RWC students will be heading out this summer to participate in three 2005 Study Abroad programs. A group of six students, comprised of five males and one female and two members of RWC faculty, Prof. Sue Sipple and Prof. John McNay, will be headed for Paris in June as part of the Summer British Study Abroad Program. The group will also spend time in Belgium and finally arrive at England’s Harlaxton Manor where they will participate in a trip to London and have two free weekends for independent travel. Two classes will be offered:
Literature for Study Abroad: Reconstructing Trauma in WWI (to be taught by Prof. Sipple) and An International History of WWI (to be taught by Prof. McNay).
The Costa Rica Study Abroad program, which also leaves in June, has nine participants. This program requires one year of university Spanish to qualify.
The students will leave for Intercultura in Heredia, Costa Rica, and will participate in a homestay program with carefully selected Costa Rican families. Students will be able to experience a rainforest, an active volcano, and the Pacific Coast National Park. Prof.
Debbie Themudo, the Spanish instructor leading the program, has also organized afternoon cultural visits to a coffee plantation, a butterfly farm, and a history museum.
In August, a group of RWC students of German will spend three weeks in Ilmenau, Germany, studying German language and culture, under the leadership of RWC Professor Deborah Page.
RWC’s summer study abroad programs occur every year and are available to all students in good academic standing. For more information, contact Professor Ruth Benander at 745-5778 or by email at benandre@ucrwcu.rwc.uc.edu.