<p>I know most students take a semester off to study abroad, however, do people get to do this more than once? I realize taking two semesters off is quite a lot, as you are pretty much gone for an entire year. But are there opportunities to go during the summer or some other break or something? </p>
<p>Because from what I’ve heard from tour guides at Yale and on the forums here on Dartmouth is that people from those two schools get to travel a lot (ie-3 or more times). </p>
<p>So is it like this at Brown? Is it possible to, after taking your first semester to go abroad to do it again (but not necessarily during a semester)?</p>
<p>There are programs that are year long, and I imagine that as long as you fufilled requirements and were accepted, there’s nothing stopping you from going abroad multiple times. Other than someone doing a yearlong study abroad, I’ve never heard of people doing multiple. I think it all speaks to how much people want to get out of Hanover vs. how much people love Brown.</p>
<p>That is the biggest BS ever. Dartmouth study abroad is so amazing (all Dartmouth classes, not just languages - across majors, paid for weekly excursions, paid for week long trip, etc) that everyone wants to get a couple in, who wouldn’t want that? I got 10K for thesis research on a pacific Island in the Winter, went to Spain for Spanish in the spring, and econ in the summer in england. How many schools let you do that? And trust me, I LOVED life in Hanover. Study abroad is a way of life at Dartmouth, and this has everything to do with the great programs and the wanderlust nature of Dartmouth’s student body. Also the quarter system is really helpful for study abroad. But Dartmouth has an amazing program.</p>
<p>I seem to be getting conflicting answers. Slipper, I appreciate the information but I feel like you know a lot more about Dartmouth since you went there instead of Brown (unless you also attended Brown for grad and I’m not aware of it)</p>
<p>So, basically most kids only take one semester abroad at Brown. Ok, that’s decent. But what about those little mini-trips that don’t necessarily take an entire semester? For example, will Brown sponsor a kid to spend a week or two to travel to a different country for thesis research like Dartmouth did for Slipper? Will there be opportunities for various shorter trips to different countries or is the one semester abroad the end all be all?</p>
<p>thesis research? yes, one of my friends went multiple times to europe. Another one of my friends spent a month on a boat for a geology class. I don’t know what’s available, but I can tell you that very few kids go away more than once.</p>
<p>I don’t know any of the specifics, but I do know at least two people who’ve studied abroad twice. One went to Italy over the summer (doing introductory Italian) and then stayed there for the fall semester. Another went to Oxford for one semester and… somewhere else second semester.</p>
<p>As for mini-trips, I don’t know many people who’ve gone on them. There are summer study abroad programs, and I know someone who did a geological study for about a month in… somewhere near South America. If you’re doing international research, you can apply for research awards and all of that jazz (which are more than for on-campus research).</p>
<p>But most people I know study abroad for one semester. Leaving for longer than that is hard. I do think that the quarter system would be a lot better suited to going on smaller study abroad trips, but, at the same time, other universities on semesters or trimesters might not be able to accommodate visiting students as well.</p>
<p>Thanks you guys. Any one else with personal experience on the subject please feel free to respond.</p>
<p>I don’t really care about “mini-trips” per se, just the knowledge that I’ll be able to travel more than just once at Brown (assuming for the moment here that I get accepted and enroll). The fact that your friends were able to go during the summer, go on mini thesis related trips, and do the semester abroad thing has shown me pretty much what I was looking for. </p>
<p>There’s no way I would want to spend two whole semesters abroad, as that is just way too much time. However, the opportunities described to go over the summer/during other breaks as well as that one semester abroad seems pretty much on par with what I’ve learned about traveling at Yale or other similar caliber schools. </p>
<p>I just had this impression that students at Brown were “limited” to only one opportunity during their entire 4 years to go abroad and that it was only to be done during that one semester of their choosing. This seemed odd considering kids at other schools talked about doing their main study abroad thing while still being able to go on different excursions here or there during the summer, etc. </p>
<p>Any more info on the subject would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Some of the First-Year Seminars involve what you might call “mini-trips.” I don’t know if such trips are typical of classes other than FYS or not.</p>
<p>BIOL0190K - Tropical Marine Biology
Instructor: Mark D. Bertness, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Meeting(s): Tuesday / Thursday, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Semester: Fall 2008
This course, which focuses on the biology and conservation of tropical ecosystems, is designed for students interested in careers in ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation biology. Topics covered include the ecology of rainforests, mangroves, seagrass and coral reef ecosystems, Mayan cultures, and the history of Belize. **The course includes a required 8-day field trip in January to Belize, where students will visit rainforest and coral reef sites and complete small group research projects on the Belizean reef. The cost of the Belize trip is $1000.00; some financial aid is available. **The course is limited to 10 first-year students and requires permission of the instructor. Please contact Professor Bertness at <a href=“mailto:Mark_Bertness@Brown.edu”>Mark_Bertness@Brown.edu</a> for more information.</p>
<p>BIOL0190Q - Climate Change and Species Extinction
Instructor: Dov Sax, Assistant Professor of Biology
Meeting(s): Monday / Wednesday / Friday, 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Semester: Spring 2009
This seminar explores the emerging issue of how climate change will contribute to species extinctions. **Two over-night field trips will familiarize students with how climate influences the distribution of species. **Readings from a textbook will develop students’ understanding of the geographic distribution of species, species immigration, change in climate since the last ice-age, and the geography of previous species extinctions. Most readings are too new to be described in text books and thus will be drawn directly from the scientific literature, focusing particularly on future climate change and species extinctions. A group research project will be conducted, one that aims to perform original scientific research, focusing on questions we can address with data that already exists in online databases. This mini-project will take students through many of the major steps in scientific research and publication, with the goal of acquainting students with the scientific process of discovery.</p>
<p>GEOL0180E - Volcanoes: Windows into the Deep Earth
Instructor: Alberto Saal, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Meeting(s): Tuesday / Thursday, 10:30 - 11:50 a.m.
Semester: Fall 2008
This course examines the physical and chemical principles controlling the generation of volcanoes and their different styles of eruption. Students will learn where and why volcanoes occur, and what volcanic lavas can tell us about the composition and evolution of the Earth and other planets. Volcanic hazards will be evaluated, and the economic benefits and cultural aspects of volcanism will be explored. The course includes a required two-day field trip.</p>
<p>Honestly the most study abroad oriented places are the top LACs, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Any other school ranked among national universities on USNEWS is likely to only have an “okay” study abroad program.</p>
<p>i don’t think Brown is regarded as a study abroad-heavy school, but, and this is just from information i have gathered from researching and reading my Brown guidebooks and etc- not personal experience, it is not uncommon to study abroad for at least one semester, some do more.. not as much as Dartmouth does, but I’d say more than people do at Yale (according to my friend who is attending there) and probably around an average middle % of the top schools. that’s not an official fact though, of course.</p>
<p>edit: ah, it was mentioned, but like the FYS classes, there are numerous classes I’ve looked at just this year that offer mini-trips, such as the Belize one. and, i’m sure this isn’t your idea of ‘study abroad’, but many classes offer ‘field trip’ like trips for some amount of days outside of Providence (ie, in one class, there are numerous trips to museums along New England)</p>
<p>anyway, study abroad is something i’d very much like to do too, and Brown is an excellent school for international study and research, so I’m sure it has at least some people who are quite interested in study abroad.</p>