Prospective applicants are encouraged to consider their study abroad options in regards to academic, cultural, and linguistic immersion, and to discuss—with study abroad advisors, their major/minor advisors, their class dean, and/or ISAP’s Director—which program(s) meet their academic and personal needs. Detailed catalogue information is available in our Lincoln Center and Rose Hill offices.
The following typology applies to the various programs Fordham University offers undergraduate students seeking to do full-term study abroad during their junior year:
1) Direct Enroll Programs and Internships provide opportunities for studying
alongside local and international students at Oxford and Cambridge universities;
the London School of Economics; Trinity College Dublin; the School of Oriental and
African Studies in London; and University College Dublin-Commerce. While direct
enroll is most common in the English-speaking countries (the Arcadia and Butler
Consortia feature universities in Ireland, Scotland, England, South Africa, Australia,
and New Zealand), similar opportunities are available to Fordham students in Spain
(Universitat Ramón Llull), Brazil (Universide Federal do Paraná and Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro), the Middle East (American University in
Cairo, Universite Mohammed V in Morocco); and Japan (Temple University Tokyo).
The methods of teaching and assessment at foreign universities are significantly
different from those at American universities, and instruction, unless otherwise
noted, is in the language of the host country. Internship programs are offered by
Boston University. The internships are competitive and normally include 6-8 weeks
of academic work and 6-8 weeks at an internship placement.
2) Island/Hybrid Programs provide opportunities for studying abroad and doing
internships at centers created for American study abroad participants. These
programs are available worldwide and are administered by the Institute for the
International Education of Students (IES) and various American universities. Since
all or the majority of the course work in these program is done at a center with
other American students, the methods of teaching and assessment are comparable
to those at American universities, and instruction, unless otherwise noted, is in
English.
3) Hybrid (Monitored Direct Enroll) Programs, like Island/Hybrid programs, allow
students to do coursework at centers for American study abroad participants, but
also—and on a closely monitored basis—to enroll at foreign universities with local
and international students and thus be exposed to methods of teaching and
assessment that are significantly different from those at American universities, and
to instruction in the language of the host country. These programs are available
worldwide and are administered by the Council on International Education Exchange
(CIEE) and Middlebury College as well as CUPA/Paris, Boston University, Arcadia
University and Butler University.
4) Special Focus Programs are sponsored and maintained by universities and
organizations with which Fordham has affiliation agreements. These include the
extensive roster of field-based academic programs offered by the School of
International Training (SIT) as well as selective programs sponsored by Pitzer
College, Augsburg College’s Center for Global Education (AC), the Council on
International Education Exchange (CIEE), Duke University, Santa Clara University,
the American University Center of Provence, and Arcadia’s Center for Education
Abroad.
