The ACM Chicago Program engages students academically, professionally, and personally with this dynamic city. The primary areas of emphasis in the program are Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Urban Studies – students have the opportunity to explore one of these topics in depth, or participate in classwork and projects across these disciplines. The program offers an innovative mix of academic work, including an internship, independent study project, common core course about the city of Chicago, and a variety of seminars focused on the arts and creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, and urban studies and social justice. Students are able to explore the vital issues facing cities and the people who live and work in them, while digging deeper to relate these issues to their personal lives, education, and career aspirations.

The spring ACM Costa Rica program has given students a privileged window onto these developments since the program’s founding in 1964. Based in San José, only blocks away from the Universidad de Costa Rica, the program takes full advantage of the resources and scholars of that institution, while reaching out to local and international NGOs and investigators throughout the country to facilitate student research in science and the humanities.

Experience London, Britain's cosmopolitan capital. Walk from the British Museum to the West End theaters. Experience the art, architecture, theater, and history of London. Explore Europe--London's location at the heart of Europe offers many opportunities for independent travel. Immerse yourself in this dynamic city of nearly eight million people. With 2,000 years of history and culture, London is also a modern center of commerce and politics, offering an array of rich experiences. Building on a quarter-century of academic excellence, AHA London offers courses in literature, politics, theater, history, and art history with an emphasis on experiential learning, supplemented by local outings and excursions. Internships are available for qualified students. Immerse yourself in the history, culture, and diversity of London.

The AHA program in Morelia appeals to students interested in a wide variety of careers working with bilingual and bicultural communities. Mexico is your classroom--an extensive excursion schedule, fieldwork, cultural activities, and homestays provide a holistic academic experience. AHA offers four summer sessions, the Language and Culture Program and an ESOL program, linking your sense of adventure to your educational endeavors. Qualified students may direct enroll in Universidad Latina de América courses or participate in internships or a TESOL Teaching Practicum. Discover the culture, history, and diversity of Mexico first-hand.

Explore Rosario, located 200 miles upriver from Buenos Aires. Discover its rich history influenced by European ancestry and its flavorful charm evident in the language, style, and cuisine. Classes take place in the Rosario Center, a beautiful, historic building in the heart of the city. Courses are excursion heavy. Experience Argentina beyond the pages of your textbooks.

Surrounded by soaring medieval towers and Gothic architecture, discover Siena--a Tuscan jewel seemingly untouched by the modern age. Stroll through the Piazza del Campo, one of Europe's most beautiful civic spaces. Visit the distinctive Duomo and its museum where you will see first-hand works of the Italian masters Duccio and Giotto. Enjoy convenient access to Florence, Pisa, Rome, Venice, and Milan. Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary Italy. The Siena program appeals to students from a variety of disciplines including literature, history, culture, and art history.

Open to quarter/trimester students. The program provides advanced language instruction while allowing students to choose from Spanish cultural electives. The Complutense University of Madrid operates on a quarter system and offers 120 contact hours per term. Each quarter, students complete a Spanish language course and three cultural electives. Students who successfully complete the Academic Year Hispanic Studies program receive the Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos.

This program consists of a 10 week internship opportunity combined with course work including a unique new course called The Dry Edge of Sydney Harbor which focuses on the urban identity and landscape of Australians. There is also a for-credit Social Justice focused opportunity which includes a seven day trip to Western Australia and time spent in Broome and Fitzroy Crossing with several indigenous communities and organizations.

The Beam Reach curriculum lets you practice science as you learn about critical marine and environmental issues. It's designed to let you experience the scientific process and intensive field work. The upcoming programs will focus on the southern resident orcas and our shared ecosystem. We emphasize the use of acoustic technologies to explore the underwater environment. We are expanding our passive listening capabilities and exploring active sonar and acoustic fish tagging. Your individual project in Marine Field Research can be completely unique or can build upon previous work by local scientists and past Beam Reach students.

Literature, theater, and the arts flourish in London. The city has a rich literary and cultural past and present and is arguably the pre-eminent world city for theater. The goal of the London program is to provide Carleton students an immersion experience in this rich milieu; to see and discuss a wide variety of the best performances on offer; and to make use of local museums and other sites to enrich their understanding of English literature and culture.

The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 represents a critical juncture in the long evolution of European political economic integration. The treaty transformed the institutions of the European Union (EU) and set its members on an accelerated pathway towards monetary integration. The Carleton College Political Science Seminar in Maastricht, The Netherlands provides students with an opportunity to research and reflect critically on the politics of European integration while they live and travel throughout Western and Southern Europe.

Each spring the French department sponsors a seminar in Paris. Classes are held in the heart of the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank. Students stay with carefully selected French families and discover Paris while immersing themselves in French life and language. Some options for independent accommodations may be available. Each program includes a one to two week excursion to another location in France or the francophone world. For example, in 2007 the program moved to Fes, Morocco for 10 days and in 2008, students discovered Provence, a region in southern France.

This program gives students the opportunity to study linguistics and experience Japanese culture with students at Doshisha University in Kyoto. It will also include excursions to Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kobe.

How do cultures and communities construct, preserve, re-purpose, and destroy spaces and places to achieve new political, social, or religious aims or to press new ambitions and sensibilities? How do urban and rural landscapes and sites come to play vital roles in the realization of political or religious ideas? How do cities as complex agglomerations of people, places, and activities develop and by what historical forces are they shaped? How do historical legacies shape and enable yet also constrain a city’s present? Centered in Rome, a city with one of the richest historical pasts in Europe, this program will provide students with diverse opportunities to explore these broader questions through the close examination of texts, images, sites and landscapes produced during Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond. A central purpose of the courses in the program is to have students experience and explore the city and environs in depth and to learn how to investigate this experiential knowledge with academic sources of insight and information. Each course will therefore have a significant number of site visits inside and outside Rome as well as assignments that require independent exploration.

The seminar examines the ways in which artists are using and inventing new technological tools to make art, and consider how technology and our communication environment has become a vital subject of commentary and critique by artists and critics. Many of the projects we will visit are installation or locative works best understood when engaged experientially, sometimes hands-on. Along the way, we will meet with a wide range of curators and critics who will help clarify our thinking and challenge our assumptions. While the seminar will be responsive to the rich mix of projects and aesthetics on display, we will be particularly attuned to studying the contemporary aesthetic of “cut ‘n paste” or “remix” culture.

All courses apply toward the Certificate of Advanced Study in Russian as well as the Russian major. The applicability of credit may differ for individual students depending on level and categories within the major and concentration to be fulfilled. You are advised to consult with the department. All students will register for 9 credits of language courses, which meet from six to nine periods per week and are taught by members of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. Students at all levels of Russian experience will also register for a spring break reading course prior to the seminar as well as for the “Russia East and West” course.

The program will be based in Peru's capital city. A city of 8,000,000, with extensive neighborhoods sprawling outside the traditional and business centers, Lima area has been the center of key cultural developments in the Americas since 5,000 years before the appearance of the Inca Empire, and later, together with Mexico, the center of Spanish dominion in colonial times. The program will also include two extended stays in the Northern coast (based in Trujillo) and Southern highlands (based in Cusco). Stays in Lima and in those areas (and shorter trips to other sites) will allow students to observe the differing sides and the contradictions and paradoxes of modernization in a "third-world" setting. The program's primary objective is to create conditions for the students to reflect on such reality and the cultural artifacts created by the peoples of Peru.

Guarded by majestic volcanoes and green hills honoring the natural beauty that exists throughout the nation’s terrain, San Jose is a city that takes pride in its rich traditions and democratic freedom. World class museums, parks, theaters, and historic buildings are only a few reasons this city is worth discovering. Study Spanish in Costa Rica as CEA offers various options for study abroad San Jose programs. Study abroad in San Jose.

If you are ready to live and learn in one of the most vibrant, captivating and culturally rich cities in the world; if you are excited about the prospect of learning Portuguese while taking university courses in English at a top-ranked local school; if you have had at least one year of college-level Spanish language studies, or one semester of Portuguese; if you have an overall GPA of 2.75, and are eager to be immersed in the rich and welcoming Brazilian culture and exposed to the Brazilian university system - then the new CIEE Language and Culture study abroad program in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - the marvelous city – is right for you.

The Business and Culture program at the Berlin School of Economics and Law helps prepare students for a career in business through balanced exposure to core concepts, important theories, case studies, and important communication and management techniques. In compliance with the CIEE Community Language Commitment a strong emphasis is placed on learning and use of the German language.

The Business and Tourism program in Palma de Mallorca is designed for students with an academic interest in studying business, tourism, and/or hospitality alongside Spanish students in a direct enrollment environment, with a global perspective, and the goal to develop management skills for future leadership in the tourism and hospitality industry. Students are offered the opportunity to participate in an internship and to be exposed to a professional tourism work atmosphere in a foreign environment where they can apply the business vocabulary and skills gained in class in real-life professional situations.

Founded in 1857 by French colonial settlers, Dakar is a vibrant modern city with an interesting veneer of colonial culture. It is home to the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), one of the finest institutions of higher learning in French-speaking West Africa. Nene teral ganam yi. Def be bu nene sa ker mum el kerem. Always receive a stranger like a brother. Make him feel at home in your house. (Wolof adage) The Senegalese refer to their country as the land of hospitality (Senegal rewu teraanga). Prior to departure for Dakar, the Baobab Center (African Consultants International) makes arrangements with Senegalese families with whom students live for the duration of their stay in Senegal. Former participants in the program have thoroughly enjoyed the warmth and hospitality of their host families. The Baobab Center (ACI) is a resource center that works with a number of American university programs in Senegal, providing language instruction in French and Wolof. It also organizes cultural orientation workshops designed to prepare participants for an understanding of Senegalese lifestyle and ease their integration into the society. Students attend classes at the center and can rely on its faculty to answer questions or concerns throughout their stay. Cultural activities Students take part in a variety of cultural excursions in Dakar and other cities and towns in Senegal, including an optional weekend village stay. In the past, students have made trips to Gorée (the historic slave fort), Saint-Louis (for the annual jazz festival), Touba (Senegalese Islamic Holy City), Toubab Dialaw, Lac Rose, and the Women’s Museum (Le museé des femmes), as well as a five-day trip to The Gambia. Program costs The program fees cover tuition, room, and board, including: * round-trip airfare * home stay * transportation from the airport to the home of the host family * all cultural excursions and hotel accommodations Participants are responsible for their passport fee, immunizations, and personal expenses (books, gifts, etc.)

Mahidol University International College (MUIC) was established to deliver English-taught degree programs that embody the finest standards possible to a diverse population of full-time students from Thailand and around the world. Programs in the social sciences, business, and tourism management stand alongside offerings in health and natural sciences. In addition to these, the College offers general education courses in foreign languages and humanities. The MUIC is located at Mahidol University’s Salaya campus on 500 acres of managed land, including parklands and sports facilities. Salaya is a thriving campus town and residential suburb of Bangkok. The center of Bangkok is only 20km from campus. Although most MUIC students are Thai, there are also students from over 40 different countries attending Mahidol University. This mix of students provides an opportunity to make friends and contacts in Asia and throughout the world that will last a lifetime.

APU offers a dual language education in Japanese and English, with most academic subjects given in both languages. This bilingual education system means no prior Japanese language experience is required for admission. APU’s international student body and teaching faculty are dedicated to fostering greater understanding of the Asia Pacific region among the peoples of the world, continuing to attract attention as the standard bearer of international education in Japan. APU’s campus is located on a hill with stunning views over the township of Beppu and its picturesque bay. Beppu, famous as Japan’s leading hot spring resort, is proud of its small-town atmosphere and tradition of hospitality to visitors and new residents from around the world.

ISA offers a diverse array of academic programs in Madrid for students at all levels of Spanish proficiency. Program participants will study at either the Complutense University of Madrid or Antonio de Nebrija University and may choose from summer, semester, trimester, or year sessions. Depending on language level, students will take courses from a wide variety of subject areas including Spanish language, history, literature, culture, art history, geography, business, political science, economics, and psychology. All courses in Madrid are taken with either international students or Spanish students and are taught by faculty from the host university.

ISA students will be engaged both culturally and academically while studying at Veritas University or the ULACIT (Latin American University of Science and Technology). For convenience, the ISA office is located on the university side of town. Students rave about the ISA staff and the program's success in helping them to achieve their study abroad and foreign language goals. At the ISA office, participants can check e-mail, obtain travel information, receive tutoring, and obtain details for upcoming ISA excursions. Participants find the San José study abroad program particularly rewarding due to the friendly locals (called Ticos) and numerous activities the city has to offer. Also an important highlight is San José's central location which makes it easy for touring beautiful Costa Rica.

By coming to SEA, you can get a semester’s credit for a 12-week program that takes place half on shore and half at sea. Our interdisciplinary program begins in Woods Hole, one of the world’s great centers for ocean research. Here you will study the chemistry, biology, physics, and geology of the oceans and you will design your own research project that you will carry out at sea. You will learn the history and culture of mariners who for centuries have gone to sea, an ancient tradition that you will join. You will discuss the major policy issues that will be tomorrow’s headlines. And you will learn what it requires to take a vessel under sail safely to the deep ocean and to international ports.