Vaqueros Programs Summer 2023
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Winter Programs
- Professors: Robert Bradley
- Start date: 1/2/23
- End date: 1/16/23
- Program Cost:
- Country: Peru
- City: Lima and Chiclayo
- Courses: ARTS 4352, ARTS 6354
- Program Description: CANCELLED
- Application Deadline:
Minimester Programs
- Professors: Michael Flores
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 5/27/2023
- Program Cost: $1,226.29 (excludes tuition, airfare ,and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Germany
- City: Leuphana University, Lüneburg
- Courses: MARK- 4370 Topics in Marketing - Study Abroad
- Program Description: This course is intended to introduce students to the many facets of living and working in a global marketplace. The format employed in this course is unique in that students are provided both a traditional classroom-like experience at Leuphana University, along with personal immersion into the German culture through excursions and field trips. This first-hand experience facilitates understanding of the global marketplace, cultural issues, and sustainability in international business.
- Application Deadline: Email professor to inquire about program spot availability.
- Professors: Upal Roy
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 5/21/2023
- Program Cost: $4,198 (excludes Tuition and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: London
- Courses: BMED 4440
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: (Application closed)
- Professors: Joo Jung
- Start date: 5/14/2023
- End date: 5/31/2023
- Program Cost: $686.75 (excludes tuition, airfare,and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: South Korea
- City: Seoul, Busan
- Courses: MGMT 4300 - SA Project Management in South Korea
- Program Description: We will discuss international business project management. Topics include various issues that international managers face including assessing global environment, cultural context, and strategy for global operation. Fundamental international management concepts are discussed while application of these concepts into the course project is the main objective of the course. We will discuss and compare doing business in the U.S. and South Korea. The course will include interfacing with Korean universities, companies and cultural
attractions. The opportunity to study business in Korea will help students to expand their perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of international business and economics. - Application Deadline: 01/31/2023 (Application closed)
- Professors: Joe Noe
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 6/2/2023
- Program Cost: $3,546.53 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Italy
- City: Florence
- Courses: ENGL 3344 Advanced Composition
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: 01/31/2023 (Application closed)
- Professors: Elena Macias
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 6/1/2023
- Program Cost: $3,911.38 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Italy
- City: Florence and Rome
- Courses: ARTS 4391-SA
- Program Description: To explore exhibitions in a variety of museums and gain museum curatorial, art conservation, and restoration insights. Practice and learning Caravaggio’s drawing and painting technique. Interpret museum objects using a theoretical framework. Articulate a definition of art conservation and restoration and their significance to museums.
- Application Deadline: 01/31/2023 (Application closed)
- Professors: Mijin Oh-Villarreal
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 6/2/2023
- Program Cost: $653 (excludes accommodations, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: South Korea
- City: Seoul, Suwon, Kyeongju
- Courses: FORL 3311 - Conversational Korean
- Program Description: Study abroad in Korea is a learning activity that will significantly improve the encapsulation of the Korean language based on the Flip Learning method. The goal of this study abroad program will not only focus on the grammar, vocabulary, and textual organizations of the Korean language but will also enhance the sociolinguistic understanding of traditional and contemporary cultures of Korea.
- Application Deadline:01/31/2023 (Application closed)
- Professors: Timothy Wylie
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 6/2/2023
- Program Cost: $2,927.26 (excludes airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: London
- Courses: CSCI 4341 - History of Computing
- Program Description: This special topics course is designed to be taught over two weeks as a minimester course on location in London, England. This is a three-hour credit class that is focused on the history of Computer Science and builds up knowledge through readings, experience, and activities.
- Application Deadline:01/31/2023 (Application closed)
- Professors: Ping Xu
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 5/28/2023
- Program Cost: $5,901.80 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: London, Oxford, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, York
- Courses: ARTS - 4388, ARTS 4338
- Program Description: This course explores narrative and interactivity to create a story through digital media with the topics of European art history and design cultures. Students will create a digital travel journal via digital photographs, pamphlets, and videos. The topics of the course projects could be focused on one or more of the following aspects.
- Application Deadline: Application still open (While spots are available)
- Professors: Ruth Crutchfield
- Start date: 5/17/2023
- End date: 5/31/2023
- Program Cost: $3,408.91 (excludes tuition, airfare, and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Ireland
- City: Dublin
- Courses: COMD 6370
- Program Description: Speech language pathology is a diverse field that encompasses assessment and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The purpose of this course is to increase student exposure to the essential diversity that exists in varying culturally populations. This same exposure will increase professionalism within the student in that they will increase their knowledge by engaging in cross cultural immersion. Students will be reading, observing, reflection, discussing and experiencing cross-cultural communication concepts via instructor led activities.
- Application Deadline: CANCELLED
- Professors: Marianita Escamilla
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 6/2/2023
- Program Cost:
- Country: United Kingdom
- City:
- Courses: ENGL 4359
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: CANCELLED
- Professors: Eluterio Blanco
- Start date: 5/15/2023
- End date: 6/2/2023
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- Country: USA
- City: Boston, Hardford
- Courses: REHS 4350
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: CANCELLED
Summer 1 Programs
- Professors: Sarah Rowe
- Start date: 6/17/2023
- End date: 7/22/2023
- Program Cost: $2,368.44 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Ecuador
- City: Dos Mangas, Guayaquil, Santa Elena, Puerto Lopez
- Courses: ANTH 4385: Special Topics in Anthropology (Ecuadorian Archaeology), ANTH 6385: Special Topics in Anthropology (Ecuadorian Archaeology), Fieldwork in Anthropology - ANTH 4395-SA
- Program Description: This program will be conducted in Ecuador. Students will be residing in Ecuador with the instructor of record, engaged in archaeological research at the Valdivia site of Buen Suceso.
- Application Deadline: Application still open (While spots are available)
- Professors: Alexis Racelis
- Start date: 6/08/2023
- End date: 6/23/2023
- Program Cost: $1,916.99(excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Costa Rica
- City:
- Courses: EEMS 6305/ENVR 3305
- Program Description:
EEMS 6305/ENVR 3305: This course provides an overview of sustainable agriculture. The course looks at the sustainability of food production at multiple levels: farm resources, community, regional, national, and global. Students will gain basic understanding of the environmental and social consequences of conventional agriculture and understand the challenges to alternative forms of sustainable agriculture.
- Application Deadline: Application still open (While spots are available)
- Professors: Thomas Pearson, Brian Warren
- Start date: 6/5/2023
- End date: 6/26/2023
- Program Cost: $4,600 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Scotland
- City: Edinburgh
- Courses: PHIL 1332, THTF 4317
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: Application Closed
- Professors: Hafthor Erlingsson
- Start date: 6/12/2023
- End date: 6/30/2023
- Program Cost: $1,915.95 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Iceland
- City: Reykjavik
- Courses: POLS 4361
- Program Description: In this program, we will survey selected current political, social, and economic issues relating to the welfare state and inequality. The focus of the course will be on understanding and analyzing the rise of the welfare state and political conflict over inequality, economic stagnation, and the role of government in advanced industrial societies. In the course, we will compare the history of the welfare state in the United States, Iceland, and other advanced industrial societies. We will also compatively examine various current policies and programs relating to the welfare system and inequality.
- Application Deadline: Cancelled
- Professors: Giorgio Gotti
- Start date: 6/5/23
- End date: 6/14/23
- Program Cost: $2,529.07 (excludes tuition,airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Italy
- City: Venice
- Courses: ACCT 4348 Special Topics in Accounting, ACCT 6385 Global Accounting Regulation
- Program Description: The course aims at providing students with an in-depth knowledge of some of the most important management tools from a long-term value creation perspective. In particular, we will focus on the context of family firms. We will go beyond the mainstream approach to accounting and governance in order to enhance new tools and stimulate critical thinking.
- Application Deadline: CANCELLED
Summer 2 Programs
- Professors: Caroline Miles and Gregory Gilson
- Start date: 7/11/2023
- End date: 7/31/2023
- Program Cost: $3,985 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: United Kingdom
- City: Bath, London
- Courses: ENGL 6310, PHIL 1366, PHIL 3317, ENGL 4300, ENGL 2341
- Program Description:
ENGL 2341/4300: As a study abroad program, a large part of this course is about the study abroad experience-being in Britain during an especially politically charged time with Brexit and the other uncertainties related to immigration, economics,and Britain's future, exploring, learning in an experimental context, and critically thinking about the texts as it relates to the city of London and rural England.
PHIL 1366/3317: In this program, we pay special attention to medieval universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the scientific revolution that occurred when these universities interacted with Royal Society of London. Another major focus of the course will be the Victorian Darwinism and the later discovery of the DNA molecule by Watson and Crick.
- Application Deadline: Applications open while spots are available*
- Professors: Robert Bradley, Mark Andersen
- Start date: 7/24/2023
- End date: 8/13/2023
- Program Cost: $3,635.80(excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Peru
- City: Cuzco, Lima
- Courses: HONR 4388, BIO 6398,ARTS 6354, ARTS 4352
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: Applications open while spots are available*
- Professors: Jeffrey Morrisey
- Start date: 7/16/23
- End date: 8/5/23
- Program Cost: $4,457.82 (excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Greece
- City: Athens, Attica, Heraklion, Crete
- Courses: PHIL 4304
- Program Description: Ancient Greece, and ancient Athens in particular, is characteristically presented as the birthplace of Western culture. There is good reason for the characterization; Ancient Greek culture was revolutionary, giving rise not only to great political and scientific innovations, like the invention of democracy and the development of historiography and the
articulation of logic, but also to drama and some of the most naturalistic and moving sculpture ever seen. In this course, we will draw especially on the work of two of the most important philosophers ever, Plato and Aristotle, to orient ourselves toward the study of these things. And most excitingly, we will do so in Greece! There we will engage with the landscape, architecture, statuary, and various artifacts of the Ancient Greeks to better appreciate their worldview and some of the distinctive contributions they made to human culture! - Application Deadline: Application Closed
- Professors: Thomas Pearson, Jorge Vidal, Cristina Villalobos, Edna Orozco
- Start date: 7/13/23
- End date: 8/3/23
- Program Cost: $4,544.49(excludes tuition, airfare and some meals, & miscellaneous expenses)
- Country: Czech Republic
- City: Prague
- Courses: PHIL 2326, FINA 3380, MATH 2413,MANE 3364
- Program Description:
- Application Deadline: Cancelled