The College of Human Ecology offers students the opportunity of enjoying many Study Abroad programs to countries throughout the world. In the past Students have traveled to Northern Italy, Switzerland, Spain, England, and France to learn and experience the differences in cultures and discipline related subject matters. These study abroad trip permit students to earn course credits while creating lifelong memories.

This scholarship is to prepare recipients to be productive citizens within an increasingly global, culturally diverse, and rapidly changing society. Priorities will be given to applicants who are able to explain their financial needs and to delineate prospective outcomes of their study abroad experience. Click here for Application.

• Amount: $500 per recipient ($1,000 in total)
• Number of Recipients: 2 students

• Requirements:
  • 1) Recipients must participate in a study abroad program by August, 2012 and evidence of the participation must be presented upon receiving the scholarship.
  • 2) Recipients will write a letter of appreciation to the donor of the scholarship.
  • 3) Recipients are to write or present their study abroad experiences to the CHE International Education Committee IEC or an event arranged by the Committee.

Program highlights and tours:

• scene of the assassination of King Henri IV
• apartment where Jim Morrison was found dead
• Conciergerie, Paris’s first prison
• dungeon of Marie-Antoinette
• Court of Cassation, the highest court in the French judiciary
• France’s National Prison Museum
• Eurostar (Chunnel) train from Paris to London beneath the English Channel
• Museum of London
• Royal Courts of Justice, Middle Temple and the Inns of Court
• Metropolitan Police River Thames Division
• Clink Prison
• Jack the Ripper Tour
• Bow Street Magistrates Court
• Old Bailey prison
• John Lennon’s London apartment
• Scene of William Wallace’s (Braveheart) execution
• Hampton Court, where Walter Raleigh met with Queen Elizabeth to gain permission to travel to the “Lost Colony”
• free sightseeing time in Paris and London

2010 Summer Study Abroad in France and Italy - This study abroad program is an excellent introduction to the study of food, nutrition, health and culture in France and Italy. Click on following courses to view the syllabi (NUTR 4400 or NUTR 3995, 3996, 3997). Participants will have the opportunity to learn about health care delivery, alternative medicine, food production, culinary skills, global nutrition issues and cultural competence. The program will include readings, lectures and an exciting itinerary of onsite activities. For more information on this opportunity click here.

Community-Based Participatory Research and Service Learning in the Caribbean - Nutrition students, faculty and dietitians at ECU are collaborating with Caribbean nationals to identify key health messages and develop culturally specific training materials for a three day workshop for Community Health Aides in summer 2009 in the Commonwealth of Dominica (a small, mountainous island in the British West Indies).