Custom Tours Built for Your Program
Enhancing students' global competency through experiential learning. FTI works with educational institutions across the country to develop academically-enriched itineraries for J-term, Maymester & summer study abroad; alternative spring breaks; service-learning projects; & grad programs.
Accomplish your vision for your program by collaborating with your tour coordinator to build a custom tour that engages students through academic, cultural & experiential learning opportunities.
Global Awareness
Create a tour that engages students from multiple disciplines & cultivates tolerance toward cultural differences. Incorporate a cross-disciplinary view of a region with topics such as: history, art, cuisine, health, politics, culture, economics & of the process of globalization itself.
Encourage your students to gain a better understanding of cross-cultural dimensions – to ask how & why particular similarities & differences exist. Groups can choose to take the path less travelled to develop students’ cultural competency by exploring local neighborhoods & connecting with the people. Choose to gain hands-on experience with regional cooking, dance or music classes, or learn to make local products (such as: perfume, paper lanterns, or artwork).
Study Tours
Work with FTI to internationalize your course syllabus. Offer a global perspective on your curriculum by adding tour components that help students expand their knowledge of their subject area & enhance their problem solving, critical thinking & communication skills (interpersonal, foreign language & non-verbal).
Together, we can build academically-enriched itineraries that include: lectures & professional networking events, business site visits, round table discussions, interviews with locals & behind-the-scenes access to a variety of venues. Send us your course proposal to start building your international program.
Service-Learning Projects
Partner with us to turn students' classroom knowledge into real-world, hands-on experience while offering the opportunity to give back to communities in need at one of our sustainable project sites.
Design a unique service-learning program that will enhance their leadership, communication & professional skills. Students work side-by-side with local NGOs, gaining an appreciation for new problem-solving approaches & learning to collaborate with people from other cultures in an atmosphere of respect, open-mindedness & understanding.
Volunteer Projects
FTI was originally founded to serve humanitarian organizations, so we have been developing relationships with NGOs for the past 35 years. In the beginning, we provided flights for groups that travelled to volunteer at international project sites. But, over the years, our relationships with these non-profit organizations have evolved from customers to partners. We now work together to offer faculty-led groups the opportunity to work with a wide variety of sustainable projects.
If your school is looking to produce socially-aware graduates who are ready & able to use the skills they learn in the classroom, let us help you design a custom volunteer or service-learning project for your spring break, j-term, Maymester or summer program. The advanced knowledge students gain through these hands-on experiences makes them more competitive when applying to grad schools or entering the marketplace.
