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Providence Academy for International Studies
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 00-General Resources
Map and geography aids, general sources of news, classroom partnership opportunities, etc.
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00-Grants Development
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00-Service Learning
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09 - Intercultural Communication
This course is an introduction to how culture affects communication between individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, and strategies for successful intercultural communication. It addresses the challenge of adaptation to new cultural contexts, and builds competencies necessary to successful intercultural and international interactions. Students will develop critical thinking skills to address challenges inherent in culturally diverse groups, analyze written and oral intercultural communication, and apply their learning to authentic intercultural interactions. Students will examine how culture affects forms, conventions, and styles of communicating ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
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10 - Towards a Just World: Human Rights and Responsibilities
In the first part of this course, students will explore principles of justice, authority, responsibility, and human rights. Students will build capacities to evaluate candidates for positions of authority, rules and laws, the benefits and costs of using authority. They will examine the concept and practical applications of responsibility, challenges resulting from competing responsibilities, and ways of assessing priorities. Students will learn about issues relating to distributive, procedural, and corrective justice, examine challenges of ensuring just outcomes in society, and build intellectual tools useful in analyzing and defending positions relating to different kinds of justice. In the second part of this course, students will apply their learning to international human rights contexts, building their knowledge of international humanitarian challenges and the international rule of law. Through a series of explorations, they will improve their understanding of humanitarian issues related to situations of conflict. Students will read a variety of materials addressing the escalation of violence and the destruction and suffering that result in armed conflict, and peaceful modes of conflict resolution that avoid unnecessary suffering and uphold respect for human dignity.
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11 - How the World Works: Individuals, Instutitions, and Transnational Challenges
This course will explore critical global challenges relating to the environment; conflict and security; health and human development; immigration; and trade. Explorations will focus on ways of addressing these challenges through individual and institutional means, and students will explore individuals’ connections with the larger world. Emphasis will be placed on effective interaction with experts and people directly involved in addressing these challenges. This class will be inquiry based, providing students with tools to research, analyze, and synthesize varying perspectives on transnational issues. Student will draw upon multiple sources of information, including print, electronic, and human sources to build a portfolio of briefs and persuasive essays relating to the topics they study. They will participate in debates and deliberations; discuss issues with peers oversees; and interview content experts.
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11-12 - Multicultural Studies
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12 - Think Global, Act Global: Senior Advocacy Project
Students will apply their international skills and knowledge in a public policy advocacy campaign that addresses an international issue of their choice in collaboration with PAIS community partners and mentors. Students will begin by conducting research on international policy dimensions of a variety of issues. They will select a particular policy problem to address as a class. They then will examine the policy landscape relevant to their selected problem, analyze varying policy approaches to the problem, synthesize a proposed approach, and then develop an advocacy action plan in support of their proposal. Finally, students will embark on a campaign in support of their plan, including promulgation and presentation of a report of their findings and recommendations, and appropriate advocacy strategies.
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