Global Seminars are short-term programs attached to credit-bearing courses led by Saint Anselm faculty. Those offered during the spring semester combine classroom instruction throughout the semester and an international component in January, spring break, or May. (Global Seminars which run during summer terms depart during the first week of the first session and vary in length.) The international component enables you to learn firsthand about academic content in an enhanced learning manner.
Future Planned Seminars:
Community and Public Health Clinical in Costa Rica (January 2023)
Advanced Spanish Immersion and Internship in Mendoza, Argentina (May 2023 ')
Normandy Through the Ages in France (May 2023)
The Cold War in Cuba
Rome: The Eternal City
Tropical Biology in Belize
Music and Culture in the Ottoman Empire (tbd)
Smart City - Barcelona (tbd)
Course Information
- Course Dates: January 2023
- Application & Deposit ($1,000) (NOTE: You must already have a valid passport to be eligible for this program)
- Total Program Fee (including airfare): $2800 plus airfare
- Faculty Director: Professor Pamela Preston DNP, RN
Are you a nursing major and always wanted the opportunity to study abroad? Now is your chance! All eligible nursing students can elect to complete the clinic component of NU449 Community/Public Health in Costa Rica in January 2023. If you elect to complete your clinical abroad you will be enrolled in NU449 during the Spring 2023 semester.
The focus of this course is community and public health nursing. In class, you will explore the role of the nurse in health promotion and disease prevention in the global theater. The concepts of epidemiology, communicable disease, environmental health, and disaster relief will be discussed. Public health issues such as the global health care environment and work with vulnerable populations will be explored. Socio-cultural influences on health such as immigration, health care access and cost will be addressed from national and global perspectives. Course content will incorporate economic, legal, and ethical perspectives. Clinical placement in Costa Rica will incorporate the concepts addressed in the course and more specifically those related to global health. You will have the ability to provide care to a socioeconomically diverse group and develop cultural competence, awareness and knowledge. You will be assisting at clinics in urban communities, urban shanty communities and perform home visits with the local nursing staff.
Although prior knowledge of Spanish is helpful it is not required. Throughout the duration of the program interpreters will be accompanying the group.
Important Note: Students need to meet progression requirements, as detailed in the Department of Nursing Handbook, in order to take part in this program. If you do not progress as required you will not be able to travel to Costa Rica and we will not be able to refund any unrecoverable costs associated with the program.
What's included in the program fee:
- R/T airfare (Boston/San Jose CR)
- Group airport pick up and drop office in Costa Rica
- On-site orientation
- ISL staff and program support
- Educational seminars
- Most meals
- Accommodations
- Cultural activities and excursions
- International health and travel insurance
What's not included:
- Spending money
Payment Schedule:
- $1,000 deposit due with application
- Balance due - Nov 1
- Airfare: TBD
- Course Dates: May 31 - June 9, 2023
- Program Fee: $3175 plus airfare
- Application & Scholarship* Deadline: February 15, 2023
* Scholarship winners will be determined by February 20 - Faculty Directors: Professors Susanne Rossbach & Rebecca Crisafulli
FR345/HU304 are the same course, but listed under both FR and HU in college catalog. Normandy Through the Ages will feature four major topics that will be introduced in the spring course and developed further during the 10-day trip to France. The course fulfills GLOB and AESTH. [NOTE: Students may also elect to take the 2-credit FR347/HU204 summer course while in France without the core designations.] Students will be introduced to William the Conqueror and Medieval Normandy through on-site lectures, historical readings and documentaries. Students will read, analyze, and discuss fiction by Norman writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Maurice Leblanc. Through readings and local faculty lectures, students will be introduced to the Norman impressionist painter Claude Monet and the revolutionary art movement he spearheaded. Finally, through the readings of Robert Paxon and Mary Louise Roberts, students will learn about France’s “annees noires” and the suffering and bravery of Normans during World War II. Both courses are taught in English and open to any major.
Cultural activities include:
- Local Faculty lectures
- Caen castle and Abbaye aux Hommes
- Bayeux with visit to Tapisserie and cathedral
- Mont Saint Michel and Saint Malo
- Excursion to the landing beaches of Normandy with guided visit
- Rouen with visit to Cathedral
- Paris with visit to Musee d’Orsay and Eiffel Tower
- Welcome Dinner
- Cooking Class and Farewell Dinner
Transportation: The Office of International Programs will book a group flight for all program participants. Airfare is in addition to program fee. In country transportation will be on trains and coach buses for excursions.
Housing: Students will stay in residence hall in Caen, share hotel room in Paris
Program Costs:
- $3175 plus airfare
What's included in the program fee:
- In-country transportation
- Some meals, including a Welcome and Farewell Cooking Class Dinner
- Accommodations
- Cultural Activities, guides, entrance fees
- Saint A’s faculty lectures, guest lectures from local university faculty
- International health and travel insurance
What's not included:
- Passport fee: $185
- Some meals: $275 (estimate)
- Spending money
Payment Schedule:
- Deposit due February 25, 2023 ($1500)
- Payment due March 25, 2023 ($1675)
- Airfare payment (amount TBD) due April 25, 2023
Scholarships available! All applicants may apply for awards of up to $1000!
Apply for a scholarship award. Deadline to apply: February 15
The purpose of this program is to provide an immersive study abroad program for advanced students completing the Spanish minor or major. The program consists of three courses: Advanced Spanish Immersion I and II and a four-week internship in Mendoza, Argentina.
SP370 I is a 2-credit online course taught during the spring 2023 semester. This asynchronous course is designed to prepare students for their immersive Argentinian experience through interviews, videos, reflections, and online discussions. SP 370 II is a 2-credit in person course taught in Argentina. In this course, students continue to acquire communication techniques while applying their conversational skills with daily assignments and interviews.
SP480: API Abroad will provide students with internship placements and follow-up tracking for the four-week internship experience.
Program Costs: $5200-$5500 (depending on number of students)
What's included:
- 2 Courses:
- SP370: Advanced Spanish Immersion I and II (4 credits)
- SP480 Internship (3 credits) - 2 nights in Buenos Aires upon arrival to Argentina and 1 night prior to departure back to US
- R/T domestic airfare Buenos Aires/Mendoza
- Welcome and On-Site Orientation
- Housing with host families, including 2 meals/day and weekly laundry/cleaning
- Cultural activities and excursions
- International Health and Travel Insurance
- Public transportation stipend for travel to service-learning assignments
What's not included:
- Airfare
- Personal spending money
Payment Schedule:
- Deposit due February 25, 2023 ($1500)
- Payment due March 25, 2023 ($1675)
- Airfare payment (amount TBD) due April 25, 2023
Scholarships available! All applicants may apply for awards of up to $1000!
Apply for a scholarship award. Deadline to apply: February 15
- Program Dates, Application and Fees: TBD
- Faculty Directors: Professor Andrew Harringer
The Fine Arts Department is pleased to announce a new winter term course, to Vienna, Austria. Both the course and the trip focus on the rich musical and cultural history of the city, home to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and many other great composers and musicians. The trip's jam-packed itinerary includes:
Cultural activities include:
- Visits to the homes of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert
- Tours of Vienna's many palaces, churches, and concert halls
- Performances at the opera and symphony
- Welcome Dinner
- Farewell Dinner
Details: Group airfare will be booked for all program participants. In country transportation will be on trains and coach buses for excursions.
Housing: Students will stay in a centrally-located hotel in Vienna.
Program Fee:
- TBD
What's included in the program fee:
- Airfare
- In-country transportation
- Some meals, including Welcome and Dinners
- Accommodations
- Cultural Activities, guides, entrance fees
- Saint A's faculty lectures
- International health, travel and CFAR (cancel for any reason) insurance
What's not included:
- Passport application fee
- Meals not included in program fee: $280 (estimate)
- Spending money
Application Information and Payment Schedule:
- TBD
- Program Dates, Application and Fees: TBD
- Faculty Directors: Professors Matt Masur & Phil Pajakowski
HI387 The Cold War examines the Cold War, the international rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945-1991. It will explore the origins of the Soviet-American conflict, the two countries' struggle for global influence, and the effects of the Cold War on American and Soviet domestic affairs. The course will be taught throughout the spring semester and includes an international component in Cuba over spring break.
Trip is open to students not enrolled in HI387, but class enrollees will be given priority placement. Trip participants do not need to be history majors. HI 387 fulfills the Global Engagement core curriculum requirement. The program is embedded in a semester long class so the students will receive 4 credits for completing the spring semester course which includes international component in Cuba.
Cultural Activities include:
- Old Havana
- Havana Museum and sights
- Trinidad and the Bay of Pigs
- Cigar Factory and much more
What's included:
- Housing in Residencia with daily breakfast and dinner
- Cuban guest lectures
- Cultural Activities and Excursions
- Welcome and Farewell meals
- Cuba visa and medical insurance
What's not included in program fee:
- Passport fee: $185
- Most meals: $275 (estimate)
- Spending money
Payment Schedule:
- TBD
- Program Dates, Application and Fees: TBD
- Faculty Directors: Professors Bob Anderson & Josh Tepley
PH212 Medieval Philosophy is a survey of the major medieval thinkers from Augustine and Anselm to Thomas Aquinas and others. As part of this class you have the opportunity to travel to Nijmegen, Netherlands, home to Radboud University. Throughout the semester, the class will collaborate with Professor Paul Bakker's Medieval Philosophy course at Radboud University. The two courses will be linked online and require students in both classes to engage in philosophical discussion in conjunction with reading assignments and assigned questions.
During spring break you have the opportunity to study medieval philosophy and its backdrop (the European medieval world) for 10 days in Nijmegen, Netherlands. You will travel to Nijmegen to meet the Radboud University students face-to-face. You will stay in historic Nijmegen, engage in philosophy seminar discussions with the Dutch students, visit museums and medieval sites in the Netherlands and Germany together with your Dutch counterparts, interact socially with your Dutch classmates, and explore Dutch culture by bicycle and train.
Cultural activities include:
- Museum Catharijneconvent
- Noord-Brabants Museum
- Saint-John's cathedral
- Soeterbeeck Medieval Collection at the Nijmegen Library
- Church of Sankt Nikolai
- Archaeological Park of Xanten
- Kröller-Müller museum in the national park De Hoge Veluwe
- Rijksmuseum
- Anne Frank House
- Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder ("Our Lord in the Attic") Museum
Eligibility: Students enrolled in PH212 in addition to philosophy and great books majors and minors who already have taken (or in the future will take) PH212 or PH272.
Transportation: A group flight will be booked for all program participants. Airfare is included in the program fee. In country transportation will be on trains and coach buses for excursions.
Housing: Students will stay in a hostel in the central part of Nijmegan and Amsterdam.
What's included in the program fee:
- Airfare
- Transportation to/from Amsterdam airport
- Some meals
- Accommodations
- Cultural Activities
- International health and travel insurance
What's not included in program fee:
- Passport fee: $185
- Most meals: $275 (estimate)
- Spending money
Payment Schedule:
- TBD