International Programs

There are two ways to teach with International Programs. You may either apply to be Teaching Faculty or you may apply to be a Program Leader. There are separate applications for each.

Generally, if you are interested in teaching a course for one of our existing programs/locations, please fill out the Teaching Faculty application. If you are interested in proposing a new curriculum-focused program, or would like to lead a program outside of the established curriculum in our locations, please fill out the Program Leader application. Additional considerations are listed below. There are several differences between the two categories, so interested faculty applicants should carefully review the information below to ensure that they apply for the correct position.

Teaching Faculty
Teaching faculty offer courses to the general student population at our year-round study centers and summer-only locations. In order to allow as many students as possible to have an international study experience, IP tries to offer a broad, liberal arts curriculum that fulfills many undergraduate requirements. IP has selected courses that we feel benefit students in two ways. First, we generally try to offer courses that meet the requirements for one of the five FSU liberal studies areas, the Multicultural (x/y) requirement, or the oral competency requirement. In addition to these courses, we add classes that we feel will be enhanced by being offered in the international location. (For example, Shakespeare in London, Art History and the Renaissance in Florence, or courses in the native language of a host country.)
Click here to see a list of our “core” curriculum—courses that we generally offer and which we are currently seeking to staff. Interested faculty members should select 2 courses from this list. If you have a particular course that you are interested in offering (i.e. a special topics class you feel would lend itself well to the location or a class in your particular area of expertise), please select one course from the core list and provide us with a complete description of your proposed second course. If the location that you are interested in does not have a core curriculum, feel free to propose any course you feel would be enhanced by the international location and that would draw student enrollment.

Program Leader
Program leaders direct what are known as “curriculum-focused” programs, programs which immerse a group of students in a certain area of study while overseas. Generally program leaders teach several courses in a single area to students who are majors in or have specific interest in that area. Curriculum-focused programs allow IP to offer courses outside of the established “core” curriculum in our locations. For example, upper level courses in a specific area may not have a wide appeal for our general undergraduate population. However, if we package these courses as a curriculum-focused program and target our recruiting toward majors in that area, we are able to provide international study opportunities for students who have already met the general undergraduate requirements and embarked on their major. Curriculum-focused programs also allow faculty the opportunity to offer courses in locations other than those traditionally presented by IP.
It is recommended that program leaders of specialized programs have experience teaching with International programs before proposing to become a program leader, or at least have strong ties to the location where the proposed program will take place.

Bear in mind that there is considerable additional responsibility in being a program leader as opposed to teaching faculty. When proposing a program, faculty are expected to be familiar with the proposed location and to gather adequate information to allow IP to facilitate planning the program. For example, if the program is in a location new to IP (i.e. in a location where we do not have facilities or support staff), faculty will be expected to provide information in their application on location and cost of potential accommodations, location and cost of classroom facilities, proposed daytrips and excursions (including methods of transportation), etc. They must also be willing to assist in recruiting students from their department and other areas. Generally, curriculum-focused programs must attract at least twelve participants per instructor in order to be viable. Faculty members selected to direct curriculum-focused programs at locations where there is no year-round study center are responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day program operation overseas, which can include academic advising, student disciplinary processes, and emergency response.