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Planning
Planning your Program: 

The best time for a Sociology major to go abroad will be a combination of their concentration, credits they have transferred in, whether they have a dual major or a minor, whether they plan on taking any summer classes, and obviously their personal situation.  Listed below are some suggested time frames for each concentration. Students looking to go abroad during a different period are encouraged to work closely with their department advisor and the Education Abroad Office.

For all concentrations short-term study abroad opportunities are normally fairly easy to fit into a student’s degree plan.  Students are able to start participating on short-term programs (winter break, spring break, and summer) as early as their first year.  Students participating on short-term faculty-led programs often fulfill General Education, Major Free Electives, Major Concentration courses, Language requirements, or 2nd Major/Minor requirements.  Students participating on partner summer programs may be able to fulfill English requirements in addition to the above options. 

Students in their first year are not able to apply for a semester program but the first year is a great time to start planning for a semester abroad by making sure that you take the required core courses early.

Course Considerations: 

Sociology majors may not be able to complete Capstone requirements abroad. Other courses that students may want to plan to take before or after their abroad experience are _______ Outside of these requirements students may be able to take other Sociology courses abroad, but often electives are often the easiest requirements to fulfill.

Students also can look to satisfy General Education and/or Minor requirements.  It is suggested that students save 1 or 2 LSE requirements for their study abroad program.  It may be possible to satisfy an ILE, Science Inquiry, or Quantitative Literacy course but this requires more advanced planning. 

Advising: 

Students should contact ________ to schedule an advising appointment.

Key questions to ask?

  • What are my remaining degree requirements?
  • How many upper-division credits do I still need to complete for my degree?
  • How many elective credits (lower vs. upper division) do I have left to complete my major?
  • What remaining prerequisites must I fulfill, and how will study abroad impact my progress?
  • Which of my remaining degree requirements could I complete abroad? Are there any that I cannot take abroad?
  • Can I receive academic credit for an internship abroad?
  • Are there any in-residence requirements I need to be aware of before I go abroad?
Programs

Sociology majors are able to participate on department faculty-led programs,  summer partner programs, and on semester programs.  Listed below are some possible options.

Program Type Information

Faculty-led

All faculty-led programs for fall 2021 have been suspended due to the ongoing pandemic. Please check back beginning in summer 2021 for updates about faculty-led programs for Spring Break and Summer I & II 2022.

Below are examples of previous faculty-led programs.


War in Europe: Eastern Front

  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Various
  • Standing:  Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Language Requirement: None 
  • Unique Feature: This interdisciplinary program offered by History and Sociology 6 s.h. of credit studying the causes and consequences of war in Europe. While traveling through the Czech Republic,Germany, Hungary, and Poland, students will learn about the impacts of World War II, the Cold War, and the Holocaust through the exploration of various historic sites, museums, and cultural exchanges. Extended excursions included in this trip are: visiting Berlin's "DDR" Cold War Museum, Jewish Holocaust Memorial, and Berlin Wall; Dresden's Military History Museum, Prague's Museum of Communism and Jewish Museum; Krakow's Auschwitz Death Camp; and Budapest's Hammer and Sickle Tour, House of Terror, and the Hospital in the Rock.

Short-term

Lorenzo de’ Medici

  • Program Type: Partner 
  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Italy
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • SOC Courses: Sociology and History of Italian Mafia, Italian Society Today

ISA Meknes

  • Program Type: Partner 
  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Morocco
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Unique Features: Offers Arabic and French language and courses taught in English.  
  • SOC Courses: Migration and Transnationalism in Morocco

USAC Maastricht

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Unique Feature: The Maastricht program is broken up into two 3 week blocks.  During the first 3 weeks students will have the option of taking a 3 credit course focusing on Communication, Health Sciences, Politics, Art History, or Business or they can take the Western Europe Study Tour for 2 credits where they will learn about Doing Business in the EU.  During the second 3 weeks students will enroll in an additional 3 credit class.  
  • SOC Courses: European Welfare State

USAC Uruguay

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Uruguay
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Unique Feature:  Students can take Spanish language in addition to English-taught courses.  Past offerings have included Latin American Women's Voices and LGBTQ+ Community in a Latin American Context.

Semester

UNCUYO

  • Program Type: Full Exchange
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Argentina
  • Standing: 2nd Semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: All courses are taught in Spanish.  Offers several Sociology courses each semester. 

University of Canberra

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Australia
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Intro to Sociology, Investigating and Explaining Society, Political and Social Theory, Citizens States and Societies, Sociology of Technology and Work, Cultural Sociology

La Trobe University 

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Australia
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Fall Course Offerings: Global Issues and Local Lives, Theories of Modernity, Sociology of Relationships, Ethnicity Race and Identity, Australian Cities and Regions, Global Social Inequalities
  • Spring Course Offerings: Self and Community, Methods in Sociological Research, Culture Meaning and Social Life, Social Policy Welfare and the State, Understanding Youth Culture, Asian Pacific Cities

Southern Cross 

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Australia
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Fall Course Offerings: Social Policy, Aboriginal Social Realities, Deviance in Society
  • Spring Course Offerings: Intro to Sociology, Doing Social Research

CEA Prague

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Czech Republic
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Intro to Sociology, Intro to Social Theory, Gender Minority & Culture, Sub-cultures Lifestyles Literature & Music, Critical Insights into Resistance

USAC Ghana

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Ghana
  • Standing: 2nd semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Family Society and Development in Ghana, Strategies for Social Development, and more in the University of Ghana

ISEP Chinese University 

  • Program Type: ISEP Exchange 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings:  Sociology and Modern Society, Hong Kong Societies, Social Research Methods, Social Statistics, Sociology and Hong Kong, Criminals and the Law, Social Problems and Social Policy, Urban Sociology, Social Problems in China, Marriage and Family, Social Stratification, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sexualities and Society, Migration Entrepreneurship and Policy Reflection on Global Citizenship, Cultural Sociology and more. 

USAC Bangalore

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: India
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Caste Class and Gender in India, Gandhi and Non-Violent Protest, Population and Poverty, Women’s Issues in Indian Society

USAC Cork 

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Ireland
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Sociology of Class, Political Sociology, Race Ethnicity Migration and Nationalism, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of the Body Health and Illness, Forensic Sociology, Sociology of Community, Family Gender and Sexualities, Sociology of Memory Trauma and Collective Denial, and more. 

USAC Haifa

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Israel
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Notes: May offer some General Education Requirements.  Also offers coursework in Business, Sciences, and Physical Education amongst others. 
  • Course Offerings: Change each year but past offerings have included Israel Stories, Women in Israel, Refugees Mental Health, Contemporary Arab Thought and Culture, Shaping of Israel’s Collective Memories 

Lorenzo de’ Medici 

  • Program Type: Partner 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Italy
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Sociology and History of Italian Mafia, Italian Society Today, Sociology of Consumerism

SAI Florence University of the Arts

  • Program Type: Partner 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Italy
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Cultural Introduction to Italy, Cultural Perspectives, Food Culture and Society, Cultural Introduction to the Italian Family, Love Letters of Great Men and Women

Kansai Gaidai University

  • Program Type: Full Exchange
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Japan
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Notes: Students can take Japanese language along with course offerings taught in English. 
  • Course Offerings: Gender and Sexuality in Japan, Popular Culture as Social Practice, Shifting Dimensions of Desire Relationship and Society, The Struggle of Disability Identity and Language, Education and Society in Asia, Society Health and Wellbeing, Global and Transnational Sociology, Comparative Sociology

Radboud University 

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Spring
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Standing: Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: (some courses are only worth the equivalent of 2 App credits) Sport Sociology, Social Inequality, Societal Impact of AI, Sociological Theory Review, Research Project Sociology, Intro to Socio-Cultural Sexuality Studies, Social Capital, Radicalization, and more

University of Johannesburg 

  • Program Type: Full Exchange 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: South Africa
  • Standing: 2nd semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Individual and Society, Dynamics of Social Divisions, Social Relations, Clinical Sociology, Sociology at Work, Sociological Theory

University of the Free State

  • Program Type: Full Exchange 
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: South Africa
  • Standing: 2nd semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Fall Course Offerings: Social Institutions and Social Change, Population-Environment-Development Interface, Industrial Sociology, Social Research and Practice
  • Spring Course Offerings: Intro to Sociology, Consumerism and Consumption, Sociology of the Family and Domestic LIfe, Sociology of Developing Societies, Sociological Theory

USAC Stellenbosch

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: South Africa
  • Standing: 2nd semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Politics and Cultural Change in Contemporary South Africa, Role of Gender Culture and the State of South Africa, Transitional Justice in Africa, Understanding HIV in South Africa: Health and Social Justice Perspective, and others in the Stellenbosch academic departments. 

CEA Seville Communication and Media Studies

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Spain
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disease Wellness & Health, Cultural Values & Stereotypes, Society Inequality & Social Exclusion, Identity & Citizenship in the City, Sociology and Social Structure

Keele University

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Standing: 2nd Semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Contemporary Social Theory, Health and Society, Race Racism and Resistance, Families and Households, Social Movements, Gender and Consumption, Migration Emotion and Identity, Sociology of Parenting and Early Childhood, Sex Death and Desire, Celebrity, and more.

Kingston University 

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Standing: 2nd Semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Fall Course Offerings: Social Selves, Contemporary Approaches to Sociology, How to Change the World, Globalisation and Social Change, Social Interactions: Gender Race and Class, Special Topics in Sociology
  • Spring Course Offerings: Contemporary Approaches to Sociology, How to Change the World, Globalisation and Social Change, Social Interactions: Gender Race and Class, Special Topics in Sociology

University of Lincoln

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Standing: 2nd Semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Notes: Students will primarily be able to take courses in their admitting department.
  • Course Options: Social Issues and Social Justice, Images of Crime and Criminal Justice, Applying Criminology, Conceptualising Sex Work, Debating Welfare States, Policing Crime and Deviance, Social Engagement, Work and Society, Drugs and Society, Human Rights, Police Studies, Gender and Violence, Psychology Crime and Criminology, War Crimes and Genocide, Children Families and the State, Sociology of Health and Illness, Politics of Masculinity, Working with Children and Families, and more.

University of Roehampton 

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Standing: 2nd Semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Fall Course Offerings: Criminology, Investigating Criminology, Making Sense of Society, Becoming a Sociologist, Sociology and Everyday Life, Crimes of the Powerful, Difference and Diversity, Criminological Imagination, Youth Crime and Deviance, Drug Use and Policy, Global Disorder, Food and Society, Gender Sexuality and Human Rights, Global Security Justice and Society
  • Spring Course Offerings: Understanding Social Change, Society and Justice, Media Representations of Crime, Contemporary Issues in Criminology, Media in Contemporary Society, Sociology and Anthropology of Human Rights, Migration Diversity and Transnationalism, Gender Violence and Human Rights, Family Criminology, Sociology of Health and Medicine, Reproduction and Parenting

University of Sunderland

  • Program Type: Basic Exchange, Fee Paying
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Standing: 2nd Semester Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Course Offerings: Impact of Crime, Social Problems, Crime Surveillance and Social Control, Inequality Diversity and Society, Dimensions of Health and Social Care, Youth Crime and Criminology, Sex Families and the Construction of Personal Lives, Contemporary Issues in Social Policy, Youth Gender and Identities, Substance Use and Society, Punishment and Society, Gender Sexuallity and Identity, Violence Gender and Society, and  more

USAC Uruguay

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
  • Country: Uruguay
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Notes: Students can take Spanish language courses on this program. 
  • Course Offerings:Latin American Social Revolutions, Latin American Women’s Voices, Contemporary Women’s Activism

Internships

CEA Prague Study + Internship

  • Program Type: Affiliate 
  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Czech Republic
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Concentrations: 
  • Unique Feature: Students will complete a 3 credit internship placement and an additional 3 credit course over an 8 week period.  
  • SOC Courses: Subcultures

CEA Barcelona Study plus Internship

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Summer
  • Country: Spain
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Unique Feature:  Students will complete a 3 credit internship placement and an additional 3 credit course over an 8 week period.   
  • SOC Courses: Exploring Europe, Fashion & Society, Society Inequality & Social Exclusion, Digital Identity and the Virtual Community

CEA Seville Study plus Internship

  • Program Type: Affiliate
  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Spain
  • Standing: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
  • Unique Feature:  Students will complete a 3 credit internship placement along with 9-12 credits of coursework.
  • Course Offerings: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disease Wellness & Health, Cultural Values & Stereotypes, Identity & Citizenship in the City

Additional information about international internships can be found on the OIED website.  

Research

ISA Euroscholars

  • Available Terms: Fall, Spring
  • Country: Europe
  • Standing: Junior, Senior
  • Highlights: EuroScholars is a unique research abroad programme designed for advanced and talented undergraduate students from US and Canadian institutions looking for an international research experience. In this programme, students have the opportunity to undertake one course in the classroom and then work under the direct supervision of professors and other academic staff on a specific academic research project chosen by both the student and the faculty.