The experience of internationalising the curriculum in a spanish nursing degree program: The role of civic humanism

Abstract

Little has been written about the internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC) by academics, those who implement it in teaching and learning as part of the broader internationalisation of universities. As academics, we understand that an internationalized curriculum is a curriculum that provides intercultural and international knowledge that will enable students to perform effectively in the current global society (Joris, Otten, Nilsson, Teekens, & Wächter, 2000). This is our aim in the course we teach-Civic Humanism. The story we tell in this chapter concerns us as a team teaching the Civic Humanism (CH) course in the first year of the nursing degree in San Jorge University (USJ), a Spanish private university located in Zaragoza, Spain.