Change your perspective. Learn a language. Travel. When you study abroad, you gain the cross-cultural awareness you need to become an ethical leader and a global citizen. From semester and summer study abroad programs to spring break immersions, there's an abroad experience that will work for you in BCLA. 

One of CBA's Core Values is Interconnected Global Community: CBA embraces multiple disciplines and community connectedness to inform problems and address challenges in a global context. We value experiential opportunities, collaboration and partnerships. As a signatory to the United Nation's PRME initiative, we are committed to understanding the role of business as a partner in the global community through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." (College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, 2022). 

"Our faculty are superb and dedicated teachers, and they also are significant thought leaders in the global legal conversation. Loyola Law School faculty shape the national dialogue on law and public policy, from their high profile advocacy through their frequently cited scholarship, to amicus briefs and pro bono work.  They have served on influential bodies locally and nationally, from the L.A. Police Commission to the U.S. Department of Justice.  Our faculty also have a wide range of backgrounds and experiences as law firm partners, Supreme Court and appellate clerks, federal public defenders and prosecutors, and corporate lawyers and litigators. Our faculty have worked at organizations such as the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, on behalf of the ACLU, and as the heads of legal affairs for major entertainment studios." Michael Waterstone, Fritz B. Burns Dean of Loyola Law School 

To read the full welcome message from Dean Waterstone click here.

Promote Social Justice: We recognize the existence of social inequity, marginalization, and the different faces of oppression, and we commit ourselves to work actively for the establishment of a just and equitable society.

While it is important to understand critically the structures, practices, and discourses that cause and perpetuate injustice, we also aim to nurture transformative structures, practices, and discourses that actively promote greater equity. This commitment challenges us to think with a global perspective, to embrace the notion of a preferential option for the poor, and to act with a conviction of equity.

Five Questions With Carla Marcantonio: Tell us about your new book, Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film:

... "Given how skillfully the melodramatic mode has met the task of narrating/visualizing the nation, my wish to write the book departed from a desire to understand how melodramatic narratives have adapted to a geopolitical landscape where globalization is now a dominant reality. The reason this is interesting is because globalization places certain central paradigms of the nation in crisis: its dependence on a clearly demarcated territory (i.e. globalization drives the notion that we now live in a borderless world) and, given the rise of new technologies that have expanded the capacity for communication, it organizes transnational communities that can often supersede the centrality of the national community (think of diasporic communities, for example). Given how closely allied melodrama has been with the national imaginary, the book explores how certain directors worldwide have re-adapted the mode in order to be able to narrate and represent this new, global reality. In doing so, the book also revisits, in order to reformulate, some of the central paradigms that have defined what we understand as melodrama." Carla Marcantonio, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies and scholar of transnational/global cinema. 

To read the full article click here.

Campus Ministry's Ignacio Companions (IC) Program offers immersion trips focused on three Core Values: Community, Solidarity, Faith/Justice. Participants are challenged to expand their worldview, open themselves to the reality of the people they encounter on the journey, and find God in all places and things. 

All IC Trips:

1. Are connected with a Jesuit Institution, Jesuit Apostolic Work, or Ignatian Inspired Organization
2. Provide an opportunity for Ignatian reflection and spiritual examination and exploration while immersed in new cultural context
3. Provide an opportunity to explore the intersection of faith and justice as integral to our being a people fully alive
4. Provide an opportunity for a faith-based experience with our host community
5. Provide an opportunity for participants to engage in a partnership and in solidarity with our host community 

If you have any questions or would like any information, feel free to contact Josh Mayfield, Campus Minister for Faith and Justice, at joshua.mayfield@lmu.edu or 310.338.3005.

The LMU Center for International Business Education (CIBE), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, supports programs, instruction and research on issues of importance to U.S. trade and competitiveness. LMU CIBE emphasizes transformative education in the areas of global sustainability and business ethics; global talent development and foreign business language education; innovative global marketing; and international entrepreneurship.

The Alternative Breaks Program is run through Loyola Marymount University's Center for Service and Action. The Alternative Breaks (AB) Program is a member of Break Away, the National Alternative Breaks Organization. The AB Program received Honorable Mention for the national Alternative Breaks Program of the Year Award in 2010.

The Center for Service and Action sent out our first Alternative Breaks trips in 2003, and we've been growing ever since. To get a better idea about the history of our AB Program, check out our past AB trips.

The Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS) serves as a resource to the University by ensuring regulatory compliance. OISS provides programs and services that support international students' and scholars' social, educational and professional success, thereby, creating an engaged global community.

The Office of National & International Fellowships (ONIF) assists LMU students and alumni interested in pursuing external fellowships that support their academic and career goals. Many fellowships require candidates to apply through their university or alma mater, which in turn sponsors the candidate. ONIF facilitates this sponsorship.

Through ONIF, students can learn about fellowship opportunities available through governments, private donors, foundations, civic organizations, and corporations. We also offer strategic planning and advice for submitting a competitive application package.

The overarching mission of the LMU Study Abroad office is to transform our student participants by providing meaningful, culturally immersive, and academically sound experiences abroad.   In so doing, we strive for this transformation to take place in the following ways:

1. Evolving the self: develop skills of intercultural competency, self-reliance, and independence in our students through reflective, culturally immersive and intellectually rigorous programming overseas.
2. Engaging with the world: translate these skills into an understanding and constructive world-view that is employed by our students in an increasingly interconnected and diverse world.
3. Enhancing the community: contribute to the international dialogue of any present or future community of which our students are members by infusing new academic, social and cultural perspectives gained on study abroad.