How can we best internationalize undergraduate psychology education in the United States and elsewhere? This question is more timely than ever, for at least 2 reasons: Within the United States, educators and students seek greater contact with psychology programs abroad, and outside the United States, psychology is growing apace, with educators and students in other nations often looking to U.S. curricula and practices as models. In this article, we outline international developments in undergraduate psychology education both in the United States and abroad, and analyze the dramatic rise of online courses and Internet-based technologies from an instructional and international point of view. Building on the recommendations of the 2005 APA Working Group on Internationalizing the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum, we then advance 14 recommendations on internationalizing undergraduate psychology education--for students, faculty, and institutions.

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Narratives appear to be effective in increasing affective elements in students' technical/informational responses and may have a place and be of value in undergraduate CSD curriculum.

The twenty-first century has witnessed a widespread call for internationalizing postsecondary psychology education. The authors discuss the rationale for recent efforts to enrich psychological contents, methods, and practices by internationalizing the teaching of psychology. They present aims and results of an online survey on how psychology instructors, primarily in the United States, can make psychology education more international. They also discuss strategies to incorporate international psychology perspectives in such aspects of teaching as lectures, classroom activities, assignments, and the use of Internet-based technologies. They describe the aims of a second online survey that compares European and US faculty perspectives on internationalization in psychology. Future research should empirically explore the effectiveness of instructional strategies and assess specifically defined learning outcomes of an internationalized psychology education.

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