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Faculty-Led Short-Term Programs

Each year, Skidmore sponsors a number of faculty-led, short-term programs to locations around the world. Short-term study-abroad courses must offer a carefully structured, focused, and challenging learning experience.  These short-term programs allow students to accompany one or two faculty members as they explore a focused topic that uses the destination as a classroom. 

Programs offered in the past have included Chocolate and Gold: Culture and Politics in Ghana (Gerald Erchek – Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Chris Whann – Government); Changing Utterly: Ireland Past and Present (Jim Kennelly – Management and Business); Tropical Field Ecology in Costa Rica (Monica Raveret-Richter – Biology); South Africa: Educational Study Program (Karen Brackett – Education Studies); From Marx to Coca Cola: Transitions in Poland and Germany (Mary-Elizabeth O’Brien – German and International Affairs and Elzbieta Lepkowska-White – Management and Business); Jane Austen in Bath (Catherine Golden – English); Over the Andes and to the Sea: Politics, Economic Development, and Culture in Argentina and Chile (Patricia Rubio – Spanish and Aldo Vacs – Government); and Hindu Religion and Art in India (Joel Smith – Religion and Rob Linrothe – Art History). 


Following are links to information about upcoming faculty-led short-term programs and various past programs:

Programs in 2010

Past Programs

NOTE TO FACULTY: Please refer to the documents below regarding faculty-led study abroad courses & programs: