Study tours leaving the U.S. in spring 2023
Have you ever wanted to study your British literature class in the libraries of London instead of in your dorm room? Perhaps you have fantasized about spending time snorkeling in Central America during class. Or for our campus lovebirds, maybe you would love to take your special other out to an English coffee shop on your days off from classes instead of the Mill. Such daydreams are not impossible. Two international study tours leave the plains of Nebraska this spring after classes are let out for incredible adventures overseas. These tours will be led by professors including Seth Pierce, Lori Peckham, Bruce Forbes and Benjamin Tyner.
The U.K. tour is religion and history focused with an additional option to travel to Scotland. Participants will earn six credits in religion and history, which can apply to their general education requirements, and visit iconic places like Big Ben, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Bodleian Library, Oxford and more.While the U.K. trip is very historical in visiting libraries and castles, students opting for the Central American tour have the chance to be more active and adventurous with backpacking, cliff jumping and more. This tour has an exciting itinerary including traveling to Monte Verde, a national park where they will zipline through the “cloud forest.” The group will explore the jungle, snorkel in Panama, go rafting and caving and more. Students will be able to take six credits worth of courses in photography, literature and science, also fulfilling general education requirements.
Lori Peckham, a communication professor, is excited for the opportunities these trips will bring students. “We’re going to have some real adventures,” she said. “I am looking forward to traveling with students and looking at how they see the world differently as a result of being in a new place. We will do travel journals, and that’s the focus of travel literature, as so many people wrote about going to other places … the British would go to India, or Africa or Egypt…. When we get outside of our normal environment, [where] everything looks familiar, … our eyes are opened and we get more creative.”
If you are interested in traveling internationally in these study tours, be sure to contact the respective departments facilitating them soon. Even if they are already filled, like the U.K. tour, there is always a chance that you may be able to squeeze in if someone backs out. Regardless of which tour you join, there is learning, experiences and more waiting across the seas.
By: Charles Metz