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Robyn Jodlowski
Issue date: 9/27/07 Section: News
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Looking for a great resume booster? Why not study abroad?
SCSU offers many study abroad programs to other countries such as Chile, Germany, Japan, Czechoslovakia and many more.
Trips often coincide with student majors; for example, nursing students have a first-time study abroad opportunity in the spring to complete their clinicals in South Africa.
There is another journey to South Africa that anyone can take, which is the semester-long study abroad.
Elementary education major CinthiaTrantina went last year.
Trantina said she would go to school and go to the ocean, then plan the next road trip up and down the coast for long weekends.
The project caters to students' majors. In Trantina's case, she got to work with a youth group each week. The experience was one she will never forget.
"I was definitely homesick, but when you make close friends there, they help you through it," she said.
Though some trips require knowledge of another language; some do not.
But if you want to learn another language, what better way to learn than to immerse yourself in their culture?
The Center for International Studies office has books and Web sites about thousands of study abroad opportunities not offered at SCSU.
One such opportunity is through the Project Abroad program.
"Projects Abroad is an international volunteering organization," program adviser Kelsey Nelson said. "We set volunteers up with work and study placements and generally have them live in host families to get a very local experience. It is our goal for students in the developed world to spend at least one month living and working in a
developing nation."
Rather than just studying abroad, Project Abroad allows students to also volunteer in hospitals, schools, community service and other fields of interest. SCSU has a similar program called "Service Learning" in which German students can travel to Germany to volunteer abroad.
SCSU offers many study abroad programs to other countries such as Chile, Germany, Japan, Czechoslovakia and many more.
Trips often coincide with student majors; for example, nursing students have a first-time study abroad opportunity in the spring to complete their clinicals in South Africa.
There is another journey to South Africa that anyone can take, which is the semester-long study abroad.
Elementary education major CinthiaTrantina went last year.
Trantina said she would go to school and go to the ocean, then plan the next road trip up and down the coast for long weekends.
The project caters to students' majors. In Trantina's case, she got to work with a youth group each week. The experience was one she will never forget.
"I was definitely homesick, but when you make close friends there, they help you through it," she said.
Though some trips require knowledge of another language; some do not.
But if you want to learn another language, what better way to learn than to immerse yourself in their culture?
The Center for International Studies office has books and Web sites about thousands of study abroad opportunities not offered at SCSU.
One such opportunity is through the Project Abroad program.
"Projects Abroad is an international volunteering organization," program adviser Kelsey Nelson said. "We set volunteers up with work and study placements and generally have them live in host families to get a very local experience. It is our goal for students in the developed world to spend at least one month living and working in a
developing nation."
Rather than just studying abroad, Project Abroad allows students to also volunteer in hospitals, schools, community service and other fields of interest. SCSU has a similar program called "Service Learning" in which German students can travel to Germany to volunteer abroad.