Our Academic Approach
Learning & Development Outcomes
We have developed a series of learning and development objectives covering. Critical Thinking & Intellectual Curiosity, Content in Context, Navigating Differences, Power & Equity, Career and Professional Development, and Sustainability & Migration. These outcomes are integrated into the curriculum, co-curricular programming, and overall student experience.
Standards for Online Teaching and Learning
CAPA recognizes that online learning is a robust and flexible educational tool that can enhance global education. CAPA is deeply committed to the benefits of student mobility and does not see online provision as a replacement for physical mobility, but as a pedagogy that can be harnessed to teaching and learning liberated from geographical restraints. Mobility of mind is at the heart of this academic agenda.
Active Learning
Our co-curricular programming offers students a guided approach to explore their new urban environments that includes social events and cultural activities relevant to their fields of study and personal interests.
School of Record Relationships
We work with highly respected institutions of higher education to grant credit for our programs abroad. These partner institutions provide official transcripts for all students who successfully complete their program.
Library of Record
We are the first study abroad organization to offer a common library resource on a transnational scale. Through a partnership with the State University of New York, faculty and students have easy and immediate access to all the online academic resources this comprehensive university system has to offer.
CEA CAPA Advisory Board
The members of our Advisory Board play a key role in our academic and program assessment, curriculum development, and strategic initiatives. The board is composed of both faculty and administrators, all with a demonstrated commitment to education abroad and a long-standing relationship with CEA CAPA.
Academic Integrity
Grounded in principles of rigor and integrity, and developed and implemented in strict adherence to the Forum on Education Abroad’s Standards of Good Practice, our academic programs are intentionally designed to encourage students’ critical analysis of the urban context in which they are living and studying. A consistent, transparent, ongoing system of evaluation and assessment—both internal and external—assures the quality of the academic programs we deliver.