Students Abroad - Short-Term Trips Abroad

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Opportunities

• Students Abroad Opportunities for Spring, Fall and Summer are now available -- Space is limited!  Get information on dates, payment deadlines, and more.

Supplemental Information

• Student Remarks About Previous Trips
• Frequently Asked Questions

Forms

• Checklist (PDF)
• Rooming Information Form (PDF)
• Student Responsibilities Form (PDF)

Academic travel and study abroad expose and enrich students in the emerging global community and the cultures' arts, politics, and peoples of the world. The world becomes a classroom.

The Oglethorpe University Students Abroad program integrates classroom lectures with the first-hand experience of travel and living in other countries. Oglethorpe provides a framework and format for the introduction to and discovery of different countries and the opportunity to earn credit and learn while traveling with OU professors.

Oglethorpe University Students Abroad sponsors and directs not only our traditional student exchange component, but also creates and manages highly popular short-term trips during the semester breaks and the summers.

Our program offers trips to destinations like Italy, Greece, Spain, England, France, Germany, Asia, and Central and South America. The trips are usually announced months in advance of departure, and each trip can be taken for academic credit. The professor guiding the trip determines the course content, and the students upon return to Oglethorpe work independently on a project and paper under the professor's supervision.

Students travel with their fellow students and friends, stay in excellent hotels, tour archaeological sites, museums, and monuments in every city visited. In addition, students will also have the opportunity to attend plays, musicals, and special events while abroad.

These well-planned, insightful trips offer unique opportunities for students who desire to see the world and experience it directly, earn credit while doing so, gain an introduction to the language, food, and customs of other cultures, and invest in their own intellectual and aesthetic development.

Students who qualify can also use financial aid for these trips.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Jeffrey Collins, Director of International Programs, Library 2nd Floor, 404.504.3452 (office phone), e-mail jcollins@oglethorpe.edu, or jeffrey.collins@comcast.net