Welcome to the Greenfield Intercultural Center!

The mission of the Albert M. Greenfield Intercultural Center (GIC) is to serve as Penn's resource for enhancing student's intercultural knowledge, competency, and leadership. We do this through courses for credit, signature intercultural programs, and other services related to diversity and intercultural education. ​The center also works closely to advise and support student organizations interested in planning campus wide intercultural activities. We are also available to assist in designing and implementing workshops on diversity issues for student organizations and administrative offices on campus. 

STUDENT 
​LEADERSHIP

The United Minorities Council (UMC)
Facilitates interculturalism and promotes social justice at Penn.

Penn First
Advocates for students who identify as first-generation and/or highly aided college students.

Natives at Penn (NAP)
Increases awareness of contemporary Indig­enous issues, collaborates with the All-Ivy Native Council, assists with student recruitment and hosts with local Lenape tribe Penn’s Annual Powwow.
 
Fellowships for Building Intercultural Communities (FBIC)
Develops and trains a network of student leaders who serve as facilitators for intercultural dialogues on campus.

IMMERSIVE
PROGRAMMING

​First-Generation, Lower-Income (FGLI) Program
Provides support for highly aided and/or first-generation students.
 
Alliance for Understanding (AU)
Explores the Civil Rights movement through an intercultural dialogue between Black and Jewish students as well as any student interested in movement history and social justice.
 
Intercultural Leadership Program (ILP)
The only program at Penn to bring both incoming undergraduate and graduate students together to explore cross-cultural communication and creates an intercultural leadership network.

EXPERIENTIAL
COURSES 

​Programs for Awareness in Cultural Education (PACE) [EDUC 566]
Explores intersectionality around diversity.
 
Teaching Performance Art for Cross-Cultural Education (TPACE) [EDUC 539]
Uses theatre and the arts to explore diversity.
 
Experiential Learning Design for Intercultural Communication (ELD) [EDUC 593]
Learn and practice training design and facilitation using the principles of experiential learning.
 
iBelieve [EDUC 598]
Explores spiritual development and interfaith dialogue.
 
Arab Music Ensemble [MUSC007]
Teaches students to perform classical Arab compositions