Study Abroad

Studying abroad can be one of the most exciting learning experiences of your college education. There is no better time to travel, experience language, make friends from different countries, and be able to incorporate this as part of your education. Can you imagine living in France, taking the same business class you would be taking here at Keystone or, working with an environmental biologist in Costa Rica? If you are interested in the opportunity to experience another culture in some other part of the world, then study abroad.

"One's destination is never a place,
but a new way of seeing things." ~Henry Miller

Scholarship Opportunities

Boren Scholarship
Semester at Sea

Study Abroad Opportunities

Costa Rica
What better way to study Global Health, than to do it in Costa Rica!
Register in November, 2009 to study Global Health PBHL 301 in May, 2010.
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France - The History, Culture, & Business of Wine.
The CEA Global Campus in Paris is offering a new course for the Spring 2010 semester: Oenology: The History, Culture, & Business of Wine. This 300-level course is a survey of history, culture, and business of the French wine industry. You will gain first-hand knowledge and practical experience in the business, history, planting through harvesting and process of wine making. And you will be able to speak about wine, using a specific and technical terminology. The students will spend two days at the Independent Wine Growers Fair in Paris. Email Shirley Michaels for application information and for more details about the course, visit the CEA web site.

Experiencing the Arts in Italy - Art 305A
This is a new faculty-led course that will explore the arts with a focus on ceramics in two unique Italian clay studios and gain knowledge about Italy's culture and its influence on art, history and western civilization. The dates of the trip will be June 9-22, 2010 with class meetings during the spring semester. The students will spend 2 days in Rome, 5 days in Tuscany, and 5 days in Umbria. This course is offered as a spring 2010 course led by art instructor, Frank Goryl with a registration deadline of January 18, 2010. Other highlights include: the Vatican Museum, Florence, Italian Ceramic Artists, Wine tasting, and S. Gimignano. Students should complete the faculty-led student application under documents and forms before registering for the class. For more information, contact Shirley Michaels at ext. 8252 or Frank Goryl at fgoryl@echo.net.

Internship Opportunities

Research Internships in Science and Engineering (Rise Program)
RISE is a summer internship program for undergraduate students from the United States, Canada and the UK in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. It offers unique opportunities for undergraduate students to work with research groups at universities and top research institutions across Germany for a period of 1.5 to 3 months during the summer. RISE interns are matched with doctoral students whom they assist and who serve as their mentors. The working language will be English. All scholarship holders receive stipends from the DAAD to help cover living expenses, while partner universities and research institutes provide housing assistance.
Interested students should apply for a RISE internship through the DAAD. (Please see Shirley Michaels on how to apply.) The application period for undergraduate students from the US, who wish to take part in an internship during summer 2010, is: December 7, 2009 to January 31, 2010.

Nonprofit Internship in Indonesia - June 15-August 17, 2010
(Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta). A new Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program, funded by the Freeman Foundation, aims to develop student leadership and strengthen the nonprofit sector in Indonesia. IIE will select and pair Indonesian students pursuing U.S. degrees with U.S. undergraduates and arrange internships for them to work together for a summer at Indonesian nonprofit organizations. The costs covered are visa fees, round-trip transportation, room & board, local transportation, tuition & academic expenses and health and accident insurance. You must be a sophomore or junior in good standing. The application deadline is February 15, 2010 and more information is posted at IIE.