NHTI Travel/Study Abroad Opportunities
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NHTI is now developing more educational travel opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the community. These include both domestic and international trips that are open to students as well as the general public. NHTI educational tours not only offer extensive sightseeing, but also provide an opportunity to truly immerse oneself in the culture or environment of a unique destination by participating in an enriched educational experience on location. These tours are multifaceted immersions that typically last between one to three weeks. Learning will generally encompass local culture, tradition, history, art, economy, and language with the emphasis on each area varying depending on the destination.
The beauty of this educational travel experience for the student is that it does not require a full semester abroad like most traditional college programs, yet the depth of learning still transpires. A journal and final paper is usually required and class meetings and assigned readings may also be necessary before and after your trip in order to meet the credit requirements. Because the trips are offered only during school breaks, there is no interference with regularly scheduled classes. Most tours will offer the opportunity to earn up to 3 college credits in either Social Science or Humanities.
Why Travel/Study Abroad?
The benefits of participating in a travel/study abroad program are plentiful:
- Few of life's pleasures as transformational as travel
- When immersed in the unfamiliar, learning takes on a whole new quality and adds new dimension
- By cultivating a recognition and appreciation of our differences as well as our similarities, students develop cultural understanding
- Students become ambassadors representing our way of life while simultaneously broadening their own perspectives
- Student understanding of and ability to interact with other cultures improves
- Students are more prepared for global competence and as graduates can be more competitive
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What are students and travelers saying about the NHTI Travel/Study Abroad experience?
"I have memories that will last my lifetime…trying the different foods, taking taxis, walking to class, trying to communicate with the locals, bargaining in the markets." - Ashley Berberian
"This was an amazing trip. I got the chance to meet some incredible people who are now a part of me, making me more of a well rounded person." - Lisa Le
"This was an incredible experience for me. I learned a great deal that I will be able to use in my professional career in addition to learning about a country and people directly. We got to see things not readily available to normal tourists." - Don Maurer NH Dept of Environmental Services
"The program was outstanding. It formed a treasure house of long-term memories and experiences. From the spirited guides blazing our paths each day, multiple opportunities to see a great variety of aspects of current Chinese life on the streets and to contact earlier Chinese history in the museums and archeological sites…China old and new came through. I did appreciate the mix of faculty, students, and interesting others that formed our band of sojourners in the world of China." - James Conley, professor at St. Michael's College