Curriculum Internationalization Focusing on India: Pre- and Post-Assessment of Student Learning

Abstract

To enhance students' global understanding, this study introduces a series of curriculum internationalization efforts from module development to implementation through an infusion method. Taking a country-specific approach, two instructional modules focused on India were developed and infused into three existing courses at a U.S. university. To assess student improvement in global understanding, assessments were performed before and after class implementation utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods. The results of the assessment showed clear improvement in student understanding after implementation. Overall, the participants assessed the developed modules and implementation quite favorably.

Keywords:

• Curriculum internationalization
• India
• Pre- and Post-Assessment
• Infusion method

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This study is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and reports partial results of the project. The authors sincerely appreciate the generous support of the funding agency.