During the first half of your SST journey you will live and learn in a major city, studying language, culture, politics and history and meeting guest speakers such as the vice president of the Dominican Republic, a university president, a service worker in China or a nationally-renowned author.
Students live with a host family during the first seven weeks.
We were able to talk about real things, and I felt like I belonged there. During this time, GC faculty provide lectures and arrange classes, field trips, exams and special guests as the classroom expands to include a colorful Dominican marketplace, a medieval German cathedral, Costa Rican volcanoes or a riverboat trip down China's Yangtze River.