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Availability of specified field of study does NOT indicate that major/minor credit will be granted. Students must consult with major/minor advisor regarding coursework for major/minor credit.
Asia
Europe & UK
Lindsay Joy O’Neill, Associate Professor (Teaching) of History
Being abroad brought history alive for me when I was an undergraduate and it still does today. Getting to be in the places I study and see the locations spoken of in books takes those muted texts and brings them wonderfully to life. Things suddenly make more sense. You see the landscape, the architecture, the objects, and you interact with the people and this adds texture and nuance to the study of the past. It’s the closest you’ll get, without the aid of a time machine, to living history.
Marjorie R. Becker, Associate Professor of History and English
I studied abroad in Spain, and it was part of the transformation of my life that led to my serving in the Peace Corps in rural Paraguay, learning the unwritten Guarani language of the Paraguayan indigenous people, and eventually earning a Yale doctorate in Latin American History.