CU Boulder Faculty Directors
Below are the outstanding CU Faculty members that direct a Faculty-Led Global Seminar or Global Intensive.
Explore the links to learn more about our faculty directors and their programs.
Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
Global Seminar: Cinema & the City (Paris, France) and Global Seminar: Cinema & the City (Rome, Italy)
Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Programs
Global Seminar: Philosophy, Art & Religion in Italy (Florence, Pari & Rome)
Integrative Physiology
Global Seminar: Health & Disease (Durban, South Africa)
Leeds School of Business; Organizational Leadership & Information Analytics
Global Intensive: Build in Japan: AI & Automation for Tomorrow’s Societies (Tokyo & Nagoya, Japan)
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Global Seminar: Field Techniques in Tropical Ecology (Costa Rica)
Leeds School of Business; Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations Division
Global Seminar: Doing Business in Europe & Africa (Aix-en-Provence, France & Marrakesh, Morocco)
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Global Intensive: Politics, History & Society of Cuba (Havana, Cienfuegos & Trinidad, Cuba)
Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Programs
Global Seminar: Sustainability & Social Entrepreneurship (Bali, Indonesia)
Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
Global Seminar: Voices of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
Astrophysics & Planetary Sciences
Honors Residential Academic Program, Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program
Global Seminar: Ecotourism, Coffee & Belonging in Costa Rica
Advertising, Public Relations & Media Design
Global Seminar: International Strategic Communication (Paris, France)
Integrative Physiology
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Environmental Science & Philosophy
Integrative Physiology
Medicine Across Time & Terrain (Peru)
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
Global Intensive: Energy Systems in the Built Environment (Lecco, Italy)
Center for Asian Studies
Germanic Studies, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature
Global Seminar: History, Politics & Culture: 1914-1945 (Berlin, Germany)
Global Intensive: CMDI Race, Anti-Black Racism & Communication (Santiago & Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Environmental Design
Global Seminar: Urban Site Analysis & Design (Rome, Italy)
Advertising, Public Relations & Design
Global Seminar: International Strategic Communication (Paris, France)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Global Intensive: Politics, History & Society of Cuba (Havana, Cienfuegos & Trinidad, Cuba)
Integrated Design Engineering
Global Seminar: Engineering Design for Global Health
Leeds School of Business; Organizational Leadership & Information Analytics
Global Seminar: Organizational Behavior & Business in China
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Global Intensive: Coral Reef Ecology & Conservation (Belize City, Belize)
Leeds School of Business; Marketing
Global Seminar: New Product Development (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
French & Italian
Global Seminar: Underground Paris (Paris, France)
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Spanish & Portuguese
Global Seminar: Barcelona Literature & Culture (Barcelona, Spain)
Program for Writing & Rhetoric
Global Seminar: Writing in Ireland (Dublin, Ireland)
Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
Global Intensive: Florence: Art & Politics (Florence, Italy) & Global Seminar: Self-Awareness & Images of the Other (Xi'an, China)
Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Operations
Global Intensive: International Strategy & Entrepreneurship (Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan)
Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
Global Seminar: Filmmaking Abroad (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Leeds School of Business, Visiting Professor
Spanish & Portuguese
Global Seminar: Lisbon as a Global City (Lisbon, Portugal)
Social Science Education
Global Intensive: MASP Social Justice in Latin America (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Leeds School of Business; Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations
Global Seminar: Entrepreneurship & Empowerment (Cape Town, South Africa)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Program for Writing & Rhetoric
Presidents Leadership Class; Visiting Professor
Global Seminar: Science Policy (Washington, D.C., USA)
Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Global Intensive: Sustainable Energy Infrastructure (Copenhagen, Denmark & Berlin, Germany)
Environmental Design
Global Seminar: The Medellin Practicum/Studio (Medellin, Colombia)
Equity, Bilingualism and Biliteracy
Integrative Physiology
Global Seminar: Health & Disease (Durban, South Africa)
Urban Resilience & Sustainability
Global Intensive: Sustainable Energy Infrastructure (Copenhagen, Denmark & Berlin, Germany)
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Global Seminar: Ecology & Evolution in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
Leeds School of Business; Social Responsibility & Sustainability
Global Seminar: Our Sustainable Future (Washington, D.C., USA)
Leeds School of Business; Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations
Global Seminar: New Venture Creation & Internship (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Sociology and Education
Global Intensive: MLS Dynamics of Power & Leadership (Barcelona, Spain)
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