Through our UVM Semester in New Zealand, you will attend classes at Auckland University of Technology, participate in a practicum internship in New Zealand public schools, experience the beautiful New Zealand landscape, and make lifelong friendships.

“Traveling to New Zealand was a great opportunity to see the world and an even better opportunity to see how another culture teaches children. My semester abroad was the best one of my college career because of how much I learned about myself and others.” —Hailey Miliziano '25

Learn more and apply to the UVM Semester in New Zealand.

Questions? Please email Matthew.Chandler@uvm.edu. 

Join us in France to learn about culture, education, and multilingualism as we travel to Paris, Nantes, and Limoges. Learn through cultural immersion as we explore sites such as the Louvre, National Museum of Education, and Académie Française. Tour PreK-12 classrooms, including those that teach the native Breton language, and critically reflect on multilingual and multicultural approaches. French proficiency is not required.

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Interested or have questions? Email Juliet.Halladay@uvm.edu or Patrick.Halladay@uvm.edu.

Gain a global perspective on culturally sustaining strategies for building relationships and enhancing equity with a focus on family-professional partnerships within a global community context.

Collaborate with educational, health, and/or social service agencies to understand and experience their work and policies. Engage in a community-engaged service-learning project to learn about local culture through relationships with children, families, and other community members. 

This experiential approach helps students integrate previous and accumulating knowledge with contextualized experience while expanding understanding of of global perspectives.

Visit UVM GoAbroad to learn more and register

Questions? Please email Jessica Strolin-Goltzman and Shana Haines.
 

Interested in learning more about social work through the perspectives of faculty and students from around the world?  Consider our Social Work in a Global Context to Finland travel study course.

Students convene in Finland to learn about how social work is understood and practiced in different parts of the world. Together with students and faculty from other countries (e.g., Austria, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Nigeria, UK), we explore social issues, social work responses to those issues, and ways of communicating across cultural and language differences. 

We also consider how our common identification with the social work profession connects us and might enable us to work together to improve the lives of people worldwide. Finally, we learn about the progressive social welfare system and cultural treasures of Finland.

The first week of the course takes place at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi Finland. We attend lectures by participants from different countries and participate in small group discussions on topics germane to global social work.

We begin the second week with an excursion to Inari and Utsjöki, near Finland’s northern border with Norway. As the only municipality where indigenous Sámi people are the majority population, Utsjöki offers a unique opportunity to learn about Sámi culture and the provision of social services in a remote, sparsely populated locale. We experience and learn about the northern Lapland environment and how it influences the lives of people living in this region of the world.

Our second excursion is to Helsinki, Finland’s capital and largest municipality where we will visit social service organizations and sample some of Helsinki’s many cultural offerings.

Instructor permission is required for enrollment. If you plan to apply or have questions, please contact Kelly Melekis (Kelly.Melekis@uvm.edu).

Visit UVM GoAbroad to learn more and register