COIL - Collaborative Online International Learning
Would you like to meet students from all over the world while taking classes at Sinclair? Would you like to have an online international experience on your resume to help you stand out when applying for a job?
COIL, or Collaborative Online International Learning, does the above, plus helps you:
- Gain intercultural awareness and understanding
- Improve digital literacy skills
- Add an international experience to resume
Student Testimonials
- Courtney Reese, Sinclair student
- Asher Bench, Sinclair student
What will I do in a COIL course?
Through COIL, using various online tools, you will do the following:
- Meet and interact with students from another country
- Share information about yourself
- Learn about life in the partner country from a student’s perspective
- Add an international experience to you resume
- Work on a collaborative project and do things in an international peer group such as:
- Gain intercultural awareness and understanding
- Improve digital literacy skills
COIL at Sinclair Community College
Sinclair’s first COIL project was offered in Fall Semester, 2019 with our partner in Japan, Yamaguchi Prefecture University. Since that time, over 400 Sinclair students have participated in COIL courses, along with peer students in 10 countries. Sinclair students have completed COIL modules in the following disciplines:
- Art History
- Marketing
- Communications
- English Composition
- English Literature
- Biology
- Civil Architecture Technology
- Statistics
- Social Work
- Built Environment
- Spanish
- Public Health and Nursing
- Early Childhood Education
- Computer Information Science
COIL Partnership Countries
Examples of COIL Courses
Exploring the Art of Yayoi Kusama
Partner Institution: Yamaguchi Prefectural University (Japan)
Discipline: Art History
Exploring New Markets in the U.S. & Scotland
Partner Institution: Robert Gordon University, Scotland
Discipline: Marketing
COIL courses by semester
Fall, 2023 use would click on the date to see the COIL course list
- Kara Burnett, Communication, Division of Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences
- Sinclair Course: COM 2211 107, Effective Public Speaking
- Partner: Donna Campbell, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada
- Jason Jia, Computer Science and Information Management, Division of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Sinclair Course: CIS 1107.103
- Partner: Julius O. Aroba, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
- Alexandra Bohler, Architecture Technology, Division of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Sinclair Course: CAT 1341 Architectural Design
- Partner: Nataly Revelo, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. Ecuador
- Kjirsten Goeller, English, Division of Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences
- Sinclair Course: ENG 1101
- Partner: Dona Sams, Bishop Chulaparambil Memorial College, India
- Kay Koeninger, Art, Division of Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences
- Sinclair Course: ART 1101.104, Art Appreciation/Introduction to Art
- Partner: Amy Wilson, Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Japan
- Charles Richardson, Marketing, Division of Business and Public Services
- Sinclair Course: MRK 2100, Foundations of Marketing
- Partner: Tracie Pirie, Robert Gordon University, Scotland
- Furaha Henry-Jones, English, Division of Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences
- Sinclair Course: ENG 1101, English Composition
- Partner: Rodrigo Andres Arias Zamora, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
- Dannette Richards, Biology, Division of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Sinclair Course: BIO 2225, Ecology
- Partner: Rafael Battisti, Universidad Federal de Goias, Brazil
- Jose Philip, Mathematics, Division of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Sinclair Course: MAT 2170 310 Business Statistics I
- Partner: Durban University of Technology, South Africa, and Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Swapna Purandare, Early Childhood Education, Division of Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences
- Sinclair Course: ECA 23013, Literacy, Art and Music
- Partner: Elizabeth John, Bishop Chulaparambil Memorial College, India
- Sandy Specht and Sarah Finch, Biology, Division of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Sinclair Course: BIO 1171
- Partner: Sincy Joseph and Asha Raju, St. Stephen’s College, India
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