Study and Travel Abroad

Students routinely report that international experiences during college were the most valuable and transformative of their lives.

These are times of growth and change in many areas: academic, professional, personal and intercultural. Students report that studying, traveling or working abroad provided them with increased problem-solving skills, improved foreign language proficiency, and led to new professional contacts, more independence, an enhanced awareness and appreciation of their home culture and a stronger interest in and appreciation for other cultures. In all of these ways, study and travel abroad reflect all of the key elements of experiential learning at its best.

The university's Office of International Education (OIE) works with undergraduate students to develop goals and learning objectives for study and travel abroad, to identify programs that align with student interests and needs, to develop detailed plans for study or travel abroad and to prepare students for the experience of living, studying, traveling or working abroad.

To learn more, meet with one of the Study Abroad Advisors in the university’s Office of International Education, as well as your advisors within Dietrich College.

Study Abroad for Humanities and Social Sciences Students

In addition to the numerous programs listed in OIE's Study Abroad Portal, you may want to consider one of these programs unique to Dietrich College:

• The English Department's Mediated Narrative Course, which takes place during spring break.
• The Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics (LCAL)'s Study Abroad in China, Costa Rica, Germany, Heidelberg, Jordan, Nantes or Spain
• Information Systems' Technology Consulting in the Global Community program. 
• The Department of Statistics & Data Science, in partnership with the Department of Languages, Culture & Applied Linguistics offers a program to take a statistics class, a Spanish class and engage in an internship or community engagement project in Monteverde, Costa Rica.