Off-Campus January Term Courses
Explore Africa, Asia, and europe in january 2024
Deadline for early decision applications is closed as of May 1st, 2023.
Applications are now closed for all programs as of October 15th, 2023
Please note: Prices of Off-Campus J Term programs are estimates. If there are factors that affect the final cost of a program, such as fluctuations in currency exchange rates or fuel price increases, a fee adjustment will be announced. If there are factors that affect the final cost of the program, program participants will be notified about the adjustment as soon as possible.
Iceland, Scotland, England
ICELAND'S MAGICAL REALISM
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A country of remarkably diverse landscapes, vistas, topographies, and atmospherics, Iceland is a nearly perfect setting in which to encourage imaginative and creative engagement. In this J Term study abroad course, Professors Navarette and Yang will introduce students to an adventure that invites a sense that one has literally entered an alternative reality: a site that, in mid-winter, enjoys only 5 hours of dim sunlight; a culture in which storytelling, myth-making, and imaginative diversion both exploit and provide a psychological buffer against the atmospheric effects that define deep winter in Iceland. Inspired by their course readings (e.g., excerpts from Icelandic sagas, surrealist films, magical realist fiction) and their visits to historically and geographically rich sites within and around Reykjavík, students will produce their own setting-infused creations in the form of short works of fiction and creative non-fiction or short films.
Course: ENGL150
Location: Iceland
Prerequisite: 1 Credit prep course before departure, Fall 2023
Program Directors: Susan Navarette and Tessa Yang
Curricular Requirement: EL 4 credits
Cost: $4,700
Length of program: 14 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 5 – Jan 19, 2024
Meals: 3 meals per day included
SCOTLAND: TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
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This course is designed to assist the student to recognize the myriad of health-related beliefs and practices that exist among and between different members of a diverse culture and how those beliefs and practices impact upon the health of its members. This four-week intensive experience is designed to expose the student to the social determinants of health and public health and transcultural concepts and theories. Students are exposed to different empirical frameworks to assist them in providing holistic, culturally competent care to individuals, families, populations, and communities living in a foreign setting. Clinical experiences to meet course objectives occur in diverse rural and/or urban settings with an emphasis on therapeutic interventions, health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, and health teaching.
Course: NURS 346
Locations: Scotland
Prerequisite: None
Program Directors: Jodi Krzyston and Erica Holoquist
Curricular Requirement: 4 credits
Cost: $3500
Length of program: 20 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 3 – Jan 23, 2024
Meals: 3 meals per day included
THEATRE IN ENGLAND
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This course introduces students to theatre in London, with the aim of enriching their understanding of contemporary British theatre and theatre as a whole. Based in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, the students will attend fifteen or more productions offered by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, West End theatres and other companies.
Course: THEA 303
Locations: London, and Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Prerequisite: 1 Credit Prep Course, Fall 2023
Program Directors: Marc Shaw
Curricular Requirement: EL 4 credits
Cost: $3,950
Length of program: 22 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 6 – Jan 28, 2024
Meals: 3 meals per day included
Spain, Japan, Portugal
LANGUAGE, ART, AND CULTURES OF SPAIN
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Art and Cultures of Spain is an Art History & Spanish 4 week J-term program that provides students with a cultural immersion experience in Spain. Students will enhance their knowledge of the varied cultures of Spain, through exposure to cultural texts and artifacts (e.g., language, visual art, literature, food and foodways, architecture, music, and cultural traditions). Our explorations will take us to the cities of Madrid, Sevilla, Granada, and Córdoba, where we will deepen our understanding of the history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, and social trends of Spanish cultures from the era of ancient Rome to the present day. Embracing this new experience will prepare us to meet the personal, intellectual, and social challenges of a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world.
Course: SPAN 285/385/485 and ARTH 285/385
Location: Sevilla, Spain
Prerequisite: 1 Credit Prep Course, Fall 2023
Program Directors: Karina Walker and Doug Zullo
Curricular Requirement: EL, 4 credits
Cost: $4,000
Length of program: 21 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 3 – Jan 25, 2024
Meals: 3 meals per day included
JAPAN: LANGUAGE & CULTURE IN TOKYO
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Study Japanese in Tokyo amid the dynamic cultural life of one of the world’s most globally connected cities. Immerse yourself in learning the language and contemporary society of Japan at Toyo University, where you can meet and interact with Japanese college students. Explore Tokyo’s vibrant urban neighborhoods and its historic shrines and temples. Get a hands-on introduction to distinctive Japanese traditions of calligraphy, paper-making, and even making mochi from scratch!
Course: JAPN 105
Location: Japan
Prerequisite: None
Program Director: Cherilyn Lacy
Curricular Requirement: EL, 4 credits
Cost: $4,500
Length of program: 25 days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 3 – Jan 28, 2024
Meals: None Provided
PORTUGAL: FERMENTATION AND FOOD SYSTEMS
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Food is a shared part of the lived experience of all people; thus, food provides an ideal theme through which to understand the culture and history of another nation. This course provides a culinary tour through Portugal, a nation with a rich cultural history of small-scale artisan food production. Course content focuses on understanding the creation of fermented foods, including cheese and sausage, from a biological, economic, and social perspective and appreciating the value and challenges of local food systems and large scale commercial food production.
Course: BIOL 245 or ECON 145
Locations: Portugal
Prerequisite: None
Program Directors: Mary Allen and Carli Ficano
Curricular Requirement: EL, 4 credits
Cost: $3,400
Length of program: 23 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 3 – Jan 26, 2024
Meals: 3 meals per day included
RWANDA, SOUTH AFRICA
RWANDA: MULTICULTURAL MINI-PRACTICUM
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This course places students in non-traditional educational settings with students from diverse cultural, socioeconomic and/or geographic backgrounds. Students are required to observe, interact, supervise and/or teach for a minimum of 20 school days (120 hours). Readings on diversity, multicultural education and the sociological dimensions of schools, students and teachers, provide a formal context for reflecting on the field experience. This course takes place during January Term or June (with special permission by the department). Writing a brief proposal and approval by Department of Education are required for special requests. Offered every January.
Course: EDUC 390
Locations: Rwanda
Prerequisite: EDUC 101, EDUC 102, EDUC 201, EDUC 202 and acceptance into Teacher Education Program
Program Directors: Elizabeth Bloom
Curricular Requirement: 4 credits
Cost: $3,850
Length of program: 25 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: approx. Jan 3 -Jan 28, 2024
Meals: 2 meals per day included
SOUTH AFRICA: PUBLIC HEALTH, CULTURE, AND ECOLOGY
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Want to go to the only continent where humans are indigenous? The richest country in Africa, South Africa was ruled until 1994 by a brutal white dictatorship. We travel from Kruger Park to the Indian Ocean to the University of the Witwatersrand to learn about their changes and challenges, visiting game reserves, archaeological and paleontological sites, native villages, malls, museums, schools, orphanages, squatter camps, beaches and mountains in our quest to try to understand their continuing transition to a unified, multiracial and multicultural democracy.
Course: ANTH 355 and PUBH 350
Location: South Africa
Prerequisite: Directed Study, Fall 2023
Program Directors: Constance Anderson and Shiloh Chickerell
Curricular Requirement: 4 credits
Cost: $3,800
Length of program: 22 Days Off-Campus
Tentative program dates: Jan 3 – Jan 25, 2024
Meals: 3 meals per day included
Questions?
Contact the Center for Global Education (globaleducation@hartwick.edu) or visit our offices in Clark Hall 324 & 327.
Hartwick College and the Center for Global Education offer many scholarship opportunities for students who wish to participate in a J Term program.
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