In Summer 2024, the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) students seized a hands-on learning opportunity by joining Film & Media Arts professor Yee Sien Ang on an international film project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This initiative allowed students to immerse themselves in a professional film environment as they took part in producing a brand […]
Read MoreThis piece originally appeared on the Good Notes blog. When you picture a developing country, what do you see? Political strife, poverty, government corruption? You might not think that a country like Rwanda could teach us how to improve as a health care system. But it can, and it is. Transcending borders This summer, a group […]
Read MorePhotos by Audrey Clark “I love being able to connect with a place that has so much love for movies,” said Film & Media Arts student Audrey Clark, who has spent the last semester in Cannes, France, studying at the Université Côte d’Azur as part of a U study abroad program. “The richness in history in Europe […]
Read MoreWhat is a Faculty-led Learning Abroad Program? Faculty-led programs represent just one of the many avenues available to University of Utah students who want to study abroad. These programs integrate the academic expertise of faculty with immersive, hands-on education in foreign locations. Students earn University of Utah credits while participating in these faculty-led learning abroad […]
Read MoreIn the early days of 2020, the Office for Global Engagement was making final preparations to establish the Global LEAP program—a distinctive, early-career learning abroad opportunity that would enable Freshmen spend their second semester at the University Asia Campus in South Korea. But when the project was blanketed in the uncertainty that became the hallmark […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah Learning Abroad Office’s first outdoor Fall Fair Thursday, September 21 garnered great attention. Nearly 300 students stopped by to learn about the myriad international study options available at the U.On display were 32 programs, including faculty-led fan favorites like Wilderness Medicine in the Alps, Global Public Health research opportunities, and the […]
Read MoreA group of eight university Vice Chancellors from Pakistan recently spent a week training at the University of Utah as part of the Higher Education Systems Strengthening Activity (HESSA)–a USAID-funded, U-led project. During their one-week visit in July, the education leaders toured U facilities and learned more about U.S. university management. Pakistan’s population is the […]
Read MoreUniversity of Utah students can apply by January 28, 2022, for awards up to $18,000 in tuition funding, plus stipends, for studying an underrepresented language. The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarship, a program of the U.S. Department of Education, provides financial support toward tuition and fees to eligible undergraduate students interested in studying […]
Read MoreOn October 4-8, with students back on campus for the fall 2021 semester, Learning Abroad held its first large-scale, in-person outreach event. The Fall Learning Abroad Fair featured information sessions by University of Utah Faculty Directors, meetings with Affiliate provider reps, scholarship workshop sessions, and an in-person event on Wednesday, October 6 highlighting Learning Abroad […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of State announced the selection of Karen Marsh Schaeffer of the U’s Department of Linguistics for a 6-week virtual English Language Specialist project focusing on engaging K-12 language learners with online learning in Istanbul, Turkey. Marsh Schaeffer is part of a select group, as her project is one of 150 that the […]
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