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Roggendorff Replaced in Montevideo

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The ACU Study Abroad Program in Montevideo, Uruguay, is getting a new faculty resident after a family emergency required one professor to come home early. Dr. Paul Roggendorff, instructor in the Department of Language and Literature, originally planned to spend the entire fall semester in South America with his wife and two children. However, ... [Read More…]

Students prepare for ACU study abroad

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Students will scatter across different continents during the summer and fall to study abroad in places like Oxford, Germany and, this year, Ghana. "I think interest is about the same. It kind of fluctuates a little bit and some years we will have more and some less. It's hard to predict," said Stephen Shewmaker, executive director for ... [Read More…]

ACU student first to study in Japan

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A junior from Arlington was sent as the first student from ACU to study abroad at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka, Japan. School officials hope to send more students in the future. Rachel Katagiri, international studies major, said she will take classes such as Japanese language and culture, Chinese language and conversation and international ... [Read More…]

Students set off for spring Study Abroad

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Sixty students embarked on a semester-long journey overseas Wednesday, departing the states to study in three foreign locales. Thirty-four students will study in Oxford, England, 14 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and 10 in Leipzig, Germany. The Hunter Welcome Center was packed with family and friends of the students about to leave earlier that ... [Read More…]

History classes to study across Europe

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The Department of History has created a new Study Abroad Program that covers a century of war and peace in Europe. The program will offer a course in the History of Recent Europe, HIST 474, taught by Dr. Ron Morgan, chair of the history department. "It occurred to me a couple months ago that we would be at the hundredth anniversary of the ... [Read More…]

History classes to study across Europe

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The Department of History has created a new Study Abroad Program that covers a century of war and peace in Europe. The program will offer a course in the History of Recent Europe, HIST 474, taught by Dr. Ron Morgan, chair of the history department. "It occurred to me a couple months ago that we would be at the hundredth anniversary of the ... [Read More…]

Study abroad encourages men to sign up

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A recent advertisement calling for men made its way on the myACU page last week in an attempt to persuade more male students to participate in study abroad due to a lack of male participation. Stephen Shewmaker, executive director of the Center for International Education, was inspired by the classic advertisement first created by explorer ... [Read More…]

Study Abroad program creates Spanish-intensive trip for 2014

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A new and rigorous Spanish-intensive course will replace regular study abroad courses at Montevideo, Uraguay in Fall 2014. Stephen Shewmaker, executive director for international education said they were urged to create the program. "Paul Roggendorff challenged us to develop a program that would provide an even more robust purpose that would ... [Read More…]

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