Summer 2024 Faculty-led Experiences
Honors College students have several amazing international opportunities for faculty-led study abroad experiences in summer 2023.
Faculty-Led Ireland: Contemporary Poetry
Application Deadline: February 1st
Program Dates: May 13 – 29, 2024
Credits: English 109 (satisfies the [HUM] UCORE requirement); Honors 380 or Honors 430.
Faculty member: Colin Criss and Cameron McGill
Price: $8800 (one of the cheapest faculty-led study abroad trips!) including flights, WSU credits, and the cost of the trip. Some scholarships may be available!
Come to Ireland with us! We’ll travel around the southern half of the country, visiting Dublin, Galway, Connemara, Clare, Kerry, Cork, and Wicklow (phew!). Along the way, we’ll meet with a lot of living poets (and a couple dead ones) in places that are meaningful to them (or where they’re buried)—they’ll read some of their poems (or we’ll read them to their graves), and we’ll talk about what the implications of writing poems in Ireland is today. Ireland has long histories of colonization, art, activism, landscape, music, environmentalism, and nationalism… poetry is at the intersection of all of these!
This is a great way to be introduced to the culture and landscape of Ireland.
The course you’ll take (3 credits) will be a creative writing course, where you’ll be introduced to poetry writing.
Contact Colin Criss
colin.criss@wsu.edu
Study Abroad in Ireland – Summer 2024
Program Dates: May 6 – 22, 2024
Credits: Earn 3 credits of HNRS 370 or SOE 312
Faculty member: Matthew Carroll
Application Deadline: February 1 (Commit deadline Feb. 8th)
Exploring the History, Culture and Environment of Ireland.
This 16-day Study Abroad opportunity in Ireland sponsored by SOE and the Honors College is open to all WSU students (no matter their major). The program is entitled. The program is led by Profs Matt Carroll and Kara Whitman from SOE and the Honors College.
Students will visit 4 locations in Ireland and will hear from and spend time with a wide variety of Irish people with a range of backgrounds and expertise and very interesting stories to share about various aspects of Irish life and environment, past and present .
We urge students who are seriously interested to start the application ASAP. Space is limited, there is no cost or obligation until February. Starting an application will provide a place in the application que.
View trip details here.
Watch this six minute video briefly describing the trip
For more information contact the Study Abroad office, contact Matt carroll@wsu.edu or Kara kmwhitman@wsu.edu
Contact Professor Matthew Carroll
(509) 335-2235
carroll@wsu.edu
Kara Whitman
Project Coordinator
(509)-335-7846
kmwhitman@wsu.edu
Faculty-led trip to Peru – Summer 2024
Contact Richard Elgar for more Information
relgar@wsu.edu.
Land of the Incas, and home to one of the Modern Seven Wonders of the World, Peru is an exhilarating and beautiful country with a fascinating history.
Join this faculty-led trip to experience for yourself the wonder of Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Learn about its rich and complicated story. Discover some of the most amazing food in the world. Marvel at the mysterious Nazca Lines in the desert that can only be seen from the air.
Tarvagatai Valley Project 2024 (Not Faculty Led)
Application Deadline: February 1st
Program Dates: June 8 – 29 and 29 – July 19
See flyer to the right for details.
Contact: Aspen at ang206@pitt.edu or Emily at eme48@pitt.edu