Taught Abroad Programs

Taught Abroad Programs offer short-term options for students who want to take 1-2 U of S courses abroad for 2-6 weeks. 

Spring/Summer 2019 Program Details

Application deadline for 2019 Taught Abroad spring and summer programs is January 15th. Applications will open at the end of September.

To be eligible for acceptance to the Study Abroad Program students are:

  • required to have a minimum of 65% Cumulative Weighted Average (C.W.A.)
  • must have completed or be in the process of completing 30 credit units at the time of application
  • must meet individual course prerequisites, please see the U of S Course and Program Catalogue

If you have questions about current or future Taught Abroad programs, please contact the Program Coordinator: AandS.Abroad@usask.ca

 

DRAM 286.3 - Studies in Theatre Centres (3-credit course)

May 27th - June 16th, 2019

Travel to: PRAGUE

This study abroad course will provide both a theoretical and practical understanding of the world of theatre through the mediums of theatrical design, performance, scenography and architecture. 

The course abroad will take place in the city of Prague where the students will gain first-hand exposure to theatrical designers, creators and performers from around the world. They will be exposed to both professional and emerging artists who will share their work through exhibitions, symposiums, and masterclasses. The PQ festival makes it their mission to blur the hierarchy of the typical theatrical roles and rather strive to demonstrate it is more of a collaborative art form among artistic disciplines. Along with attending the ten-day festival, the students will also participate in several scheduled excursions highlighting the cultural and historical aspects of Prague.

Program Highlights

  • Ten-day Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space Festival
  • Attend 3 masterclasses with experts in their field
  • Attend 7 Theatre Productions
  • Prague City Bike Tour
  • Marionette Museum Tour
  • Prague Castle Tour

GEOL 405.3/898: INTERNATIONAL FIELD STUDIES - (3-credit unit course)

May 3 - 16, 2019

Travel to: ASTURIAS SPAIN
Join U of S professors and other U of S students in a study abroad field course to Asturias Spain.  This course will assist students in understanding the Earth system and the international character of Geology.  Students will observe, analyze and interpret geological relationships and processes in this unique international location.

The study-abroad experience will take place in the Asturias coastal region of northern Spain. This region has unique geology where rocks of a wide variety of ages (Precambrian to Cretaceous) and depositional environments (continental to shallow and deep marine) are superbly exposed. This will allow students to integrate sedimentologic, ichnologic and stratigraphic datasets in the characterization of depositional systems and their evolution though time. The Professors involved in this initiative have extensive experience in the region, having published paper

For more information:

Gabriela Mangano, Professor (Gabriela.mangano@usask.ca)

POLS 398.3 - Travel Study Japan: Society, Business and Politics (3-credit course)

June 8 - 23, 2019

Travel to:

Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, Takayama, JAPAN

Japan is one of the world’s most influential and significant countries.  It has the third largest economy, a technologically innovative business environment, a growing presence in the developing world, and one of the most stable middle classes of any nation. Japan has a complicated presence in Asia, traceable to a period of Japanese military expansion before and during World War II.  This study abroad course, in conjunction with its prerequisite, will examine the social and cultural roots of contemporary Japan, connecting the country’s rich and diverse history with the technological, economic, political and social developments of today.  Students are required to participate in POLS 298.3 in Saskatoon just prior.

Program Highlights

Tokyo

  • Exploring the different and exciting districts of the city including Harajuku, Akihabara (Electric Town), Shinjuku, Shibuya and Odaiba
  • Japanese Diet (Parliament)
  • Tokyo Animation Centre
  • Ninja Restaurant
  • Edo-Tokyo Museum

Takayama

  • Introduction to rural Japan
  • Festival Floats Museum
  • Hida Folk Village

Kyoto

  • Kiyomizu Temple
  • Kinkakuji (Golden) Temple
  • Fushimi Inari Shrine
  • Pontocho (Geisha area)
  • Introduction to Japanese traditional arts

Hiroshima

  • Peace Museum
  • Atomic Bomb dome

Osaka

  • Osaka Castle
  • Japanese baseball game

PLAN 298.3: Humanistic Urban Design: Copenhagen (3-credit course)

June 27 (1-3pm) Saskatoon; July 1-6 Copenhagen; July 18 (1-3pm) Saskatoon

Travel to: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

This is an experiential learning course, whereby students are encouraged to view the city around them as a classroom and gain new knowledge through “lived and shared experiences”. This course explores the various ways in which the public realm in Copenhagen has been privileged over the realm of the private vehicle to benefit public comfort, health and wellbeing, safety and enjoyment. Students will experience, first-hand, humanistic urban design including innovative public works and infrastructure; people-centered pedestrian streets, plazas, urban playgrounds, and other gathering spots; the bicycle transportation network, and other aspects of urban design and innovative public policy that together make Copenhagen a template for what is possible in cities around the world. This course is designed for students majoring in regional and urban planning, but may also appeal to students majoring in architecture and design; public health policy; human geography; art and art history; sociology; civil engineering; etc.

Travel with a U of S professor and students to study the politics of the European Union and earn UofS credit! Students will visit EU institutions such as the European Parliament, Council of the European Union and others. 

INDG 498.3 - Remembering Resistance: Urban Indigenous Australia and Colonization (3-credit course)

July 1 - 15, 2019

Travel to: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Partnering with Indigenous studies programs in Hawai’i, North Carolina, and Australia, this course provides an experiential learning opportunity exploring Indigenous communities.  In the summer of 2019, the course will be hosted by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. 

This course will focus on the experience of urban Indigenous people of Melbourne, the traditional homelands of the Wurundjeri people.

Students will visit various urban locations, including the Coranderrk urban reserve, which established in 1863, and will hear from Wurundjeri Elders, artists, and community members to learn first hand of their experience of resistance and resurgence. Students will learn the difference between the colonization experienced by Indigenous people in Australia and Canada but will be asked to identify similarities in experience.

Program Highlights

  • Melbourne
    1. Yarra River (Birrarung)
    2. Bunjilaka @ Melbourne Museum
    3. Game of Australian Football (AFL)
  • Coranderrk Reserve
  • Healesville Sanctuary
  • Wurundjeri archaeological site visit