January 27, 2016

Exploring the World

Almost 200 students are studying in China, England, Hawaii, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Madagascar, Peru, Russia, and South Africa during winter break.

Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
Students get a hands-on demonstration of traditional Indian dance.
Amelia Ayers ’16, Kaitlin Worden ’16, and Olivia Jurewicz ’15 at the Trajan's Forum in Rome
Jiselle Peralta ’13 at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico
Students learn Kiswahili from language coordinator Gitau Kariuki during an interim course in Kenya.
Students pose in a traditional corridor in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China.
Katie Zeikel '15, Professor Jennifer Kelly, Derek Vill '14, Professor Mary Jo Lodge, and Savannah Sargent '13 try out their musical skills in a gamelan ensemble during an interim course focusing on the arts in Bali.
Andrew Holmes '12 poses with a villager in Kenya during an interim course on strategies for managing economic development and natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa.
Students float down the River Cam during the interim course studying health care in England.
Students studied Italian art history and culture during an interim course in Venice, Florence, and Rome.
Aubrey Jones ’16 and Stavros Kariofillis ’17 make some new friends in Madagascar.
Students rest on a mountain overlooking Machu Picchu. The course focused on Peruvian society, culture, and history.

This is the 38th year in which Lafayette is offering concentrated, three-week, faculty-led courses during the January interim session between semesters. In many courses, students take part in hands-on field work and meet prominent business people, cultural figures, government officials, and scholars, learning directly from these experts about the subject matter they are studying.

In May and June, students will explore Germany, Greece, and the national parks of Western U.S. in similar faculty-led, concentrated courses.

The College also offers faculty-led semester abroad programs in Bremen, Germany; London, England; Madrid, Spain; and San Jose, Costa Rica. Students take classes taught by Lafayette faculty as well as those of host institutions. They also take part in field trips, which are planned and led by Lafayette professors with the help of local organizers.

Lafayette has affiliations with many colleges and other organizations through which students study abroad in many countries. Students can participate in affiliated programs in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tibet, Uganda, and Trinidad.