Summer Study Abroad Programs
Each summer a variety of study abroad programs are offered by College of Charleston faculty. Students pay tuition and a program fee that covers international round-trip airfare, room and board, some meals, and co-curricular activities. Learn which program is right for you. Email Julie Swigert for counseling.
In order to apply, please click here and fill out our application. The program deposit will be posted to the student's MyCharleston account once the application is submitted to and approved by CIE.
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Abroad Programs
| GREECE | MOROCCO | ||
| INDIA | PANAMA | ||
| FRANCE | INDONESIA | RUSSIA | |
| GERMANY | ITALY | SPAIN |
Multidestination
Austria, Germany, Italy
Faculty Directors: Dr. Celeste LaCroix, Department of Communication and Dr. Alison Smith, Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies
Dates: May 21, 2012- June 22, 2012
Courses Offered: Communication and Women and Gender Studies (COMM 221: Intercultural Communication AND WGST 300: Gender Issues in the European Union)
Deadline: February 20, 2012
Description: Participants in this program will spend a month living and studying in Florence, Italy; Munich, Germany; and Salzburg, Austria.
Cambodia and Thailand
Faculty Directors: Dr. Helen Delfeld, Department of Political Science and Dr. Jen Cole Wright, Department of Psychology
Dates: May 31, 2012- June 28, 2012
Courses Offered: Political Science and/or Psychology (POLS 339/PSYC 410: Poor Peoples' Movement AND POLS 379/PSYC 410: Emerging from Violence)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This program will explore how histories of violence become incorporated into people's individual and collective cultural narratives as well as exploring the various levels at which these cultures make better lives for themselves and their children through individual and community efforts, governmental program, and foreign influence particularly the UN and NGOs.
England and France
Faculty Directors: Dr. Ralph Muldrow, Department of Art History
Dates: June 15, 2012 - July 2, 2012
Courses Offered: Art History (ARTH 340: Art, Architecture and Preservation in London and Paris AND ARTH 340: Urbanism in London and Paris)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This program will explore some of the most significant works in the areas of Architecture, Urban Design, Preservation and Art both in London and Paris and their environs.
Barbados 
Barbados
Faculty Directors: Roneka Matheny, Department of African-American Studies and Dr. Robert Chase, Avery Research Center
Dates: May 21, 2012 - June 8, 2012
Courses Offered: African-American History (AAST 300: Barbados & the Black Atlantic AND AAST 300: Caribbean Social Movements & Immigration)
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Description: This program will allow students to experience and visualize the connections between people of African descent in the U.S. and in the Caribbean. It will visit various historical sites in both Charleston and Barbados and encourage students to compare and contrast the experiences.
British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Faculty Directors: Dr. Erik Sotka, Department of Biology and Rusty Day, Grice Marine Lab and NIST
Dates: Summer II
Courses Offered: Field Studies in Coral Reef Biology (BIOL 250 and Lab OR BIOL 453 and Lab)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This program allows students to study the biology, ecology, and conservation of the Caribbean coral reef ecosystem. This program is offered in partnership with the Marine Science and Nautical Training Academy (MANTA).
China
China
Faculty Directors: Dr. Yu Henry Xie, School of Business and Dr. Guoli Liu, Department of Political Science
Dates: June 1, 2012 - June 18, 2012
Courses Offered: Political Science/Asian Studies and International Business (POLS 339/ASST340: China and the US AND INTB 360: Doing Business in China)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This program is a multidisciplinary introduction to China in comparison to the United States. This program will examine the most significant cultural, political, and business environments, such as market transition, in contemporary China.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Faculty Directors: Dr. Marvin Gonzalez, School of Business and Dr. Gioconda Quesada, School of Business
Dates: July - August, 2012
Courses Offered: Business (TRAN 360: Doing Business in Costa Rica AND MKTG 360: Sustainability Issues in Costa Rica)
Description:The TRANS 360: Doing Business in Costa Rica course will introduce students to the cultural, legal, and business environments in Costa Rica. The MKTG 360: Sustainability Issues in Costa Rica course will provide students with knowledge on how sustainability is managed in Costa Rican businesses. Both courses are hands-on and require interaction with the local culture. Visits to companies, such as Boston Scientific, Intel, Cafe Britt, Finca Don Carlos, Dos Pinos, Port of Charleston, and the Institute of Technology of Costa Rica, are part of the program.
Ecuador
Ecuador
Faculty Director: Dr. William Veal, School of Education
Dates: May 12, 2012 - June 3, 2012
Courses Offered: Education (EDEE 580/699: Special Topics in Education: Cross-Cultural and Comparative Education)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: Participants, both undergraduate and graduate,w ill take a mandatory international education and culture course (EDEE 580/699) which will include a service learning component. This program is a unique opportunity for education students to apply book knowledge, theory, and personal experiences with students and school types in a different cultural setting.
France
Paris
Faculty Director: Dr. Martine Hiers, Department of French and Francophone Studies and Dr. Viviane Bekrou, Department of French and Francophone Studies
Dates: June 3, 2012 - June 26, 2012
Courses Offered: French language, literature and culture (FREN 313 or FREN 314: French Conversation/Composition, FREN 370: Studies in French Film and Literature, OR FREN 390: Special Topics: A History of Paris and its Architecture)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This program provides students an opportunity to study upper level French in Paris, France for three weeks. The daily schedule while in Paris includes classes as well as vists to museums, sites, and other monuments inside and outside of Paris.
Germany
Germany Internship
Faculty Director: Mr. Stephen Della Lana, Department of German and Slavic Studies
Dates: May - August 2012
Courses Offered: German language and studies (GRMN 320 and GRMN 3XX)
Deadline: December 1, 2011
Description: This program offers students the opportunity to obtain an internship in a variety of professional fields, including, but not limited to, business, general administration, production, computer science and engineering, all while improving your German language skills.
Germany Neuroscience
Faculty Directors: Dr. Michael Ruscio, Department of Psychology and Dr. Chris Korey, Department of Biology
Dates: May 26, 2012 - June 23, 2012
Courses Offered: Neuroscience (BIOL 336/PSYC446: Neuroscience Seminar in Germany)
Deadline: February 24, 2012
Description: This program is designed to enlighten students regarding the international nature of neuroscience research and the vast research opportunities and collaborations that are possible in today's scientific community. It will also expose students to neuroscience research and training conducted by the consortium of the German Schools of Neuroscience (GSN) through an intensive four week neuroscience seminar experience.
Greece
Greece
Faculty Directors: Dr. Frank Morris, Department of Classics
Dates: May 14, 2012 - June 11, 2012
Courses Offered: Classics (CLAS 121: Classical Greece AND CLAS 122: Bronze Age Greece)
Deadline: February 6, 2012
Description: The courses for this program apply to the major and minor in Classics and to the general education requirement in Humanities at the College of Charleston. The program includes visits to the principal archaeological sites of Athens, and the itinerary includes sites in Egina, Corinth, Nemea, Argos, Epidauros, Lerna, Tiryns, Myceanae, Dendri, Pylos, Bassae, Olympia, and others (full listing on the program flyer).
India
India Art History and Asian Studies
Faculty Directors: Dr. MaryBeth Heston, Department of Art History and Dr. Malte Pehl, Department of International and Intercultural Studies
Dates: July 12, 2012 - July 31, 2012
Courses Offered: Art History and Asian Studies (ARTH 240: Architecture and Identity in India: Delhi, Agra, and Mathura 1300 to Present AND ASST 240: Politics, Culture and Social Change in India)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This study abroad program in India will introduce students to the multicultural nature of India's society, history, architecture and politics.
India Geology
Faculty Directors: Dr. Timothy Callahan, Department of Geology and Dr. Vijay Vulava, Department of Geology
Dates: June 5, 2012 - June 26, 2012
Courses Offered: Geology (GEOL 240: Water Resources in India AND GEOL 240: Pollution and the Developing World)
Deadline: February 3, 2012
Description: The Water Resources of India course will focus on the efforts of the government to stimulate economic growth across the nation while protecting the enviroment and cultural resources of the Ganga (Ganges) River system.
India Anthropology
Faculty Directors: Dr. Christine Finnan, Department of Sociology & Anthropology and Department of Teacher Education
Dates: July 1, 2012 - July 23, 2012
Courses Offered: Anthropology(ANTH 319: Special Topics - Comparative Childhoods: India and U.S.)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This study abroad program will provide an opportunity for students to understand the experience of childhood within very different cultural contexts. India, a country rich in cultural, economics, language, religious, and tribal diversity, provides a vivid contrast to the diversity found in the United STates, allowing students to evaluate our western concepts of childhood.
Indonesia
Bali
Faculty Director: Dr. Phil Dustan, Department of Biology
Dates: June 4, 2012 - June 25, 2012
Courses Offered: Tropical Ecology (BIOL 250 AND BIOL 250 Lab for non-majors OR BIOL 453 AND BIOL 453 Lab for majors)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This study abroad program is designed to introduce students tot he natural and human ecology of the tropics, explore the complex and distinctive natural features of tropical communities and to become familiar with ecological processes as they apply to tropical ecosystems.
Italy
Chiavari
Faculty Director: Dr. Massimo Maggiari, Department of Italian
Dates: May 14, 2012 - June 15, 2012
Courses Offered: Italian language (ITAL 201 and 202: Intermediate Italian OR ITAL 328: Foreign Language Study Abroad and ITAL 329: Current Issues Abroad)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: Participants in this study abroad program will stay in Chiavari, Italy, a hospitable town where modern life blends with the original old characteristics typical of the Ligurian Riviera. In Chiavari, the students will receive intensive Italian language for four weeks.
Rome
Faculty Directors: Dr. Alvaro Ibarra, Department of Art History and Dr. Timothy Johnson, Department of Classics
Dates: June 4, 2012 - June 23, 2012
Courses Offered: Art History and Classics (ARTH 220: Topography and Archaeology of Ancient Italy AND CLAS 203: Roman Life)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This study abroad program offers intense coursework concerning the art and architecture of ancient Italy. Participants will visit Rome, Florence, Capri, and Pompeii to examine works of art in their own context.
Spoleto
Faculty Directors: Dr. Bret Lott, Department of English and Dr. Scott Peeples, Department of English
Dates: May 16, 2012 - June 13, 2012
Courses Offered: Creative Writing and Literature (ENGL 339: The Travel Memoir: Writing In and Of Place AND ENGL 395: The Italian Image in Nineteenth-Century American Literature)
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Description: Students will visit Charleston's sister city to write and to study literature, as well as to meet with artists and writers living there, inspiring them to continue their education with an even greater sense of the importance of art, and of writing. Students and faculty will be stay at a villa compound located just outside of Spoleto, where they will share meals, hold readings, and spend quiet time writing and reading.
Morocco
Morocco
Faculty Directors: Dr. Abdellatif Attafi, Department of French and Dr. Jack Parson, Department of Political Science
Dates: June 10, 2012 - July 2, 2012
Courses Offered: Literature courses in translation, French language, and Political Science (LTAR 250: Francophone Literature in Translation (taught in English), POLS 339: Morocco and Contemporary Africa (taught in English), FREN 361: Current Issues in Morocco, OR FREN 490: Special Topics)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This program will be a twenty-four day immersion in the history, culture, politics, languages and geography of this unique African county.
Panama
Panama
Faculty Director: Dr. Craig Plante, Department of Biology
Dates: May 13, 2012 - June 2, 2012
Courses Offered: Ecology (BIOL 341: General Ecology AND BIOL 341 Lab: General Ecology Lab)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: This combined lecture and lab course in Ecology is a biology core course and is required for Marine Biology majors. Students will spend .4 weeks in Charleston and 2.6 weeks in Panama, which will offer a significant portion of the laboratory in a tropical setting.
Russia
Russia
Faculty Director: Ms. Oksana Ingle, Department of German and Slavic Languages
Dates: May 16, 2012 - June 12, 2012
Courses Offered: Russian Language (RUSS 201: Intermediate Russian Language AND LTRS 210: 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation (in English))
Deadline: January 12, 2012
Description: This program allows College of Charleston students to study in Russia for approximately one month. The program will begin with several nights in St. Petersburg, where students will visit sites such as the Hermitage, one of the world's largest museums, will enjoy a waking and boat tour of the city, and visit several former czar's residence, including the palaces and summer homes of Peter the Great & Catherine the Great.
Spain
Trujillo
Faculty Director: Dr. Carl Wise, Department of Hispanic Studies and Mr. Daniel Delgado Diaz, Department of Hispanic Studies
Dates: May 16, 2012 - June 21, 2012
Courses Offered: Spanish language (SPAN 275: Spanish Skills Review, SPAN 328 Spanish Language Study Abroad, SPAN 329: Current Issues in Spain, OR SPAN 390: Special Topics in Spain)
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Description: A thriving center for tourism with a rich historic past, Trujillo is the place of origin of many explorers and conquistadors of the New World, including Francisco Pizarro. Students will live with host families in Trujillo, offering them an extraordinary opportunity to improve fluency in Spanish and experience Spanish culture firsthand.
