Internationalisation of the curriculum in an undergraduate nursing degree

Abstract

In this chapter, I discuss internationalisation of curriculum (IoC) in the context of an undergraduate nursing curriculum. As the previous Program Director of the undergraduate nursing program at the University of Queensland, Australia (a role I occupied for over two years), I explore the individual elements of the curriculum such as content, assessment, the teaching and learning processes in relation to internationalisation, and explain how as a teaching team, our readiness for internationalisation caused us to look inwards at our own curriculum. The events that lead us to explore the internationalisation of our curriculum were serendipitous, precipitated by the leadership of Professor Betty Leask through her Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellowship Project1, ‘Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Action’, and the involvement of Dr Wendy Green at the local level.