Delivering Global Education Through Curriculum Development Awards for COIL
May 24, 2021UNC Global Affairs

View of South Building on Polk Place on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Photo by Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)
The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced an additional 15 Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Curriculum Development Awards for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).
As part of the Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World initiative, COIL involves shared learning between students in a course at UNC-Chapel Hill and peer students at a global partner university. Curriculum Development Awards for COIL support faculty members who partner with a colleague at an international institution to develop collaborative activities between students in a course at UNC-Chapel Hill and students at the partner university. The shared learning is integrated throughout at least three weeks of the course and includes activities such as small group projects, class discussions that draw on different perspectives, along with other learning methods and projects.
“We promised in Carolina Next to offer all Carolina students the best menu of global opportunities possible under challenging and changing circumstances,” said Barbara Stephenson, vice provost for global affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. “I am thrilled with the response of both faculty and students to our new COIL program. They love this innovative method of connecting with peers and experts from all over the world.”
During the 2020-21 academic year, Carolina faculty led 19 COIL courses in partnership with universities in 14 countries, including two of Carolina’s strategic partners, King’s College London and Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Faculty teaching 2021-22 COIL courses represent the College of Arts & Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, the School of Education and the School of Nursing.
The initiative is organized by Katie Bowler Young, interim senior director of global partnership and programs within the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, and Heather Ward, associate provost for global affairs. Curriculum Development Awards for COIL are administered by UNC Global Partnership and Programs and made possible with funding from the Chancellor’s Global Education Fund and the Class of 1938 Fellowship.
Since its creation in June 2020, Carolina has been able to meet its ambitious initial goal of nearly 40 courses for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. An additional round of funding for Fall 2021, Spring 2022 and Summer 2022 courses is available until June 15. 2021.
Below is a list of Carolina awardees and their partners. Please visit UNC Global’s webpage for more information on Curriculum Development Awards for COIL and course offerings.
Fall 2021
- Florence Babb, Latin American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Michael Hill, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
UNC Course: LTAM 101, Introduction to Latin American Studies - Maureen Baker, School of Nursing
Partner: Erika Ota, St. Luke’s International University, Japan
UNC Course: NURS 934, Clinical Scholarship and Professional Communication - Vivian Go, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Partner: Le Minh Giang, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
UNC Course: HBEH 784, Implementation Science in Global Health - Jonathan Lepofsky, Department of Geography, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Alena Rochovská, Comenius University, Slovakia
UNC Course: GEOG 468, Environmental Justice in Urban Europe - Pamela Lothspeich, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India
UNC Course: ASIA 721, Transnational Feminisms of the Middle East and South Asia - Rachel Penton, Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Angela Ziebell, Monash University, Australia
UNC Course: NSCI 320, Neuropsychopharmacology - Theresa Raphael-Grimm, School of Nursing
Partner: Maria Bjork, Elzana Odzakovic, Karina Huus and Johanna Falck, Jönköping University, Sweden; Sarah Hamed and Hannah Bradby, Uppsala University, Sweden
UNC Course: NURS 864, Biopsychosocial Care 3: Psychiatric Mental Health Interventions in the Context of Relationships - Michele Rivkin-Fish, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Sergei Zakharov, Higher School of Economics, Russia
UNC Course: ANTH 442, Health and Gender After Socialism - Lisa Woodley, School of Nursing
Partner: Maiara Rodrigues dos Santos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
UNC course: NURS 483, Family-Centered Nursing Care from Birth Through Adolescence - Claudia Yaghoobi, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Mostafa Abedinifard, University of British Columbia, Canada
UNC Course: ASIA 127, Iranian Women Writers
The following Fall 2021 courses received funding in a previous round of awards:
- Tom Linden, Hussman School of Journalism & Media
Partner: Bienvenido Leon, University of Navarra, Spain
UNC Course: MEJO 560, Environmental and Science Journalism - Patricia Rosenmeyer, Department of Classics, College of Arts & Sciences
UNC Course: CLAS 363H, Greek & Latin Poetry in Translation
Partner: Giuliana Ragusa de Faria, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Spring 2022
- Joseph Czabovsky, Hussman School of Journalism & Media
Partner: Claudia Labarca Encina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
UNC Course: MEJO 531, Case Studies in Public Relations - Leslie Davis, School of Nursing
Partner: Patraporn Tungpunkom, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
UNC Course: NURS 740, Evidence-based Practice and Research - Martin Johnson, Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Iain Robert Smith, King’s College London, England
UNC Course: ENGL 494, Research Methods in Film Studies - Michael Meredith, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Partner: Miklos Kozma, Corvinus University, Hungary
UNC Course: BUSI 201, Business in Central Europe - Afroz Taj, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Partner: Nishat Zaidi, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
UNC Course: ASIA 231, Bollywood Cinema