Education Abroad

The Education Abroad Office serves as a central resource to faculty who are planning education abroad programs and to students considering study abroad as part of their Seattle University experience. Resources include a library of program materials and a growing website. This information, combined with personal advising, will assist faculty in program design and guide students toward appropriate program choices to match their intellectual and inter-cultural goals and competencies, major and graduation requirements.

Complimentary to the Seattle University curriculum, international academic and service programs offered through our office challenge students to test theories and analytical approaches as a way of understanding humanity in a dynamic intercultural setting. These experiences produce powerful learning outcomes including: 

• cross-cultural communication and analytic skills
• a global perspective (a sense of the interconnnectedness of people, ideas and problems)
• polished language proficiency
• intellectual growth
• intercultural and field-specific skill development
• deep self-reflection and exploration of one's relationship with humanity, nature, and spirituality in the Jesuit Catholic intellectual tradition