Winter globetrotting | UDaily

Junior Nithila Chrisostam is preparing for her third experience abroad as a Blue Hen. Next week she departs for Kyoto, Japan, with 13 other students in the cultural psychology micro study abroad program. She is pictured at the dormant volcano, Mount Eden, during her time in Auckland, New Zealand, as a first-year World Scholar.

In addition to the personal support she received, Chrisostam appreciated the efforts that her faculty director made to help her and her classmates feel well-prepared for this Winter Session program.

“Dr. Morling held multiple orientation sessions during the fall semester to prepare us for this experience. She gave us a good understanding of what to expect navigating life in Japan. Her knowledge of the region and its culture, due to doing a Fulbright in Japan and living there for a period of time, has been very helpful,” Chrisostam said. “She also provided the opportunity to meet the other students we’d be traveling with. We’re already comfortable with each other before we’ve even left the U.S.”

Winter Sessions are fast-paced and pack a lot of academic content and cultural excursions into a few short weeks, said Matt Drexler, director of study abroad. Micro programs last two to three weeks, while regular programs can take up the full five weeks of this short UD term.

“This year we worked with faculty and departments from all eight colleges to develop and plan 54 unique and dynamic Winter Session study abroad programs that 1,032 students will participate in,” Drexler said. “We’re back to pre-pandemic numbers and have an amazing slate of opportunities available for Blue Hens. We’re incredibly grateful for the effort of the hard-working and innovative faculty directors who lead these multifaceted global education programs.”

The psychology program is not the only one that will include travel to multiple cities. There’s a linguistics and cognitive sciences program that will tour southern and central Italy, an Africana studies program that will visit cities and a game reserve in South Africa and a business law program that will visit courts, parliament and businesses in major cities in Australia. Programs that include globetrotting across multiple countries include sports medicine in Germany and Switzerland and sport tourism in England and France.

Check out @UDGlobal on Instagram and the #UDAbroad hashtag to follow the journeys of Blue Hens this Winter Session. Also visit the UD Abroad Blog for student perspectives on the study abroad experience.

About the Center for Global Programs and Studies

The Center for Global Programs and Services (CGPS) at the University of Delaware is home to the operations of UD Global, which includes Study Abroad, International Student and Scholar Services, World Scholars Program and Global Outreach and Partnerships. The Center provides leadership and collaborative innovation in support of all of the University’s global initiatives and campus internationalization efforts, with its Global 360 Strategy serving as a roadmap for infusing international perspectives throughout the University’s scholarship, research, and service missions. Focused on a student-centered approach, CGPS provides expert advising and a wealth of global engagement opportunities to the UD campus community, including the weekly International Coffee Hour in the fall and spring semesters.

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