Author: Steven Alvarez

My post will reflect on multimodal composition outside of a FYC classroom, in a senior-level study abroad course sequence that features multilingual research. The educational and institutional context for this case study is a Global Studies minor that involves cross-cultural immersion experience (study abroad), language study, and global content courses. On their study abroad course sequence, students first take an online class while they are away on a semester abroad, and upon return, enroll in a Capstone seminar in which they work on a multimodal cross-cultural research project. It was not until after a couple of semesters of teaching the study abroad sequence that I…