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COLFA offers a plethora of wide range of local and global opportunities that engage you in areas that compliment your academic endeavors! COLFA Faculty-Led programs are headed by COLFA faculty throughout the country or countries specified below. These programs are usually offered throughout the spring break and summer, and last for 2-4 weeks. Check out your COLFA Study Abroad and Study Away options below and learn more with UTSA Education Abroad!
FACULTY: Dr. Kathryn Brown and Dr. Jason Yaeger
DATES: Summer 2022
ABOUT: This 25-day summer faculty-led program offers students the opportunity to learn archaeological field methods first-hand excavating ancient Maya sites in western Belize. Students will learn about survey, mapping, excavation, recording, artifact analysis, and laboratory techniques through evening lectures and workshops, and they will put those techniques into practice each day at the field site and laboratory. Students will also learn about Maya archaeology, architecture, and art by visiting important archaeological sites in the region on weekend field trips.
DATES: Summer 2024- June 1 - July 5
ABOUT: This 5-week program in Oaxaca, Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site, provides students with an introduction to the most culturally diverse state in Mexico. Oaxaca de Juárez, the capital city, routinely ranks as one of the best cities in the world to visit; Travel and Leisure has ranked it #1 for two consecutive years. The Global Citizenship Program introduces students to the complexities of Mexican society by combining language learning, homestays, and community-engaged learning with reflection. Faculty will work with students to design an individual research project tailored to students’ interests and field of study. You can add this program to your experience transcript.
Students will attend Universidad Autónoma de Benito Juarez de Oaxaca (UABJO) in Oaxaca City and participate in community-engaged learning programs with SURCO (Link in Spanish) and IICEM.
FACULTY: Dr. Isabelle Hall
DATES: Summer 2024
ABOUT: Students will study in Annecy, a beautiful town in the French Alps, allowing them to discover the French country side and its beauty. During your three week program, the students will attend an intensive French program and stay with host families. The town has a very rich medieval history, so we visit the castle and the churches. Students also go on two excursions: Geneva, Switzerland and Chamonix, France.
FACULTY: Dr. Devon Donohue-Bergeler
DATES: June 2024
ABOUT: This 30-day program in Dresden, a city that made Lonely Planet's 2023 list of Best Places to Travel, will give students an introduction to living in Germany, with experiential components related to living, studying, working, and culture. The UTSA course combines excursions, reflection, and an individual project tailored to students' field of study.
FACULTY: Dr. Drew Stephen and Dr. Bridget Drinka
DATES: Fall 2024 & Spring 2025
ABOUT: The COLFA Semester in Urbino is a signature study abroad program offering you an extraordinary and affordable opportunity to complete a full semester of your degree while living in Italy. If you have dreamed of traveling to Italy and studying abroad, this is your chance! The COLFA Semester in Urbino offers an environment that will expose you to views that will enrich your social and cultural experience. Upon your return to San Antonio, you will have a deeper understanding of your place in the world and be prepared to make lasting contributions to the international community.
FACULTY: Dr. Rebecca Bria
DATES: Summer 2024
ABOUT: This four-week summer faculty-led program is an intensive research-based “archaeological field school” in Peru where students learn the techniques and ethics of excavation, human skeletal and artifact analysis, digital recording, and community collaboration while living and working in a village high in the Andes mountains called Hualcayán. Through daily fieldwork and weekly lectures and workshops, students will uncover evidence for how ancient people at Hualcayán (2400 BC–AD 1450) assembled a community, performed rituals in sacred temples, and communicated with the dead by drinking corn beer from effigy vessels crafted in the likeness of their ancestors.
FACULTY: Hyewon Kim
DATES: Summer 2024
ABOUT: This three-week faculty-led summer program is an intensive Korean language program where it will allow students to immerse themselves in a variety of cultural excursions and programs with the diverse Korean culture at Kookmin University, in Seoul, South Korea. The program will provide students with 4 credits, which can be transferred to UTSA.
FACULTY: Dr. Seok Kang
DATES: Summer 2024
ABOUT: In this experiential asynchronous online course, you will meet, talk, view, record, and collect memories about Korean culture and food for a wonderful digital story. This study abroad program is part of an 8-week summer 2024 course (early June to early August 2024). Registered students for this program stay at the SKKU dorm for four weeks while completing the course requirements. During the program, we meet in class in person several times to check in on progress and group visits. We join SKKU's International Summer Semester (ISS) which offers weekly excursions and diverse opportunities to meet SKKU and other international students.
FACULTY: Mimi Yu
DATES: Summer 2024
Japan – where traditions and modernism intersect. Experience Japanese culture, shrines, temples, festivals, Tea Farm experiential learning. Understand Japanese history and society, politics and religion, philosophy and business, educational system, and more!
Pell Grant recipients can apply for a Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship. Application deadline is Oct. 6, 2022 and it will reopen again in March 2023. Contact Dr. Drew Chapman at drew.chapman2@utsa.edu for more info and application process. Other scholarships may be available depending on applicants’ qualifications.
