Off Campus Opportunities

The Honors Program encourages you to spend a summer, semester, or a year at another university in this country or abroad.

There are many reasons for studying off campus. You may want to become fluent in a foreign language. You may want to get a better understanding of a different culture or a different region of this country. You may want to study with a particular expert in your field.

Whatever the reason, the Honors Program will help you to find the right place and time for an experience you will remember for a lifetime.

Honor students have studied marine biology at Humboldt State University in northern California; engineering in Budapest; Russian language and history at Saratov State University south of Moscow; geology at Strathclyde University in Glasgow; art at the University of Western Washington; international relations in France; and English in Finland. Contact the International Programs office to find out more about study abroad options.

Many honors students have chosen to participate in the London Semester program. This program involves taking University of Wyoming courses while living in London. For more information on this exciting program, please visit the London semester homepage.

Sometimes travel is an optional part of an honors course. A class on Broadway theater went to New York to see the real thing. A Class on urban America spent spring break in Manhattan with a faculty member who is documenting the transformation of Times Square. Other classes stay closer to home, but we encourage learning from experience as well as from books.

Finally, honor students attend conferences to present their research, to learn more about their field, and to meet others with whom they share an interest. Groups of honor students have recently traveled to San Francisco (twice), Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Flagstaff, San Diego, and Albuquerque.

Last Updated on 10/14/2008 8:58:49 AM