Study abroad opportunities for students

by Mary Ellen Smoot SMO03001@BYUI.EDU Scroll Staff

Many BYU-Idaho students stay in Rexburg during the summer, others go home or elsewhere to work.

However, some students are choosing to take their education abroad this summer through BYU-Idaho’s travel study programs. All tours allow students to take up to nine credits of classes.

One such program is the British Literary Tour. Students travel to England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and France.

The Humanities European Tour is another option. In this trip students travel to London, Paris, Florence, Venice and Vienna. The Meso-America trip is another option. Students travel to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.

The Meso-America tour costs $2,495 and the British Literary tour and Humanities European tour cost about $3,365. These prices do not include tuition or books.

“The Meso-American tour is especially interesting to me because it is both a historical and ecological tour … [it] has so much to offer, from visiting pyramids and museums to bird watching and snorkeling. And for what you get out of it, it is really cheap,” Mike Holm, a senior from Idaho Falls, said.

Katie Hubbard, a junior from Grace, Idaho, and an English major, will be going on the British Literary tour. “I’ve never traveled abroad before, so I’m excited to experience another culture and see another plot of the earth,” she said. “I can’t wait to see Stonehenge, the Lake District, St. Paul’s Cathedral, The Globe Theatre, old castles, Buckingham Palace, Canterbury, the graves and former homes of the great writers of the past–there is simply too much to name.”