Carleton students experience other cultures in many different ways.  They make life-long friends with homestay families and other participants on off-campus programs.  Many expand their off-campus studies field research into senior comps projects when they return to campus.  Others reframe their experiences as summer grant proposals and extend their intercultural learning with follow-on research projects.  These 25 photographs, selected from over 160 entries in the annual OCS Photo Contest, capture the sights, colors, textures, and character of students’ off-campus journeys. 

In 2010-11 403 students studied off campus on 119 different programs in 43 different countries.  Others volunteered, worked as interns, and conducted independent research in numerous domestic and international locations.  In addition, 14 Carleton faculty led or taught on off-campus studies programs.