Expand your educational horizons
Honors students have traveled to Australia, China, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, London, Mexico and Ireland. Soon students will be traveling to Prague, Turkey, Toronto, Scotland and Spain.
These trips impact not only on the education of these students but their personal development as well.
Students typically travel in one of three ways.
Some students travel as part of our traditional study abroad program
- Faculty around the country offer courses in a specific location.
- Students from any university can register for the course and receive credit at their home institution.
- Visit the Office of Education Abroad for more information.
Some students are part of a cohort that travels together as a group
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Students interested in a particular major enter the Honors program together as freshmen.
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They take several courses together and they travel together.
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The HITF Cohort of honors/education students went to Ireland and Mexico to study educational practices in other countries.
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The IBHF Cohort of business students traveled to Mexico to study the art of doing business in Mexico.
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The HFIS Cohort of Honors/International Studies majors will travel to Toronto to study comparative politics.
Some students take trips as an extension of a single Honors course they are taking
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One course, The Global Table, studied several cultures by learning about their practices having to do with food. A group of students from this class went to Mexico for the celebration of the Day of the Dead where food plays a central role.
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Students in another course, The World of Coffee, traveled to Mexico to study sustainable agriculture and visit fair trade coffee plantations and haciendas.
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Another group of students from a course on travel writing traveled to Mexico to study ecotourism.