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Grand View offers several Study Tours. This is one of the easiest and least expensive options to study abroad, because Grand View includes the tuition in the student’s spring bill as long as the total does not exceed 18 credit hours. This upcoming spring, there are five different study abroad tour options in which Grand View students can take their study courses and apply them to real world experiences hands on.

Former study abroad tour participants highly recommend students to study abroad not only for educational purposes but to better know oneself.  Itzíar Perez, Spain native, has studied abroad in Denmark and is now currently enrolled at Grand View University studying business.

Perez says, “Study abroad has allowed me to meet new people and know myself and to speak English.”

When asked about her experiences with studying in Denmark and in the United States, she says that studying abroad has allowed her to “open her mind a lot to new cultures, new people and has helped (her) grow up.”

Perez is also an intern for Mark Daly, Director of International Studies/ELL Tutor, this year.

Daly was responsible for the Study Abroad Fair and urges students to participate in study abroad opportunities saying “Don’t be afraid, don’t hesitate to start thinking about study abroad programs.”

Daly says taking advantage of Grand View University’s study abroad tours allows a “high impact learning experience” where students are “learning about the world and your own self.”

He also recommends that students should study abroad in locations that “get you excited and further your occupational goals.”

Below are the options for the next study abroad tours along with background information of the locations, dates of the study tours, courses offered and faculty sponsors listed to help you in case additional information is necessary. To apply, go to: https://myview.grandview.edu/academics/studyabroad/

 

Mexico: Explore the Yucatán!

Cost: $3,000 (lodging, transportation, meals and airfare included)
Dates: May 4-16, 2016
Faculty Sponsors: Sarah Miller Boelts, Coralie Turner, Amy Schumann
Courses: Core Seminar II (LIBA 300), Special Topics: Mexican History and Culture (SPAN 430), and Self-Expression (SPAN 204)

Students will first spend time in Mérida in the beautiful state of Yucatán.  There they will stay at the Central College House and with host families. The students will have opportunities to practice their Spanish with their host families and through interactions with local university students in Mérida.  They will also compare and contrast US and Mexican schools and health centers.

 

Biodiversity and Sustainability in Costa Rica

Cost: $3,500 (lodging, transportation, meals and airfare included)
Dates: May 9th to May 30th 2016
Faculty Sponsors: Felicitas Avendano, Dan Chibnall
Courses: – Special Topics in Biology (BIOL 430) and Core Seminar II (LIBA 300)

Experience Costa Rica in a whole new way. Let the rain forest be your research lab; help fix up a clinic at a local community; learn how coffee, pineapple, cocoa, and other tropical crops are grown sustainably; enjoy the Caribbean coast and meet Buttercup- the world famous sloth.   Days 1-16 will be spent at El Zota Biological Field Station.  Days 17-21 include touring the Caribbean coast, Cahuita National Park, and San Jose.

 

Health and Social Issues:  Copenhagen, Denmark; Hamburg, Germany

Cost: $3,500-$3,700 (lodging, transportation, meals and airfare included)
Dates: May 4 – May 21
Courses: Core Seminar III (LIBA 450) and Social Problems (SOC 315)

Join us for a 16-day study tour to learn how the United States, Denmark, and Germany respond to provision of health care and social services to marginalized populations. What does each country do well? What are areas where each country could improve? How do each country’s systems and practices affect services and affected populations? Students will participate in an academic immersion with University College (UCC) students with similar majors as you.

 

Denmark – Copenhagen & Vejle; England – London; Ireland – Belfast & Dublin; Scotland – Edinburgh, Glasgow & Isle of Skye: Immigration: Early Days vs Today

Cost: $4,000 (lodging, transportation, meals and airfare included)
Dates: May 9 – May 27, 2016
Faculty sponsors:  Sergio Loch and Janelle Tungesvik
Courses:  Core II (LIBA300), Core III (LIBA 450), and PHSC-201

This study tour focuses on immigration. Students will explore common themes on the reasons why people from these countries left their homeland for the US.   Students will study historical immigration from 18-early 20th centuries as well as current immigration focusing on conditions that cause(d) people to leave and conditions they face(d) upon arrival in the US.  We will look also look at the immigrants’ homeland cultures as well as “American culture” at different times.   Immigration is a major issue in the US and Europe right now and will continue to play out in the political arena, and educated citizens should understand the facts – this is one major goal of these courses and the tour.

 

Viking Voyage Ghana, May 10-24, 2015
Cost: approx. $3,500 (lodging, transportation, meals and airfare included)
Faculty sponsors:  Brigid Ernst and Eli Nicholes
Courses:  LIBA300 – Core II Seminar

This 14-day service/mission trip to Ghana allows students to work with children in a local school and teach community health at a hospital to educate natives. There is also opportunity to work on an African farm, construct huts and build a church while earning their Core Seminar II or LIBA 499 credit.