Study Abroad Programs & Internships

This summer, turn the world into your classroom. Immerse yourself in Italian culture, study at the leading business school in Europe, find yourself on the French Riviera, on the coast of Ireland, or learn to speak Spanish like a Spaniard and much more.

An international experience benefits students by offering a global outlook that emphasizes the ties among nations and cultures. In addition, it enhances career preparation by teaching valuable cross-cultural and workplace skills that are extremely critical to employers in building their work force. Study abroad can be fun and educational. Much of the experience comes from coping with the challenges of, and learning to adapt to, a foreign environment. Living in another country fosters patience, changes attitude, develops maturity and self-confidence, and enhances understanding of our complex world. A carefully chosen overseas study program can contribute not only to academic and personal growth but to career goals as well.

At Hofstra University, we pride ourselves on the diverse selection of study abroad programs available. Whether students choose to study abroad to enhance the level of a specific language or culture or to expand the knowledge of a specific concentration, we can find an appropriate program. Hofstra offers various program lengths, from one semester to a full year, or during the winter or summer sessions. Students who are interested in studying abroad should meet with a study abroad coordinator. For more information call (516) 463-6947, or e-mail: studyabroad@hofstra.edu. Note: Study abroad students may apply for insurance through the program’s office. Please call for details.

You are invited to study Spanish and Mexican culture in Guadalajara, the city known worldwide as the capital of Mexican folklore due to the traditional Mariachi, popular dances, handicrafts, and gourmet cooking. Guadalajara is a large city with pleasant avenues, impressive monuments, dozens of squares overflowing with trees and flowers, colorful crowded malls and a continuous of activity reflected in the dozens of people strolling up and down fountain-lined boulevards. Due to its exceptional year-round climate Guadalajara is referred to as the city of eternal spring. Situated near the heart of this enchanting city, is the University of Guadalajara where Hofstra’s Mexico program is housed. While attending classes on the campus, you will have the opportunity to interact with Mexican students attending classes on the same campus. You will also be housed with carefully selected Mexican families allowing ample opportunity to practice the Spanish language.

Part of the program is in Puerto Vallarta. This lively town known for its cobblestone streets and miles of gold-sand beaches still maintains the charm of a Mexican village. White stucco houses with red-tiled roofs date back to the colonial era. Much of Mexico’s natural wonders (the jungle, the migration of the humpback whales) are also present in Puerto Vallarta.

The following undergraduate courses will be available in Mexico: SPAN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 109, 123, 114B, 115B, 180, 190; SPLT 152. Graduate courses available include SPAN 218 and 222. Cost for the trip is $1,900 and includes round-trip airfare, housing (all meals included), excursions, and museums. Prices are subject to change. Tuition and fees for two courses (6 credits) are separate from the travel costs. For more information, please contact the program director, Dr. Miguel-Angel Zapata: rllmzz@hofstra.edu, or (516) 463-4766.

Spend four weeks in Galway (on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast) and four days in London. The program offers the chance to take distribution courses, satisfy a cross-cultural requirement, earn the Irish language while satisfying the Hofstra Special Language Option, undertake an individual honors option and earn HUHC credit, or build toward a philosophy major or minor or a religious studies minor. The following courses are being offered in Ireland: PHI 14, 163; RELI 75 and GAEL 101.

The trip costs approximately $3,500 plus tuition and fees. This price includes round-trip airfare (New York-Dublin-London-New York), transportation from Dublin to Galway, student accommodation at the National University of Ireland in Galway for four weeks, excursions to Connemara, Clare and other areas of interest, a theater outing during the Galway Arts Festival, and hotel accommodation in London’s city center for four nights.

For further information or to apply to the program, please contact Dr. Terry Godlove or Dr. Warren Frisina, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 104 Heger Hall; e-mail Terry.G.Godlove@Hofstra.edu; or call (516) 463-5271.

The Frank G. Zarb School of Business offers students the opportunity to study at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the leading business school in Europe. Each summer, Hofstra students, and a limited number of students from other universities, may take one or two courses. Emphasis is placed on the multicultural context of the program; each class includes students from The Netherlands and other countries. International Marketing and Principles of International Financial Management are taught in English by Hofstra faculty and classroom sessions are augmented by field trips to Dutch firms. Students live in Erasmus residence halls. Classes meet Monday-Wednesday, which allows students time to take advantage of travel opportunities during long weekends. For more information, please contact Dr. Ahmet Karagozoglu at (516) 463-5701 or finakk@hofstra.edu.

The Hofstra Summer Study Program in Nice, France provides opportunities for students to study on the French Riviera and to take classes in French, or to take a core class in French Literature or in philosophy taught in English. In addition to elementary and intermediate French courses (FREN 1-4), we will also be offering FREN 110 and 142. There will also be two courses in English, both literature core/distribution courses: FRLT 42, Sex, Gender, and Love in 20th-Century French Prose and CLL 90, Modern Arabic Literature.

Students live with a French family while attending classes four days a week. They participate in weekly excursions and benefit from the great cultural offerings of the region. For more information please contact the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at (516) 463-5140, or the On-Site Director, Dr. David A. Powell at (516) 463-5485 or send an e-mail to david.powell@hofstra.edu.

The Frank G. Zarb School of Business provides an opportunity for students to study international business in Seoul, South Korea. Classes are taught in English by Hofstra faculty three days a week, allowing ample time for students to study and travel. This program includes lectures by guest speakers from government and business and on-site plant tours. For more information, please contact Dr. Keun S. Lee at (516) 463-5332.

Hofstra’s new five-week Summer Program in a seaside resort town in Southern Italy provides students with the opportunity to study Italian culture and language in a full immersion environment. The program is held in Sorrento, a town that occupies a peninsula projecting into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the Gulfs of Naples and Salerno. Sorrento is world renowned for its dramatic rock beaches, refined cafès, elegant shops, centuries-old artisan workshops, an international cinema festival, a summer jazz festival, and its convenient proximity to the posh island retreats of Capri and Ischia, the archeological sites of Pompei and Herculaneum, the picturesque seaside town of Positano, and the breathtaking costiera amalfitana.

All students enroll in 6 credits of courses offered in Italian language (ITAL 3 and 4), advanced study in Italian (ITAL 105 and 151), and a course in English on the Postmodern Novel (RLLT 101). Group excursions and housing with a local host family are an essential component of the cultural and language-learning experience. For further information, please contact Dr. Lori J. Ultsch at RLLLJU@hofstra.edu or pick up a program brochure in the HCLAS Office of Programs Abroad, 300 Calkins Hall, (516) 463-4765.

The 2005 Hofstra Summer Program in Spain will be based in Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO World Heritage City in the northwest of the country. Santiago is an exceptionally beautiful city; its medieval and Renaissance streets and architecture are enchanting. It has been attracting countless thousands of travelers each year since the Middle Ages because of the world-famous Christian pilgrimage route and it remains a major international center of culture. The University of Santiago de Compostela, where classes will be held, is over five hundred years old, and enjoys an outstanding tradition of teaching and learning.

By taking part in the program you will enjoy the opportunity to travel to two other leading Spanish cities - Barcelona and Madrid - where high-quality accommodation are included in the program fee. We offer full tours of major cultural attractions, including the Catedral de la Sagrada Familia, the medieval quarter, Las Ramblas, and the Picasso Museum (in Barcelona), and the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, and the Royal Palace (in Madrid).

The program is open, until places are filled, to both Hofstra and non-Hofstra students. We offer a full range of language courses that will help fulfill university requirements. In addition, we provide an exciting variety of courses in Spanish literature and language, and four specially designed English-language distribution courses (including one cross-cultural) in History and Geography, all taught by experienced Hofstra faculty. The program may be of particular interest to majors and minors in Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, History and Geography, as well as to graduate students in Spanish, but we welcome applications from all motivated and responsible students and graduates from Hofstra and beyond. For further details please contact program director Prof. Benita Sampedro at (516) 463-4521 or Benita.sampedro@hofstra.edu.

Our four-week journey will begin with glitzy neon-lit Tokyo. We then travel from Tokyo to western Japan to beautiful and historic Kyoto. We have options to visit various cities near Kyoto, including Osaka, Nara and Hiroshima. Then it’s on to Nagoya, where we visit the ultra-modern Toyota factory. From there, we head into the mountains to Takayama, where we enjoy traditional cuisine, wooden buildings and Japan’s beautiful rural landscape. The cool northeastern prefecture of Aomori is the setting for the final days of our adventure. In the city of Hachinohe, we will experience Japanese family life with a two-night home-stay. In Aomori, we will participate in one of the most famous summer festivals, Nebuta. We conclude our summer by dancing under huge lanterns.

Courses offered during the program include Asian Literature: Pop/Culture, Old and New (LIT 85), Comparative Politics Seminar: Walking Japanese Politics (PSC 154), and pending interest, a course in advanced Japanese may be offered.

The cost of the program is approximately $3,650, which includes airfare, accommodations, and ground transportation. (The program fee may change due to currency fluctuations.) Optional tours are not included in this price. Tuition and fees are additional. For further information, please contact Dr. Patricia Welch, Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, (516) 463-6453, patricia.welch@hofstra.edu, or Dr. Takashi Kanatsu, Department of Political Science, (516) 463- 5602, takashi.kanatsu@ hofstra.edu.

Off-Campus Education (OCE) International provides the opportunity for students to participate in fieldwork in another country for Hofstra undergraduate credit. Internships organized by Educational Programs Abroad (EPA) are available this summer in London, Brussels, Edinburgh and Bonn. Students spend five days per week at the internship site. Internships encompass the areas of politics (constituency offices, pressure groups and law offices), the arts (museums and architectural offices), health science and medical research, business (banking, advertising, accounting, marketing and publishing) and theater (fringe theaters). Depending on the country, the summer program dates are May 31-July 25 and June 14-August 8. The OCE office must receive applications by March 15, 2004. For more information, call Heidi Contreras, OCE International Administrator, at (516) 463-5820.

Experience the joy of discovering ancient, modern and unexpected places on special trips that are unlike conventional tours. Hofstra University has formed an association with Smithsonian Journeys and Collette Vacations to bring students theme-oriented educational travel experiences. For each tour participants travel with an educator-guide who brings alive the contemporary, natural and historical aspects of these destinations. In addition to the following international trips (see below), a variety of domestic trips are available. For more information about additional tours please call (516) 463-7600.

Accommodations are first-rate, prices are reasonable and support services excellent. The trips extend from nine to 27 days and Hofstra makes arrangements for all travel details. For more extensive information on the summer/fall 2004 programs listed below, please call (516) 463-7600.

In addition to the hundreds of courses listed in this Bulletin, Hofstra has many more offerings through University College for Continuing Education. Interested students are welcome to register for these noncredit courses. University College for Continuing Education will send you a complete Bulletin upon request, as well as information on how to register by mail. Discounts are available for full-time, matriculated students. Call University College at (516) 463-5993.

Off-Campus Education (OCE) Domestic is an academic option for Hofstra University students that provides an opportunity to design and execute full or part-time field projects as interns or apprentices for academic credit. Recent internships include MTV Networks, MTV Radio, ABC, NBC, Inside Edition, Atlantic Records, NYU Medical Center, Women Sports Foundation, Nicole Miller and Betsey Johnson, Inc. The major responsibility for developing and implementing an OCE Domestic project rests with the student. However, the OCE Domestic office will assist students in locating internship sites, refining proposals and finding appropriate faculty members conversant with the student’s intended area of study. Due to the nature of the program, the deadlines for summer session OCE Domestic proposals are as follows:

SUMMER SESSION I - MAY 2
SUMMER SESSION II - JUNE 9
SUMMER SESSION III - JULY 18

For more information call Melissa Cheese, OCE Domestic Administrator at (516) 463-5822. Summer internships may also be obtained from the Career Center.