Each semester Academy for Global Exploration spends approximately seven weeks visiting a different international destination, providing students the opportunity to engage in genuine cultural immersion while learning from and about other cultures. Trips are designed so students familiarize themselves with, and participate in, the local community and culture. Home-stays, cultural events, school visitations, and community service projects are incorporated into each semester's curriculum and itinerary.

While on expedition, students and faculty travel together, and the normal academic schedule is maintained. In addition to a rigorous high school curriculum, each semester all AGE students are enrolled in Cultural Studies class. Co-taught by all AGE faculty members as well as the students, the curriculum for the class is dynamic, engaging, and relevant to each of our travel destinations. The goals of the class are to inspire meaningful cultural interactions by ensuring that all students are informed cultural observers and travelers, fostering an intellectual community among teachers and students where true experiential learning can take place. The course content is a blend of process-oriented and country-specific topic lessons.