Combine your interest in international travel with your studies as you live and learn at our partner institution, Hochschule Bremen, in Germany this summer.
This class will comprise 9 weeks of face to face class learning including a 10-day experiential study abroad program in the Netherlands. We will visit numerous international businesses including Perfetti van Melle (Mentos & Airheads), Expeditors (freight brokerage), Vanderlande (Amazon’s automation supplier) and the Dutch flower auction… the world’s largest. We will travel by air, rail, boat, bicycle and bus to see Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Breda and the Schipol Airport to better understand the design of international supply chains to compare and contrast with their US counterparts. We will also collaborate with students from the Rotterdam Mainport Institute (RMI) for a tour of Port Rotterdam, hear from Dutch business leaders and engage in a fun, challenging and exciting simulation activity at RMI’s urban campus. Upon return, students will have two additional classes on NKU campus to finalize the course with a travel debrief and final project presentations. Students will have a unique opportunity to interact directly with business executives leading the Supply Chain’s from similar industries across different continents. Grab your passport and prepare yourself for a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Netherlands in a special way!
In this spring semester course, students will enroll in this one credit course and explore, study, and enjoy the art, architecture, and culture of Italy. In May, the group will travel to Florence and Venice to experience firsthand the magnificent art within these vibrant cities and have time to explore on your own.
Be ready to visit castles, meet Dracula, search a haunted forest, stay in highly preserved UNESCO medieval cities, see Roman ruins, and explore some of the most remote regions of Transylvania!
Students will enroll in a spring semester class and then travel for 2 weeks in Romania in May.
Only the first 20 students will be allowed to sink their teeth into this opportunity!
Professor Sara Wagner
This 3 credit spring semester course includes a Spring Break visit to Los Andes Nature Reserve on the slopes of the Atitlan volcano in Guatemala. Students will work with the community of Los Andes to document their work in environmental preservation and community development.
Pre-req: EMB 210 or instructor permission
Application Deadline - November 3, 2023
Application Deadline - September 15, 2024
Application Deadline - September 15, 2024
Explore the cultural legacy of ancient Britain and Ireland, including how the Megalithic past led to the Celts and how those ancient societies survived later invasions in veiled form and led to nineteenth—and early twentieth-century folk life. By visiting museums and ancient sites, such as London's British Museum and Stonehenge, Bru Na Boinne in Ireland, and Dublin's National Museum, you will get firsthand experience of the ancient places and things that many know only from books and whose traditions are the foundations of life and culture in the British Isles.
Prerequisite: None. Open to students of all majors.
Application Deadline - September 15, 2024
This course immerses students in Belizean culture and trains them in
contemporary anthropological field methods. Students will gain research
skills to apply in their future careers, an appreciation for Belizean
cultural diversity, and further their personal growth. While in Belize,
students will be primarily engaged in guided applied ethnographic
fieldwork. Students will learn about the local culture by doing
participant-observation and conducting ethnographic interviews in a
community-based research project. Students will learn research ethics,
unobtrusive observation, participant observation, field note writing and
coding, ethnographic interviewing, ethnolinguistic data collection,
community mapping, and other ethnographic methods in addition to basic
ethnographic writing.
Prerequisite: None
Application Deadline - February 2025
The KIIS winter program in Italy is a twelve-day program that begins in the beautiful Tuscan city of Florence and ends in the country’s magnificent capital, Rome. Students spend the first five days in Florence where they are living within walking distance of the most famous museums and sites in Italy’s Renaissance capital. The program will then move to Rome where students visit and explore the Vatican, Colosseum, famous churches, and other memorable monuments.
This course explores leading in both global and diverse environments.
Students will gain an appreciation for the importance of understanding both domestic
diversity and global experiences and viewpoints.
Application Deadline - September 15, 2023
Sexuality & Society course:
The goal of this course is to examine cultural beliefs and practices surrounding sexual health and identity from a psychological perspective. Solutions sensitive to individual and cultural diversity will be discussed in response to global issues, including discrimination, sexual education and healthcare, and the prevention of sexual health threats.
Leisure & Recreation course:
How do we spend our free time? What influences those decisions? What physical and mental benefits do we reap from these activities? This class will examine these questions (and more) from various psychological perspectives. Students will engage with multiple forms of leisure and recreation, employing methodological tools to observe their own and others’ experiences in relation to leisure, recreation, and sports.
Application Deadline - February 5, 2024