In RTV4930 Globalizing American Sports, you will learn about how American sports instances have communicated their efforts to expand internationally. The course includes a short-term study abroad program so you can experience these efforts yourself!

While abroad, you will create media content related to a U.S. league game. More than stories about the game itself, you will create content about the atmosphere surrounding this event, the local fans and the local sports culture. This will allow you to interact directly with locals and/or American expats living abroad.

The program is short, but such stories require pre-production and post-production, which we will do from Gainesville throughout the semester. So, the class will meet each week before and after our time abroad.

Please reach out to Dr. Roxane Coche (rcoche@ufl.edu) with any questions.

This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of Latina/o sexuality studies from an understanding of Latinx sexualities as complex processes in flux. Engages Latinx sexualities through transnational histories, memoirs and testimonios, artworks, literature, music, film, and video to understand how Latinx sexual identities and practices are shaped.

This course focuses on gaining an understanding of world communication systems by exploring historical foundations of global communication to include early advancements, technology, social, political and economic factors, theoretical paradigms and the mass media itself among other topics. Against a backdrop of the major trends in the field of communication, students will be equipped to evaluate the use of media tools and approaches around the world. 

Explore the characteristics of the Latin American work environment and prepare for a career working with or in the region, our close neighbor. This course features synchronous discussions with UF alumni who will share their experiences working in or with Latin America at different career stages and in a variety of professional fields such as business, government, non-profits, healthcare, and STEM fields. Course topics include developing leadership skills, building a global professional profile, navigating organizational culture, and learning about the growing Latino community in the U.S. workplace.

The Analytical Writing and Thinking Seminar is designed to advance students’ critical thinking and writing skills beyond first-year composition. To achieve those goals, students will learn advanced analytical techniques and communication strategies that professors in all disciplines expect them to know. The texts and assignments in the course will expose students to challenging ideas. By examining humanistic or scientific theories or principles, students will learn how to read deeply and think critically. As such, the students will be introduced to seminal ideas in specific disciplines and will be asked to engage in debates important to our time and our culture. In this course, students will hone their reasoning skills through engagement with a specific topic and sharpen their writing skills through multiple drafts of papers with substantial feedback from their peers and their instructor.