The session in London is the largest program that the consortium offers with courses in a number of academic fields such as literature, art history, drama, speech communications, advertising, finance, and economics. All told, there are over thirty different courses. The consortium also holds smaller programs in Jamaica, Mexico, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy, Cuba, and Kenya. These programs usually offer no more than two or three different courses. The consortium also has semester and year long programs in Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
All students are eligible for financial aid.
The rest of this report will attempt to explain the structure of the overall program and my individual experiences. The three areas that I discuss specifically are coursework, tourism, and faculty development. Coursework he main intellectual reason for a study abroad program is to use exposure to a foreign culture as a teaching tool. Students earn six hours of academic in London the smaller, shorter programs offer three or four hours of credit. American professors, who teach at one of the consortium schools, supervise the course and arrange for guest lectures and field excursions.