Program Description and Itinerary
The European Travel Study program is open to students of all majors and all tracks, including online student. Our next scheduled travel will be summer of 2021. Below is information from the 2019 program.
The Department of Music's 2019 Europe Travel Study program is a unique opportunity to experience some of the most important cultural, artistic, and historical sites in the world while completing course work moving you closer to graduation. We anticipate having the services of a professional guide who speaks 5 languages in addition to 3 BYU-Idaho faculty who will be at your disposal to teach and discuss everything we are learning and experiencing.
We will travel three weeks during August 2019 (final dates to be determined), leaving from Salt Lake CIty and flying to Rome. We anticipate continuing to Florence, Ferrara, Padova, and Venice in Italy; Vienna, Melk, Mathausen, and Salzburg in Austria; various sites in Bavaria (Southern Germany); then on to Strasbourg, Verdun, Reims, Versailles, and Paris in France. We are still finalizing specific activities and daily schedule of the itinerary. Students will be sent a final daily itinerary of activities several weeks in advance of the tour.
Planned Trip Highlights
Student Participant Comments
"Since the travel study I have developed a stronger love for learning...I feel a greater connection to Christians of all faiths. The New Testament makes so much more sense now that I have an understanding of the many peoples taught by the prophets and apostles."
"I especially enjoyed mass at St. Stephen's and sacred music at Notre Dame...What a blessing it is that I had the opportunity to learn and travel!"
"I feel a greater connection to the... people we study about. Being able to walk the streets where they lived and worked, walk through the houses they lived in and the concert halls and churches and palaces they performed in, was just incredible."
"As I have gone on this tour...I have such a better love of the gospel of Jesus Christ but I also have a higher respect for other religions and their beliefs."
Additional Information
Additionally, faculty and students in the program undergo personal safety training as part of our preparation for travel.
Packing Information
Security, Safety, Insurance; France
- Roundtrip airfare from Salt Lake City to Rome and then Paris to Salt Lake City
- Ground transportation (chartered bus and subway passes)
- 2 meals per day
- Entrance fees/tickets for all included sites and activities
- The services of a professional multilingual guide
- Supervision and teaching of 3 BYU-Idaho faculty members
Additional expenses may include:
- 1 additional meal per day and snacks
- Optional activities and/or concerts
- Souvenirs, gelato, pastries, etc.
Students must enroll in and pay tuition ($167/credit) for at least one of the following courses offered in the program: Music 101/102, Music 301, Music 302, Music 464 (Organ Lit and Pedagogy), FDREL 352 (Christian History), possibly FDWLD 201, FDHUM 110, ART 395R.