Study Abroad

If you've ever thought about going abroad, doing so as a student might be the most rewarding and efficient way to go. You can consider studying abroad for a few weeks, one semester, or one academic year in the country of your choice.

You can even apply your federal financial aid to help with the costs, and apply transfer credits that you earn abroad to your UMass Boston degree.

Studying abroad offers great opportunities to broaden your knowledge, enrich your understanding, promote cultural exchange, and an experience creating lifelong memories, and even to add to your resume.

Here is a listing of many of the programs currently being sponsored by the Division of Corporate, Continuing and Distance Education and the Study Abroad Program:

• Study in Oxford, England: Select courses in your major in Oxford, England though the UMass Boston/Oxford Study Abroad with Oxford University faculty (rated by the United Nations as one of the ten best university faculties in the world) students cad Program (OSAP). With the wide range of experts available on the On study almost any advanced upper division academic subject.

• Mexico Today: Politics and Society (Cuernavaca, Mexico)- Mexico Today provides a dynamic learning experience- a lively blend of course work and field activities. Through first-hand observations, students will gain a appreciation of the changes that are shaping Mexico, analyzing their experience within the broader context of political, cultural, social, and economic issues. Lectures by local experts, followed by discussion and regular seminar meetings, will provide the academic basis for explorations of students' individual interests.

• Jamaica Today: People, Culture, and Environment- Each winter the Africana Studies Department offers a program on location in Jamaica, which is designed to facilitate an understanding of Jamaica through total immersion in different aspects of the country. The program explores the culture, environment, language and literature of Jamaica, and the country's economic, political, and social realities. Activities will include presentations by local experts and visits to such culturally significant locations as the National Gallery and the Bob Marley Museum.

• Amsterdam, Netherlands: The European Union: view from within...-This new program, based at the University of Amsterdam (Holland), offers an opportunity to learn and experience firsthand the dynamic and exciting developments occurring in Europe because of the European Union -- moving towards a confederation of 25 nations and half million inhabitants. This process of transformation is especially experienced at the national and local level within each country, with significant impact on political, social, economic and cultural dimensions.

• Belize: Field School in Prehistoric Archaeology-This summer the Anthropology Department will offer a field school on Maya archaeology in Belize, Central America. The project area and field camp are located in a tropical rainforest within the Program for Belize Conservation Area - a protected reserve for flora, fauna, and archaeological remains. In addition to more than 50 ancient Maya sites (ranging from hamlets to villages to large cities) the natural habitat contains a great variety of plant and animal life.

• Ireland Today: Politics and Society in Ireland and Boston- This program is designed for students interested in observing Irish society firsthand and analyzing their experience within the broader context of political, cultural, and economic issues. The politics, history and culture of Ireland - both the Irish Republic and its neighbor Northern Ireland (Ulster) - are the focus of this program. By examining significant historic events, cultural developments and political issues, the program will give students a comprehensive picture of this divided island, past and present and its changing role in a new, integrated Europe. Students will spend time based at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• China Today: Culture, History and Politics-This new program will provide an extraordinary opportunity to learn first hand about Chinese culture, historical traditions, and the social transformations taking place in China.