results both on a program-specific and cross-location basis, we can both focus on onsite specifics and chart and 理解 broader trends in our students’ needs, 目标, 和经验.
Academic Performance Reviews
All CEA CAPA Study Centers are evaluated through a comprehensive Academic Performance Review by our 记录学校, 包括广泛的自学报告和实地考察. All centers are evaluated every seven years.
教师培训 & 发展
Our 教师 are selected both on the basis of expertise in their subject area and the quality of their teaching. 作为入职过程的一部分，所有教员都接受了广泛的培训, 每学期都有持续的师资发展 围绕教学相关的关键领域举办有针对性的讲习班.
CEA CAPA is proud to have established a Global 教师 顾问y Council (GFAC) that provides leadership with strategic direction and feedback around curriculum development, training and development needs, and best practices in teaching and learning.
我们也有一个专门的教师发展基金，支持教师的研究, conference attendance, 和出版物.
CEA CAPA Student 学习 & 发展 Objectives (SLDOs)
SLDOs are meta-level learning objectives that transcend coursework and are infused across all elements of program delivery. 它们是我们在所有网站上推广的学习目标, beyond specifics of course offerings, that address student learning 整体.
批判性思维 & Intellectual Curiosity
学生们学会有效地质疑假设, 带着好奇的精神接近他们的经历, and to be open to different interpretations of what they're learning and observing around them.
Content in Context
Students can draw connections between the academic content of their experience and their context. They can situate their learning within local, 区域, 国家, and global contexts, and connect them to one another.
Navigating Differences
Students learn to better identify, 理解, and navigate social, 经济, 种族, 少数民族, 宗教, 以及他们的家庭和东道国背景之间的其他差异和相似之处, and within their student cohort. In all these areas, 学生可以熟练地进行细致入微的比较和对比.
权力 & 股本
Students can identify and analyze power structures within their host contexts and the ways power is used across 国家 boundaries. Comparing and contrasting with the U.S. 在语境中，他们可以围绕原则形成复杂的论证 justice and equity, identifying dominant and marginalized groups, 更好地理解权力如何影响东道国社会和全球范围内的人们.
职业生涯 & Professional 发展
Students develop skills and competencies that prepare them for professional advancement in a globally interdependent and diverse world. They learn to navigate, 反思, 并以一种 培养职业准备，积极塑造他们未来的职业机会.
可持续性 & 迁移
学生们通过可持续性的视角来审视和参与他们的宿主环境. 他们考虑塑造城市和农村空间的因素, 与环境的关系如何影响国家和地区的话语, 以及影响 of their own actions. Through a sustainability lens, 学生在他们的东道国环境中辨别流动性和迁移的因素, identifying how these elements impact 经济s, 政治, 文化, and society on local and 国家 levels.
Experiential, Active, and Place-Based 学习
CEA CAPA acknowledges that the core premise of education abroad is taking students outside the classroom to learn. By intentionally leveraging experiential, 活跃的, and place-based pedagogies, 包括在正式课程和联合课程中, CEA CAPA的教职员工通过直接观察来促进学生的学习, 参与, 和反射.
Examples of our experiential, 活跃的, and place-based learning include (but are not limited to):
- Researching a social issue and working for change in CEA CAPA Community-Based 学习 programs
- Hands-on learning through our Global 宝博体育
- Getting into the host context through curricular and co-curricular activities designed to support our Student 学习 & 发展 Objectives (SLDOs)
- Attending guest lectures by local experts
- 与当地学生和社区成员进行语言交流
- Volunteering opportunities
Academic Credit Overview
在CEA CAPA学习中心学习的所有课程都遵循美国标准.S. 学时比率:15学时相当于1学期学分. 学习中心提供的课程通常有45个课时，价值3美元.S. 学分. 课程 合作院校提供的学分因授予方式而异. CEA CAPA为在外国合作机构学习的课程提供学分转换.
信用转帐 & 批准
学分的转移由学生所在大学自行决定. CEA CAPA通过提供详细的教学大纲和课程描述来提供帮助, 接触时间, and recommended credits. We've worked with more than 1,000 colleges and universities to successfully transfer study abroad credit to our students’ degree programs.
We strongly recommend that students meet with advisors prior to departure to have course selections pre-approved. We strongly recommend approving multiple alternate courses to allow for any cancellations to course enrollment and 教师 availability.
颜色的学分
A number of CEA CAPA's European partner institutions issue credits using the European 信用转帐 System (ECTS). ECTS incorporates “course units” that describe the student workload required to complete academic work and achieve 学习成果.
One ECTS credit corresponds to 25–30 hours of total student work; 60 credits represent one academic year worth of work, 30 credits represent a semester, and 20 credits represent a trimester. There’s not a universal formula for converting ECTS to U.S. credits, but many U.S. 大学将ECTS视为2:1的比例(2个ECTS学分= 1个U).S. 信贷).
CEA CAPA provides syllabi and recommended credits for each course offered at our partner institutions. 最终, each university will determine how ECTS credits will transfer into a student's degree program.
成绩单
For information regarding grade reports, 成绩单, and other relevant matters, please see section 2.5.其中20个 CEA CAPA 教育 Abroad Participant Policies.
Academic Accommodations
有关国外学术住宿的信息，请参阅第2节.1.12个 CEA CAPA 教育 Abroad Policies.
CEA CAPA Study Centers
Our CEA CAPA Study Centers deliver academic coursework commensurate with what students would receive on a U.S. 校园, but also enriched with content, 教师, field-based learning, and pedagogies that draw on the host context. Students choose their courses from a diverse range of subjects that incorporate classroom- and place-based learning with a steadfast emphasis on career readiness through opportunities such as inter国家 internships, 以社区为基础的 learning, and volunteering. 学习中心的课程由我们的记录学校转录.
CEA CAPA研究中心位于城市中心，因其文化而被选中, 政治, 经济, and historical significance. Though 活跃的 engagement in their host context, guided by our Student 学习 and 发展 Objectives (SLDOs), 学生们学会识别和理解当地, 区域, 以及他们对周围事物的全球影响, and to effectively articulate what they learn. 我们的学习中心由高素质， locally based staff, 所有人都接受过国外教育最佳实践标准的培训, 致力于支持学生的学习和幸福, 重点是帮助学生最大限度地提高他们在国外的经验和回国 跨文化技能和全球能力将为他们的成功奠定基础.
CEA CAPA Partner 机构s
We strategically choose our local partner institutions to meet the diverse academic needs of students from a range of backgrounds and majors. 我们通过与正式认可的机构合作来确保学术质量 and/or accredited and that complement core CEA CAPA learning objectives and competencies.
学生与本地或其他国际学生一起上课, 提供沉浸在学生生活中的机会. 此外，学生可以充分利用我们的合作伙伴的校园资源， 比如学生俱乐部、体育运动、学术讲座和课外活动. 学生可以从不同学科领域的一系列课程中进行选择, and at select institutions, students may access a partner institution’s 完整的课程.
