Previous Global Programs

The Troubles: Partition, Sectarianism and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Faculty Leader: Paul Blaney (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), SAS Honors Program

Travel Dates: Friday, March 11, 2022 - Sunday, March 20, 2022

Class Meeting Times:TBA

Program Cost: $1,180

Course Number: 01:090:297:H1, 3 credits and Study Abroad 1-credit (Honors Students will receive a total of 4 credits).

As part of a three-credit seminar on Northern Ireland, students will travel to Belfast over spring break 2020. In the course of seven days, they will get to know the city of Belfast as well as visiting (London) Derry, the Giant's Causeway, and the Titanic Museum. The overarching aim of the trip is to fit Northern Irish history, politics and identity into a living context.

This trip is part of an Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar "The Troubles: Partition, Sectarianism, Peace and Reconciliation in Norther Ireland”. Students will register for this 3-credit course and add a 1-credit study abroad experience.

You can find the Spring 2020 syllabus here. 

For a complete itinerary click here. 

* There are 15 available spaces.

APPLY HERE by Dec.1, 2021.

Spring Break in Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Faculty Leader: Julio Nazario (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), SAS Honors Program

Travel Dates: March 15, 2019 - March 22, 2019

Class Meeting Times: TBA, 35 College Avenue Room 102, College Avenue Campus

Course Number: 01:090:230:H1, 1 credit

Program Cost: $1760

The field experience will take students to visit ancient ruins, swimming in underground lakes, hiking a rainforest, sleeping in cities, and meeting with local people in the Yucatán peninsula. Learn applications of history, archaeology, anthropology, and ecological science from local guides. Students will visit Mayan sites such as Chichen Itza and Izamal, key Spanish colonial cities including Mérida, mangroves, and the Kaxil Kiuic Ecological Reserve in the jungle outside Mérida. Be prepared to climb pyramids, eat like a local, and snorkel in tropical seas.

Readings: Posted on Sakai

Film Screening: Cracking the Maya Code - NOVA (2008)

Requirements: Participation in the eight day field experience to the Yucatán. Three short response (250 words) one on Mayan site, one on a colonial city, one on ecological preserve. A final group presentation on the ideas encountered in the readings, film and field experience.

* There are 14 available spaces, so apply now with this link!

Students accepted to the program will receive a special permission number to enroll in 01:090:230:01 (1 credit field experience).

Medieval Cluny, Christendom & Islam

Faculty Leader: Stephen Reinert (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), History

Travel Dates: May 20, 2019 - June 1, 2019

Class Meeting Times: Thursday 11:30AM-2:30PM 

Program Cost: $1450 (includes room, limited meals, tours).

Course Number: 01:959:192, 1 credit, 01:090:297:02, 3 credits

In connection with the spring course "Medieval Cluny, Christendom and Islam"  (01:090:297:02) Professor Stephen Reinert (History) will lead 15 students on a 10-day global field experience in Cluny and Paris, France. For the Field Trip syllabus, which is a 1 credit course, review readings will draw back into the semester repository of resources, with additions pertaining to cultural heritage preservation.

Students accepted to the program will receive a special permission number to enroll in the 1 credit field experience.

Click here to apply!

Dominican Transnational Cultures

Faculty Leader: Carlos Decena (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) - SAS Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies (LCS)

Travel Dates: January 4, 2019-January 13, 2019

Class Meeting Times: Monday, 1:40pm-4:40pm, LSH A215, Livingston Campus

Program Cost: $1390

Course Number: 01:090:295:01, 3 credits, 1 credit for Study Abroad. (Honors Students will receive a total of 4 credits).

This course is tied to the Interdisciplinary Seminar Dominican Transnational Cultures (01:090:295:01). This is a reading-intensive seminar that investigates the ways in which transnationalism in the Dominican case (and that of many Latin American countries) goes as far back as the moment of “first encounter” with Europeans in the 15th century. Students will become familiar with texts ranging from recent novels and articles to some of the first writings done by European priests and travelers in the Americas. The juxtaposition of materials will be further enriched by a focus on the Spanish part of the island of Hispaniola as point of arrival and departure of a myriad of racial/ethnic groups, though a special emphasis will be placed the importance that Haitian presence has had historically and demographically in Dominicans’ evolving project of national identity. In this way, students will come to appreciate the various ways in which the present “transnational moment” in Dominican life in the country and elsewhere has been shaped by historical events and evolving negotiations.

* Students must be enrolled in the SAS Honors Seminar "Dominican Transnational Cultures" 01:090:295:01 in order to be enrolled in the one-credit field experience.

* There are 15 available spaces. Rolling admission. Click here to apply through the Center for Global Education.

Students accepted to the program will receive special permission numbers to enroll in the 1 credit field experience AND 01:090:295:01 (3 credit honors seminar).