Travel Study Course Listing
Featured Courses
Location: Camden, Maine
Travel Dates: February 20-22
Costs: $400 + tuition for 3 credits
Instructors:
- Timothy Cole, Associate Dean
- Prof. Annettee LaRocco
- Mark Brewer
- Cora Caton
Course Description: This travel course, including a weekend at the Camden Conference, will explore how traditional and emerging powers are reshaping relationships and testing alliances across this globally vital region.
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Travel Dates: May 10-25
Costs: $4,500 + tuition for 3 credits
Instructor: Prof. Karen Beeftink
Course Description: This course will adopt a multi-dimensional perspective on the use of nature-based tourism as a means to support sustainable community development and environmental conservation. Students will gain firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of small-scale community nature-based tourism programs, including tourism development strategies, management structure, visitor use patterns, marketing strategies, and the day-to-day realities of tourism employment. You’ll experience local culture and customs and learn about how people of the region are maintaining their heritage and preserving the beauty and pristine nature of their places.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Travel Dates: May 11-31
Costs: TBD
Instructor: Prof. Rich Powell
Course Description: An immersive travel course to Washington D.C. that examines hands-on, advanced leadership perspectives in times of unpredictable change. Offers intensive leadership seminars on location in the nation’s capital with notable leaders in fields such as government, foreign affairs, the military, business, non-profit organizations, athletics, education, and the arts. Includes numerous site visits to compelling destinations.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Travel Dates: May 11-29
Costs: $4,100 + tuition for 1-3 credits
Instructors:
- Prof. Karyn Sporer
- Prof. Rob Glover
Course Description: This three-week summer course will examine Portugal’s innovative, alternative approach to substance use. Students will learn firsthand from those involved in this bold experiment, including federal law enforcement, public health, public policy, criminal justice, and mobile outreach teams. In addition, students will experience one of the most stunning, culturally rich, and affordable capitals in Europe.
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Travel Dates: May 12-22
Costs: $4,100 + tuition for 3 credits
Instructor: Prof. Zachary Rockwell Ludington
Course Description: This course is designed to offer a complete immersion in Spanish to students who wish to improve their oral proficiency in the language. It includes a 10-day immersion trip to Montevideo, Uruguay. The goals of the course are to encourage students to use Spanish actively as a natural part of daily life and to develop heightened appreciation for Uruguayan and Hispanic cultures, societies, and history.
Location: Reggio Emilia, Italy
Travel Dates: May 14-31
Costs: $5,000 + tuition for 3 credits
Instructor: Prof. Julie DellaMattera
Course Description: This three-week faculty-led course introduces students to three influential early childhood education approaches—Reggio Emilia, Montessori, and U.S. frameworks. While in Reggio Emilia, Italy, students will have an immersive two-week experience, engaging with educators, observing classrooms, visiting educational centers, and participating in cultural excursions, which will deepen their understanding of the connections between environment, culture, and pedagogy.
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Travel Dates: May 20-31
Costs: $4,600 + tuition for 3 credits
Instructor: Prof. Karl Kreutz
Course Description: This travel study course will focus on a range of professional and practical skills, including global impact/local relevance research, proposal development, science planning and logistics, risk assessment and mitigation, safety, group dynamics and collaboration, field-based and remote observations, cultural knowledge, and science communication.
Location: Paris, France
Travel Dates: June 6-20
Costs: $4,800 + tuition for 3 credits
Instructor: Prof. Charles Dufour
Course Description: This travel study course will examine the dynamics and evolution of various forms of interpersonal relationships. By observations of interpersonal relationships in Paris and at home, students evaluate cross-cultural similarities and differences in the exchanges between family members, acquaintances, friends, and romantic partners. Students will demonstrate the knowledge base that they have mastered by observing and analyzing relationships in the world around them.
2026 travel courses
- SFR 213: Forest Operations Field Tours (Maine)
- KPE 396: Outdoor Leadership Field Experience (Baxter State Park, Maine)
- INA 310 / POS 369: Power, Politics, and Players in Today’s Middle East (Camden, Maine)
- CHF 404: Early Childhood Educational Perspective Through Reggio Emilia (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- REM 210: Nature-Based Tourism and Sustainable Development (Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica)
- SFR 207: Forest Field Skills and Management: (Eddington, Maine)
- SFR 301: Parks, Recreation and Tourism: (Winter Harbor, Maine)
- POS 349/498/SOC 340/CRJ 344: Drug Policy in Comparative Perspective (Lisbon, Portugal)
- SPA 390: Topics in Spanish (Montevideo, Uruguay)
- ERS 410: Sea-to-Sky (Reykjavik, Iceland)
- SMS 491: Sharks: Functions and Behavior (Darling Marine Center, Maine)
- LDR 495/POS 359: Leadership Institute (Washington, D.C.)
- PSY 430: Relationships: Family, Friends, and Romance (Paris, France)
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