Faculty-led
UVA CGHE: Global Health Practice: Improving Population Health Outcomes in Nepal Term: Summer
Program directors: Rajesh Balkrishnan and Amita Sudhir
Description: The aim of the CGHE Global Health Practice opportunity is to develop global health leaders in multiple disciplines who prioritize equity, collaboration, and ethical engagement. This is intended to be a pivotal experience that informs students’ future academic, personal, and professional trajectory. The program goals closely align with the CGHE Global Health Practice opportunity which is to develop global health leaders in multiple disciplines who prioritize equity, collaboration, and ethical engagement.
UVA in India: Commerce, Creativity, and Culture
Term: January
Program director: Chiraag Mittal
Description: This program takes you beyond the classroom to explore the culture and markets of India. Through experiences ranging from traditional street markets to high-tech industries, you will get a fresh perspective on how culture, creativity, and commerce come together in one of the world’s most dynamic economies.
UVA in India: Global Internships at Jindal Global University
Term: Summer
Program director: Ingrid Hakala
Description: UVA Global Internships has partnered with O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India’s #1 ranked private higher education institution, to facilitate short-term internship placements at JGU’s numerous research centres. This academic global internship program pairs experiential learning about the realities of cross-cultural work with the opportunity to develop comparative understandings of Indian approaches to law, politics, development, economics, heritage conservation, and many other fields. In addition to gaining a special view upon modern Indian society through their internship work and program excursions, program participants are challenged to strengthen their identities as life-long learners and globally-aware budding professionals.
UVA in India: Urban Transformations: Exploring Sustainability Past and Present in India
Term: January
Program director: Phoebe Crisman
Description: Today, 56% of the world's human population of 4.4 billion live in cities. As the largest and most permanent physical artifacts created by our species, cities are the perfect place to explore the past, present, and future of human settlement, architecture, culture, and sustainability. The course examines processes of physical urban change through a sustainability lens. As a culturally diverse nation with a rich and complex history and the largest country population (18% of the world’s people), India is an ideal case study. In Delhi, Agra and Varanasi, we will explore how these cities and building types have been transformed due to environmental, aesthetic, and socio-economic forces. We will learn about sustainability indicators and key challenges that all global cities face—climate change, the need for shelter, water, food, energy, and transportation, waste management, environmental and heritage conservation, environmental justice, and how to imagine and plan for a more sustainable future.
Exchange
Term: Semester
Description: O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) is a non-profit global university established by the Government of Haryana and recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC). JGU was established as a philanthropic initiative of its Founding Chancellor, Mr. Naveen Jindal in memory of his father, Mr. O.P. Jindal. JGU is one of the few universities in Asia that maintains a 1:8 faculty-student ratio and appoints faculty members from India and different parts of the world with outstanding academic qualifications and experience. JGU is a research intensive university, which is deeply committed to its core institutional values of interdisciplinary and innovative pedagogy; pluralism and rigorous scholarship; and globalism and international engagement.
