Students await their departure for a semester in the UK, along with trip sponsors.
Twenty Lee University students have departed for the annual United Kingdom (UK) Semester Study Abroad trip.
The semester study-abroad program offers participants the opportunity to earn 15 credit hours while living in the city of Cambridge. The group will also visit a variety of other sites throughout the UK such as the Lake District, Oxford, Bath, and London in England; Caerwent and Chepstow in Wales; Edinburgh in Scotland; and Belfast, Dublin, and Galway in Ireland.
While in Cambridge, the students will take courses taught by Lee faculty through a specially-designed online program, including The World of C.S. Lewis, British Literature, British Theatre, Film Studies: Exploring British Cinema, and Cross-Cultural Experience.
The last two weeks of the semester in the UK consist of independently-arranged backpack tours throughout Europe, during which time students have the opportunity to develop their own itineraries and accommodations in the locations of their choice, including Italy, Germany, Greece, Austria, Spain, and Poland. Each group will finish their tours in Paris, France, where the entire group will travel home together.
The faculty trip director this year is Dr. Matthew Melton, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who will be accompanied by his wife, Leslie.
This year’s participants include: Shelby Bradley, Kristen Brown, Chase Clifton, Amber Cooper, Bethany Diffenderfer, Annie Dusenberry, Courtney Foelker, Rachel Hess, Katherine Kerr, Jocelyn Lejameyer, Emma Liem, Kaley Lowry, Cameron Luna, Mitchell Mizell, Liz Sheeks, Rachel Sheffey, Makayla Tedder, Craig Thompson, Bradley Tyrrell and Hannah Vickery.
For more information about Lee’s Global Perspectives program, visit www.leeuniversity.edu/global or call 614-8357.