Fordham University's Short Study Abroad Programs

Fordham University offers a wide array of study abroad programs to students for the fall and spring semesters or for an entire year. In addition, Fordham University also offers short-term study abroad programs, which include 2-6 week courses taught at various destinations and campus-based courses with an embedded 7-10 days study tour. The programs cover several disciplines: Art History, Business, Economics, Education, History, Italian, French, Medieval Studies, Political Science, Spanish, Theater, Theology, Visual Arts and many are interdisciplinary. All the study abroad courses seek to maximize the unique location and curriculum to its utmost potential.

The winter programs for 2010/2011 are: the Gabelli School of Business Finance Course Study Tour in Galway, Ireland, Documentary Photography in Japan, and International Political Economy and Development Project Assessment in Manila, Philippines. The spring programs for 2011 are: the Gabelli School of Business Finance Course Study Tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, China and the US in the Era of Globalization, The Monastic Experience in Burgundy, France, the Gabelli School of Business Accounting Course Study Tour in Florence and Rome, Italy, and the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I am personally attending the study tour of Medieval Spain where we will be walking the Camino de Santiago in the end of May and I am very excited. The class will be meeting once a month for two or three hours in the spring semester in order to discuss and give presentations on the four books we will be reading in preparation for the trip. The summer programs for 2011 are: French Language in Paris, Gabelli School of Business Finance Course Study Tour in Delhi, India, Rome Athenaeum, Italy, International Political Economy and Development Emerging Markets Course in Pretoria, South Africa, Spanish Language Immersion: All Levels of Spanish Language Instruction in Granada, and the Gabelli School of Business Program and Fordham College Liberal Arts Program in London, England.


This is one student’s account of his time while attending the Gabelli School of Business Program in London during the summer of 2010:

Hello, my name is Kevin Yevchak. I am a Junior in the Gabelli School of Business. GSB’s summer in London is an awesome way to experience another culture while taking core classes abroad. This past summer I took a Marketing Principals course and an Introduction to Theatre course at Fordham’s campus in Kensington, London. Both courses were taught by excellent professors and involved excursions around London. For the theatre class we also went on coach trips around Britain to Brighton and Stratford-upon-Avon. In addition to these course trips we also had a corporate visit to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The summer in London went far beyond class and business oriented events. It was a bonding experience with 30 other classmates as we experienced the London culture and explored everything London had to offer.

The courses being offered in the London for the summer 2011 are: The Knights of the Round Table, Their Finest Hour: London, Normandy and World War II, Writing the British Empire: Haunting, Tradition, and Warfare, London is My Campus: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop and The Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
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