Learning Abroad

Together with Learning Abroad Center, CEHD offers a wide variety of international opportunities.

Opportunities to study, intern, or work abroad range from semester-long study programs to short courses and internship opportunities lasting approximately two weeks.

Opportunities by Major

Business and marketing education
Early childhood education foundations
Elementary education foundations
Family social science
Human resource development
Kinesiology majors (including park, recreation, and leisure studies and sport management)
Youth studies

Opportunities and Examples of Learning Abroad

Study Abroad in Brazil

Study sustainable agriculture and environmental sciences in Brazil through the University of Sao Paulo or the University of Brasilia.

Food and Family Life in Thailand

Professor Cathy Solheim from the Department of Family Social Science took 25 students to Thailand for a three-week May Term course. Studies focused on how globalization has impacted the Thai diet, consumption, and family relationships.

Sport management in Sweden

School of Kinesiology faculty, Jo Buysse and Steve Ross, and 12 undergraduate students met in weekly seminars during a semester which culminated in a two-week trip to Sweden. For the first week of the trip, the group stayed in Vaxjo, a university town in Sweden’s Lake Kingdom.

Time in the classroom was supplemented with tours and other activities to learn about the cultural aspects of sport.

Greg Tehven, one of the trip participants, said that a highlight of the class was meeting tennis star Stefan Edberg and “getting to know a group of classmates and experiencing different cultures.”

Go Global Within the United States

You can also go global within the U.S. by working with international communities in the Twin Cites. Find out how to Go Global through the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA).

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