Maybe you’ve been everywhere from Trinidad to Budapest, or maybe you’ve never left your home state. No matter your previous traveling experience, if you’re curious about other cultures, you’ll find a home in our international studies program.
As an international studies minor, you will have the option to study in a variety of locations around the globe. Goshen College offers a unique three-month immersion program called Study-Service Term (SST), which will take you to far-away places to study a foreign language, live with a host family and complete a service assignment, like teaching English or working in a medical clinic.
During May term or summer, you will also have unique options for studying abroad in such 3-week classes as Arts in London, Business in Spain or China, Economics in Ecuador, Communications in Kenya, Nursing in Nepal, and more.
Even on-campus classes can lead you to new and unfamiliar territory. You’ll explore other belief systems and cultural differences with courses on Latinos in the Midwest, African history, Asian thought, and race, class and ethnic relations.
Your experiences at GC will not only improve your resume (our grads have been hired and accepted into graduate school specifically because of their unique Study-Service Term experience), they will also enrich your life and teach you what it really means to be a global citizen.
On Friday, July 31, Minh Kauffman '74, director of the ACLS Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN), retired after 26 years with ACLS and nearly 50 years working in international educational exchange and community development. She has been called “the most important person involved in the creation of meaningful relations between Viet Nam and the United States.”
Crystal Shellenberger '98, the new Spanish teacher at Paoli High School, attended Goshen College where she participated in a semester abroad, called study-service term (SST), in Costa Rica.
Since 2005, more than 600 students have traveled to Peru in 37 units, forging connections with host families, teachers, colleagues and friends that cross cultural boundaries.
Best Study Abroad Program in the U.S.
– BestCollegeReviews.com
Study-Service Term locations: Cambodia, China, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania
of Goshen College students study abroad
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Armarlie Grier, a 2016 graduate of English writing from Rockford, Illinois, calls herself a xenophile—a person who is attracted to foreign cultures. That’s why she minored in international studies, philosophy and TESOL.
Armarlie's storyKara Hostetter, a 2016 molecular biology and biochemistry graduate, had attended three schools in Africa before coming to Goshen. Here, she found similarities in the small class sizes and close relationships.
Kara's storyNayo Ulloa is passionate about teaching Latino arts and performing music. He specializes in the music of the Andes, especially Peru, where he is from.
Nayo's storyJacob Yoder graduated from Goshen College with a history major and a global economics and international studies minor in 2014. Along with being a top student, he played on the GC men's soccer team for all four years.
Jacob's storyAssociate Professor of Spanish Dean Rhodes enjoys leading students on a May term class to Spain and Morocco and seeing their world open up to them.
Dean's storyWith more than 25 years of experience in conflict prevention, transformation and peacebuilding, Philip Thomas ’87 has dedicated his life to helping facilitate peace and reconciliation.
Philip's storyJerrell Richer
Professor of Economics
Carl Kreider Chair
Jon Geiser
Associate Professor of Business
Business Development Director for CBEE
