STUDY ABROAD
BC encourages students to engage in educational experiences abroad as part of their academic plans. Studying abroad helps:
- Better understand other cultures as well as our own
- Enhance foreign language learning
- Open the door to new career options
- Prepare to live in a global society
- Create goodwill for our country around the world
- Contribute to build a peaceful world
PROGRAMS
Benedictine College Campus in Florence, Italy
Exchange Programs
Internships Abroad
Affiliated Language Programs
Short-term faculty-led Trips
INTERESTED IN STUDYING ABROAD?
Staff of the Center for International Education will assist students during the various stages of the study abroad experience, including searching for the best option, applying to a program, preparing for international study, and returning to campus.
For more information, contact:
Daniel Musso
Director of Study Abroad
Center for International Education
St. Benedicts Hall, Room 413
Phone: 913.360.7975
Fax: 913.360.7970
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE FLORENCE CAMPUS
The Florence campus is a Benedictine College study abroad semester in Italy for undergraduates.
Benedictine College aims for Florence students to experience:
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Beauty in art, nature and relationships
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Companionship while living together for three months
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Discovery while living near the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
The Program uses the city of Florence and its surroundings as a grand laboratory. The courses offered draw on the enormous literary and artistic heritage of the city of Florence, widely considered to be the cradle of Italian culture.
LOCATION
The program is hosted at Villa Morghen near Florence in an area that has been home to elegant villas and hunting reserves of rich Florentine merchants.
Villa Morghen is located in Settignano, a village nestled in hills, about 3 miles from the historic center of Florence. Students can easily take inexpensive public buses to see central Florence’s beautiful architecture and enjoy a gelato.
Florence’s convenient central Italian location makes it easy for students to visit other Italian cities by train on the weekends. Students can also take trains or inexpensive flights to other European cities.
ACCOMODATIONS
Students take classes and live in Villa Morghen, a beautiful Italian villa more than 500 years old. Benedictine Olivetani monks used it as a monastery for many years. All bedrooms have a view of Florence or the vast garden of the ex-monastery, rich with cypress, fir, olive, fig and cherry trees. Visitors also enjoy outdoor evenings while watching the sun set behind historic Florence’s skyline.
EXCURSIONS
The program includes guided visits to Subiaco and Montecassino, as well as Assisi and Perugia, Pisa and Livorno.
The last week of the program is spent in Rome, where the group will meet the Pope in the Wednesday Audience, as well as visit the main historical and religious sites.
CLASSES
Fall 2010 (subject to change)
Beginning Italian I (4)
Beginning Italian II (4)
Florentine history and culture (3)
Benedictine Tradition (Religious Studies) (3)
International Study Reflection and Practicum (1)
Total credit hours: 15
CALENDAR
Fall 2010 (Subject to Change)
March 31, 2010—Final Application Deadline for Fall
September 7, 2010—Program starts in Florence
November 16-24—Visit to Rome , Subiaco, Montecassino
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EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
Exchange Programs are on an individual basis, require the student to be immersed in a foreign country context, and imply that an international student comes to study at our college in place of the student going abroad.
BC is part of the following exchange programs:
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ISEP - A network of 300 colleges and universities in 42 countries cooperating to provide access to international education. Students can find a location where they can take classes in their major in English or in a foreign language.
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Campion College, Sidney, Australia. A Catholic, Liberal Arts College located in the Sidney area. Students can study Theology, Philosophy, Literature and History in English. Great opportunities for those who love outdoor lifestyle and natural beauties.
- Irish-American Scholars Program - Students can spend a semester or a full year in Northern Ireland, Belfast Metropolitan College , Queen’s University Belfast , Saint Mary’s University College, Stranmillis University College, University of Ulster
- University of Torino-Faculty of Business and Economics, Turin, Italy. Business Students can choose among a large selection of courses in English. Surrounded by the Alps, Turin is one of Italy’s main industrial centers. It is an elegant city, rich of history and beautiful architecture, known for being home to the Shroud of Turin.
- Tischner European University, Krakow, Poland. Students can take Business and Political Science classes in English. Krakow is the city where John Paul II lived for many years before being elected Pope. Krakow is a lively university city, rich in history, art, and cultural tradition.
Application for Exchange Program
AFFILIATED LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
BC students can receive academic credit for language courses with affiliated language schools, by enrolling through BC.
For more information about language courses, please contact:
Dr. Daphne McConnell
Chair, Department of Modern Foreign and Classical Languages
Phone: 913.360.7586
INTERNSHIPS
The Office of Study Abroad advises students concerning opportunities of internships abroad. For more information, contact the Director of Study Abroad.
FACULTY-LED TRIPS
Faculty-led trips are organized by various departments each year.
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Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 2010. Co-sponsored by Campus Ministry and Study Abroad. Will take place from May 17 to May 25, 2010. Download application packet including program description here. (
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