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A customized, collaborative, and curated space for global learners.

Study with universities and instructors across the world.

Connect with locals and create a global community.

Experience cultural events within our global workspace that broaden your perspectives and add an international edge to your resume.

It’s all there at a fraction of the cost with future scholarships available future study abroad programs.

Connect with
Other Curious Learners
Join in on cultural events hosted by API’s Global Guides with other students from around the world. Think: Cooking classes! Art and graffiti tours! International movie nights! Scavenger hunts through famous museums!
Customize
Your Semester
In our Global Select program, we are available to help you build your perfect course loads from institutions in Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, or Spain. You can even add a course from your own university or API’s Innovation Lab, Community Engagement Lab or Virtual Global Internship.
Collaborate with
Virtual Teams
In our Innovation Lab, you work in a team for 10 weeks to uncover creative business solutions to global challenges making connections with peers, mentors and cultural coaches along the way. At the end, you showcase your work in a pitch competition to industry experts. Or try our Community Engagement Lab where you produce an action plan to support community-based organizations locally with a global perspective.
Curate Your Resume
In our Virtual Global Internship, you can enhance your career readiness and develop workplace cultural competency—all from home!
Collect Scholarships Toward
Future API Programs
Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 virtual students receive a $500 scholarship toward a summer study abroad program or $3000 toward a quarter or semester-long study abroad program valid until Fall 2022.
Come Along on
New Adventures
All virtual students are eligible to go on an optional 7-16 day excursion to Argentina, Australia, Italy, London and Paris, New Zealand, or Spain in January or March 2021.

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CUSTOMIZE YOUR TERM

API has partnered with some of our top international university partners from around the world to offer their expansive course catalogs to our students for a truly global, borderless and connected experience!

Pre-Designed Tracks for Students

General Education Requirements
International Business
Global Sustainability, Natural Sciences and Environmental Studies
International and Intercultural Communications
International Perspectives in Psychology
Global Health

We are also available to help you build your perfect track. Take anywhere from 1 to 6 online courses with the option to add API's Labs or Virtual Global Internship, or courses from your own university.

API’S DIGITAL BADGE PROGRAM

As part of this program, you complete activities and exercises earning you a Global Agility Badge.

BUILD YOUR OWN TERM

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COLLABORATE WITH VIRTUAL TEAMS

In this immersive lab experience, you work with a team of peers to uncover creative business solutions to global challenges. Along the way, you are mentored by a group of cultural coaches and advisors who prepare you to present your work in a pitch competition to industry experts.

Upon completion, the solutions you uncover and the connections you build will help you gain a global edge and give you the skills to jumpstart your career.

Want more? Add the Innovation Lab to a regular API program, including Global Select, or take as a standalone.

API’S DIGITAL BADGE PROGRAM

You will receive three badges in the API Digital Badge stack, including: Global Innovation, Global Teamwork, and Global Problem-Solving.

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COLLABORATE WITH A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

Engage with a team of peers to produce an action plan to support community-based organizations locally with a global perspective.

Learn from cultural coaches and field experts about various approaches to community organizing, advocacy, civic engagement, and allyship for marginalized communities.

Build a global-to-local advocacy action plan leveraging a domestic and international network of community partners to enact change.

API’S DIGITAL BADGE PROGRAM

As part of this program, you complete activities and exercises earning you a Global-to-Local Community Engagement Badge.

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CURATE YOUR RESUME

Grow international skills, gain workplace cultural competency, and add a boost to your resume...all from home!

Virtual Internship Participants can also pair their placement with either API’s Global Select program or Innovation Lab and will participate in rich, cultural experiences provided through APIConnect.

API’S DIGITAL BADGE PROGRAM

As part of this program, you complete activities and exercises earning you a Global Workplace Communication Badge.

SEE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

CONNECT WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS

Study Spanish at your level, from beginner to advanced, in an intensive virtual environment while earning college credit from either Universidad de Salamanca in Spain or Universidad Veritas in Costa Rica. API has also partnered with Université Grenoble Alpes to bring you short-term language opportunities in French!

Practice and learn Spanish or French with locals, helping you to build and refine your language skills quickly with courses lasting 2 - 4 weeks. End your session as a more confident speaker, understanding the nuances of local culture, and the complexities of native conversation.

API’S DIGITAL BADGE PROGRAM

STUDY WITH UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA

STUDY WITH UNIVERSIDAD VERITAS

As part of this program, you complete activities and exercises in Spanish, earning you a Global Agility Gold Badge.

STUDY WITH UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES

CONNECT WITH OTHER CURIOUS LEARNERS

Everything from customized coursework to cultural experiences, API has packaged it all in one curated, collaborative space for global learners.

In one day, you can take classes from talented instructors around the world, then meet up with one of API’s local Resident Directors to experience the sights and sounds of a new destination.

EXPERIENCES INCLUDE:

- Virtual art and graffiti tours through the streets of cities like Valparaiso, Chile

- An international movie night

- Learn to cook Tortilla Española with our staff in Spain

AND MANY MORE!

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CONSTRUCT YOUR RESUME

Showcase your new skills with API’s Digital Badge program. Upon successful program completion, you earn unique digital credentials you can display on your LinkedIn, e-portfolio, online resume, etc.

1. Show employers the specific steps you took to build essential skills they value, like leadership, strategic planning, empathy, and more.

2. Level-up your virtual experience by completing guided activities that connect you with global experts.

3. Demonstrate your ability to maximize opportunities to thrive in the virtual environment and a readiness to innovate in a global, digital economy.

APIConnect's Digital Badges

Global Agility

Earn this digital badge by completing activities attached to API's Global Select program.

- The exercises are designed to enhance your global career readiness by building skills like leadership, strategic planning, cultural competence, and more!

- Show employers your agility in embracing diverse points of view to produce meaningful change and transform challenge to opportunity.

You can level-up your badge when you focus on Spanish language learning! Complete selected activities in Spanish and display language fluency to future employers.

Global Innovation

This digital badge is the capstone badge of the Innovation Lab Digital Badge Stack. Earn it in the Innovation Lab course. With it, you showcase your ability to:

- Collaborate with teammates to innovate solutions to global challenges.

- Learn from cultural coaches and build connections with industry mentors.

- Connect your solutions to real-world applications.

- Drive innovation to make a meaningful impact.

Global Teamwork

This digital badge is part of the Innovation Lab Digital Badge Stack.

- Earn this digital badge by working with a team to create innovative solutions to global problems.

- Diverse perspectives, cultural competence, and a drive to succeed are all key to collaborations that make an impact.

- Assess your collaborative skills, practice peer review, and refine your individual approach to leadership in team settings.

Global Problem Solving

This digital badge is part of the Innovation Lab Digital Badge Stack.

- Earn this badge through addressing global problem solving by embracing diverse perspectives, leveraging curiosity, networking with experts, and piloting solutions.

- Design, implement, assess, and modifying to test your hypotheses and grow skills of resilience and change management.

Global Workplace Communication

Earn this Digital Badge by navigating diverse cultural workplace environments and developing essential skills necessary for success in a global economy.

- Contribute meaningfully to strategic goals of an international company by refining communication skills through practice in real time.

- Demonstrate your ability to embrace innovation in remote work and enhance your individual professional strengths with a global perspective.

You can level-up your badge when you focus on Spanish language learning! Complete selected activities in Spanish and display language fluency to future employers

Global-to-Local Community Engagement

Create meaningful community engagement opportunities locally with a global perspective. Connect impactful solutions to real-world challenges and create change by actively enacting plans developed, designed, and delivered with community goals in mind.

Start Your Virtual Adventure

A customized, collaborative, and curated space for global learners.

Connect with
Other Curious Learners

Customize
Your Semester

Collaborate with
Virtual Teams

Curate Your Resume

Collect Scholarships Toward
Future API Programs