John Martinson Honors College
Global and Local Learning
The John Martinson Honors College is dedicated to sparking, cultivating, and nurturing meaningful, flexible, cross-disciplinary educational experiences of domestic and international students.
About
What is Global and Local Learning?
Global and Local Learning brings together the Community and Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academics pillars of the JMHC. Students engage with topics from multiple perspectives rather than from one intellectual field, allowing them to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of society as well as cultivate attitudes of open-mindedness to difference and collaboration across intellectual or cultural boundaries.
Through our place-based courses, virtual exchanges, and study away programs, students hone their perspective-taking and flexible-thinking skills in the local and global community. These experiences give students hands-on opportunities to operate in an unfamiliar context, ask new questions within familiar settings, and expand their thinking about local and global issues. They also develop students’ intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
on Campus learning
Courses
At the John Martinson Honors College, we value intercultural development and intercultural contact. We acknowledge that not all students can study away—owing to financial costs, jobs, internships, and other responsibilities or obstacles. Thus, we seek to make opportunities for intercultural development and intercultural contact accessible to all our students. We do this in a few ways vis-à-vis courses offered on campus, visiting international scholars, and extra-curricular activities.
HONR 22200 | Solutions Lab Global
Solutions Lab Global is a transnational, virtual, interdisciplinary course that transcend national boundaries by bringing together Purdue students with students at universities abroad. In the online course, students collaborate in interdisciplinary, cross-national teams to work towards solutions to a global problem. Honors students in the course collaborate with students in Brazil, Italy, Peru, and Taiwan. This course is offered in the fall and spring semesters and includes an optional bi-directional student mobility dimension which takes place at different points in the academic year.
HONR credits: 2
HONR 22100 | Exploring Place
"Exploring Place" is an examination of the cultural, social, and historical dynamics that influence communities and relationships of a site. Blending independent study and distance learning, in this experiential learning course, the student and the instructor work together to design an individualized, in-depth study of the place in which the student is located. This study will be attentive to the social, cultural, political, economic, and other forces that have shaped this place historically and today, while also focusing on community life and the relationships between residents, institutions, organizations, and others. Exploring Place offers students the opportunity to better understand the people and places around them, expand their worldviews, and increase their self-awareness as they engage within these spaces and understand their place in them. This course meets the university's core requirement for Human Behavioral and Social Sciences.
HONR credits: Varies (2-3)
Fulbright Brazil Chair
The John Martinson Honors College houses the Fulbright Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University. Each year, the JMHC partners with a department and college to cohost a visiting scholar from Brazil. The scholar spends one semester conducting research, teaching an interdisciplinary course with the JMHC, and interacting with students and fellow researchers at Purdue.
HONR credits: 3
Communities
Community is at the heart of the John Martinson Honors College experience. Students live, learn, work, and serve in communities across campus and across differences.
Across the US and Abroad
Study Away Opportunities
Study Away refers to global and local learning across the United States and abroad. Through these off-campus, domestic or international experiences, students earn credit learning about technical topics while developing their intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes. These programs take place over October break, Spring break, Summer, or the entire semester.
Learn more about the courses currently being offered on the Study Away Page!
October Break
A short, immersive experience within the United States to earn course credit in just one weekend.
Spring Break
A week-long opportunity to explore academic and cultural experiences, either within the U.S. or abroad.
Maymester/Summer
An extended study away program focused on international destinations, with flexibility in both time commitment and credits earned.
Spring Semester
You can earn HONR credits abroad with our semester exchange partners.
Note: Some programs may depart from these standard models.
Global Research
The John Martinson Honors College values international perspectives in scholarship. This can be seen in our interdisciplinary coursework, but also in the original research of our faculty, the scholarly projects of our students, and partnerships across units on campus.
Learn more about the research currently being explored on the International Research Page!
Benefits
Becoming World Ready
Global and local learning experiences advance a key mission of the John Martinson Honors College, which is to prepare graduates to live authentically, work inclusively, and engage ethically among the diverse communities of our globalized world.
Global and local learning allows you to -
Experience various educational systems
Hone your language skills
Gain new perspective and independence
Develop your whole self
Become competitive in the job market
Apply for funding!
Scholarships and Grants
At Purdue and the John Martinson Honors College, there are a variety of ways to make studying abroad and across the US more affordable for students.
For JMHC grants, please contact Catharine Patrone at cpatrone@purdue.edu for more information.
