Eastern Mennonite University Intercultural Programs

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Eastern Mennonite University Intercultural Programs Experiential intercultural learning, emphasizing peacebuilding, cultural understanding, and creation Why?

Each academic year, more than 150 EMU students study in diverse cultural contexts in locations from the Shenandoah Valley to other continents across the globe. EMU’s intercultural program is designed to develop cross-cultural understanding and global awareness through an experience of living and learning in a different culture. The focus of the program is to learn from and with others which goes beyond and is more interactive than learning about others. Learning in a new cultural setting occurs in a dynamic and cyclical process of orientation - disorientation - reorientation and on again through disorientation - reorientation. The result of this cyclical learning pattern is to see one’s self and the world differently because of the relationships, awareness and understanding which develop through interaction in a different cultural context. The world in which we live, rapidly changing and increasingly smaller, calls for persons who have learned truths and commonalities which lie beyond the boundaries which cultures tend to place on knowing.

Come talk to us before fall break!
10/10/2026

Come talk to us before fall break!

ICYMI - India students have posted their first entry to the IC Blog, and shared a few photos. Check out early reflection...
09/28/2026

ICYMI - India students have posted their first entry to the IC Blog, and shared a few photos. Check out early reflections from Alex Jantzen at https://emu.edu/now/intercultural/

Lilo Gonzalez in Concert - Wed. September 23EMU Student Union, 7:00pm1 Engage pointLearn to know a few strands of immigr...
09/22/2026

Lilo Gonzalez in Concert - Wed. September 23
EMU Student Union, 7:00pm
1 Engage point
Learn to know a few strands of immigration stories, spread through the music of Lilo Gonzalez: singer, song writer, community partner, and EMU Washington resource. Find out more about Stories of Arrival & Belonging IC scheduled May 2027. Come hear Lilo's stories and songs and find out how you could get to DC next May to learn more stories of arrival and belonging... and explore your own! lilogonzalez.com
EMU Sponsors: ICP, Lang. & Lit., and Music

Did you study abroad last year or over the summer? Are you finding who you are back on campus? Join us for a circle of s...
09/14/2026

Did you study abroad last year or over the summer? Are you finding who you are back on campus? Join us for a circle of storytelling to find your footing and others who get the marvelous and sometimes awkward work of merging into the simultaneously strange and familiar spaces where you find yourself now. IC Re-entry - join the conversation Wed. 4-5pm or Thursday 12 – 1pm over lunch. RSVP to one of the scheduled conversation circles here:
Re-entry: the next chapter https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd76gY4xLHIku-EgSyGya-MFntWwOsCegtCjE4IaSZ0TlBmxw/viewform

We are so excited that EMU faculty and students will travel through India this semester for the first time since 2018. T...
08/28/2026

We are so excited that EMU faculty and students will travel through India this semester for the first time since 2018. The group will be recognized in EMU Opening Convocation on Monday, Aug. 31 at 10:00 a.m. (Lehman Auditorium) . Find it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/easternmennoniteuniv
Are you an alum from a previous India semester? What is one stand-out memory, or something you learned that term?

June in Guatemala!
06/25/2026

June in Guatemala!

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Traveler, there is no path, you make the path by walking.) - Antonio...
06/08/2026

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Traveler, there is no path, you make the path by walking.) - Antonio Machado

See more photos from these first days on the Camino, and read Spain student blog posts at https://emu.edu/now/intercultural/.

Yesterday we were given the chance to take a cooking class, and let’s just say it didn’t disappoint!
05/19/2026

Yesterday we were given the chance to take a cooking class, and let’s just say it didn’t disappoint!

As everyone gets settled in we enjoyed tapas at a restaurant in plaza de Santa Ana and discussed how everyone was feelin...
05/08/2026

As everyone gets settled in we enjoyed tapas at a restaurant in plaza de Santa Ana and discussed how everyone was feeling after their first night in the hostel.

4 groups did a local scavenger hunt today and traveled from plaza to plaza eating and sharing food along the way.

Every journey begins with the first step...Bendiciones y buen viaje to our summer travelers leaving for Spain today!
05/06/2026

Every journey begins with the first step...Bendiciones y buen viaje to our summer travelers leaving for Spain today!

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