In 1999-2000, Drew International Seminar participants will travel to Egypt, France, the Galapagos, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, and Spain. The London Semester, offered in the spring semester annually, allows students to explore political and social change in Great Britain. Courses focus on the interplay of British history and politics, and literary and theatrical portrayals of social and political themes. The program is directed by a Drew faculty member, and classes are taught by a continuing staff of distinguished British faculty. Field trips to political meetings, party conferences, theatres, and museums, along with guest speakers from British political, literary, and theatrical life, are a regular feature of the academic program.
Students live in apartments prearranged by the program staff.
A variety of cultural activities and special events introduce the students to the cultural life of Great Britain. The fall Semester on the New Europe offers the tools and the knowledge to explore the consequences of change for Europe's economic, artistic, political, literary, social, and cultural traditions. The center of that process is Brussels, an ideal city in which to test assumptions about European culture. With its nearly 1,000 international organizations, almost 1,700 foreign companies, and thousands of diplomats, artists, philosophers, economists, playwrights, filmmakers, and financiers, Brussels draws everyone with the promise of a new European order. This program is conducted at Vesalius College, an American-style liberal arts college within the University of Brussels.