Past International Spring Term Trips
- Biology Professor Dave Clark took students to Jamaica, where they used observational and experimental techniques to study lizard species and their social organization.
- Students in Peggy Thelen’s education course spent the term exploring the culture and educational system of Argentina.
- History Professor Patrick Furlong’s London Seminar gave students an opportunity to do research at the British National Archives.
- Professor Melvin Nyman and Assistant Professor Mark Oemke took students on an adventure in New Zealand.
- Renaissance History and English Literature students examined “Italy in England” by visiting Stratford, Ontario, for the Shakespeare Festival to view “Romeo and Juliet” and “The Taming of the Shrew,” two of the many English dramas set in Italy.
- History Professor Liping Bu offered a Spring Term trip to China. Students saw first-hand the economic developments and social changes taking place in China and visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and other important cultural sites.
- Psychology Associate Professor Marc Setterlund took students to Vienna, Munich, Leipzig and Berlin to gain a greater appreciation of the sources of American psychology.
- English Professor Ute Stargardt lead students on a tour of England for a study of medieval literature, with visits to museums, galleries and castles.
- Students in Britt Cartrite’s political science class visited Scotland to explore Scottish identity through its literary and political expressions.
- Myles McNally and Mark Seals took students to Ecuador to study Spanish culture and engage in specialized learning activities, such as classroom teaching, hospital observation and biology studies in a cloud forest.
- Ed Lorenz and students traveled to the U.S.-Mexican border region to compare environmental health policy in the two NAFTA countries.
